A young band of working-class kids from Castle Donington, England take the dance-rock world by storm.
You always remember your first time. In a few hours, English band-of-the-moment Late of the Pier, a four-piece composed of lanky twentysomethings who’ve set dance floors and concert halls ablaze across the UK courtesy of their energetic sonic pastiche, will make their US debut at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. The band’s members— Sam “Jack Paradise” Potter, Samuel “Samuel Dust” Eastgate, Andrew “Francis Dudley Dance” Faley, and Ross “Red Dog Consuela” Dawson—are sitting in their dressing room, casually nursing bottles of Budweiser.
They’ve already played over 200 shows and graced the cover of NME, but they’re excited and confident about tonight’s gig. And well they should be. The band’s first album, Black Fantasy Channel (which was finally released in the US in January), is one of 2008’s most compelling releases, namely because it answers many of the questions the nu rave revival asked and failed to answer.
Aside from Potter’s childhood vacation to Florida, America is an unknown entity to these whippersnappers. They have a lot of questions about the US, and they ask Big Shot to explain things like the difference between red and blue states. Paging Keith Olbermann!
