Posted July 19, 200817 yr Ladyhawke 'Ladyhawke' Island // Modular 22 September 2008 http://www.thefastlife.org/Images/2007/12/ladyhawke.jpg Ladyhawke YEAH I started Ladyhawke out of a desire to do my own project where I could completely express myself in any way I wanted without having to answer to bandmates! I wanted to make music that could put a smile on peoples faces and give them a feeling of nostalgia even though they may be hearing my songs for the first time. I love how music evokes memories of a certain time, I wanted to see if I could find a method of songwriting that would evoke those feelings from me on writing the song and then on the individual when listening to it for the first time. I draw massively from many many influences. You could definitely say I wear them on my sleeve. But what I have tried to do is really recreate the same vibe that so many amazing records of the 70's and 80's produced. Vintage Synths have been used. I've wanted to keep simple hooky guitar riffs throughout the tracks, but at times let loose with a solo every now and then. (my self indulgent moments ha!) I wanted to capture the "happy sad" vibe that so many eighties classics had. Music that came out of the eighties had such a unique and definitive sound. Big production, big synths, and big guitar riffs. The songwriters were incredibly significant, and the whole musical era left an everlasting impression on me. I feel though, that the vast amount of influences I draw from mesh nicely with my "modern" upbringing. I am not only influenced by music of a bygone era, I also draw hugely from pop-culture, not just musical pop culture, but in art, media, television, movies, everything that bombarded my senses growing up and to this day. That includes modern music makers. Bands and producers of now who inspire me. I'd like to think that my obsession with musical heros of the seventies and eighties has blended with my exposure to music of a more recent date, to create quite a new, interesting and relevant sound. Me and Ladyhawke are two sides of one coin. - Pip Brown (Ladyhawke) 01 Magic 02 Manipulating Woman 03 Another Runaway 04 Better Than Sunday 05 My Delirium 06 Love Don't Live Here 07 Back of the Van 08 Paris Is Burning 09 Professional Suicide 10 Dusk Till Dawn 11 Crazy World 12 Morning Dreams This should hopefully be good and not MoR. Woo.
July 19, 200817 yr I am very interested in this album if the rest of it is half as good as Paris Is Burning, or if it as good as a new single that she is the featured on by a certain Australian dance act......
July 20, 200816 yr Absolutely can' wait! Saw Ladyhawke at Glastonbury, and she rocked. Literally; I wasn't expecting there to be a decent rock undertone but there was. I think Magic was the rockiest song played, and it's currently my favourite (if it's the right one...). One thing I'd like to add, though: Pip Brown is worryingly thin in person, I advise more pies.
August 15, 200816 yr Author Ladyhawke 'Dusk Till Dawn' Ladyhawke Island // Modular Video ›› yYQgBy7sJt4 AMAZING.
August 17, 200816 yr I hope this does well! but then if it does really well - it would be banned from the indie area and have to live with the ting tings in popland :lol: as a song its alright for an 80s synthpop type thing - tho i prefer Dawn Of The Dead by DIOYY (which sounds like it should be more in a John Hughes 80s movie than any vampire or zombie horror) 5AJoRggrExQ
August 21, 200816 yr Am I crackers, but what is this doing in Pop? The song is fantastic indie pop. But it is a million miles away from the likes of The Saturdays, Miley Cyrus & Ashlee Simpson.
August 21, 200816 yr How is it in the wrong forum? :S It's just as much a pop song as The Saturdays. Edited August 21, 200816 yr by Jonny
August 21, 200816 yr How is it in the wrong forum? :S It's just as much a pop song as The Saturdays. Paris Is Burning was posted in the Indie forum, was it not :unsure:
August 21, 200816 yr Paris Is Burning was posted in the Indie forum, was it not :unsure: Well I don't think that was indie so if it was it was posted wrong in my opinion.
August 21, 200816 yr Paris is Burning made the Top 10 on the NME chart. It was on very heavy rotation on MTV2, and played a few times on Q, but I never saw it played once on the other pop music stations like Hits. Likewise I can't remember hearing this song played during the daytime on Radio 1, yet it was played a lot after 7pm on weekdays. Whilst it was A Listed by Radio 6 Music. Probably all of the above occurred because it is an Indie Pop record by a band promoted in the UK by fellow New Zealander DJ Zane Lowe. To compare The Saturdays with Ladyhawke is IMHO like comparing Rachel Stevens with PJ Harvey. Hopefully Ladyhawke will cross over to become a popular Top 40 artist (in the way former Indie/Alternative darling Lly Allen did 2 years ago), but until then she is more John Peel than Pete Waterman.
August 21, 200816 yr Just because it wasn't played on the mainstream music chanels doesn't not make it a pop song, the reason it hasn't been played on their is probably because it's too far out of it's mor barrier to playlist. Also, 'Paris is Burning' got heavy play on The Box etc., so it could just be a matter of time before The Hits and co play it. And I was hardly comparing her to The Saturdays, I was simply saying that they're both pop songs.
August 21, 200816 yr Just because it wasn't played on the mainstream music chanels doesn't not make it a pop song, the reason it hasn't been played on their is probably because it's too far out of it's mor barrier to playlist. Also, 'Paris is Burning' got heavy play on The Box etc., so it could just be a matter of time before The Hits and co play it. And I was hardly comparing her to The Saturdays, I was simply saying that they're both pop songs. Ladyhawke is aesthetically indie. She (Pip Brown) is electro indie pop and as a musician plays 10 musical instruments on her debut album and wrote all the material. She is signed to Modular Records: Modular Records is an Australian record label. It was established by Sydney-based music promoter Steve Pavlovic as a joint-venture with EMI, but is now distributed (and half-owned) by Universal Music in Australia. Modular has released recordings by local artists such as Eskimo Joe, The Avalanches, Muscles, Wolfmother, Cut Copy, The Bumblebeez, Van She, Rocket Science, Ghostwood and The Presets, PNAU, Ladyhawke as well as local releases of international artists including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Chromeo, Colder, Klaxons (The EP Xan Valleys), New Young Pony Club, MSTRKRFT, and The Softlightes. For crying out loud she is signed by an indie label and is promoted on indie/alternative music stations and the NME. Just because you like it does not mean it is pop. For example the very similar The Ting Tings might be a Top 10 selling popular act but they are still musically an Indie/Alternative act. If you think she is pop then you might as well scrap all the separate forums and have them in one huge forum.
August 21, 200816 yr I'm also interested in this album, funny enough there is a thread topic about her new single in the Pop forum :mellow:
August 25, 200816 yr with reference to my above comment of 10:46 AM Aug 17 2008, another Electro-pop act and a review from teletext last week: "DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Dawn Of The Dead 7/10 Electro-pop doesn't get much catchier than this, with just a hint of '80s Breakfast Club swagger. Oh, and those glockenspiels aren't bad either" Ladyhawke is aesthetically indie. She (Pip Brown) is electro indie pop and as a musician plays 10 musical instruments on her debut album and wrote all the material. For crying out loud she is signed by an indie label and is promoted on indie/alternative music stations and the NME. Just because you like it does not mean it is pop. For example the very similar The Ting Tings might be a Top 10 selling popular act but they are still musically an Indie/Alternative act. Yeah too true - and if we must always referrence the mid-1980s for our music definitions surely when it came to indie in the mid 1980s it wasnt as sinple as 'all acts with guitars' are indie and all 'electronic acts with synths' are pop...especially when the most popular acts from the 1980s labeled synthpop/electropop (well pet shops boys, erasure and soft cell) may have knicked most of their ideas from a certain Giorgio Moroder produced glam rock duo and their late 1970s disco album (tho obv in the 1980s i think it was illegal to mention the word disco)....now these recent Plan B magazine cover stars released Lil' Beethoven...even tho electronic and synth based - is a million miles away from pop (whether electronic or pop/rock) with Sparks being seen as being in an avant-guard area of their own that maybe all pop and popular indie could end up in one chart bound area....true Ladyhawke is aesthetically indie but Sparks could be seen as being even more so.... http://www.clickmusic.com/upload/sparks300.jpg 5w1ZmX_Ix6Y 87UgNaJGyLc etUIJwhaE1Q pjQC57fsGkY Pvatys8vP3s sorry tip if you wanted me to mention Kraftwerk at this point.. :lol:
August 25, 200816 yr I am really liking 'Dusk Til Dawn' at the moment i've seen it a few times on The Box and i really like it. although i think i prefer 'Paris Is Burning' but with more listens i think i could like this more.
August 26, 200816 yr 'Paris Is Burning' was a brilliant track though I'vey et to warm to 'Dusk Til Dawn'. I love the whole vibe and feel of the track but it just seems far too repetitive to me. I will definately be checking this album out though.
September 4, 200816 yr A Preview of the album is available here: http://sheenabeaston.blogspot.com/2008/09/...um-sampler.html
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