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School’s out forever for Oz’s Operator Please
“We put our stuff on MySpace so our friends could listen to it,” says Operator Please’s keyboardist, Sarah. “We didn’t have any concept of wanting to do anything with it, it all just fell into our laps.”
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Bean there, done that Dan Deacon still on the buses
“Who’s that dickhead? Why’s he set up on the floor? What’s he talking about? Why’s he dancing so hard?” Dan Deacon, a balding, pot-bellied 20-something, is sitting in an east London venue listing the reactions he expects to get in Britain. It’s day one of the Baltimore resident’s first tour outside the States and he’s got a fight on his hands. Back home, he’s fast become music’s number one party starter: a man who travels the country by bus (“Don’t do it, you might as well go to prison for a week”), turns up in lofts, houses and the back of shops, sets up in the middle of a crowd, and gets people dancing. He does so with the manic, uplifting video game tunes he knocks out on a bust-up Casio, but also because he’s a great showman who jokes with the audience, hands out lyric sheets to set up impromptu choirs, and kicks off dance contests.
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Brixton sisters turning up The Real Heat
Every now and then you get a Wizard Of Oz moment; a band so exciting, so fun, so Technicolor-fantastic that you realise everything else was just a monochrome bad dream. Young Brixton sisters, Zaza, Suki and Shaki, also known as The Real Heat, are like that. At the recent Tales Of The Jackalope festival, the bitter blow of of fellow no-bullshit sister trio ESG’s no-show was soon forgotten in the excitement of their mid-afternoon set. Rainbow-clad, snake-haired, hip-thrusting, sassy, smart-mouthed and sexy, their electro pop bitch-slap was the thrill of the weekend. Modern-girl anthem ‘Heart’s Not Innit’ (“You wanna fuck fuck fuck, but your heart’s not innit”) epitomises their straight-up style. But they’re not out for shock tactics.
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Rev Billy Jenkins still got the jack
That guitarist and singer Billy Jenkins is a true original is clear from his music, an idiosyncratic take on jazz and blues (but, he makes clear, never making use of the words “woman” or “baby”). It’s clear too from his famously madcap antics, from organising free improv soundtracks to World Cup football matches to firing toy cars into the audience from Scalextric track attached to his guitar.
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No slings and arrows as London find their Tunng
They’re on the tip of everyone’s… It’s less common these days for the best bands to just drop from the sky like smart bombs: much more we see bands on their second or third albums stepping humbly into the limelight, White Stripes-style, rather than being shoved there by over-eager record companies.
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Indelicates blowing up in Lewes
“Everyone was like, ‘Oh my god, another Brighton band,” Julia Indelicate sighs. “So we moved to Lewes, and the whole character is a little bit different…”
“They’d been packing parking meters full of explosives and just blowing them up,” explains guitarist and singer Simon. “And in the paper this woman said, ‘Well the thing you’ve got to know about Lewes is we do have a population here who are all rather intelligent, all don’t like being told what to do, and most of us have a working knowledge of small explosives. So what the fuck did they expect?’ I think reading that is when we decided to move there.”
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Booty before age as Toddla T proves he’s in the know
Sinden, Hervé, Duke Dumont and Switch may be causing a stink down south, but it’s Toddla T’s jackin’ sound that’s currently fondling the booty of dancehall-inspired electronics here in Sheffield.
Nourished on the rhythms of ragga, garage and bassline, this 22-year-old’s talents have raged fiercely throughout 2007, both as one half of electric soul duo Small Arms Fiya and prime rinser at nomadic late night institution, Kabal. He’s now a solo artist proper with his debut riddim, ‘Do U Know’, proving to be a prime slice of future bump.
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Pop proggers Chrome Hoof on the rampage
It’s about 10 years since brothers Leo and Milo started jamming under this particular moniker – and lest the robes confuse you, they really are related and not monks. What began as a “seasonal band” has now become as synonymous with summer as floods and hosepipe bans. Chrome Hoof blossomed from a readymade rhythm section into less of a jam and more a full-on case of congestion, picking up musical waifs and strays wherever they met them, until their ranks swelled to “around twelve” mavericks with an ear for the weird and weekends to spare.
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