Readers, Part Two of our La Roux interview is all about the music, (man). After the jump, find out what prompted Elly Jackson to get rather shouty, and yell 'WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?' As well as a little lesson in how it is possible to make proper pop that is also a bit sadface.
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True pop Fact! Benji Hughes does not like mayonnaise. What a weirdo, readers. This, and other *exclusive* revelations after the jump, in an interview what got rather silly and involves the game Marry, Shag, Push Off A Cliff. What larks!
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Last week we put the entire Kitsune compilatory canon up for grabs. We also spoke to Top French Person and label bossman Gildas about Kitsune's upcoming tour of Grande Bretagne what starts on November 21st. He had a dreamy accent and we did spend a lot of the interview cursing our parents for not bringing us up in the banlieues, because then we might not currently speak in thoroughly unsexy Estuary.
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Here's a cautionary tale for young bands. When The Organ split up in 2006, it came as a big surprise - they had waves of good press, a growing audience and seemed on the verge of breaking the UK. But by that point, as singer Katie Sketch (middle) explains in this candid and frank interview, everything was wrong. Here's the full story behind the band's break-up, and the real reason that they're releasing that posthumous EP.
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On the cover of Ladyhawke's mindblowingly awesome debut album (review coming on Monday), a painted Pip Brown is playing video games and has a Nintendo gun tucked into her pants. We got geeky with her in London a couple of weeks ago and talked games, console collections and how to make Wii characters gay...
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Drums of Death, voodoo techno witch doctor on Joe from Hot Chip's wrestling-obsessed Greco Roman label, talks to us about the joys of facepaint, fights in pub car parks and how having a nice rug in the studio can really bring a room together. Top fellow.
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Wild Beasts made one of our favourite albums of the year so far with Limbo, Panto. We grabbed 10 minutes with singer Hayden Thorpe to wax poetic about Kate Bush, lad bands and the Beasts' pantomime plans.
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We quiz amazing Swedish popsters Those Dancing Days about pretty boys and get them to score various celebri-chaps out of 10. And then do the same with dancers. It's very good.
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