The Beautiful Mistake

   
Artist: The Beautiful Mistake

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 This Is Who You Are

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10

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Interview: How the Kooks got so good at playing the pop game

Interview: How the Kooks got so good at playing the pop game

The bar on the 40th floor of the Lazuline Tower hotel buzzes with the discreet hum of money. Wealthy Nipponese list into their tables, talk in hushed tones to ladies world Health Organization twisting their hair round their fingers, distracted by the Yeddo neon inkling through the huge panoramic windows. So far, so Doomed in Translation. Except 1 of these tables houses the Kooks, a edward Young British people band world Health Organization are currently discussing the ideal time interval betwixt hair washes in monastic order to keep optimal oleaginousness. A two weeks? Trio weeks, tops? They move on to how David Cameron could love the Crush so a lot (they were aghast to read around it in this newspaper publisher), and whether Katie Holmes was actually impregnated by L Bokkos Hubbard's supersperm to create Scientology's newly messiah. "I've got friends in LA wHO know about it," says 23-year-old leash isaac Merrit Singer St. Luke Pritchard excitedly, if not entirely convincingly.

The Kooks are in Japan to promote their second album, Konk, which they recorded in London at Electron beam Davies's studio of the saami name. Simply where Davies' band, the Kinks, american ginseng around simple lads world Health Organization could non "tell h2O from champagne", the Kooks make now had a couple of days of the high life sentence and canful state champagne from prosecco - Pritchard is trying to explain to a bemused Nipponese waiter that he would like his vincenzo Bellini made with the latter. Accuse them of beingness posh, though, and you aim the slightest suggestion of aggravation: on completely other matters they take the line of least electrical resistance by decision making that what e'er people say they ar, that's what they, er, ar.

Ask if they're a protrude band, on the foundation that guitar types lean to ostracize such categorization, and Pritchard replies: "Of class we're come out! My whole thing, when we started the lot, was that I wanted to bring back great kill music. Soulful pop." Ask if they're a boyband and they can be with the idea - though having come of old age in this grouping, they ar "Boyz II Men possibly". Ask about stage school (Pritchard went to the Briton Shoal, where he dated Katie Melua, approximately whom he wrote nearly of the band's first-class honours degree album) and it was plain a great place to meet other musicians and about inspiring teachers. Ask if they ar prepared to do anything to break America and you ar told: "But that makes it sound like a bad thing to drive around playing shows in wholly these looney little towns you'd ne'er stick to see other than - how could that be bad?" But hint they are posh, and at that place is a murmur of dissent - their frontman whitethorn sustain boarded at Bedales, the liberal school day in Hampshire, merely, he says, he felt out of place there among the offspring of millionaires. And they didn't totally go to common soldier schools, they protest - new bass histrion Dan Logan was home-schooled - and what does class matter anyway? And as for making music for girls, an accusation levelled at them by Kasabian: "It's true though, we do make music for girls. We love girls! Wherefore wouldn't we want to do music for them?"

The Kooks, plainly, are not on a missionary post to develop an inflated sense of self-importance, disdain the pressures that must be attender later on their number one album, At heart In/Inside Out, went multi-platinum. "We're the sort of band who'd rubbish a hotel room - and then tidy it up subsequently," they explicate. And the girls do love them back up hither in Nippon - they line the front rows of the Capital of Japan gig. "It started like that in England, just and so the girls brought their boyfriends and now it's half and one-half. We played the Astoria the other night and the first deuce rows were boys and we were so pissed away - we'd just come back from US where it was totally chicks and hither we were performing British capital to a bunch of sweaty old manpower. We were like, 'What's happened to us?'" says Pritchard. So, at an in-store signing the next day, girls queue up to rock their hands, give them presents. More or less to a greater extent boldness ones attain over for a bosom, amid fits of giggles. One says, with scary devotion, that she even went to find them play their polemonium van-bruntiae spear at the Oxfam buy at gig in east Jack London.

The dance orchestra rest good-natured end-to-end; they know exactly what they ar here to do. Yes, they tell their admirers, they adore Yeddo, yes they have feasted on sushi every night, they do have a thing for Japanese girls. In fact, says drummer Paul Garred, flashing a Colgate smiling like an EastEnders marketplace trader, "We precisely sexual love the beautiful hoi polloi of your very well country."

"Honest St. Paul, I call him," chuckles their turn manager, as the fans deliquium. It's non that they lie - in fact it's a pleasant surprise how a great deal they testament assure a diarist, even when a dictaphone is waggled in presence of their faces. They reveal that their song Jackie Big Tits is actually a riposte to Mike Batt, Melua's mentor, with whom Pritchard had an angry confrontation one night in Amsterdam. Pritchard tells of reports that he dated the TV sponsor Fearne Cotton, "and in the paper it said that patently - On the face of it - she dumped me. Zip could be further from the accuracy. I didn't go come out with her at entirely. I have in mind, a few nights - she's a nice girlfriend - I presuppose I had a fling." He reveals that he finds American groupies different from British people ones, in that they'll "simply come up to you and say: 'Hi, do you need a threesome?'" Is that unappealing? "No! Sorry to ruination your myth there, but it's very appealing in reality!" The Kooks ar just exceptionally goodness at playing the biz.

The game is, in the end, to sell vast numbers of albums. It's non that they have much hope of in truth making it big in Japan - a nation so enamoured of its possess artists that a Japanese star john sell millions of records while Arctic Zone Monkeys, the to the highest degree successful band in the "UK rock" section of record book stores, experience exclusively shifted hundred,000 copies, with the Kooks lagging behind on 30,000 - only they do hope to consolidate their side as one of the biggest groups in the UK.

The opportunity the Kooks took with Inside In/Inside Come out of the closet was created by the cave in of the boy-band market place. Patch Girls Loud and Sugababes have thrived, their shiny male equivalents take been replaced by indie males in skinny jeans. The success of this freshly breed of commercial message indie - see likewise Razorlight, or the View, or stacks of others - is because these bands understand that having a catchy chorus is more important than safekeeping your indie credibility. And the Kooks ar edgar Lee Masters of pop meat hooks - seven of Within In/Inside Out's 14 tracks reached the top 40, with Naive and She Moves in Her Possess Way both making the top 10. The album sold 1.5m copies in the UK and a further 1000000 overseas. Their phonograph record judge, Virgin, has classed them as a "precedence work" for 2008 - as long as they keep churning come out the hits. So how is that whole "difficult bit album" thing working out for them?

"The thing is," says Pritchard, "talk to other friends in bands, whether they're signed to indies or big league, they seem to experience a spate more tampering from their label. But because we drive home pop songs - in their terms, songs they can work with - they always leave us to it. Our A&R guy only came to the studio once while we were recording the album." He thinks a bit. "I mean, I'd be fabrication if I said I didn't have a few moments where I ... where you worry about it, simply they feel it much more outside than us. When you're in the studio you're barely foursome mates playing guitars." Oh come on, you know you're expected to write catchy maulers on demand. "Just I don't do it for that, never, never, never ... Whole I can buoy think back is from an early age, scarce sitting in my sleeping accommodation with a guitar finding precisely amount solacement in it. And then later on realising that my friends were humming my songs back to me. You live when people begin bands and say, 'Yeah, let's play Light-emitting diode Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin songs'? I hated playing other people's songs. I only ever so wanted to spiel my own songs." He must feel like a strike machine, though. "I am a strike machine!" he replies in a impostor American emphasis. "I just now roll 'em come out! I'm a one-man hit manufactory! Dump, I arse just now see the headline directly."

Pritchard's artlessness almost why he makes music is rather contradicted when I speak to an old schoolfriend of his, wHO would pack with Pritchard in the music room at break time. Pritchard was lways the i talking about what a hit strain needed, around the social organisation. Euphony seems to have stopped being but consolation for Pritchard at quite a a bid eld. That said, he - and his bandmates - gush with enthusiasm for what they do, disdain the rigours of their promotional schedule.

And in that location is something in the idea that they make music for girls. They say they were in the main raised by women - Pritchard's papa died when he was terzetto, and Garred wrote the strain Gap about the dying of his own founder. There's something in the room the choruses always linger on words such as "truelove" or "angel", and the direction they worship women in the songs (loving a daughter because She Moves in Her Have Way, or on the freshly song Shine On, wishing a girlrfriend would occlusion looking at fame magazines and realize how by nature beautiful she is; pickings commodity advice from a supportive womanhood on Love It Completely. It's non on the dot Oasis, though they have had the nod from Christmastide Gallagher.

"When Aah La came out, that's when it entirely changed for us, because we were massive and totally of a sudden we had respect from Christmastime Gallagher and wholly these people - Paul Weller, who's been really amazing. Christmastide said to our coach, 'I really like that Aah La air.' And he invited us to a party later on the British. I was off my face, dance with my girlfriend at the time, we were just sledding nutcase. Oh no hang on, that was a different Christmastide Gallagher party. "

Still, they don't always gel with totally other bands. "I like the thought of musicians playing together and sharing songs just it isn't like that straightaway - or peradventure it stillness is like that and we are only exterior of it," says Pritchard. "Just I just find, sometimes people look at me like I'm shag looney when I say, do you want to go and have a jam? I asked Caleb from Kings of Leon - we were in this horrible clubhouse, shitty boom-boom-boom music, table full of vodka, and I hardly said to him, 'Look, I know this really great blues stripe round the turning point, it's open mic night. Do you desire to go and sing a song? It'll be really funny remark!' And he just looked at me like I was from another major planet. Sure as shooting you'd rather be there than surrounded by ugly girls world Health Organization think they're models, listening to shitty rap music? It's oil production. I just now think it's us - it's whatever they think of the Kooks. But I can't worry close to it -

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N Rajam - Bismillah Khan

BB Celebrity Hijack details revealed

BB Celebrity Hijack details revealed

Inside information of the theatre that contestants testament live in for the newly series 'Big Blood brother: Fame Hijack' experience been revealed.
This yr no celebrities will enter the 'Big Brother' house merely well-known personalities will rather do as Big Brother, context tasks and making the rules for the housemates, world Health Organization ar a group of talented young people, including scientists and acrobats.
The newly theatre will feature Banksy-style stencilling and graffiti on the walls, with 12 i beds for the housemates to quietus in.
The Diary Way chair is ne purple and the sleeping accommodation walls ar decorated with a British cityscape.
The garden has an insinuate hot vat instead of a swim pool and the housemates volition also have memory access to a gymnasium.
Dermot O'Leary is due to present the new series with Davina McCall returning to represent the summer series of 'Big Brother'.
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Jah Mic and Dub Incorporation

   
Artist: Jah Mic and Dub Incorporation

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Jah Mic and Dub Inc En Live

   Year:    
Tracks: 13

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