London Electricity - Power Ballads Album
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Liane Carroll: Vocals
Jungle Drummer: Drums
Andy Waterworth: Bass
Tim Landslide: Samples + percussion
MC Wrec: Vocals
Tony Colman: Keys + b vox
What are your musical influences? Where do you get your inspirations from?
Mainly from good emotional orchestration, film music, TV music, mood music, good songwriters, form everywhere and anywhere ...
On the cover of "Power Ballads" we see you with a strange instrument. What the hell is this?
This is the Suzuki Omnichord. It's a Japanese educational instrument from about 1976.
Tracklisting
"Power Ballads": 01.) Out Of This World 02.) Power Ballad 03.) Remember The Future 04.) The Strangest Secret In The World 05.) I Don t Understand 06.) Hanging Rock 07.) Will To Love 08.) The Mustard Song 09.) Watching You, Watching Me 10.) Pussy Galore 11.) Vapour Trails 12.) Far From The Shadows |
I think it's a lot better production, and more depth and definitve more live sounding.
How do you write the tracks: Are you the composer and the others "only" the musicians?
I write all the music, but all the songs on the album are co written between me and Liane Carroll and also Wrec on a couple too.
Talking about London Electricity you mostly hear the name Tony Colman. Also on the cover of Power Ballads we see only you. Do the other members want to stay more in the background?
Have a look on the back cover of the album! There's the whole band enjoying ourselves around a mic. This album is kind of still my solo work but with more input from the band than the last album.

It's not that simple. Some acts are on Majors and manage to keep their credibility like royksop, milo etc, and some acts on small indies never have any credibility so you can't generalize.
It's all about how you play the game. Anyway personally I think we'll stay on Hospital 'cos we're nice here!
How important is the internet for you? You are also running a blog, right?
Totally important and essential. It's how we communicate (aside from our music that is!)
And what's your opinion about things like DJing with CDs or Final Scratch? Is this the future?
It's as much the future for DJs as guitar synthesizers were for guitarists in the '80s.
Where do you like to performe live more: At big raves where you play in between Andy C and Mampi Swift, or at Jazz festivals, which are more about "music"?
All different. Our live set doesn't work so well in hard raves, cos it's not class a drug music - it's more spliff or drink music. We like playing in a concert or club situation where people can really get into the show. It's not that suitable for the "one hour each act" conveyor belt rave situation.

Wrec was feeling the new material much more than Stamina, and had already been on the road with the band on and off when Stamina couldn't do the shows. He's a full band member now and has been for 2 years.
In november you are touring in Germany. You know the german scene, do you have connections to any artists over here? Or "only" to Syncopix? ;)
Yeah we've been working with Roland for a couple of years now, and we're developing our relationship with him. I would love to release some music by other German artists, but nothing right has come our way yet - so come on send em in people...
Asides from LE, Hospital is one of the labels with the highest reputation in the scence and has been voted as the label of the year 2004 at last years future-music.net Awards. What can we expect in the near future on Hospital?

And in January we release NHS100 which will be a mega 3 CD mix by London Elekektriciy, High Contrast + Cyantific spanning the whole career and catalogue of Hospital.
Ok, anything you want to say to our readers?
Has anyone got a cure for the flu???
Tony, thanks for the interview!

London Electricty "Power Ballads" Tour Dates Germany:
02.11.05: Aachen - Jakobshof
03.11.05: Köln - Stadtgarten
04.11.05: Saarbruecken - Electricity Festival @ Atomic Club
05.11.05: Leipzig - Conne Island
06.11.05: Tuebingen - Das Depot
08.11.05: Berlin - Watergate
09.11.05: Bremen - Ting!
10.11.05: Duesseldorf - Unique (DJ+MC+Drums)
11.11.05: Heidelberg - Enjoy Jazz Festival @ Karlstorbahnhof
12.11.05: Chemnitz - AJZ Talschock
13.11.05: Hamburg - Mandarin Kasino




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