Vertigo TV 23 features an interview with La Roux’s Elly Jackson and music video clips from Amy Macdonald, Selig and The Killers. Jackson performed a bit of ‘Quicksand’ acoustic and talked about their album being about love, her motto to be silly and what’s in her makeup bag. Watch the webisode below.
British synth-pop sensation La Roux are set to hit the shores of North America for a slew of performances this summer. The self-titled debut full-length release from Elly Jackson and producer co-hort Ben Langmaid will be released in October on Cherrytree Records in the US.
Tour Dates:
07/22/09 San Francisco, CA @ Café Du Nord
07/24/09 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
07/27/09 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore
07/28/09 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
07/31/09 Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo
08/01/09 Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival
08/02/09 New York, NY @ All Points West Festival
08/06/09 Washington, DC @ Town
08/07/09 Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
British synthpop duo La Roux performed their hit single ‘In For The Kill’ for NME Radio. Watch via YouTube below.
Elly Jackson of La Roux talked to NME about being at number 2 in the charts, the state of British pop music and her place on the NME Radar tour. “I’ll be honest, I’m not overly positive about it,” Jackson said in regards to today’s pop. “Pop music is always two sides to me. It’s the Backstreet Boys side, that kind of music for kids side, and the novelty tracks and one hit wonders. And it’s always had the more classy side, the David Bowie, Prince, Michael Jackson, stuff like that. I just feel [the classy side] is missing a bit too much, and we have a lot of this boy girl band, one or two hit wonder thing going on.” Watch it via YouTube below.
La Roux are out with the music video to their new single ‘Bulletproof’, the third release off the British electropop duo’s self-titled debut album, out June 29th on Polydor. Watch it below.
La Roux and Franz Ferdinand perform Blondie’s ‘Call Me’ at the NME Shockwaves Awards.
Footage of the rehearsal, with Elly Jackson joking about the short ride to the red carpet and getting scolded by the driver, and a bit of the actual performance at La Roux’s MySpace Video channel has since been removed.
Watch the performance via YouTube below.
La Roux plays ‘Quicksand’ and ‘In For The Kill’ live at La Maroquinerie in Paris, France on February 20th during the Kitsune party and ended up crashing a private party, where Elly Jackson talked about getting locked in and fearing they’d crashed a sex party. Watch highlights from the evening below.
La Roux is out with the music video to her new single ‘In For The Kill’, off the London synth pop singer’s upcoming debut album on Polydor. The single is released in the UK on March 2nd. Watch it below.
La Roux are out with the music video to their new single ‘Quicksand’, released December 15th in the UK via Polydor. Watch it below.