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Who will be the hottest new bands next year? Caroline Sullivan asked a few people who should know: the hottest new bands from last year
Romeo Stodart, Magic Numbers
Absentee are our favourite band at the moment. They're unique in the sense that they make music in their own space. The songs are wonderful, both awkward and hilarious, and Dan's voice is something else, so low and warm. They played with us on our autumn tour and it was great watching them just get better and better. Check out their EP, Donkey Stock.
Richard Archer, Hard-Fi
It feels like we've been out on the road pretty much non-stop this year, and we've been lucky enough to be supported on tour by some great new bands who all deserve to make it next year. The Automatic have just signed to the Kaiser Chiefs label, and have been really winning kids over on our current tour. They're cool kids, all 18 or 19 and with a load of great songs. Boy Kill Boy are a great band as well. They'd just released their debut single on Fierce Panda when they toured with us but I think they've now signed to a major so expect an album next year.
Mylo
We're on tour at the moment with Denmark's Who Made Who, and I have to say they are excellent. They're probably best known for their Two Covers for Your Party EP, but they've got an album of original material out, which is brilliant. They've been winning a lot of fans for their moustaches and tight tracksuit pants, too. I'm also loving the Mystery Jets. I'm writing this backstage in Belfast with Olly from the Filthy Dukes (our tour DJs), and he nominates White Rose Movement.
Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys
We aren't established enough ourselves to make predictions but I'll do it anyway. In 2006 I would say look out for Milburn and the Reverend. We've known Milburn since we started but recently they have come up with some interesting new songs and have been getting a marvellous reaction live. The Reverend are hard to describe. At the moment they're mostly based in the studio, but I hear the live show is taking shape and it will no doubt be touring next year. What the Milkman Saw is a great tune. Also, Candy Payne. I know hardly anything about her but we all heard one track the other day and we were proper impressed!
Joel Potts, Athlete
Architecture in Helsinki have a couple of tunes that make me think they'll probably get a bit of airplay, and could go down Arcade Fire route. I can imagine them being a great live band. Also, I like Juan McLean, who's in the same vein as LCD Soundsystem - feel-good punky electro-disco. My toes are twitching just thinking about it.
Nicole Scherzinger, Pussycat Dolls
Vittorio Grigolo: apart from looking like Orlando Bloom, he has a voice to die for, very mellow despite all that Italian emotion and expression. He's very young to be a working tenor but you can tell immediately he is the real deal.
Sway
Pyrelli is a very versatile rapper, with a distinctive flow, and because we came from the same north-east London roots, it's interesting to see the path he's taken. He's more abstract than me, but he makes sense, and doesn't talk crap. Witty as well. Bigz is very hot, too. When he comes into the room you can feel his aura. Baby Blue is a very good narrator, very graphic, but on the poetic side. She's very pretty, but doesn't use the fact she's attractive to get ahead.
Dominic Masters, the Others
We do so many concerts that I don't go to many myself, but we were doing the Camden Crawl and were invited to watch a band called Komakino. It takes a lot to impress me, but they were stunning. There were bits of Joy Division and the Fall and sort of a bit of Wire in there, and the front man has got utter confidence. I also like the Fold.
Joseph Arthur
Nerina Pallot would be my pick for 2006. She has an album out called Fires and I've just been on tour with her in the UK. There's some Tori Amos influence going on there - she plays piano as well as guitar on stage - and she's got melodies that really stick in the head. Her lyrics show that this is a girl who knows how to tell a story too.
Sam Endicott, the Bravery
Matisyahu - just your average Hasidic reggae rapper. Yeah, you heard me. This guy is a straight-up Hasidic Jew from New York who busts mad flow over dancehall and reggae beats. This is the future of music. Also, Envy and Other Sins - they're from Birmingham, dress like Victorian explorers, have invented their own game (Pheasant) and sound a bit like Syd Barrett fronting Queen. As Adam Ant once said, ridicule is nothing to be scared of ...
Kano
I'm gonna break big in 2006! I'd also pick Dangermouse. He's from east London, not the other guy [the identically monikered New York DJ]. I've been working a lot with him lately, and he's very good lyrically - one of the strongest on the underground. Can I also mention Demon? He's the kind of MC who's got the whole crowd singing his lyrics, an aggressive MC who does a lot of pirate radio.
Tom Vek
Jamie T. His song, If You Got the Money, wins the award for Most Stuck in My Head Song After One Listen. It's a perfect example of this young man's gift for song and modern-day storytelling.
Paul Smith, Maximo Park
We're so busy I don't get to see many new bands, but Field Music are from near us in Sunderland, which is quite lucky. They write the most elegant, well-constructed pop around, but the lyrics are also very moving, like chamber pop. They use strings as an integral part of the band, and don't see the Fender Telecaster as too different from a violin. The lyrics are something that mean something, but they're a little cryptic.
Charlotte Cooper, the Subways
We were recording a B-side in London with our Young for Eternity album engineer, John Gray, and he played us some tracks by Milk Teeth, a band he had been working with recently. They had a great quirky-yet-poppy sound. In particular, a song called Cold Climate was stunning. Billy Lunn, our singer, said it was like listening to music again for the first time.
Jem
It's been a while since I've been in a record shop and been so curious about the CD playing that I've wanted to inquire who the artist is. In LA a few weeks ago I found myself doing just that. The reply was "Damian Marley". Interesting! My curiosity was fuelled further by the fact it was a Marley, and, after another wicked track blasted out of the speakers, I bought the new Welcome to Jamrock CD there and then. Damian brings something new and fresh to the table, while mixing in a few familiar samples to give us some old-skool flavour. With inspired lyrics and great production, he's definitely going to be all over 2006.
Ian Parton, the Go! Team
Architecture in Helsinki. They're from Melbourne, there are about eight of them on stage and they just monkey about, swapping instruments and stuff. It's kinda like the Arcade Fire but weirder.
Tom Smith, Editors
Forward Russia! How a band can sound like the most beautiful maths equation is beyond me. Strange rhythms and strange guitar lines collide, making the most melodic of rackets. 2006 is theirs for the taking.
Jamie Hince, the Kills
In Paris I went to a club called Le Gibus, and it was amazing, absolutely rammed inside. There were all these 15-year-old kids and three bands: the Naast, Second Sex and the Bonapartes. They're super-young, and the Naast have an incredibly charismatic 17-year-old singer and a drummer who looks about 12. They caused mayhem with their innocent 1960s punky vibe.
Sam Forrest, Nine Black Alps
The band that I hope breaks through to global mega-success in 2006 is We Start Fires. We took them on tour with us, and they made us look like a bunch of spotty inbreds. They're three girls and one boy from Darlington. They should succeed because they don't try to be uber-cool art-rockers but instead play powerful, sludgy-sleek pop songs with bittersweet words and ear-splitting noise freak-outs. That's good, isn't it?
Nick Hodgson, Kaiser Chiefs
The Organ, from Canada. We did some gigs with them in the States early this year and they blew me away. They're all girls, and they sound like the Cure with Debbie Harry on vocals. My other choice is Corinne Bailey Rae. She's from Leeds and I've known her for years. She's always been singing in clubs in Leeds, and then last week I saw her on Jools Holland and she was amazing. I got chills, and they were multiplying ...
Who will be the hottest new bands next year? Caroline Sullivan asked a few people who should know: the hottest new bands from last year
Romeo Stodart, Magic Numbers
Absentee are our favourite band at the moment. They're unique in the sense that they make music in their own space. The songs are wonderful, both awkward and hilarious, and Dan's voice is something else, so low and warm. They played with us on our autumn tour and it was great watching them just get better and better. Check out their EP, Donkey Stock.
Richard Archer, Hard-Fi
It feels like we've been out on the road pretty much non-stop this year, and we've been lucky enough to be supported on tour by some great new bands who all deserve to make it next year. The Automatic have just signed to the Kaiser Chiefs label, and have been really winning kids over on our current tour. They're cool kids, all 18 or 19 and with a load of great songs. Boy Kill Boy are a great band as well. They'd just released their debut single on Fierce Panda when they toured with us but I think they've now signed to a major so expect an album next year.
Mylo
We're on tour at the moment with Denmark's Who Made Who, and I have to say they are excellent. They're probably best known for their Two Covers for Your Party EP, but they've got an album of original material out, which is brilliant. They've been winning a lot of fans for their moustaches and tight tracksuit pants, too. I'm also loving the Mystery Jets. I'm writing this backstage in Belfast with Olly from the Filthy Dukes (our tour DJs), and he nominates White Rose Movement.
Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys
We aren't established enough ourselves to make predictions but I'll do it anyway. In 2006 I would say look out for Milburn and the Reverend. We've known Milburn since we started but recently they have come up with some interesting new songs and have been getting a marvellous reaction live. The Reverend are hard to describe. At the moment they're mostly based in the studio, but I hear the live show is taking shape and it will no doubt be touring next year. What the Milkman Saw is a great tune. Also, Candy Payne. I know hardly anything about her but we all heard one track the other day and we were proper impressed!
Joel Potts, Athlete
Architecture in Helsinki have a couple of tunes that make me think they'll probably get a bit of airplay, and could go down Arcade Fire route. I can imagine them being a great live band. Also, I like Juan McLean, who's in the same vein as LCD Soundsystem - feel-good punky electro-disco. My toes are twitching just thinking about it.
Nicole Scherzinger, Pussycat Dolls
Vittorio Grigolo: apart from looking like Orlando Bloom, he has a voice to die for, very mellow despite all that Italian emotion and expression. He's very young to be a working tenor but you can tell immediately he is the real deal.
Sway
Pyrelli is a very versatile rapper, with a distinctive flow, and because we came from the same north-east London roots, it's interesting to see the path he's taken. He's more abstract than me, but he makes sense, and doesn't talk crap. Witty as well. Bigz is very hot, too. When he comes into the room you can feel his aura. Baby Blue is a very good narrator, very graphic, but on the poetic side. She's very pretty, but doesn't use the fact she's attractive to get ahead.
Dominic Masters, the Others
We do so many concerts that I don't go to many myself, but we were doing the Camden Crawl and were invited to watch a band called Komakino. It takes a lot to impress me, but they were stunning. There were bits of Joy Division and the Fall and sort of a bit of Wire in there, and the front man has got utter confidence. I also like the Fold.
Joseph Arthur
Nerina Pallot would be my pick for 2006. She has an album out called Fires and I've just been on tour with her in the UK. There's some Tori Amos influence going on there - she plays piano as well as guitar on stage - and she's got melodies that really stick in the head. Her lyrics show that this is a girl who knows how to tell a story too.
Sam Endicott, the Bravery
Matisyahu - just your average Hasidic reggae rapper. Yeah, you heard me. This guy is a straight-up Hasidic Jew from New York who busts mad flow over dancehall and reggae beats. This is the future of music. Also, Envy and Other Sins - they're from Birmingham, dress like Victorian explorers, have invented their own game (Pheasant) and sound a bit like Syd Barrett fronting Queen. As Adam Ant once said, ridicule is nothing to be scared of ...
Kano
I'm gonna break big in 2006! I'd also pick Dangermouse. He's from east London, not the other guy [the identically monikered New York DJ]. I've been working a lot with him lately, and he's very good lyrically - one of the strongest on the underground. Can I also mention Demon? He's the kind of MC who's got the whole crowd singing his lyrics, an aggressive MC who does a lot of pirate radio.
Tom Vek
Jamie T. His song, If You Got the Money, wins the award for Most Stuck in My Head Song After One Listen. It's a perfect example of this young man's gift for song and modern-day storytelling.
Paul Smith, Maximo Park
We're so busy I don't get to see many new bands, but Field Music are from near us in Sunderland, which is quite lucky. They write the most elegant, well-constructed pop around, but the lyrics are also very moving, like chamber pop. They use strings as an integral part of the band, and don't see the Fender Telecaster as too different from a violin. The lyrics are something that mean something, but they're a little cryptic.
Charlotte Cooper, the Subways
We were recording a B-side in London with our Young for Eternity album engineer, John Gray, and he played us some tracks by Milk Teeth, a band he had been working with recently. They had a great quirky-yet-poppy sound. In particular, a song called Cold Climate was stunning. Billy Lunn, our singer, said it was like listening to music again for the first time.
Jem
It's been a while since I've been in a record shop and been so curious about the CD playing that I've wanted to inquire who the artist is. In LA a few weeks ago I found myself doing just that. The reply was "Damian Marley". Interesting! My curiosity was fuelled further by the fact it was a Marley, and, after another wicked track blasted out of the speakers, I bought the new Welcome to Jamrock CD there and then. Damian brings something new and fresh to the table, while mixing in a few familiar samples to give us some old-skool flavour. With inspired lyrics and great production, he's definitely going to be all over 2006.
Ian Parton, the Go! Team
Architecture in Helsinki. They're from Melbourne, there are about eight of them on stage and they just monkey about, swapping instruments and stuff. It's kinda like the Arcade Fire but weirder.
Tom Smith, Editors
Forward Russia! How a band can sound like the most beautiful maths equation is beyond me. Strange rhythms and strange guitar lines collide, making the most melodic of rackets. 2006 is theirs for the taking.
Jamie Hince, the Kills
In Paris I went to a club called Le Gibus, and it was amazing, absolutely rammed inside. There were all these 15-year-old kids and three bands: the Naast, Second Sex and the Bonapartes. They're super-young, and the Naast have an incredibly charismatic 17-year-old singer and a drummer who looks about 12. They caused mayhem with their innocent 1960s punky vibe.
Sam Forrest, Nine Black Alps
The band that I hope breaks through to global mega-success in 2006 is We Start Fires. We took them on tour with us, and they made us look like a bunch of spotty inbreds. They're three girls and one boy from Darlington. They should succeed because they don't try to be uber-cool art-rockers but instead play powerful, sludgy-sleek pop songs with bittersweet words and ear-splitting noise freak-outs. That's good, isn't it?
Nick Hodgson, Kaiser Chiefs
The Organ, from Canada. We did some gigs with them in the States early this year and they blew me away. They're all girls, and they sound like the Cure with Debbie Harry on vocals. My other choice is Corinne Bailey Rae. She's from Leeds and I've known her for years. She's always been singing in clubs in Leeds, and then last week I saw her on Jools Holland and she was amazing. I got chills, and they were multiplying ...
source: the guardian