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Welcome back to "Radar", I'm with Elsie Martins. Elsie , Thank you!
It's my pleasure, it's great to be back here @ MusiquePlus, so many memories. Thanks for inviting me
You told us that it's like a family reunion, lots of familiar faces !
Exactly , I met some old friends, lots of familiar faces. It's really fun!
Let's talk about music , I have so many questions for you so let's start right now with Adele,
she's still a newcomer here in America althought after Saturday Night Live it took off,
she received Grammy nominations , so it's looking good for her but back there it's been working well for a while !
Yes , and what's special about Adele,
is her musical style. it's classical,jazzy
and you got people from various age who like her music
and I believe that America will like it as well !
Excellent, What I like about having guest and i was checking your list ...
Yeah , I send you a list of all my favorites groups from East London , all unknown.
I passed my day, my week-end to look at it , you have groups like Project Komakino ,Factory Floor and ***. I like *** at lot!
What's going on with that scene?
Right now , there's a lot going on in East London, you have a place called Shorditch
with lots of band , it's like a mini-revolution!
It's a dark,gothic,melo-dramatic sound and
you have groups like *** , Project Komakino
with Joy Division's influence. It's almost a copy but when you like Joy Division it's not a problem!
You have also a group call Micron63
Exactly,let's talk about them because there's a song called " Death is colder than love" and it's my favorite of your list
It's going to be the next single that will be release on DiscError Recordings.
It's a very trendy label with artists like Ulterior,Ipso Facto,S.I.N.S , Cementimental...
and Micron63 it's a project in which I participate.I saw them in show
it's was so good that I've send them a message "Excellent stuff,very very good" and they reply " We like your voice , how do you like to collaborate with us?"
so I told myself "Yeah! why not?" and finally I also play guitar with the group.
It's really fun, it's a small community , very bound together , really special!
Another excellent group it's White Lies , let's go see the video and we"ll be back!
It's radar with a short clip from Phantom , we'll talk about it
but first before the break we were talking about White Lies
tell us why it's going to be the next big thing in 2009?
White Lies is a new group , they made their first gig in London last febuary
and already people compare them to U2,TearDrop Explode,Tears For Fears,Joy Division
and you got artists like Morrissey,Nick Cave who have seen their show
so it 's going extremely well for them!
Excellent we'll wait for that here in America !
Let's talk now about Phantom , it's your project , you live in London for almost 8 years
and it's taking off , good reviews in magazines ..
It's taking off , i create the group almost 2 years ago and the sound have evolved a lot ,
for example in shows there's less violons ,more guitars , ebo bass and
also as a compositor/songwriter i learn a lot, I don't compose with my band , I compose and record alone at my house and after that I send that to the musicians
and then we work together so as compositor/songwriter it's something that's new to me
and I learn a lot and you have the next step which is to go on stage
and we make more and more shows in London.
It's to get media's attention and we got good reviews.
We have been compared to PJ Harvey,Nick Cave...
My preference goes to the East London scene
and Phantom is my baby and I would like to bring it to Canada
because my passion for London's music began here in Montreal when i was working here @ Musiqueplus.
We want to see Phantom in Montreal,we'll cross our fingers
This thursday (December 18th) I have a show @ Jupiter Room , 3874 St-Laurent
it's my first show althought it's not the entire group
so it's gonna be a show with special version of our songs,voice, guitar and drums only .
These are versions that British didn't heard.
The show is on Thurday December 18th @ 12 AM Jupiter Room 3874 St-Laurent.
I also heard of a DJ Set
Yeah , before working @ Musiqueplus i was a Dj
on a show on CISM (Université of Montreal - Student Radio) called "Jet Girl" with Antoine Bédard
so it's was "JetBoys/JetGirl"
So I'll be DJ this Saturday (December 20th) @ Jupiter Room
and it will be the music we just talked about !
2 events not to be missed ! Thank you so much for your visit