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Sita Pee - vox
H Bomb - guitar and laptop
Casio Carla - keys
Stamp - bass
and, currently lost somewhere in Sicily, Action Dan
Influences
Jenna
Sounds Like
“...the kind of tunes playing in a Heaven where all the kids that die overdosing on Sunny D and Ricicles go. Great stuff.”
Endearingly Ramshackle
"Isn’t It Lovely’ - which sounds like love set to music and carries the little heartbreaker of a line ‘When you’ve left my side, I’m left to wonder... am I happy inside’. Lead singer Sita Pieraccini delivers each note in a punchy Scottish brogue, all husky and defiant."
Anna Docherty, The Midgie
“Thanks to a little imagination and the manufacturing skills of the good people at Fisher Price, [Futuristic Retro Champions] have created something really quite special”
Malcolm Jack, The Metro
“With a pure pop sound resplendent with hook-laden choruses they are an engaging and energetic ball of fun, and their whirlwind live show has attracted heaps of praise from press and musical peers alike.”
Gary Flockhart, The Scotsman
“Their sound is that of the wistful pop of Belle & Sebastian super-charged by a processed-beats driven turbo dance thing ala Bis. ‘Jenna’ tells the tale of that ubiquitous last girl on the dance floor to a skipping ‘lectro jive; bpm; chiming slowie ‘Isn’t It Lovely’ adds a dewy eyed edge without letting the fun ebb away. FRCs have an uncanny knack of making every song sound like the very soundtrack to the first strains of a summer’s Friday evening”
Malcolm Jack, The List
“Think 80s inspired synths (and lots of them) and a bunch of girls singing/shouting along. I dare say it sounded like Betty Boo armed with a children’s Casio in places, and that is a GOOD thing.”
Julia Vegho, I Shot The Deputy
“…the shouting starts, smiles crack open both onstage and in the crowd, and the vicious sense of humour underpinning the deliberate tweeness comes to the fore. With so many disparate elements, the wonder is that they make it all sound so understated. Gorgeous summer pop melodies, with a sub current of ominous electro-riffing and turbo beats.”
Paul Mitchell, The Skinny
“This lot are what happy hardcore should have been. Making music that has as much energy as a coked cat, this Edinburgh five piece shout their way through computer beat led screamers with a bit of trumpeting here and there, a stab or two of hardcore synths and the best name ever, this is one of the most exciting Scottish bands I have heard in ages.”
Gavin Cumine, Broken English
Futuristic Retro Champions formed at Edinburgh School of Art in the early summer of 2006, when a group of friends got together to write and record a song to soundtrack a film made by Carla Easton. They created a myspace page, wrote a few songs and were amazed that they could be heard around the world....they still are.
The first incarnation of Futuristic Retro Champions played their debut gig at The Wee Red Bar in Edinburgh towards the end of 2006, playing a handful more before the turn of the year. To their pleasant surprise, influential arts magazine The List named them as one of the bands to watch out for in 2007.
2007 passed by in a blur, the band headlined a gig at King Tuts in June with support from fellow electro popsters Pooch, and they managed to fit in support slots in Edinburgh with Kate Nash, Glasvegas and Friendly Fires while continuing their studies and their search for pop perfection. The band played an emotional set at a tribute night in memory of their tutor and mentor Paul Carter at Edinburgh School of Art and were joined on stage by Eugene Kelly for covers of The Vaselines 'Son Of A Gun' and 'You Think You're A Man.'
2008 saw the FRC's definitive line-up form; with the original trio of Carla, Harry and Sita joined by long-term friend Ceal Stamp on bass. Loads of new songs were written and the live sound developed. The band added a support slot with rising star Ladyhawke to their gigs list and went down to London a couple of times, playing in Shoreditch and then supporting former BiS star Manda Rin.
2009 has been a productive year to date with highlights including a brilliant night at the Heavylight/Darkbright club night in Stereo, playing The Mill in Edinburgh in March followed by a trip to London to support Scottish indie legends The Vaselines at The Forum, playing the Hinterland Festival, supporting Charlotte Hatherley at King Tuts, 'Pulling Box Shapes' being played on Tom Robinson's BBC6 'Introducing' show and 'You Make My Heart' being played on Vic Galloway's Radio 1 show.
With a cannon of delicious pop tunes that led to one reviewer exclaiming 'their bodies must run on fizzy cola bottles' Futuristic Retro Champions want you to be part of their quest for pop perfection....
Ello, loved your set as always! How was Captain's Rest? Some of us are away that weekend but hopefully try and pop down! Hope all's well. Cinnamon love xx
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