Saint Etienne

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Forever & Ever Amen -The Drums REMIX

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Released: May 27, 2010

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Forever & Ever Amen -The Drums REMIX
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carnt sleep clip FBB
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Pains of Being Pure at Heart st et mix
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Only Love Can Break Your Heart FBB
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Genre: Alternative / Electronica / Pop
Location London, Un
Profile Views: 697331
Last Login: 2/17/2012
Member Since 10/29/2004
Website www.saintetienne.com
Record Label heavenly
Type of Label Indie
Bio
....Tiger Bay and Finisterre Special editions available now!...... .. ...... ........ .. .. ..Here is what someone had to say about us.....When they come to write the dissertations, and all the deconstructions and doctorates are done and dusted, I hope the point is not lost. For how Saint Etienne subtly smashed the system was by mastering the art of being all things to all people. Rather handy it was too, as their name gave an entree to any strata of society. .. So, when colleagues cornered you and asked the dreaded question: So what music DO you like? the words Saint Etienne were a godsend. Everyone seemed to know or have a soft spot for them. And when eyebrows were raised at arms aloft, shirt off antics, it was okay to say: Oh, I've been at it since K-Klass learnt to spell. You should come up and see my Saint Etienne 12s some time. .. And if the headz behind the record shop counter in the discreetly logoed limited edition tee shirts looked down their noses at the Etienne vamping it up on the Radio One roadshow, they would drool into their goatees at the 45s Bob and Pete played down the Social. Then when the coffee bar philosophers gathered to put down the party people, it was good to state that present company excepted, no one could do more with a feather boa than Sarah. So the debate would continue about whether she was thee role model for the emerging Fabians jet set, flitting between Prada and Primark, the Third Way and Home And Away. And when the light was only provided by a scented candle and the talk turned to books, we would declare for Douglas Coupland and never resist mentioning his sleevenotes for the gorgeous Good Humor set and then speculate on what his favourite song was. .. So, when homely souls said the Etienne were quintessentially English, it was easy to agree and say not even The Clash dropped as many London references. And one day someone would light out for the territory and trace the routes (roots!) of their lovers rock (though strangely not the Purley and Shirley of the south west). Then when the rootless internationalists claimed the Etienne as their own, it was only right to second this, pointing to Italian house piano magic and French disko bleeps and beats, Swedish flair and German adventuresomeness. And, yes, the mythical America of sitting around a Palm Springs pool swapping stories of dead pop stars and fallen footballers, with the Aphex Twin's ambient works playing and the sun rising. .. Whoops! I couldn't resist inventing a Saint Etienne moment there. For really, home alone, that has been the power of their pop. They could be whatever you wanted them to be and take you wherever you wanted to go. That's not as easy as some would have you think, and that's called magic.
Members
Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs. Producer and confidante: Ian Catt (catmusic.mail@virgin.net) Manager and foreman: Martin Kelly (martin@heavenlymanagement.com)
Influences
John Barry, The Kinks,The Bee Gees, Joe Meek, Goffin/King, Mann/Weil, Carter/Lewis, Gamble/Huff, Giorgio Moroder, Blondie, The Fall, Pet Shop Boys, Broadcast, Denim, Billy Fury, Russ Titelman, Basil Kirchin, Ennio Morricone, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, The Human League, To Rococo Rot, The Mascots, Wimple Winch, Thor's Hammer, Ruth Copeland, Sweet, Slade, Chinnichap, Roger Nichols, Paul Williams, The Association, World Of Twist, Earl Brutus, Modern Eon, Phil Ochs, Loudon Wainwright III, John Fahey, The Miracles, Holland Dozier Holland, Larry Banks, Curtis Mayfield, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Polnareff, Dion, Del Shannon, Roy Orbison, Lou Christie, Paul & Barry Ryan, Scott Walker, Laura Nyro, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Todd Rundgren, Burt Bacharach, Sandy Denny, Anne Briggs, Ellie Greenwich, Paris Sisters, Macca, The Monkees, Elvis, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys. .. Richard Brautigan, William Saroyan, Kenneth Patchen, Richard Yates, Shena Mackay, Nik Cohn, Anthony Lane, Daniel Farson, Geoffrey Fletcher, Patrick Hamilton, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Max Beerbohm, Anita Loos, PG Wodehouse, Beau Brummell, Beau Nash, Berthold Lubetkin, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Robert Desnos, Guy Debord, Francis Picabia, Jess, Kurt Schwitters, Wyndham Lewis, Jeremy Deller, Julian Opie, Mark Perry, Jon Savage, Paris '68, SLA, Archigram, Free Cinema, Private Eye, The New Yorker, When Saturday Comes, freakytrigger.com, John Steed, Emma Peel, Francois Truffaut, Billy Wilder, David Lynch, David Mamet, Veronica Lake, Diana Dors, Mae West, Sophia Loren, Harpo Marx, Stan Laurel, Schultz, Larry David, Chris Morris, John McEnroe, Miloslav Mecir, Irina Slutskaya, Roy Race, Thierry Henry, Paul Walsh, love on the terraces, bonhomie in public houses, the look and the sound of a seven inch single, maybe on Decca.
Sounds Like
International pop music from London, England