Sometimes it’s terribly hard to explain with words what and why a song makes you think or feel. Especially when we’re talking about a band so fresh and new that no music critic has yet had enough time for constraining them with silly labels. Yet.

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So we don’t really know why, but the angelical zombie Samuel and his human dragon make us move. Samuel & the Dragon have something truly special: maybe the singer’s ripped voice, the gentleness of their electronic melodies, the good use of the silences, the scenography, the visuals and the magic atmosphere they create on stage; lights off as if we were attending a classic cinema projection. Maybe the secret of all that sum of pop beauty is a careful mix of all these  ingredients. A wicked magic formula that makes us have butterflies in the stomach. And that symptom never fails.

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If you want to know a little bit more of this –not for much longer– unknown gem, read Samuel answers to our Love & Hate Quiz.

♥ When you first wake up in the morning, what’s the first song or sound you most like to hear?
Blackbirds.

What’s the noise that annoys you the most in the whole wide world?
Radio 1 newsreader’s vocal intonation.
♥ Which are your top 5 bands at the moment?
Micachu and the Shapes
Imagine IAM
Pillers of the Community
Us…
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Climie Fisher

 Tell us one song you hate but can’t get out of your head because the lyrics keep on coming back to you.
The Washing Up song from Big Cook, Little Cook – in fact I don’t hate it I quite like it.

♥ What is the weirdest place you would like to perform in and why?
Doing a tour of old disused Woolworths shops would be good.. High street warehouse party tour – before they all turn into pound shops.

 What concert would you like to forget the most and why?
Bob Dylan at Cardiff Arena – £45 quid ticket – car broke down on the way – horribly enormous venue – £6 for a beer – and he was shit – and I didn’t really want to go in the first place.

♥ What do you enjoy the most about playing in a band?
People actually liking the music. Making loud noises.
 Can you think of any reason that would make you quit music?

A sense of comfortability and contentment in middle age? Slippers and that kind of thing.

They’ll playing an early slot on the 28th of August for our FREE FRIDAYS.

LIVE: MAPS + PONI HOAX + HOOK & THE TWIN + SAMUEL & THE DRAGON

DJS: BEN RYMER + RUN HIDE SURVIVE

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Here at Cargo we’re big fans of independent cinema. We’re also fans of all things home-grown. So, in that case, what could be better than Shifty – one of the best independent British films of the decade?

This hard-hitting, intelligent drama made for an amazing £100,000 shows that there’s much more to British film than corsets, Vinnie Jones and Danny ‘F*cking’ Dyer.

To celebrate the release of the DVD we’ve teamed up with Boxfresh to offer you some quite considerable goodies. So, for your chance to win a full Boxfresh outfit, as well as a whole host of Shifty merchandise, just post a comment below in response to the following question:

What’s your favourite British film? (and summarise the plot in ten words)

The best 5 answers will receive a copy of the DVD, and one of these will receive a full Boxfresh outfit (trainers and all) plus a signed copy of the DVD and the poster.

Competition CLOSED.

Good luck!

Hey, listen. If you’re into latin music, the night of the 16th of September is The Night. And as we want you to feel downright integrated into the atmosphere we’re going to give you some language tips for the occasion. You just have to learn a few words, it’s easy:

“Candela”, pronounced as khan-the-la, which means “fire”.
“Aguacate”: pronounced as ah-wha-kah-teh which means “avocado”.
“Amores”: pronounced ah-mo-res = “lovers”.
“Palmas”:  as it sounds = hand-clapping.
“Morena”: as it sounds = dark-haired girl.

Once you’ve learnt them –notes are allowed–, shout them out to the rest of the audience –they’ll be impressed– or just react at the voice of the magnificent singer and dancer Totó La Momposina.

Drawing on the music and dance of the Colombian Caribbean, her work is informed and inspired by a rich cultural mix that combines elements from African, Native Indian and Spanish traditions. On stage Totó’s dynamic repertoire is accompanied by a range of traditional drums, gaitas, brass, tiple, bass, guitar, percussion and chorus. She presents rhythms such as the cumbia, bullerenge, chalupa, garabato and mapale from Colombia’s Caribbean coast alongside the Cuban son, guaracha, rumba and bolero son that arrived in Colombia via the village of San Basilio de Palenque. “The music I play”, explains Totó, “has its roots in a mixed race; being African and Indian, the heart of the music is completely percussive.”

So be prepared to move your buttocks like never before and lose your voice for the next day.

Candela!

LIVE: TOTO LA MOMPOSINA

ticket price tbc

Dear reader, meet John and Tony.

John, Tony, this is Dear reader.

We’re not going to question their haircuts -or maybe we should-, but these two are the mighty brains behind Slutty Fringe, one of the best and funniest music blogs in town. If you don’t know it, sort it out now, fool.

Now they’re launching a brand spanking new design for their blog (Slutty Fringe 2.0), and will host  one hell of a bash at Cargo to show off their music taste (and their wigs).

Mila Doré had a sit down with them to find out what they are really all about:

This is John.……………………………………This is Tony (allegedly)

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Tony, John, introduce each other to our dear reader in a few words:

Tony: John Power has spent most his life fighting the false assumptions of a nations Cast fans to carve a little spot for himself in London’s nightlife history – A man of taste and questionable morals whose writing style dovetails nicely with my own.

John: It’s true I get asked to do acoustic brit-pop performances on a near weekly basis. I first literally bumped into Tony when I poured an entire bottle of wine over him and his date at the Lock Tavern and it’s been downhill from there ever since. Saying that he’s one of my favourite writers and has stopped me from becoming a middle aged old git before my time.

What was the first song you listened to this morning?

T: Karen Young – Deetour

J: Kid Creole & The Coconuts – Annie (I’m Not Your Daddy)

What’s the best (and the worst) thing about having a music blog? –apart from going to gigs for free. And what do you think about the UK music press in general?

J: The best for me, getting to do things like this party, playing with DJs and bands I love, getting to shout about music I love and hopefully have people take notice.

T: I guess being involved in helping to break an artist, Crookers, for example, are massive now and Slutty Fringe was one of the first to feature them. On a less serious note, I try and take advantage of the offer of a free bar as much as possible!

As for the UK Music press I haven’t really paid much attention since the untimely demise of Jockey Slut (RIP), other than listening to the Guardian Music podcast mostly cos Rosie Swash gives me the horn.

J: Yeah, I often joke about our shabby journalism, but, jesus, some of the rubbish that actually makes it into print these days makes us look like Proust.

T: The worst thing about running a blog is being hassled on a near daily basis to contribute to Don Diablos hunt for fame (please fuck off!!).

J: I think I get more annoyed by people that send us a zshare link, with no explanation, mainly as we just don’t have time, so end up just binning stuff like that and might miss out on really good music.

What other blogs do you normally read?

T: Pinglewood, Keytars & Violins,  Hipster Runoff, 20 JFG & Nobody Cares About Kitsune.

J: Pretty much what he said… To be honest I mainly check mainly non-music blogs like WWTDD.

What is the most controversial thing you’ve ever written in your blog?

T: Apparently questioning why Friendly Fires might not have been a success.

J: Yeah that seemed to wind a few people up.

Give us a reason for each one of the bands or DJs playing at the upcoming party in Cargo.

J: Trevor Jackson

I’ve been trying to get Trevor to play at one of my parties for about 7 years now, the man is an absolute legend.

T: His recent 18 minute remix of DJ Hell is so epic!

J: Leo Zero – Probably responsible for some of my favourite edits of the past 12 months, his Freddie Mercury track is very erotic, his new album is a stone cold classic too.

Grovesnor – I first saw him supporting Hot Chip at The Luminaire about 5 years ago, blew me away. Lovely chap, absolute gent, really looking forward to seeing his full band in action for the first time.

T: I Haunt Wizards - Hate magic so a band that spooks wizards is good in my book.

J: And last but not least Kinema – Neil whose cover of Love Lockdown we released on our label put me onto these guys. Perfect 21st century blue-eyed soul, I’m looking forward to some solid keytar action from these boys.

Who would be performing in your dream after-party?

T: Optimo vs James Murphy & Pat Mahoney DJ set.

J: I could live with that, maybe try and squeeze Andy Blake in their somewhere.

T: Yes! Maybe get Daft Punk and their DAT tape down too for a live show, not sure how we’d fit their pyramid in though…

Who would you like the most to become part of your fan club? And the least?

J: Someone ridiculously rich and generous, Bill Gates maybe.east...

T: Would be great if the CEO of Pioneer took a shine to us and donated a pair of CDJ1000s. Or Stevie Jobs from Apple, he might chuck me an iPhone.

J: This is serious by the way, if anyone from Pioneer reads this and has a couple of spare Mk3′s lying around send em over, I’d be willing to have their logo tattooed on Tony in return.

T: Least? Alexis Petridis, I have an irrational hatred for that man.

J: I’d be a bit freaked out if someone like Bob Mugabe got his freak on to our blog.

Tell us two (one each one) “must” songs that you play everywhere you go.

T: The Units – High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips Remix).

J: Fleetwood Mac – The Chain

If you were at a karaoke, which song would you choose to sing and why?

J: I used to do a mean Barbie Girl… But I try not to sing in public it probably contravenes various human rights laws.

T: It was agreed I’d be the vocalist in our secret band project. I do a mean karoake version of Girls On Film.

J: We need to start that band properly, although now more than 5 people know of us as bloggers, we’re fucked. Journalists turned musicians never tend to be a good look.

Look at this picture of Frank Sinatra:

If he was in front of you right now and you could ask him just one question, what would it be?

J: I think I’d ask Ol’ Blue Eyes who really killed JFK?

T: Did Ava spit or swallow?

Where and how was the first time you got really drunk? (…and the last?)

T: Hmm… not sure if I can remember the first, the most memorable (for other people) is probably hitting the ICA with Power for a gig that had a free bar then ending up at Stringfellows for a Lily Allen afterparty with my last memories being paying £50 for a round, falling into a bin from a sitting position, deciding it was probably best to leave, not before walking into a full length mirror I mistook for the stairs and finally, the cherry on the pie, handing my brand new phone to a complete stranger on the street and imploring him to keep it. Last was prolly in Barcelona last month at a Drop The Lime gig, it all went totally pear shaped after a massive gulp of jagermeister.

J: First time, I imagine it was in a park somewhere out in the suburbs. Last time, probably about 2 weeks ago when I was DJ’ing out in Croatia and got a little bit too stuck into the free booze. My girlfriend found me on my knees in the DJ booth air guitaring to a particularly firey solo.

Tell us one sentence for what you’d each like to be remembered.

J: On the off chance that I don’t cure cancer or establish world peace, I’d like to think people will look back and say I wasn’t a total asshole.

T: Just because you have a Slutty Fringe it doesn’t mean you are a slut.

Who has is the best fringe ever?

T: This girl.

J: I think Betty Page probably set the standard though, didn’t she?

You are all invited to Cargo on the 29th of August for the launch party of Slutty Fringe 2.0.

LIVE: GROVESNOR + I HAUNT WIZARD + KINEMA

DJS: TREVOR JACKSON + LEO ZERO

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<- This is Larry Tee. He doesn’t like to say so but he’s kind of a big deal. A lot of people know who he is. He has many leather bound books yadayadayada. More or less the Don of the Electro-Clash movement, Larry Tee is the New York based, DJ/Promoter/Producer who’s had a helping hand in many a career of the electro royalty from Peaches to Fischerspooner. On Thursday 27th August, he’ll be throwing a party at Cargo. You should go down and dance. It’ll be ace.

As we’re always talking about street art and Barcelona has been for years one of the Meccas of graffiti art, we decided to have a chat with Anthon Maxus Christophersen, one of the driving forces in Barcelona’s street art.

Mila Doré: When did the Barcelona street art scene start and how has its evolution been? It’s said that it’s not what it used to be…

Not sure when it started. I guess Gaudí was the first really known street artist in Barcelona. Transforming boring buildings with playful adventures organic decorations. Transforming the public space into an art gallery. Bringing more joy to the people of the city.

MD: What do you think street art has contributed to the city?

For me, street art is like buying/eating at a local family owned deli, run by people who work there out of passion, and take great pleasure in serving you. A place you leave having received something original made out of passion and respect for the surroundings, compared to a McDonalds franchise… This is what makes me feel at home in Barcelona, when I walk on the small streets, away from the buildings way, often covered by big commercial banners of a Photoshop reality, all put there to make me want to use my money or think in a certain way. That’s when the street art starts to show up. From tags with the simple messages like “La belleza es tu cabeza” (“Beauty is inside your head”) to “Más Amore” (“More Love”) or beautiful abstract or figural art works. All these things turn the streets into a walkthrough gallery but, most important, brings up the inner happiness, knowing that I’m not alone and that there is love, talent and passion out there. It ignites my inner lust for life. I’m loving it.

MD: What is different from Barcelona’s scene, compared to others?

More colours and more love, less spray, more brushes… But due to cheap international flights and internet networks, you tend to see more and more artist appearing in more than one European city. So what really make Barcelona stand out is probably the high standard of the artwork.

MD: Tell me 5 spots in Barcelona where we could go and normally see good street art?

Raval, Barrio Gótico, El Borne, The 3 Chimneys in Poble Sec… and Poble nou; but Barcelona in general.

MD: If you had a sit down with Barcelona’s mayor, what would you tell him?

“Please help all the trafficked African prostitutes that every night after the dark float Rambla Catalunya –It’s sad, obvious and completely wrong–, instead of using resources on secret police looking after street artists. Do something usefully with the taxpayer’s money…”

MD: What do you think about street art going into galleries?

If an artist is able to put the same passion onto a canvas as on the street, and give the public the chance to buy it and put it in their homes for friends and family to enjoy, then I’m all for it. No doubt. That’s the great thing about art: you can’t fake it, it won’t work.

MD: How do you think the digital camera has affected the street art movement, if at all?

The best example is the animated videoclip “Muto” by Blu.

Here the street art becomes alive. As well as the tons of Flickr-type sites where artist and fans share pictures… no doubt that it inspires. So it has affected it in a great way.

MD: Who are your Top 10 Barcelona street artists?

Love and admire them all… each one for their own unique artistic style and personality. So can’t make a Top 10, but instead I’ll mention one, because she is the reason why my eyes got opened to street art and the vast beauty of it, which I’m forever grateful for: Sackristan. Respect, respect, respect.

MD: What is Vaqueros de Barcelona (“Barcelona Cowboys”)?

Vaqueros de Barcelona is the original a title of a short movie that I planned shooting in Barcelona. The short synopsis for it is: “A young man, lost in an empty world, without passion or true values, heads of to Barcelona in search of the true cowboys, in hope that they can guide him and lead the way to a meaningful life.”

Despise a lot of pondering, nothing really happened before Marc Mascort i Boix (former founder of ROJO magazine) came on board. Within a week he managed to arrange a painting party, right in the centre of Barcelona. This event transformed Vaqueros de Barcelona into what it is today: an organisation that curates art shows and arrange events to promote the true artistic cowboys of Barcelona and abroad.

Today our goals are to keep making the painting parties, as well as finding the right format for the movie (planning to launch it in late 2010), so that it shows the beauty and the greatness of these street artists.

MD: Which is the most interesting scene you’ve shoot for the moment in the documentary?

That would be a spontaneous clip: Filming 2 artist painting in day time day… A bus driver stops his bus full of passengers. He opens his window and, in a very friendly and local way, shouts: “¡Hey, tío, qué imponente!” (“Hey, pal, that’s great!”). This is so beautiful because it totally reflects the common men’s view on street art in Barcelona: as something that is valued and appreciated.

MD: Finish this sentence: “The streets of our cities…

… are the place where we meet, say goodbye and fall in love. So let them reflect all of the beauty, longings, mysteries and great to come. That’s inside of us.”

If you are in Barcelona and fancy a street art trip, check this map by the guys of Montana Shop & Gallery. With a little bit of luck you’ll be able to see the work of names such as Diva, Boris Hoppek, Sixeart, Miss Van, Btoy, Delphine Delas, Kenor, Olivia, Pez, Rallito X, Ripo, Rotor, Royal, UIU or Zosen.

We luckily caught Mpho’s performance at Cargo’s last yard party on video. Here’s her brilliant rendition of Kate Bush’s classic Running Up That Hill.

Mpho was also nice enough to sit down to have a quick chat for the Cargo Podcast, coming soon! Hold tight!

Ahead of their highly anticipated gig at Cargo on the 19th of August, Mila Dore gave The Juan Maclean a quick phone call and asked a few questions:

1. Your new album is called The Future Will Come. What kind of future do you foresee?

I think sci-fi author William Gibson is a visionary in terms of imagining what the future will look like. In general, it is a future in which corporate culture has permeated every aspect of life. Ostensibly major corporations are the ruling powers, in place of government. Even personal identity is dominated by corporate references and allegiances. So maybe the next Juan MacLean album will be part of a Wal Mart advert campaign, if I wait too long between albums again.

2. What were you listening when you were making it?

I made up a playlist of things to intentionally groom myself with before and during the making of the album. Some of the things on this daily playlist were: Grace Jones, Human League, Kraftwerk, lots of 90′s piano house, lots of 80′s synth pop in general, Brain Eno, Can, Cris and Cosey, Ministry, New Order.

3. What is the song (of the last album) you enjoy the most playing live?

Happy House. We usually play it as the last song, with the entire set sort of building up to it. It is by far the most fun for us to play, and we end it as an incredible acid jam that can be extended for as long as we’d like. We did a show once where people were screaming for it as soon as we got on stage, so we just started with Happy House and played it for 45 minutes and left the stage. People were crying by the end, they were so excited, but I also think there was a lot of ecstacy going around.

4. Do you think The Future Will Come is an album meant to be listened to or to be danced to?

I made a conscious effort to make an album that was meant to be more of a ‘listened to’ thing than a ‘danced to’ one. Obviously there are a couple of dance oriented tracks, like The Simple Life and Happy House, but we tried to have it be an album of shorter, more vocal oriented pop songs. In general I think entire LP’s consisting of dance tracks tend to be boring, especially when there are no vocals. We made a very conscious effort to sequence the album so that it was engaging listening experience from beginning to end.

5. What should we expect from your live show?

I think the most important thing to understand is that The Juan MacLean is a proper live band. There are no laptops, we are all playing live instruments. There are four of us playing live keyboards and percussion, and singing of course. We have the greatest drummer in the world, Jerry Fuchs (who also played in bands like Turing Machine, !!!, and now Maserati). Much of the set rests on his shoulders, he really carries the band in a big way. It is like live dance music with the feel of a rock band, a bit more chaotic and hard hitting, with room for improvisation so we can stretch things out.

6. What has been the best concert in your present tour? Why?

We just headlined the Brooklyn Electronic Music festival, and that was phenomenal. It was in the middle of Brooklyn, at an old warehouse, though our stage was outdoors. It was meant to be like an old school rave, and people just went insane when we played. The police came 5 seperate times, demanding that our sound engineer turn it down. He would turn it down a bit, then as soon as they walked away he would turn it up again. In the middle of our last song they physically removed him from the soundboard and hauled him off. We had to go bail him out later on.

7. Tell us 3 good things of working with Nancy. (And one bad? –if that is possible)

1. Nancy has this amazing ability to take an instrumental track she’s been given and transform it into something transcendent. For example, she took Happy House, which on an instrumental level is a fairly standard House track, and turned into a completely uplifting anthem. Another great example is Dance With Me from Less Than Human. Her performance on that track is a tearjerker.

2. She insists on finding healthy food when we are on tour. Jerry and DJ (our keyboard player), eat terribly, a steady diet of alcohol, cocaine, and junk food. Nancy, however, demands that we drive out of our way to find health food stores.

3. She has a wardrobe that can save a show. No matter what is happening during a show, if equipment has broken down or the police have come or the stage is surrounded by hippies doing the Noodle Dance, Nancy is always dressed in the most fascinating and visually engaging outfits, so you always have something to hold your attention.

4. And finally, in terms of ‘bad,’ she is a total Diva. She demands a separate dressing room from the rest of us, and none of us have ever been allowed inside. One time the rest of us and our crew had to share a utility closet at a club, because there was only one dressing room and that was reserved for Nancy. Our ‘dressing room’ actually had a boiler/ water heater in it, so it was incredibly hot. By the time we played we were totally sweating, and all the alcohol had turned warm, so we were all pretty ruined. But she came charging out of her dressing room totally refreshed, carrying the scent of the fresh cut flowers that decorated the inside of it every night.

8. Is it true that you now have a robot mascot? What’s his name? Who made it and why?

Yes, he was built by Mike Vadino, who has been the main graphic designer/art director at DFA from the beginning, and Pat Mahoney, who is the drummer for James Murphy’s band The LCD Soundsystem. We engaged in a partnership with Nooka, a watch company that makes these watches that have non-traditional methods of telling time, and the robot was designed to celebrate the partnering of the futuristic band with the futuristic watch company. The robot is midi controlled and responds to information sent from our MPC. The robot’s name is Jeff.

9. When you look back, how do you see the music you were making with Six Finger Satellite?

Too far ahead of its time to ever gain any mass appeal. It’s quite funny now, in restrospect, as we were an angular guitar band featuring disco drum beats, cowbells, analog synths, and funky basslines, which is all de rigeur at your local indie dance night.

10. You’ve been into dance-punk, then swift into electronic music and eventually into more lyrics-based and “poppy” songs. What’s next? Are you already planning a new album, or we’ll have to wait as much as after Less Than Human?

I don’t really see it all as that much of a shift. It’s a more general tendency toward vocal oriented tracks. There is no way in hell I will wait 4 years to put out another album. James Murphy met with me recently and threatened to withhold all my earnings that he has been saving for me in a special account since the beginning of DFA if I waited too long. He is really good to me, actually. From the beginning, he said “Juan, you are not good with money, if we pay you your earnings you will just waste it all on drugs and food and stuff like that. I will open a special account and put all your royalties, advances, and other profits into it, and take out what I need for administrative purposes.” So he has this account that I am guessing must be pretty big by now. Although I sometimes wonder what these ‘administrative expenses’ are. One time we got in a big fight because we were in LA and we were clothes shopping and eating out at fancy restaurants, and I caught him paying for it with a credit card with my name on it. He said these were the aforementioned ‘administrative expenses,’ and I got mad. But I know he means well.

Click here to buy tickets to see The Juan Maclean LIVE on August 19th.

We want you to imagine the future.
What will it be like? An underwater world? An Intergalactic hitchhiking trip that will answer the most unanswerable of questions? Will we all become lazy fat people as in Wall-E? A world where robots do our laundry or serve us our pint of beer? Or a planet full of sentient androids in the vein of Blade Runner? Would we end up booking these guys for an upcoming event at Cargo? Would we eventually need Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics? And, if we somehow manage to make robots follow our standard moral guidelines, would they turn out to become “better” than humans? – reducing you and me to an inferior species just above chimpanzees? Are we going to merge with machines!? Or… maybe all these disturbing theories are just bollocks and the only thing robots will ever do better than us is play baseball.

Make your own forecast. Place your bets. For the moment, robots are invading Cargo without our musical selectors even noticing it. On The 19th of August a man who has stated that he would like to be a cyborg will take over Cargo’s stage. The Juan Maclean with his brand new “The Future Will Come” (and his brand new robot mascot) will be playing blips and bleeps with his soul-less electronic machines (Theremin included) –along with some human beings.

On the other hand, the DFA Records crew will bring us the acid house and electro beats of the mighty Shit Robot on Sat. 22nd. And galaxies away, the night of the 26th of September we will be cheered up by our very special electronic jester Maurizo Dami, aka Alexander Robotnik, an old hand of the Italian bizarre music scene.

Be scared. The invasion has already started. And it’s going to be fun!

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Last.fm will be curating the night of the 14th of August at Cargo, featuring none other than the acoustic guitar and tender singing of Finian Greenhall, a.k.a Fink (Ninja Tune), singing songs from his brand new album “Sort of Revolution”.

Fink will be playing at 10pm, sharing stage with Charlene Soraia, the Londoner PENS, Berliner dubstepper’s JazZstepPa and the Last.fm DJ Team. Read our interview with Fink after the video:
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Here you have our Love & Hate quiz by Fink:

♥ When you first wake up in the morning, what’s the first song or sound you most like to hear?
Anything by John Lee Hooker, something clean and pure and bit jaded.

 What’s the noise that annoys you the most in the whole wide world?
That neighbour, who seems to live everywhere in the UK, who seems to spend every single morning every weekend using some kind of metal saw.
♥ Which are your top 5 bands at the moment?
The Horrors
The Joy Formidable
The Boxer Rebellion
Fever Ray
Florence And The Machine

Tell us one song you hate but can’t get out of your head because the lyrics keep on coming back to you.
Metronomy – “Holiday” – I don’t hate this song, I love this song,  but it’s a bit like Stockholm Syndrome where the hostage starts to empathise with the Kidnapper… also, I’m in Berlin and Paris a lot…

♥ What is the weirdest place you would like to perform in and why?
I would like to play at Montreal Jazz festival. I think Montreal is cool, and although we have nothing to do with jazz, I’d like for me and the boys to go over there and tonk them hard in the face with some real music with some balls…

 What concert would you like to forget the most and why?
St. Tropez, 06, The Plage De Rock festival… in the middle of a real Tornado (we were in the papers the next day) the entire stage and light rig was blown over – we rescued a couple of monitors and our kit, narrowly escaped un-electrocuted and set up in the café bar and did the gig very wet and very drunk (it even made youtube) – I called our manager to, erm, outline the scenario and he told us to “stop moaning and build some memories…”

♥ What do you enjoy the most about playing in a band?
Last week we played a festival in Biarritz, cute surf chicks everywhere, we smacked a great gig, then drank free beers and smoked free weed on the roof of the Radisson hotel by the pool, and… we got paid for it! I love that shit! When you do a good gig the feeling is great… to know that you would have paid to see you is a great feeling – not all gigs are like that, but the more you play the more you yearn to get onstage and push it…

 Can you think of any reason that would make you quit music?
I dunno, what are the hours?

LIVE: FINK + JAZZSTEPPA + PENS + CHARLINE SORIA

DJS: LAST.FM DJS + BLACK CAB SESSIONS

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