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French octet up and Coming Soon
Words Gareth Dobson
Given the rather authoritarian state of French radio and their strict quotas of French-language-only music, to be a band singing in English and complementing it with a sweet, West Coast-style sound is to cast yourself as somewhat of an outsider.
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Painting the town red is giving Liz Green the blues
“No, it’s fine, we can talk. I just thought I’d be somewhere else by now.”
Liz Green is on the bus, on her way to pick up the keys to her new Manchester flat. It’s an apt metaphor for where the northwest-born singer-songwriter is at in her musical career – en route to bigger and better things, but still charmingly disorganised, and travelling to her destination by the most unpretentious method.
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L-Vis 1990 producing hyper bass that will leave the building destroyed
L-Vis 1990, aka London-based producer James Connolly, has just released his first EP, ‘Magnetic’: four tracks of wonderfully rhythmic, pounding, hypnotic bass music. It’s bass with a mega-capital B; a sound that’s been christened ‘hyper bass’, from a scene that includes Bok Bok and Manara, Boy 8-Bit and Tomb Crew (among others), all of whom are Londonite producers/DJs/VJs united by a dedication to dancey, grimey, heavy music. And L-Vis 1990’s logo is, of course, a big bleeding ear.
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Skream keeping one dubstep beyond
Oliver Jones, wildly creative kingpin in the development of dubstep, has always shied away from the middle-of-the-road. The man known as his old graffiti tag, Skream, started working in a record store aged 14 where, alongside fellow luminary DJ Hatcha, he immersed himself in dark beats rather than doing schoolwork. He started producing at the same age.
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All singing, all dancing, all acting super-gal Paloma Faith not doing it by the book
Only 23, but break your high heels and snap your suspender belt if Paloma Faith hasn’t already done a lot in her short life. There are the two years she spent fronting a rock’n’roll covers band, Paloma and The Penetrators, and now she has a new band doing her own songs; TV acting work and film parts in St Trinian’s and the forthcoming Terry Gilliam flick; ‘Paloma Faith Presents…’, the club night she runs; she graduated from Leeds University with an MA in time-based art; and, of course, it doesn’t take just a couple of minutes to look as drop-dead fabulous as she does every day of the week.
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Ralfe Band’s Oly raids attic, promptly folks off to Berlin
In February, the Ralfe Band’s Oly Ralfe moved to Berlin. Frankly, he says, he needed to get out of “hectic” London. So, with their second album Attic Thieves safely in the bag, he packed his own bags and left for what is ominously referred to as Europe’s trendiest capital.
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Electro kraut rockers Higamos Hogamos pigging out on the meaning of life
We last featured Steve Webster in The Stool Pigeon just prior to the release of his Arts & Crafts album as The Black Neon. Brilliant though it was, it didn’t get the push it deserved, if indeed it got pushed at all. “I don’t really have any answers about that,” Steve muses. “I guess there was just a mutual disinterest by the end of my time with Memphis Industries; they weren’t really interested in what I was doing and I wasn’t really interested in what they were doing. But there are no hard feelings.”
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