Deluka’s sound is like (Roxette minus the dude) + (The Pretenders minus the US) + Birmingham, UK (minus Black Sabbath). It’s kinda scuzzy and reeking of early late-80s or early-early 90s. Like that bit of pre-grunge when there were those Time-Life Living in the 90’s CD/Cassette commercials because people thought just because the decade changed it was a like whole new world! (Harder to say, “What the hell, it’s the ’10s!) The current single “Cascade” has a relaxed structure that takes it’s time in a very British way and has seen recent placement on MTV as well as some rotation on coastal radio and placement in Grand Theft Auto. The video for “Cascade” is the directorial debut of fashion photographer Antoine Verglas who has shot for everything from Vogue to Sports Illustrated. He has thankfully turned his focus to Deluka lead singer and burgeoning Siouxie Sioux clone Ellie Innocenti who aside from being an art-school raven also has a name that rolls off the tongue like hot syrup. (I think my subconscious is telling me i’m due for some IHOP.)
For Your Consideration: One eskimO Sounds Like: UK Acoustic mellowness
with subtle electronic support and Animation! For Fans Of: Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Gorillaz Album:The Adventures of One eskimO
(Warner Bros./Shangri La) Websites:Myspace.com/oneeskimo | findlittlefeather.com
One eskimO 2010 Tour Dates
2/04: New York, NY @ City Winery
2/05: Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theatre
2/08: New York, NY @ The Living Room
2/12: Akron, OH @ Akron Art Museum
2/13: Detroit, MI @ Winter Blast Festival at The Atrium at Compuware Corporation Building
2/25: Minneapolis, MN @ KTCZ Oake On The Ice Concert Series
3/04: Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre*
3/05: Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre*
3/06: Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe*
3/08: Denver, CO @ Odgen Theatre*
3/09: Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Tavern*
4/18 Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival
With Gomez = *
Esser is a man. ESSER is also a band …a fucking great one. Really the band at its core is just Benjamin Esser himself, a snotty, sarcastic British 20-something with a fashion sense as sharp as his wit and a gravity defying Pompadour. But to reproduce the magic Ben made on his computer he requires the full resources of his guitarist/loopmaster Matt Lord, brother Reuben Esser on Drums and Bassist Paul Taylor Wale just to cover the sonic bases laid down on his record Braveface.
Unfortunately the album is only available in the US as an IMPORT. But if there is any justice in the world or intelligence left in the music industry (I just checked, there isn’t.) then maybe one day you’ll actually be able to buy an Esser record here in the states.
Until then the next best thing you can do is catch them live. Also unfortunately, they just finished a destructive 25-city US tour with DATAROCK so you may have to wait a little while…or move to England.
Firstly I should note that I own aDysonVacuum. Of course it’s amazing. I believe it cost $150 more than my LCD TV and I’m glad I didn’t have to buy it myself. (No, my parents didn’t buy it for me either!)
I’m convinced that the Henry Ford of Brits, James Dyson, must be an alien. First he perfects the vacuum with cyclonic technology after every company he brought it to laughed him out of the room and now he’s perfected the FAN as well with the Dyson Air Multiplier. After a bit of a tease concerning the “next household item perfected” his website revealed the product and soon collapsed under the weight of the Eastern World checking it out. (BTW WAKE UP, AMERICA! You’re missing a technological breakthrough while the limeys are having their tea and biscuits [they really mean cookies but they don't say anything right]) The Air Multiplier (not a D&D spell!) has NO BLADES and produces a steady breeze instead of the “Choppy” job that every fan has done since DaVinci took a swing. All of the sudden regular fans have become the bullshit invention that the Cathode Ray Tube Television now is. Who wants that crap when this crap has been perfected and made out of gray and purple plastic with an LED? BOOM! You’re welcome world! James & Co. figured it out. What’s next? The matressless bed.
Hey, JD, how about you hook us up with The Hoverboard already!
KAV (myspace.com/kavsonic) is a person as well as a band. Kav himself was the guitarist for the reformed HAPPY MONDAYS, legendary in the UK. KAV, the band, just got off the road from a destructively brilliant week of shows with upstarts Esserand high-energy DATAROCK.
Tonight KAV will be at Spaceland (1717 Silverlake Blvd, LA) for KROQ’s “Locals Only” FREE MONDAYS with October Residents: LightFM as well as Obi Best and Wrong Way Driver. Like I said this is a FREE SHOW so stop down and enjoy some music from across the pond!
Ranked #1 in Kerrang Magazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” and voted as “Nirvana’s #1 Greatest Moment” by fans in an NME poll, Nirvana’s historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the UK’s Reading Festival is one of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock n roll. Now, fans will have an opportunity to own a pristine copy of that entire performance — color-corrected video from the original film with audio sourced from the original multi-track masters. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition CD+DVD Deluxe Edition as well as DVD-only, CD-only configurations on November 3, 2009, followed by a 2LP version on November 17, 2009.
Is there such a thing as coke flashbacks? I totally just made that one up.
I thought this was a pretty sick live performance. It was like my wet dream music fantasy megamix. The Boys were honored with the “Outstanding Contribution” award. Nice and vague. And I’ll be honest, Lady GaGa is totally my guilty pleasure. I don’t care if she made her outfit out of china plates, wears bows made of hair, or non-pants outfits. She’s fucking wierd and a little off-looking and I dig it. I dig her look, her songs, her videos…so there.
Brandon Flowers sounded like shit. But man, that was a rad performance. It’s the bloody Pet Shop Boys, sweetie darling.
Well maybe there is nothing ironic about it…Here is a story from the UK about a woman who got her Uggs stuck in some train tracks and was freed by a passer-by only to be dragged by an angry boyfriend into the path of another train! He managed to jump to safety but she was all fuckered up on enough chemicals to put Keith Richards in rehab.
The girl was a young mother of 2, it’s sad. Not so much that a mother of 2 died but that someone let her have two children who would have already been hoodrats (or whatever they have over there) but will now probably be even more fucked up. Read the rest of this entry »
Lollapalooza 2008: Chicago, Ill: Grant Park: Saturday August 2nd: Day 2 – 12:45-1:30pm The Ting Tings @ the AT&T Stage.
If you live in Los Angeles then chances are you listen to Indie 103.1 or KROQ 106.7. They are the main 2 “Modern Rock Alternative” stations and where you will most likely hear Salford, England’s 2-Piece party dynamo The Ting Tings. If you listen to either station then you might even be sick of said band considering they play at least 1 of their 3 singles at least 1 to 3 times an hour. And as far as I remember Indie 103.1 was spinning “That’s Not My Name” since sometime last fall (‘Feel My Heat’ or ‘Big Sonic Heaven’ most likely?). Say you don’t live in L.A…poor thing, you probably got your first taste of The Ting Tings with “Shut Up and Let Me Go” from their iPod+iTunes ad. The Ting Tings album “We Started Nothing” is good. Too Good. Its catchier than Hepititis at a Motley Crue show. Without giving you a full review I’d say the album for its sheer ass shaking power easily scores a 7.5/10.
Here is a recent AvantTrash interview with The Ting Tings’ firecracker Katie White (Guitar, Vox, Bass Drum…Cowbell) and beat master Jules De Martino (the drums, the drums, the drums…):
AvantTrash: That’s not your name? What is your name then?
The Ting Tings: Katie White & Jules de Martino
AT: I’m really bad with names. So you wouldn’t answer to darlin’?
TT: Captain darlin maybe! But just darlin’ …erm no!
AT: I’m sure you’ve met a lot of people lately, how do you remember peoples names?
TT: We don’t really. We become very animated when meeting faces we recognize but names we’ve forgotten. Lots of pats on backs and leans on shoulders seem to do the trick.
AT: Summer festivals, when is the best spot? Early and get it over with or later to a bigger, more pumped up crowd? Whats the biggest crowd you’ve played to so far?
TT: Glasto[nbury festival] spilled out to around 13-14k, T-in the park was about the same. I reckon there’s no time like the headline spot on the pyramid. That’s king. The rest are all brilliant princes and princesses.
AT: It seems that a lot of music is coming from across the pond. What is the musical climate in England right now? What would you say set all of this off?
TT: There’s a lot of real pop emerging! Home made pop not the glossed up manufactured stuff of the 90’s. Technology has set off a bunch of new musicians capable of creating big sounds with few people. That’s how we do it. We once saw one guy start a set with acoustic guitar but within 2 minutes it sounded like 6 Nirvana’s playing all with the aid of loop stations and pedals. Unfortunately in this particular case the artist sounded like 6 Nirvana’s playing different tunes at one time but it can work.
AT: You are a band of two. How do you support the sound of a full band live?
TT: Live looping, fx on K’s guitars, lots of energy on the kit and screaming melodies.
AT: What is your songwriting process like?
TT: There are no rules to our song writing. Either one of us will lead the way, on keys, guitar even drums. A rhythm can set of a tune for us. We like to be enthusiastic and keen with any route to a good tune. We often only gave a new idea only 2 hours before either scrapping it or keeping it. If it didn’t feel like a hit in 2 hours it was erased from disc.
AT: Jules: You play the drums live, Why do you prefer them to guitar or anything else you could be behind?
TT: Drums are the most rewarding of all instruments. You can orchestrate from behind them, watch and control the audiences energy, let out the frustration and most importantly hide behind them.
AT: You’re songs are catchier than Bird Flu, how do you come up with your “hooks”?
TT: We’ll Katie has had two encounters with bird forms. A seagull shat in her eye when she was a toddler. Looking up at the sky it landed one right inside and needed emergency cleaning. Then just before forming this band she arranged the removal of tons of pigeon shit from a disused factory loft. So maybe the birds are responsible for the hooks.
AT: Besides spinning a hot Ting Tings remix, what makes a “Great DJ” anymore?
TT: A person that spins great records of course. They don’t have to be anything else but catchy rhythmic songs that make you feel part of the gig. If you’re feeling isolated you’re either in the wrong place or listening to the wrong dj.
AT: Everyone in music anymore seems to have a line of clothes, i’ve heard you make your own stage costumes, do you lust for the life of a fashion designer?
TT: No. I don’t think my clothes would survive a week. They look great but fall apart as I’m not the hottest seemstress.
AT: Well here’s to hoping for a wardrobe malfuntion!
The Ting Tings play August 6th @ the El Rey in Los Angeles and this Saturday afternoon at Lollapalooza and AliUptown and I will see you there!
