This is a recent '13 interview I did in collaboration with UPRAW Magazine with up & coming orchestrated phenomenon Clean Bandit. Here they talk Concepts, Peckham and late night Duck Waffles.
TSL: It's nice to see such a niche take on music for 2013! Can you tell us a little of the origin of the band? How did you guys team up together?
CB: We started as a string quartet and then Jack made recordings of us playing Dvorak and Shostakovich. He secretly began writing some beats and bass lines around the little snippets he took from these recordings and so Clean Bandit was born. We were at University together at the time and our college friend Ssegawa laid down the vocals for Mozar'ts House. We put on a club night and started to play this stuff live.
TSL: Last year, artist and producer Benji B and The Deviation String Quartet played on the London Eye for The Red Bull Revolutions in Sound which was a pretty nice idea! Would you guys consider doing something like this?
CB: Yes! That sounds amazing. Would love to go on The London Eye and play our tunes!
TSL: You're well known for your live performances with people stating how refreshing it is to witness a visual performance in contrast to the overwhelming scene of DJ's at the moment. What has been your favourite show and memory of performing so far?
CB: Probably on the opening of Frank's cafe on the roof of a 10 storey car park in Peckham. You could see the whole of London behind us and then the sun went down during our set-it was amazing.
TSL: Your videos are also very innovative and hold a fresh concept. Can you talk us through a little of the inspiration that goes into creating them?
CB: Well we think of the visuals as one with the music: both are equally as important to us, so the ideas of the music videos tend to come at the same time as writing the music. Sometimes we think of a visual concept before writing the song: this happened with our video UK Shanty.
TSL: You also recently did a BBCR1 Live lounge session. Are you set to be collaborating with any major artists coming up?
CB: That was really fun. We're doing a lot of collaborations and there are some major artists that we love ( of course!) so possibly.
TSL: Here in London we've got some hints of sunshine creeping through the clouds and it's getting us excited for summer! Can you tell us what festivals we can find you at this summer?
CB: Glastonbury, Beatherder, Blissfields, Secret Garden, Reading & Leeds, Creamfields, Wireless and many more! And we have our own show at XOYO in London on July 7th!
TSL: And lastly, we see you guys are London based, any hot spots in the city we should know about? Where can we find you guys when you're not on tour?
CB: We like Duck & Waffle a 24 hour restaurant on the 48th floor of the Heron Tower, Liverpool St. It's nice to enjoy a leg of duck on a waffle with syrup at 5am after a long night in the studio! We think the best club is Plastic People.
TSL // UPRAW MAGAZINE
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