ISSUE 1041
JUL 2 - 8
Current issue
LA ROUX
Elly Jackson is lying under her duvet in the same bedroom she’s occupied since birth, but recently something feels different. The David Bowie albums are still on the mantelpiece, the special cape from her childhood dress-up box is in the drawer and her mother, former star of The Bill Trudie Goodwin, is at the other end of the Herne Hill home. So what’s changed? Perhaps it’s the fact that the 21-year-old sleepyhead’s duo La Roux have just hit number two in the UK chart with second single In For The Kill.
EELS
From the Portishead-inspired sounds of Eels’ 1996 hit Novocaine For The Soul through to last year’s harrowing autobiography Things The Grandchildren Should Know, mainman Mark ‘E’ Everett has used dry humour and his unique take on blues to make it through his rock hard times. After spending the last few years detailing the troubling deaths of his parents and sister in his book, on the double-disc opus Blinking Lights And Other Revelations and in the documentary Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, E has now swapped heavy duty recollections for a concept album based around his 2001 song Dog Faced Boy.
AUGIE MARCH
“We used to tolerate each other but now we just hate each other,” Augie March’s bass player Edmondo Ammendola (pictured second on the right) says of his fellow band members as we chat to him about the Melbourne group’s upcoming national tour which will mark their last outing for quite some time. It’s hard to know, judging from the slightly mischievous tone of Ed’s voice, if he’s kidding or not as the statement also comes from a person who’d once suggested that the worst thing about being in Augie March had been, ‘Pushing that bloody big rock up that hill for the video for The Cold Acre’.