Bert "Possibly Not His Real Name" Audubert (Bass) - Loz "Journey" Colbert (Drums) - Mark "Scratch" Crozer (Chunky Guitar, Vocals) - "Palpably Perfect" Paul Crozer (Twinkling Guitar) - Fiona "Fi" McFall (Vocals) and introducing Little Stevie Coe on Piano.
Influences
The Beatles, The Chameleons, New York Dolls, The Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, Jacques Brel, Cowboy Junkies, The Go-Betweens, Radiohead, Echo and The Bunnymen, Velvet Underground, Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, Elliott Smith, The Carpenters, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Doves, Elbow, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, The House of Love, Joy Division, The Wombles, Blondie, The Pretenders, XTC, Pulp, The Smiths, Iron Maiden, Martha and The Muffins
Sounds Like
We think this description in the May 2008 issue of Nightshift, Oxford's Music Magazine, is apt:
"They're an amalgamation of everything that was great about indie rock, when that term actually meant something. From the narcotic fuzz of Spacemen 3 to the insistent jangle and drone of The Wedding Present, and lifted spaceward by singer Fi McFall's ethereal vocals, they're dark and dreamy but they rock like bastards."
International Jetsetters is an Oxford-based five piece. The band was formed in March 2007 by singer and guitarist Mark Crozer and bass player Bert Audubert who had been working together in various musical guises for a couple of years. Very quickly after the band was formed, Loz Colbert was asked to join (having already been working with Mark, firstly in Jim Reid's band and more recently in the reformed Jesus and Mary Chain.) As a three-piece, International Jetsetters played a smattering of gigs in 2007 before enlisting Mark's younger and smarter brother Paul as second guitarist. During the band's short stint as a four-piece they met and befriended local singer Fi McFall. When the Mary Chain needed a female singer to perform Just Like Honey at their 2007 Brixton Academy gig, Mark suggested Fi. After being suitably blown away with her vocal prowess (and learning that the Brixton show had in fact been her debut public performance), the band asked Fi to to join them. And so the line-up was complete...
BEND SINISTER "The Same Things" (CANADA) CLUE TO KALO "Infinite Orphan" (AUSTRALIA) DAVIDE DI SARO "We All Belong To Our Before" (CANADA) D.O.A. "Human Bomb" (CANADA) HA HA TONKA "Caney Mountain"(USA) HAYDEN "More Than Alive" (CANADA) THAYKHAY "So Close to the Sun" (ARGENTINA) THE HERMIT "si vous me quittez" (CANADA) IMMACULATE MACHINE "C'Mon Sea Legs" ( CANADA) INTERNATIONAL JETSETTERS "Inside Out"(UK) KARKWA "La Facade" (CANADA) NEKO CASE "People Got a Lotta Nerve" (USA) NUTMEG "Ohohooh" (SWEDEN) POL ARIDA "One" (SCOTLAND) ROOTS MANUVA "C.R.U.F.F." (UK) THE SUMMERLAD "City of Noise" (CANADA) VANCOUGAR "Distance" (CANADA) VIOLADORES DEL VERSO " 8 Lineas" (SPAIN) WINSTON ACKLAND "All the Little Fishies" (USA)
thanks for add guys!im gonna play "inside out"in my radio show this afternoon.www.cityinternational.gr on live streaming 19.35-21.00 local time.cheers from thessaloniki greece!!akis k.
Hey Mark; Mark Bignell here from the show that refuses to die! "Whoo-hoo-ha-ha-ha!!"... Finally had another listen months(?) later and really like "Never Slows Down". I may even play it on the show this coming Thursday ( 10:30-Midnight your time ). The show's also podcasted/playlisted at the bandcouver myspace page. Give me a ring the next time your in town.