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Issue 29 / July 2011 EXCLUSIVEINTERVIEW
CRAZY P
Joe le Groove
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How are you guys doing? Tim: Good man, good. A bit sweaty, a bit hot. Danielle: Always hot! Tim: Better now we’re outside.
Tell us a little bit about the evolution of your sound. Tim: Well, you have to sort of experiment a little bit, don’t you? I think because we were playing with the band so much the last album was a product of that. We wrote it with the band, it was re- corded live, and it was something we really wanted to do. After that we started listening to some older stuff and we were thinking we lost a bit of something here, a bit of the quirk, a bit of the samples, the au- thenticity and the stuff that made it interesting in the first place. For
Representing two-fifths of the live band and DJ collective, vocalist Danielle Moore and keyboardist Tim Davies spill to TGN about musical ventures, vibers and Vorderman...
this album we dragged a bit of that back in but also kept the live thing going as well, so we’ve sort of taken a bit from the past.
So what do you each do? Because a lot of people just listen to the music and don’t really get the semantics, and that is what really puts every- thing together. Danielle: The Crazy P crew produces and remixes. Tim plays keyboard, I sing and Todd plays guitar, drums and live bass. And you [Tim] called me a viber...
A viber? Tim: To make the tea. Mate, I don’t do any of that. Dani’s good; she has an amazing personality and she’s amazing to work with. When she’s in the studio it’s an absolute joy. Danielle: Just don’t catch me on a Monday.
What is your background and music heritage? Tim: Well, I started off in brass bands as a trombonist when I was a kid and went to youth orches- tras. Then I did a music degree, and I found dance music in the early ‘90s.
At what age? Tim: 18.
Right! Okay, nice and ripe. Tim: And so we really connected with it. At that time it was DJs like Tony Humphries; he’s American house music, which I really got into. It’s very musical and that went sort of in line with me starting to go to clubs, starting to party... And I was 18. I was gonna try to be a trombonist but it’s such a difficult job. I thought, let’s do something different. That was about as far as the plan went.
So where are you guys at
now, you have a new album out, right? Tim: Our new album is coming out in September, the second week in September, so we’re getting ready. We’re doing Electric Picnic in Dublin and Bestival, and then we’re on tour after that.
What can we expect from it without giving away too much... Tim: Well, I’ll give it all away [laughs]. I would like to think its a good combination of what we’ve done in the past but also... You have weird times in your life and we had a bit of a weird year last year; a few things happened that you don’t expect. You sort of trundle along thinking you’re untouchable and then something happens, and I think writing this album was after all that happened. There’s a certain outlook, a certain amount of emotion on it and emo- tiveness we’ve never had before.
So I would probably say it’s a little bit grown-up in that sense.
If you guys were banished to a desert island and you have to take three famous people each, dead or alive, who would they be and why would you take them? Ladies first. Danielle: Prince; he would enter- tain me all the time, pull out his guitar... I would learn from him; he would be an inspiration. I just want an equal viber. [Tim laughs]
That’s one. Second? Danielle: Elvis Presley; I have a lot of questions to ask him. I’m not quite sure what at this moment in time because I’m having a long day. I would like to touch his bottom. Tim: Would he be your love inter- est? Danielle: Possibly, yeah. The army days [laughs], early Elvis and thirdly... I’m struggling a bit. Any
current politician. Mo Mowlam. Tim: [Laughs] I can’t better that. I’d go for Les Dawson. Apparently he used to be exactly like he was on TV in real life, and having some- one like that around would just be awesome, wouldn’t it? So Les, definitely. My love interest would be... I don’t know. Anyone who would love me, basically. A super- model or a not-so-supermodel... Danielle: Your love interest... Are you a Carol Vorderman fan? Tim: Oh fuck. Vorderman definitely, Vorderman is in there. I love a woman who knows maths.
Don’t miss Crazy P’s new album dropping on 19th September. For details of their upcoming tour, check out
www.crazyp.co.uk
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