New Young Pony Club
We say Led by musical masterminds Tahita Bulmer and Andy Spence,
this mysterious London five-piece formed late in 2003 with an agenda to
make London dance. Last year they released two seven-inch singles on
obscure electronica label Tirk, both of which sold like hot cakes,
helped by airplay from BBC 6 Music who (like us) particularly fell in
love with ‘The Get Go’, a seductive slab of New Order-meets-ESG disco
punk. If you’re fond of the funked-up and punky strains of Brooklyn,
New Young Pony Club should be a welcome addition to your collection.
They say Bulmer and Spence: ‘We have kept our website
[www.wearepony.com] purposefully devoid of information because we want
people to hear the music first and let that fuel their curiosity. There
are far too many bands shoving it down people’s throats these days. We
want them to hunt us down because they’re interested in the music, and
it’s worked. People seem to be really hungry for what we do. We’re kind
of inspired by The Rapture and all the DFA stuff. As soon as James
Murphy came out with LCD Soundsystem we were like: Fucking hell, this
is what needs to happen. He was touching upon all the same influences
we had and we decided we had to do something like that ourselves.’
Look out for The single, ‘Get Lucky’ (Noise Records), is out on March 6. An album and live dates should follow soon afterwards.
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Dear Time out Team,
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good luck and best regards Martin
THE REAL HEAT
matt is cool and deserves the best that he can get in the charts good luck!
Glad to hear about Matt! Shame he went into rehab but glad he did too, since it was his choice and he wanted to get better! I'm going to meet and sing in a studio with Matt Willis next week and I can't wait! Wish me luck people! hehe! (love Matt Willis from the begining and further more!) eeee!!!