Superjupiter @ Too 2 Much
17 Nov
Last Thursday was a week off djing (hurrah!) so off we went to the launch party for new electropop compilation Robopop. It was held at Too 2 Much which had inexplicably been renamed the ‘Soho Revue Bar’ and like our lunch at Ronnie Scott’s it was cool to see a venue we’d heard so much about. It’s also in one of my favourite bits of Soho where the street goes really narrow and the hookers go hardcore (i’m not sure what that says about me.)
Anyway, the CD contains lots of cool artists like Goldfrapp, Dragonette (yay!), Performance, Temposhark and Soho Dolls. I need to listen to it more to check out the bands I don’t know, but it seems pretty ace. Performing live at their launch party were Formatic, Super Jupiter and Matinee Club. Issues at the door meant we only got in just in time to see the end fo Formatic, a London brother/sister duo, but they sounded much squeakier in real life than on myspace.
Super Jupiter are a three piece from Norway and are mates of the astoundingly dreadful Lorraine. In fact two of Lorraine were in the audience and my mind wandered quite a lot trying to figure out a way of destroying them. Anyway we received Super Jupiter’s single You Know through a DJ promo list ages and ages ago and really liked it. Again there’s an easy Scissor Sisters reference here, but I need to remember that high pitched and camp doesn’t always equal SS, but well mainly it does and it’s 4am, I can’t be bothered to be any more in depth here – you can hear it on their myspace. We had planned to see them before at a showcase at Camden’s Barfly but managed to show up as they were packing up. So now was the time to see how they transferred a really produced synthy sounding record to a live performance – and, well, they pulled it off. You can watch their mildly amusing skating video, which Laurie you’ll probably love, at youtube.
Then came Matinee Club, which is the unnecessary new name for The Modern. Ditched from their label after a chart rig fiasco and minus one or two members, the band were as tight and as good as ever. But – I was pretty bored. We first caught them live supporting Kaiser Chiefs [argh CDUK is now offline and I've lost all my screengrabs. Argh] at Ibiza Rocks in 2005 and they sounded right up my street. Female, vaguely Stefani-esque vocal, with a big fat chunk of 80s glampop. But now, well to me it just sounds a bit tired and boring, and honestly I think they looked a bit dishearted. That said if you’d slogged your guts out, finally got signed to a major, and then got sent back to slogging your guts out hell, you’d probably be a bit pissed off too.
Sorry to do this in a comment, but I couldn’t find an email address…
Hi,
Kenton from ist and Pink Box Records here…
We’re in the middle of a campaign to bring a real (and independent) song to Christmas No. 1 (any and everywhere in the world) and we need your help. I’ve enclosed a link to the pre-order for the single – “The Wreck of the Eddie Fitzpatrick/I am Jesus (And You’re Not)”. If you like the songs, could you please consider reporting on them and the campaign, with a link to the pre-orders…
Obviously, we’ll send you MP3 or CD copies for yourself if you choose to write about it, although we’d love it if you and your readers spent the £1.50. : ) And we’ll advertise your blog as well, as is only right and proper.
http://www.indiestore.com/pinkboxrecords/indieProductDetail.aspx?&product=-135&sid=-135
or, in someone else’s words…
ist ‘I Am Jesus (And You’re Not)’
Rejoice, officially the first Xmas single has appeared on indiestore. Any good? Yup. ‘I Am Jesus (And You’re Not)’ clocks in just short of a minute, but what a minute. Surf guitars, snarly vocals, the kitchen sink surely isn’t far away. We’d love to see excellent ‘The Wreck Of Eddie Fitzpatrick’ as the Christmas Number One. Go on, make our day. – 7digital
The songs were written in response to a conversation with Tom Robinson, daring us to write short, raw pop songs with stories to tell. Which is kind of what we were already doing. So, we made them shorter and more raw. In the case of “I am Jesus (And You’re Not)” – our candidate for the Christmas charts – a LOT shorter.
Lyrics are available from the forum at http://www.istianity.co.uk under the subject “Toothpick Bridge” in the Lyrics Section
We would very much appreciate your support.
Thanking you in advance,
Kenton Hall
ist
07918 635 468
http://www.myspace.com/ist
http://www.istianity.co.uk
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