Little Boots, 'Nocturnes'
Little Boots tramped everywhere back in 2009 promoting her debut album, ‘Hands’. But despite shedloads of hype, Ms Boots, aka Blackpool’s Victoria Hesketh, was just too awkward to be a pop star. Four years later, she’s found her feet by...
Little Boots - 'Every Night I Say A Prayer'...
On which our Vic takes Aretha’s formula for love, removes the “little” and instead does it SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, with the assistance of some deliciously retro electronica stylings. Also features the most amazing guest vocal of the week. “ I...
Album review: Little Boots - 'Hands'
Listen to tracks from 'Hands' now Let’s just get this out of the way: POP! Once, at the height of alt.rock, it was the most critically reviled of genres, now in an era where the alternative is mainstream, it’s the most lusted-after...
La Roux
Sometimes the actuality of something never lives up to the anticipation of it. And sometimes it does. “You want to fuck me hard?” asks a bemused Elly Jackson of the crowd. She’s mid-way through her first-ever London show and the cat-calls...
Little Boots
It’s already widely accepted that Victoria ‘Little Boots’ Hesketh is going to peel open 2009 and gobble it like a ripe mango. Her list of musical collaborators (Hot Chip, Heartbreak, Toddla T, Greg Kurstin) reads like the teamsheet for the...
