Taxi and Dannie are now available for download at:ItunesHMVNapster7 digitalAnd probably everywhere else... DOWNLOAD THEM NOW!!! XEvery young band wants to say they're the biggest group in the land.
The Author, though, didn't just mooch around making jealous eyes at
their Razorlight posters. They got up and did it. Before you reach for
the nearest tabloid and make a flick to the gossip pages thinking
you've missed a trick, though, we'd best explain. The Author are, right
now, the biggest band on the Channel Islands – specifically, Jersey, an
island five miles by nine miles not far from the coast of France. From
this offshore base, these five young men spent the last twelve months
holed up like revolutionaries-in-waiting, uploading fresh demos of
rowdy, electronics-spattered synth-punk to their MySpace, and
occasionally emerging to blow the roof off of Jersey's two – yeah, two
– nightclubs, or make a swift sortie to the British mainland.
The Author as we know them now came into being just over a year ago,
following a show with The Automatic at Fort Regent leisure centre so
rowdy it culminated with a back-stage food fight. "It was then that we
realised that most of that jangly indie stuff, we were pretty bored of
it," says vocalist/guitarist Christian Silver. "It didn't get the crowd
moving enough, so let's take a new slant on things and see what we can
mix together." Solidifying as a five-piece – that is Chris, co-frontman
and fellow songwriter James Dolan, bassist Jonny Knight, synth player
Sam Falles, and drummer Justin Vooles – the band chose not to mope about
the lack of a scene on their tiny island, but to set out and build one
from the ground up. "If anything, the lack of a music scene has just
made us try harder," laughs Chris. "But since we've started there's
been a few other young Jersey bands who've bought synthesisers and
started making this new dance-stroke-guitar music," adds Jim."And
that's great. It makes it feel like people are really listening."
And events would seem to bear that out. Way back in May, The Author
found their way onto MySpace's Best Of MySpace podcast, and shortly
after, some tracks found their way out to Steve Lamacq, who heard the
visceral guitar, high-octane tempo, and whooshing synthesiser and
invited them to Maida Vale to record a session, which prompted him to
hail them the first of the new "post-Klaxons" wave. Which brings us
rather neatly to The Author's long awaited debut single 'Taxi'. Like
the evil twin of 'From Atlantis To Interzone', it's a mix of sparking
guitars, speedy drums and whooshing synth that's like being high on
petrol fumes – but listen closer, because in between those searing
choruses and zipping electronics, there's a minor-key edge that sounds
stranded, set adrift. The band explain it's all about that love/hate
feeling you have for your hometown. "The scenery's really beautiful in
Jersey, and the people are really cool," says Jim. "But it's a place
where people can get stuck, never experience new things. People are
brought up here, get jobs, spend the rest of their lives here, and just
sort of sleepwalk their way through life. So with 'Taxi', we thought
we'd write something really mental and hectic, to try to shake people
out of that."
And what now? Well, ironically, it seems 'Taxi' might just be their
ticket out of there. With the single primed to drop and an album
cooking, The Author now have their sights on London. "We've gone as far
as any band from Jersey can," says Jim. "Now it's time to get our
message to the masses."
"Yeah," agrees Chris. "It's world domination for us now." The choice is
yours, then. Either you hail 'Taxi' as a new fast lane for
forward-thinking British indie, or you'll be getting the night bus
home.
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