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ON THE RADAR FENECH-SOLER With sets at Glastonbury and
Wireless already in the bag this year, and a second headline slot on the Radio 1 Dance Stage at Reading & Leeds just around the corner, Fenech-Soler have certainly been busy of late. The four-piece are also gearing
up for the release of their sophomore album Rituals due on September 16. Speaking to Music Week about
the band’s high-profile live jaunts, frontman Ben Duffy said: “We always have good fond memories of Glastonbury. “Reading and Leeds coming up is the big one though. It’s our first
time there and I think for any band it’s one of those milestone festivals that you always want to play at. I think all four of us at different times have been to the festival as teenagers and idolised bands there so we’re really looking forward to it. “We’re also playing the iTunes
Festival, which we’ve never done before. And we’ve never played the Roundhouse before, so we’re mas- sively excited about that also.” The band has always tended to
keep an electronic core to their sound but Duffy says that on the forthcoming album there’s been a slight lean outwards. “With Rituals
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we haven’t been afraid to write pop-songs.” The making of the
album saw Duffy escape to Italy to write much of it following a rigourous touring schedule. “We’d pretty much
been touring constantly for a year and a half and from a writing per- spective I just needed to spend some time in my own head to con- ceptualise what I wanted to say. “This album probably took a bit
longer than we wanted it to take but we set ourselves a pretty high goal, we built a studio and did the
album ourselves,” he revealed. As for the long-term future, Duffy
remains adamant and full of ambi- tion: “We’ve always got our sights set high, this isn’t a flash-in-the- pan type band, this is something we’ve been working on for ages. “We’re happy to carry on at the pace that we’re going but I think
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longevity and a number of albums is really the ambition.”
TAKE A BOW TEAM THE CIVIL WARS It was exactly the opposite
of what I wanted to be as a band. They pushed us in a way that didn’t feel natural. I shouldn’t complain too much – we sold lots and lots of records. But I think the way it accelerat- ed so quickly was probably quite damaging for us.
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos talks to The Guardian about the band’s American major label being taken to court over accusations of bribing DJs to play their new releases
” THE LOWDOWN
Album: The Civil Wars Highest chart position: No.2
Label: Columbia - Alison Donald and Mark Terry
Publisher: Daniel Lloyd-Jones (Sony/ATV) and Alexi Cory- Smith (BMG Chrysalis)
A&R: Alison Donald, Columbia
Manager: Nate Yetton, Sensibility Music
Legal: Simon Jenkins, Columbia
Marketing: Anya Strafford, Columbia
National press: William Rice, Purple PR
Regional press: Jemma Litchfield, Purple PR
Online press: Anna Meacham, Purple PR
National radio: Katie Torrie, Columbia
Regional radio: Gary Hobson, Columbia
TV: Mike Byrne, Chief Music
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