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Klaxons
Interview by Marisa Brickman
Photography by Christian Smith
The Klaxons have taken England by storm recently - a storm that has left fingerprints on white pants and burnt out glow sticks in its wake. After bringing their wailing punk disco inferno style to the cover version of Kicks Like a Mule's rave anthem "The Bouncer", they began spreading other like-minded party tunes over the Internet.
The Klaxon's single, "Atlantis to Interzone", released in April 2006 on Angular Records, has become a DJ favorite for indie dance nights nation wide. The Boys have also been in the studio with producer James Ford (ex-member of Simian and one half of Simian Mobile Disco). They are also hooking up with DJ-turned producer Erol Alkan. Modular Records is set to release their EP this Summer in the US, and a full album early in the UK this fall on their own imprint on Polydor.
They've been heralded in the press as the darlings of "New Rave" a title they'll take willingly, but have enough of a sense of humor to laugh about it. Despite the laughter though, ex-ravers and indie kids have been showing up in droves to their gigs with a plethora of party paraphernalia in tow, ready to get the part started with The Klaxons.
When was your first show?
James: 9th of November at the San Moritz.
Jamie: It was a party for Angular Records.
James: It was us and a band called the Fucks, but the Fucks pulled out so we ended up headlining for our first show.
Simon: It entirely was abysmal.
Jamie: You know what I realized the other day. We did an instrumental version of "Atlantis" where we just hummed the melodies.
Simon: Everything, everything broke. Like everything. After the first song, everything was on the floor, the keyboards, the guitars...
James: There's a video of us. Literally, all three of us dropped everything and started dancing. We dropped everything and just started dancing.
So, I guess it went over well.
Jamie: It was incredible though, people were just having the time of their life.
James: People said it was very punk.
What's the deal with your drummer?
Jamie: We have a drummer that we use for live.
James: Oh yeah, he's awesome.
Simon: He's a show pony.
Jamie: We just wheel him out and he performs.
James: The band is really just us three. You know, he's the drummer, he just drums.
I guess he didn't get to go to Croatia?
All: No (laughing).
Jamie: Weren't you supposed to come too?
Yeah, it didn't end up working out, long story, but I wish we'd have gone! How was it?
James: Basically to be quite honest, I'm not going back there for a while.
Simon: There was a tranquillity to it that James and Phil managed to kill.
James: Yeah, pretty much. I got there and I was thinking, 'let's chill out, have a breather, drink some nice wine'. But it's just being around those guys. They're big boozers so when you're around that environment, you get taken into it all. Before I knew it, I was shouting, screaming, dancing, you know, throwing things in the river.
You guys basically ARE the new rave craze. One article's sub-head that I read said, 'Klaxons: Return to the Gurn'.
Jamie: Brilliant!
You're not annoyed with all the new rave references by now?
Jamie: It was only an initial way to break into the world of music. It's funny, it's really funny.
Simon: I think it will be different when people hear the record.
Jamie: It's something that got us noticed when we started and it's hilarious.
James: It's not something we really egged or encouraged.
Jamie: We encourage people to bring rave memorabilia to gigs.
Simon: It's one of those things where every minute somebody tags something to you and you get dragged behind a tag almost.
James: It hasn't been detrimental.
Simon: I think having 30-year-old crusty gay guys, beefy gay guys coming along to the show because they heard the cover of "The Bouncer". That's quite exciting - people who come along to gigs that wouldn't normally go out to see an indie band - they have a reason to go.
What made you decide to cover "The Bouncer"?
Jamie: It's hilarious. It was my idea when we had the original drummer. It was the first song we learned to play as a band. It has a great bass line and drum beat - a really minimal pop song.
Did you all grow up listening to rave tunes?
Jamie: I think a combination of that and Nirvana.
Simon: We all listened to a combination of things, but that was just one element that we picked out and decided to lean on. It wasn't something that a lot of people, or anybody, was referencing.
Jamie: It was the only thing left that hadn't been re-hashed you see.
When I was growing up in the States, there were definitely kids listening to dance music and going to raves, but it wasn't nearly as huge as in Europe.
Jamie: It took a while to get over there.
And then it was
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