April 27, 200718 yr Author The Scot chatted to us about Girls, his new album and those Kylie rumours… 23 year old Calvin is from Dumfries and recently had a monster hit with Acceptable In The 80s and his new single Girls is already one of our favourite songs of the year. His debut album I Created Disco is due this summer. Hi Calvin, how’s the album coming along? Calvin: It was done at the end of last year. Essentially it’s dance music but it’s not s**t. A lot of dance music is. What are your influences Calvin: I used to listen to house music when it was good in ’98 but at the turn of the millennium it got s**t. Then I started looking into hip hop like Timbaland and Slick Rick. Tell us about the songs on the album? Calvinb: My favourite track on the album is (new single) Girls. It’s one of the first tracks I did and it’s a big dirty beast. Vegas is a big rave tune and Merry Making At My Place is more funky with a great bassline. Have you filmed the video to Girls? Calvin: Yeah it was 18 hours of me standing around 26 girls wearing skin tight white costumes. It was f***ing brilliant. Were you surprised by the success of Acceptable In the 80s? Calvin: It was a weird, I didn’t think it was gonna do so well. A lot of shops didn’t stock it so 80 per cent of sales were downloads. Getting to number 10 was pretty cool. You supported Faithless recently, how was that? Calvin: I don’t enjoy touring, sleeping on a bus with all those boys! Some of the fans on the Faithless tour were too old to dance. The younger people loved it. But out of the 15,000 at each gig about 100 got it. Did they give you any advice? Calvin: Yeah Sister Bliss said You can inherit the crown’ (Calvin laughs) Have you got any other celebrity fans? Calvin: Obviously Kylie’s a bit of a fan. I’ve done remixes for CSS and Groove Armada (who Calvin supports this month) too. Talking of Kylie, how did you end up working on her new album? Calvin: Her A&R man heard my stuff. Then he got me to remix All Saints as a bit of a test. Then he said ‘Do you fancy working with Kylie?’ and I said ‘Are you kidding me?’ She was brilliant to work with. Tell us about the songs you’ve made together? Calvin: We’ve recorded one proper track so far and then we were working on a couple more last week. The song sounds like 500 men with their tops off dancing. It’s dirty, it’s sweaty and a bit wrong. And big gay pop of course. Are you romantically involved? (as newspaper reports claimed last week) Calvin: We’re just friends that story was completely untrue. The height difference is mad. I’m 6’5 she’s 5’1 so it wouldn’t work. Is there anyone else you’d like to produce? Calvin: Kelis would be amazing What are you ambitions? Calvin: I don’t want to be an underground artist I want to make big tunes that lots of people like. Now I’m just waiting for the album to come out- I want to hold a copy and say ’have that you bast*rds! From: MTV UK Did they recorded Your Disco Needs You pt2?
April 27, 200718 yr Author I hate it when they mention the gay pop thing. Its not just us gays that like pop you know
April 27, 200718 yr so do i it bugs me,not all pop and not all kylie fans are gay they always label it that way,im not dissing gay people so please dont think i am,but the gay thing associated with pop annoys the hell out of me at times
April 28, 200718 yr EXACTLY. Lol its like 'you like Kylie? Well you must be gay'. I fail to see where sexuality comes into it when youre talking about music. They are unrelated!
April 28, 200718 yr We’re just friends that story was completely untrue. The height difference is mad. I’m 6’5 she’s 5’1 so it wouldn’t work. :rofl:
