Ja Ja Ja Returns to London Lexington with Team Me, When Saints Go Machine & Lucy Swan – Thurs 31 March
By: Thomas Hannan
For the next instalment of the Ja Ja Ja club night, The Line of Best Fit’s Rich Thane has picked a line-up of very Nordic bands with not so Nordic names.
Team Me have had a dream career, within less than a year they’ve become the band to watch in 2011, not just hailed as such by their national Norwegian press, but by those in-the-musical-know across the blogs and press worldwide, with NME saying of the band’s last single: “’Weathervanes and Chemicals’, which is really, really rather wonderful. Pitched somewhere in-between Jonsi and Arcade Fire, it’s about as heart-warmingly lush as it gets.”
Adding a refreshingly feminine touch to the line-up is fellow Norwegian Lucy Swann, who likewise is getting a lot of glowing attention, hailed by national press as “among the most refreshing and catchy Norwegian pop acts in a long time" (Aftenposten), while P3Urørt have raved that "Lucy Swann has it all. Beautiful vocals, a soaring electronic soundscape, a dark mysticism and momentum." It’s classy, intelligent pop for the sophisticated music fan.
Last but in no way least is When Saints Go Machine (pictured) who make the kind of dance music TV On The Radio would make if let out of the studio and let on loose in the local disco. Drowned in Sound called the bands recent mini alum Fail Forever an “ambitious post-club fare that slithers effortlessly between dancefloor-cradling wooze and the heavy trance of a 7am comedown”.
COMPETITION!
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Here’s all the details of the show:
Venue: The Lexington, London
Date: 31/3/11
Tickets: £5 each from: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107879
Stage times:
7.30 doors
8:20 Lucy Swan
9.10 When Saints Go Machine
10.00 Team Me
10.35 DJ