bombay bicycle club – and so she thinks

Bombay Bicycle Club's dreamy new video

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:46:26 +0000

Even more cosy and heartwarming than a Disney cartoon is the animated video for Bombay Bicycle Club ‘s new single How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep, which is released on the 2nd April via Island Records.

Taking a hefty six months to build and film, it was created by animator Anna Ginsburg, who also went to school with the band. This week Bombay Bicycle Club have also been nominated for three NME Awards – Best British Band, Best Album Artwork and Best Track in Shuffle – will videos be in there next year?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgvBmEmtF-I]

Young & Lost Club – Compilation

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:03:10 +0000

Young & Lost Club

Francesca Baker

As a child absorbed in Enid Blyton‘s fiction, I was desperate to go to boarding school, believing it to be a place of perpetual fun, ginger beer and midnight feasts. For Nadia Dahlawi and Sara Jade, the founders of Young & Lost Club, it was where they created a place of perpetual fun, full strength beer and all night raves. To celebrate their 5th birthday, Young & Lost Club have whittled down 32 of the singles that have defined their career thus far, and defined many a music fan‘s identity transcript. One can only assume that rather than ‘I heart Bob‘, their school journals were adorned with graffiti for the coolest of bands.
Listening to the 35 tracks on the album is like pressing the random button on my mp3 player, only without the embarrassing reminders of The Bravery purchases etc. Even if you haven‘t heard of Young and Lost Club, you will have heard, and I‘m 90% sure had a lustful moment over at least one of the bands on the roster.
What comes across is the sense of musical curiosity that Nadia and Sara have, bands ranging from the slow folk of Noah & The Whale with their whimsical ‘Five Years Time‘, to the energetic fractious Good Shoes and ‘Small Town Girl‘, and the chameleon like Bombay Bicycle Club‘s ‘Evening/Morning‘ representing their simple dense poetry that seems formed in intense unplanned flashes of inspiration.
Not all the bands have had the kind of success that some of those showcased at Young & Lost Club‘s early club nights had (heard of The XX, Klaxons, Friendly Fires, Jamie T or Laura Marling?), or indeed, lasted. Larrikin Love may have been short lived, but rather than funereal, ‘Six Queens‘ would feature at only the most raucous of wakes, with as much freshness as the day it was released. The shambolic and coincidental ‘Animator‘ is the contribution from ‘Pull Tiger Tail‘, a band who‘s cavorting and jaunty music made it feel ok to have gaucheries when feeling the way around the city.
Nadia and Sara clearly have an ear for something, but it‘s difficult to pin point what. A palette of instruments, genres and styles, the main thing that all the bands on the Young & Lost Club label have in abundance is the sound of being one of the steps on the uncertain adventure of life.
Happy birthday girls. But don‘t be in a rush to blow out the candles and tick off the years. Being young and lost sounds damn good.

Bombay Bicycle Club

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:39:08 +0000

Leeds Met Student Union
Sat 2nd May, 7pm
I’m completely charmed by Bombay Bicycle Club.
A plethora of sparkly sounds, solid moods, all underlaced with jazzy undercurrents. This group of teenagers have the vivacity and positivity to make optimistic songs that don’t feel sickly sweet or naive, just embrace life ing…
The song ‘Evening/Morning’ perfectly sums up the tunes – the semi conscious hazy half light, unable to put your finger on anything, but there being a feeling of possibility all around. Recent single „Always Like This‟ is a pacy number, immediate and heartfelt.
Both lyrics and detailed melodies, executed with mathematical precision but coming from a magical well of creativity are intelligent and have an immediacy that belies their tender years.
Lead singer and guitarist Jack Steadman‟s dancing is frenetic and unorthodox. He plays the guitar like he is a having a musical fit, all head jerks, arms bending and face twitching.
Playing to a young crowd of teens at Kings College London Student Union at the beginning of this month, Jack never gave up the connection with the crowd, and through the band‟s glinting playfulness the group of kids who started off more interested in snogging the face off the opposite sex emerged from the sweaty pit as enthusiastic fans.
Of course, Leeds music fans know how to have a real good time, so this gig should be a riot. Debut album „I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Out‟ is out in June – although if you see them this weekend you won’t have any blues come summer. Fact.