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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Keep in time. If 2006 has been marked by anything, it’s the renewed interest in three chords and the truth. Guitar sales are up and the internet is awash with an embarrassment of new music. Unlike the new guitar contemporaries that they’re wrongly lumped in with, Hot Club De Paris’ (aka Paul, Alastair and Matthew) ambitions extend further than the desire to wear white-belted skinny jeans. We wanted to specifically sound like two or three records (The Minutemen’s Double Nickels…, and debut albums by Owl and Joan Of Arc). And like Mike Watt and their DIY punk heroes they gladly “piss-bottle” their way up and down the country, gigging constantly. Says Matt, “What else do you do? Stay at home and get drunk? We can tour the UK on £50 a day. We did it for a long time.” In common with US pioneers like Don Cabellero, Hot Club are obsessed with dramatic rhythm changes and unusual metres, as Paul explains: “We really wanted to do a technical band with different time signatures. At first it was ridiculous; we tried to make it as hard work as possible for ourselves, just ‘cos it was challenging…” “But if you’re used to listening to music that doesn’t exclusively deal with 4/4,” adds Matt, “you can have a groove in 5 or 7 and if it’s fluid it works.”  The trio even allow themselves a small math-rock in-joke on album track 3.55am: I Think We Should Go Home. “Bands are so made up they’ve done a song with an odd time signature that they put it in the title, like Take 5 or Broken Social Scene’s 7/4 Shoreline, and it’s so shit. So ours was 3.55am - 5 minutes to four, like 5/4. Aren’t we funny eh? We’re gonna get straight into Suduko after this. I’m gonna put the stickers on Rubik’s cubes.” Assuming the boys are not nobbled by the puzzling industry, what might punters expect to get from a Hot Club show? “Short changed. Sexually assaulted. Not all of them - there’s too many,” says Matthew. “They might have fun. Musically they’ll hear us playing our songs one after another.” Sound good? Welcome to the club.
James Cowdery
Hot Club De Paris – EveryEveryEverything, released 02 October 06 on Moshi Moshi. The album, Drop It Till It Pops, released 09 October 06.
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