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About Me

Take an expatriate English guitarist with an unashamed pop sensibility, add an exceptional lyricist with a voice that will stop you in your tracks. Build their songs on the kind of tempered rhythm section you only find in America, and you have Cantona; a maddeningly-coherent mix of Pop (classic, power, Brit, and indie flavours), Madchester and guitar driven psychedelia. Expect to hear influences, but this is no tribute band!
Named after French footballing legend Eric Cantona, the band has been building a following in Seattle and beyond through its exciting live act and melodically-original pop songwriting.
Spring 2008 sees the release of Cantona's debut full-length "Hello Boy Friend, Coming My Way?" on New York-based Sizzleteen Records. A collection of excellent pop songs drawn from its huge live repetoire, it's bound to make more friends. In April and May of 2007 the band played a series of very positively received dates in the UK ahead of the release, including a headlining slot at Rough Trade's famous RoTA show at the Notting Hill Arts Club.
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CDBaby
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Great Radio Stations that Play Cantona!
Radio Warwick (UK) Harmonic Penetrator
Reviews of the EP!
Independents Only
Impact Press
Innocent Words
realmusic.de (German)
Bullz-Eye.com
Ink 19
Who Needs Radio?
Press
The Seattle Weekly November 9th-15th 2005 - Live Write-up
The Seattle Weekly November 9th-15th 2005 - Seattle Weekly Pick
The Seattle Weekly December 28th-Jan 3rd 2006 - 2005: Year In Review- Seattle Ultimate Hits
Notion (UK) January Issue - Cantona on Unsigned Bands CD
Seattle PowerPop Blog
Labels we like!
Sizzleteen Records
KEXP PODCAST!!!!!
iTunes
Not Apple!
VIDEO!!!!
The Take-Away Shows from La Blogotheque

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/20/2005
Band Website: cantonamusic.com
Band Members: Leslie Beattie - Lead vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion
Glenn Pittaway - Guitars, electronics
Steve Mack - Bass and back-up vocals
Shawn Allen - Drums and back-up vocals

Influences: Merc, tea, mexico, will self
Sounds Like: Fucking TOP
Record Label: Saucy/Sizzleteen
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New RECORD! Wahey!

Hiya, Les here. We got a new record coming out! it's fucking ACE. I'm pretty excited about it, which is unlike me; I tend to downplay everything so much that people think I hate the band. I...
Posted by Cantona on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:16:00 PST

A update * ahem*

Good day pop pickers, it has been a long time since I updated you what we've been up to. Several of you read this I know, so I'm guessing somebody is interested!The record is now at an interesting sta...
Posted by Cantona on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:53:00 PST

matt lauer is talking & I am typing.....coincidence?

It's early hours here (whats that pete seeger song? 'it's quite early morning' or something like that?) and i am enjoying a cup of tea and piece of toast. thought since i was feeling a bit idle and am...
Posted by Cantona on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:11:00 PST

How to add whilst taking away...

I've been making good progress on a new track in the last week. I wrote the song a few weeks ago (5-6?) and for a long time it was called "Psychedelic Song" because the verse has a driving kind of psy...
Posted by Cantona on Mon, 01 May 2006 09:36:00 PST

Say 'Hello' to Duke Skellington and 'Goodbye' to Trouble Monkey

I would say 'at long last', but actually the arrival of our new single 'Duke Skellington' is pretty snappy. To those of you who have been reading this recording blog (a few of you), it'll be no surpri...
Posted by Cantona on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:23:00 PST

All This Scratching is Making Me Itch

So yesterday and Saturday I finished the tracking of all the non-vocal parts for the new song ("Trouble Monkey" in my head, but to be titled :-)). I did the tremelo guitars, tracked a bass line (that ...
Posted by Cantona on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:27:00 PST

Intentional Loopiness

Work on the new record is going well, in fact we're thinking of releasing something earlier than planned, but more on that later. There's a lot of hit and miss about how we're working, but that's part...
Posted by Cantona on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:06:00 PST

Details for Geeks...

So the tracking went well on Sunday. We managed to get good takes of two tracks out of four planned: "She's Gone Off Again" and "Jitters". We also worked out some cool ways of doing things i...
Posted by Cantona on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:11:00 PST

A Large Project

Well, at long last we've started the full-length, a long-awaited full-length, if only by us!The SongsAfter a lot of discussions about songs and processes, on Wednesday we started to get the album...
Posted by Cantona on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:08:00 PST

Down time

This is the time of year that's hardest to deal with for many bands: shows are scarce and holidays make it difficult to keep up momentum. In a way bands are like sharks, they have to keep moving to su...
Posted by Cantona on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:43:00 PST