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I LOVE YOUR DIAMOND SHAPED TATTOO. THANKS IT'S MY ENGAGEMENT RING

I'll tell you something. When I do an interview, I always prepare too many questions than I could ask the next time he allotted by stress, fear that the artist has no say, no answer hand, does not pick up where I want to make. Which means that I regularly find myself with a tremendous amount of questions, many answers, for rough assembly, before the pruning everything from rambling answers through the questions wobbly. In the interest of transparency ( wikileaks syndrome)-and not at all bothered to write new articles I therefore propose UNCENSORED version of my interviews.

Sleigh Bells @ Instant Point, 2010 (© Anh Phi )

At the concert in Paris Sleigh Bells , Instant Point, I saw the power of the noise pop of the band live. A show made of sweat, screams, strobe, where the guitar riffs contrasted beautifully with the sweet voice of Alexis Krauss, the singer. This stage animal turns out to be of infinite sweetness to the city.

How a server, a former member of a hardcore band (Poison The Well) encounters a former member of a group of teen pop (Rubyblue) become a teacher?

We met in Brooklyn , Derek had just arrived from Florida to work on his music and find the voice that would work on his project. At the time, I taught full time, I continued to sing professionally for the fans, to sessions with songwriters, do demos but nothing more. One day, my mother, we went to dinner at the restaurant where Derek worked. He was our server, my mother being very talkative, she asked him many questions. It turned out he was from Florida, just like her. So she wanted to know what had brought him here. He explained that he worked in the music, she immediately told him that I was a singer, I was so embarrassed, I prayed for it to be silent, looking up to heaven, but this interested Derek. I then explained to him that I was singing since he always asked me to give him my email so we meet again and make me listen to what he composed. I felt like it was dragging me and we would not really talk about music, I gave him. We only lived only three blocks discrepancies, the coup was quickly reviewed, he made me listen to his compositions on his guitar and loved it. I was very excited about his project I had never heard anything like this before . We started recording and we really liked what we did, it sounded right, so we persevered in this direction. Then I went back to teaching, I finished the school year and I decided to work full time with him. We started playing shows in September 2009. We got very lucky, we played on a lot of lines-up is great and people seemed to appreciate very quickly, which allowed us to continue and here we are today!

As you do not know long this has not been difficult to work together? There he had mistaken identities, misunderstandings?

was surprisingly simple and I think that's why we continued. Derek had a very clear idea of what he wanted, we talked, I understood what he wanted, he loved what I could do, creatively we were on the same wavelength from the beginning , we never had to fight about anything. I think that's why everything was possible, because as I said before I taught, I loved that thing, and he had to abandon that I really believe in the potential of our project. No scolding from stress, just fun!

You have completely opposite musical backgrounds, how did you manage to reconcile them?

It's fun, everybody Derek catalog in the box because of his hardcore band, when in reality he listened to much pop. Unlike me who would rather listen to stronger stuff. So even if we played music in genres quite opposite, we had the same influences. We're big fans of the Motown, soul, women's groups of the 60s like The Supremes after it is also a fan punk rock classic that is the Ramones or Clash . In fact, we're fans of pop sound but also heavier, which meant that it worked between us, we knew where we came from and where we wanted to go. Finally, Derek and I are not talking that much music, but we talk in the abstract sensations it brings us. For example, when entering, if you want to talk about what we want to voice it will say " it needs more sparkle or shine, either softer or more rough " is ultimately rather vague . We will never say "I want it looks like this or that group "But" I want people to feel that . "As a singer, I see it as an actress, I put voice in the skin of various characters in order to have a different mindset each song. A song like Rill Rill is completely different from Infinity Guitars and that's what I love: to become a different person on each song.

How did you record the album?

We began recording demos in September 2009. The recordings were made on things that Derek had worked for years and as I was still working full time, he is also doing much of the writing. Then we spent two months with Treefort Studio Shane Stoneback for sound engineer. It is truly a labor of love, which belongs only three of us. Derek is who wrote and composed most of the music together were more worked on the melodies and harmonies on songs like Rhythm Riot , Tell Them or Run the Heart . But certainly our next album will be much more collaborative . It's funny, because before, I had never worked in the music. I mean I was singing but I never wrote any of my texts so when we started working together (with Derek) it seemed natural not participate in writing. Now it's different, I feel much more invested, this is my music now.

The story has it that Spike Jonze that you have discovered and brought to MIA, tell us a little. A friend

us wrote for the blog Spike Jonze for the film Where The Wild Things Are and is the first to write about us. It was only a few songs on Myspace at the time. Then Spike read his blog (laughs) and he enjoyed our music and played it to MIA, who loved us and also with the spontaneity that we know it we immediately contacted, has flew to New York Derek worked on the production of his latest album and was signed to his label (NEET Recordings, ed) in partnership with our other label, Mom + Pop Records , it was a surreal chain of events!

How did your collaboration with MIA, she is known for her extravagance, she is also well professionally?

MIA like many pop icons is seen as much more impressive than it actually is. Personally I find it very sweet and down to earth but his ideas and ambition are enormous.

In France, you are often described as a mixture of the Ting Tings and Crystal Castles what do you think? How do you make this comparison?

Derek and I are big fans of Crystal Castles , if you compare us to them is surely from some form of brutality that we all share, though the voice of Alice Glass and mine are completely different. Moreover, their production work is beautiful. In terms of Ting Tings is probably the more pop side that are sweet and some songs, so yes it makes sense. Even if it's still strange for us to be compared with other groups.

Can you we talk a bit about the artwork of Treats, where you can see the pompom girls with faces distorted, melted, so to speak?

Sleigh Bells - Treats

The photos of the album are from high school yearbook the mother of Derek dating from the '60s. It is an American imagery could not be more conventional, but the sweetness of cheerleaders mingled the disturbing side of their lack of faces. This reflects our music, we made the pop as I said above, but with something very dark inside. We love play between light and heavy, hard and soft. Our album is merely trying to illustrate that chemistry.

A fan music video was made with the song "Rhythm Riot", have you seen? What did you think? This initiative did she like?

Sleigh Bells "Rhythm Riot" from Bo Mirosseni we Vimeo.

Bo, the director, has emailed the video is amazing it has just created this video using its own means. We proposed to make the video official Rhythm Riot , the problem was that Derek and I had another idea for a long time, we had to refuse wishing him good luck anyway! And it worked well, his video made the rounds of blogs is great, it makes us more in the pub in the eye (laughs). This is a video smart and funny, he did a good job.

you like the tour?

Yes, of course it's tiring, but it is still early for us: more and more people discover us is still very exciting, very cool.

You seem very sweet, almost shy, whereas on stage you are bestial limit, what is the secret of this split personality?

I always thought that if the music really takes you in the guts, it is powerful and catchy, I'd look ridiculous if I was there to sing quietly in my corner, I would be of boring! If I was really me, I surely would lower his eyes too, but it makes no sense, so I had force me to lose my inhibitions and let myself be carried away by the music . This allows you to stop thinking about what people will think of you and be probably more interesting than if you were really aware of what you do. When I go to a concert, I want to see something other than the album that I have at home, I want to experience something, I want to dance, have fun and that's what we want people to feel our concerts. We want them to have hot, they sweat, they really feel something, not just that they are contemplative, they are to be active.

You feel a real difference between the French and American public?

Our last concert in France was amazing, very funny, young people were all naked torsos dancing. It has an advantage in the U.S., is that people know us better, then they come over here to test us, they are not necessarily fans in advance. So our concerts in the U.S. may be more dynamic even if you have nothing to complain about both sides of the Atlantic. It has not done a lot of shows in Europe, it has yet to gain credibility, fingers crossed!

You've met with Derek in Brooklyn, the neighborhood of the hyped musical par excellence, do you agree? You see yourself as hype or do you think is considered as such?

Brooklyn has become one of the places where there is a multitude of creative and talented people in a very concentrated area, so it's easy to meet musicians, which facilitates the creation of groups. In our case, it is not really a group of Brooklyn it was our meeting point but it never had a major influence on our music. The same way there is very little played, but it is true that many people we associate with this place. In terms of hype, we had a lot of attention very quickly so that many people are very skeptical our ability to endure, they see us as a "one hit band " those who make the buzz but now we no longer talk in six months. I think we're trying to prove them wrong. Before the release of the album, people kept saying "the album will be Eur bad" while in the end we only had good feedback. This is not because we have been presented or known as a buzz band that is not here to stay and make albums that will appeal to many people, or at least that's what I want!

What are your future plans?

We are on tour until the end of next summer, we still have plenty of places to discover. We're going to Australia, Japan and again in Europe before going to conquer many cities in the U.S. in the spring. So finally, it will be presenting our album many people as possible before going back and record a new . One has the impression that it has always been that we play, our album is short, 32 minutes, get bored quickly, so we look forward to re-enter the studio to record new things.

BONUS:
SLEIGH BELLS

Infinity Guitars Live in Paris / Point Instant

Coin Slot To Pc Connection

I COME TO CALL A FUCKING OF INTRO

For a sunny Saturday and a few hours before their concert at the Golden Arrow I meet both of the Zulu group of electro-pop / rock Call Me Senor at an outdoor cafe. On their first EP, Oh La La , we already felt the energy of Alex (guitar) and JB (vocals), it is the same IRL, judge by yourself.

Call Me Senor @ La Fleche D'or, 27 November 2010. (Copyright Anh Phi )

music behind it is for girls or nab it has always been part of your lives?

Alex I pick more girls before they make music.

JB: The same, we had more time to nab the girls before. We always listened to a lot of music and after a while you ask yourself the question if it would be interesting to do, to pass the course. You're a music fan, you've got posters in your room and you think it would be cool to try to do.

Alex For some it is their parents who push them when we come to it ourselves, we instinctively did not try to take other groups, were taught himself to compose each on our side.

Call Me Before Senor, you were part of The Victorians from 2004 to 2007, when the battery excitement around the "revival of the French rock scene" , you keep what memory?

JB: We it was more withdrawn, due to our sound, there was a lot of stuff that sounded very Libertines, Strokes very , it was a little, because it was in the zeitgeist, clearly we were all inspired by that, but with The Victorians, in As we went on a frenzy a little Brit-pop, big fan of Oasis, Blur of , things like that, so we were both in the thing in and lag behind the others.

Alex After the phenomenon, of course us it bother us a bit to be involved immediately to groups that were not the same style of music. But we can not deny that it has created a craze and it allowed us to go play in England, which would never have happened otherwise. It was with this excitement that some groups have had the chance to go to England to have documentaries on them etc.. It's hard to complain when it brings you this kind of thing. But it's true that it was a bit horrible these evenings "Put your tray " We already had it for a while, it was a mismatch. In addition, there was not the same sound we were looking over, already, the melody, we continued with Call me Senor and what has been perfected in this group there, while the other was more the rage, balance 2 / 3 agreements and much energy, how being on stage.

I understand that you did not like that you speak of "Paris scene," Can you explain why?

JB: For me, it's because the Paris scene is not particularly exciting right now.

Alex: It depends When you refer.

JB: Yeah , but here in Paris, there may be one or two groups that can excite us ...

Alex And we play with them tonight! ( Sourya and Neimo , ed)

JB: And we play with them tonight yeah, but otherwise it is not something exciting, it was clearly not want to be anchored in a movement that is not necessarily that we like and is a little sleepy right now. Admittedly, it is very Parisian right now on our concerts, our sound, because in any way that nourishes us is this city, at least in part. We are in a period in Paris, but in terms we will try to play up abroad. This is the goal, especially for 2011.

Alex The trick is that when you are associated with a current, it is easy to generalize and say: " anyway it happened, that's no, they do not reinvent themselves, they do the same thing . The other thing is to read articles and debates in Rock'n'Folk & Co: they take a group at random at the time we were talking they took Naast , they hit him like crazy and now they say "yeah maybe c was not so bad, we should not have to go too hard on them . It's a bit abused to currents, to choose one of the muse to then enter it until they stop the music. The Naast they were kids back then, they had what, 17? It's not cool to do that. So we preferred to differentiate themselves from the outset.

JB you said that the Paris scene is not very exciting right now, for you what scene today is?

Alex: No London anyway ... It must be LA, but it pisses!

JB: No, but example recently in New York there are pretty cool stuff ...

Alex That's not bad breath since 2007 which, at the thee times 30 groups which were all good and after loving you or love you less, now it's a bit hard, there are 10 albums, there are 2 that you listen in full what.

JB: There is stuff like the rapper Das Racist makes me laugh, it is part of Boy Crisis is stuff that amuse me and plug.

Alex: There's the Raveonettes too, which is what Swedes, Norwegians? (Danish, ed)

JB: There's no real city that industry in particular, perhaps it will be with Paris next stage, I do not know.

You are a group Parisian French, so why sing in English?

JB: Precisely because it is French, Paris and all, but it is a way to reject this stuff in Paris and especially not register in there. We want good, strictly speaking, be regarded abroad as French, it gets a little funny, it gives you a little exotic.

Alex: As is mostly distributed on the label Shakermaker , which is a digital label, it's just a shame to be limited to France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, what it feels light.

JB: England is something that shakes us and which we would like to address

Alex It allows us to work to be listenable and readable text, more than the Paris group that will just make a best of words of Iggy Pop, of Beatles or Stones with the same rhyme all the time, where you are able to finish the sentence after the preceding rhyme, even though this is the first time you listen to the song. That way we could pass for a group not in Paris, perhaps.

Call Me Senor where it comes from, it's a trip you or there is a real explanation behind?

Alex: It's a trip us, we did it together, we have five names on tripp enough idiots, and we chose this one. Especially because you have two English words, a word in English, it went well with our idea to cover their tracks.

level composition how it goes?

Alex Either we do everything together every two or, what has most recently spent his JB wrote a song or I write and then we will pass to another.

JB: Or we the two ends to be sure to agree on everything.

Alex It was part of a group before the Victorians , So that's seven, eight years we are in the same groups

JB: we made music together, we know to death. And interest, since we're only two, we're going super fast. The filter is just for the songs they like both and in this case we pass directly to the next step.

Alex It allows you to write faster but also more tiring, it was expected. At first it's super exciting, you can control almost the entire "supply chain", we decided to do everything alone but there's times when it's hard.

To the scene is some good feelings, or you scared?

JB: Recently for me, the scene is really just become a moment of pleasure, and less and less scared. It's more so something that I fear there are some dates where there are challenges, but for us the challenge will increasingly be in writing the song. Finally I see him like that, there which I stress is to write the ultimate song. On stage we have fun in general.

Alex is repeated a lot to be square, square, square, all the time. After the first goal in concert is not necessarily that people listen to your songs, but obviously if that's why you got the support from you, the most important thing above all that they have a good time. We tend not to play the acoustic live, tonight for example it will not do it, do we really want a set of 40 minutes where people go to dance, have fun and go. In general there is live music on Friday Saturday night, whether at Bus Palladium or Arrow, you're really there to make you happy but mostly to please people. You can have I would not say it breaks-sound, problems, if you ever insured, you spend a good time and people marrent too, the evening is saved and programmers in general are very happy with it . Now we do something more electronic with this group is very easy to track, live less, especially two, we would have many machines, many people. So we changed a bit, the guitars are different, there are voices that have changed, choruses and everything, so it's more a new experience is more suited to the scene. We we know them by heart the songs so it's more fun to play differently on stage.

Do you manage to live today for your music?

JB : We had a month or two at this rate it would be good. Here we are in preparation, it's a bit weird to explain, but we took our time a little. At first we did not Indeed, and we saw the need perhaps to take it. The trigger will be 2011, if there is one, for now we take our time, we do not have a lot of concerts, we write, we try to attract attention, then we'll see.

Alex is also the difference from all groups from before. Previously, we tended to do lots of concerts, there's true that if we did a concert every night, everywhere in France, just enough to pay and go, we could, but it has done with our groups, you cheeks cheeks cheeks and in the end you have two, three articles. While there was initially released product, we'll come out a second, we try to do things in order, with people we like to be sure of the result. Taking our time we end up saving time. (laughter) You can put it in bold! And in Paris, even when your group is working well you can not do a show a week is the max one per month, if people do not come, that's about what we do now .

JB, Call Me @ Senor La Fleche D'or, 27 November 2010. (Copyright Anh Phi )

BEST OF

Your best gig as Senior Call me?

(in chorus): Bus Palladium

Your best concert as a spectator?

JB: Recently, Foals in Manchester, I love the second album and the first, and then be surrounded by English for a packed rock concert is just great!

Alex: I it back! It's been three years since I did not go to concert in Paris. Kasabian, I had seen them several times, because we're really a fan, and I had seen a particular time in London, one of the last concerts they had changed many things, so they had singers. and the first part was chanmée too.

box where the best play?

Alex The sound installation is not egg but I like the Baron .

JB: I would love to play in Moune , I like the small stuff .

The best concert hall?

Alex Where we dreamed of playing? La Cigale or Olympia, rooms that have not yet done, which are already more prestigious, but otherwise in theaters where they played: Social Club, Point Instant , Arrow Gold . The Golden Arrow the room is beautiful, the sound is good, you can have a public hearing.

best mag 'musical?

JB: I do not read much. From time to time a little NME because it's funny. They will praise a band for a week after that is crap, they manage to create excitement, each week there is a better group of all time. Otherwise Dirrty Music (wink)!

Alex: I sometimes read Technikart or Inrocks but I never agree with music critics.

best current band?

Alex should not my reply, it's been three days since I Kanye West in the head. Anyway there are only two albums that I listen to entire Kanye and Foals, ah yes and I Blame Coco , it makes three.

JB: the Phoenix is good too, oh but not this year ... Bon bah same with Kasabian. The next will be too well it seems completely different.

Chest Rash 2 Weeks After Exposure To Hiv

Claudine and the little pig health

Barely out of bed, his eyes glued, I saw all that snow outside. Finally some light in this gray November! It was the perfect morning for brunch friends and wear a wool sweater retro. Destination, the Piggy Health at Rosemere !

As the second picture, it is a restaurant which serves healthy lunches. In other words, many ladies attending this restaurant! What they eat has nothing to do with lunches trucker and we must also forget the bacon .

That morning, My choice fell on panini lunch. The sandwich is filled with sliced ham, tomato, brie and an egg shot. A winning combination, if somewhat expensive. In total, my attitude and my coffee filter cost me $ 15, excluding tip.


Meanwhile, friends have opted for: panini capicolli breakfast, eggs Benedict and smoked salmon crepe with apples and cheddar cheese . Everyone enjoyed his meal.

downside: The portions may seem small for men greedy.

Added Value: The coffee (same filter) is organic and tastes great!

Little Pig health is a restaurant where I used to go and I'm still happy with my plate. That said, when you go, tell your companions that it is a healthy cooking. It will avoid phrases like " is where my bacon? "

With that, enjoy! ;)