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VV Brown
Pop Punk / Indie / Soul



London
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  7/13/2009
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Member Since7/13/2007
Band Websitewww.vvbrown.com
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CONTACT:
Live Agent: paulf@helterskelter.co.uk
UK Press: Shane.ONeill@umusic.com Private Bookings: chloe@crownmusic.co.uk
Management: chloe@crownmusic.co.uk



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Single: Shark In The Water

Release Date: Out July 6 2009

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Travelling Like The Light

Album: Travelling Like The Light

Release Date: Out July 13 2009

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Record LabelIsland Universal
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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 17 2009 8:00P
Club NME London
Jul 18 2009 8:00P
Lovebox London
Jul 24 2009 8:00P
Camp Bestival Dorset
Jul 25 2009 8:00P
Secret garden party Dorset
Aug 1 2009 8:00P
Bristol Harbour Festival Bristol
Aug 7 2009 8:00P
Summersonic Festival Japan
Aug 8 2009 8:00P
Summersonic Festival Japan
Aug 9 2009 8:00P
Summersonic Festival Japan
Aug 22 2009 8:00P
V Festival Chelmsford
Aug 23 2009 8:00P
V Festival Stafford
Sep 4 2009 8:00P
Aarhus Festival
Sep 12 2009 8:00P
Bestival Isle of Wight

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   About VV Brown




POP JUSTICE WRITES.

V V Brown is a singer, a songwriter, a performer, multi-instrumentalist and a producer. In this 24-year-old’s world, love sounds like the perfect melody. Both are difficult to define she says, but both pour out of the songs on her debut album. This is music which sounds like performance: dramatic, charismatic and, frequently, as mad as a box of frogs. This is high definition, high concept pop with scuffed edges and laddered tights. “It’s about letting out all these ideas I’ve had locked up in my mind,” Brown states. “It’s honest - it’s not about being festooned with £10m diamonds or having perfect hair.”

Leading the charge is Crying Blood, written on V V’s one-string guitar, but more of that later, which colourfully illustrates Brown’s penchant for mixing upbeat melodies with lyrics specialising in full-on despair. There are a few of these on her debut album, which is the story of V V’s life but also the story of one specific relationship with one specific arsehole. “He broke my heart just before I began writing the album,” V V says. “In a way writing Crying Blood, was liberating because I was letting everything out and it felt like there was some distance. But the fact that I was still writing songs about him meant that I wasn’t as liberated as I thought”.

As V V now realises, writing these songs brought everything to a close. From the brutal imagery of the song’s title, through “falling like a comet from a broken sky” to the point where she arrives back on earth with a bump, Crying Blood represents a cathartic process which also resulted in a pretty nifty pop tune.

“I can’t remember a time when music was not a part of me,” she says; “when I was five, I remember writing my first song on the piano. I played the same notes over and over again and from that moment I just knew that music would be a huge part of my life.” Evenings were spent in the attic with her five brothers and sisters playing at being in a band and dreaming about being on Top Of The Pops. At school, V V was almost unrecognisable – lunch-breaks would be spent sitting in the school field on her blazer wondering, as she says, “why the grass was green”. Feeling liberated rather than lonely, she immersed herself in her own thoughts. “I’ve always felt slightly on the edge of the circle,” she explains, and this double life, flitting from extrovert to introvert as the mood takes her, now runs through her album. Every Sunday she’d go to church and sing in the gospel choir; at home her mum and dad would listen to Aretha, The Rolling Stones, Ruth Brown, Elvis Presley, Queen and the music from Super Marioland. Anything with a tune was fair game.

It’s easy to see how V V inherited her theatrical, charismatic personality. It’s an excitingly eclectic mix, but V V has another phrase for it: “musical mashed potatoes”.“I was broke!” she howls, so broke in fact that she had to sell her keyboard to pay for her flight home from LA, “but I wasn’t sitting around watching Cash In The Attic – every day was spent making music. Every hour, every day from nine in the morning until two the next morning.” Money was so tight that V V bought a one-string guitar in a charity shop, marked the frets out with her red nail varnish and wrote Crying Blood the very next day. “I’ll wake up in the morning and have no idea what I’m going to write”. It was these sessions threw up the extraordinary songs which scored V V her new deal with Island. Her songs are now instantly addictive and unmistakably honest, with lyrics asking what the bloody point is answered by melodies full of life and reasons to be cheerful. The contradiction works, throwing the listener from happy to sad and back again in the space of three minutes.

“Everything that’s happened in the last few years has taught me to value the idea of knowing yourself and being your-self,” V V says. “And, my God, it took me a long time to get here.” True to this, and as she prepares to unleash the album on the world, V V’s binned off the LA lifestyle, choosing instead to live in London in her auntie’s house with her sisters. “I can’t see myself moving any time soon,” V V says. “Why should I change? I just want a simple life, with extraordinary music in it.”



   


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May 23 2009 9:05 AM

Great set last night VV... Shame you were on first as the 2nd band were crap...
courteneystar





May 25 2009 7:06 PM

hello
thank you very much for accpeting me
ive seen u once this yr but hopefully more lol i know ur doing glstonbury soo will see you there and you will rock loving shark in the water is just fanstaic and i watch crying blood the reggie version at astoria demolition ball was the first time i saw you and you rocked you was amazing i was front row and by the end of the night i knew the words to crying blood which in its self is an amazing song but to hear it live and front row was amazing so thankyou lol can not wait to see you again much love courteney xx
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May 26 2009 12:35 PM

hey really amazing that your part of this with us, means a great deal!

Anything at all we can do to help support and promote you (maybe a wesbite feature) just let me know!

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May 28 2009 6:12 PM

Wow, you are pretty quick with the add, thank you. I think you are amazing, but...one little comment; I kinda miss somebody in your "Influences-list". Cause I certainly see a Miss Grace Jones-glance. Well, I think you took up her rusty crown and polished it into a shiny golden chandelier with a funky plastic edge! You rock!
Keep up the good work.
xSimone
Katie Wilkinson





May 28 2009 7:47 PM

I'm seeing you on saturday, yay! :)
x
Jen





May 29 2009 4:18 PM

Saw your set at the Thekla for Brizzle dot to Dot last weekend and you were awesome, can't wait for the album and tour!
Black Cab Sessions





Jun 1 2009 12:17 PM

Hey all,

Check out VV Brown perform 'Shark In The Water' in a Black Cab!

www.blackcabsessions.com

BCS x
Amy♥;





Jun 1 2009 6:24 PM

hey your music is great
doing any shows in liverpool?xx
אליהו





Jun 1 2009 11:25 PM

marry me.
Sammy Sam





Jun 4 2009 12:59 AM

Hello! How are you? Nice to meet you

Thanks for adding me :) I love your music.

Feel free to visit my profile and take a look at my paintings if you have time. Take care
Javier Erhard apex





Jun 5 2009 7:36 PM

hello there, i want your album! (:
Lois [TKV]





Jun 6 2009 4:52 PM

Heya! :)
saw you at Love Music Hate Racism - so good! Can't wait until i get to another of your gigs :D
hope all is well :)
Lois
x
Matthew





Jun 5 2009 6:54 AM

beautiful voice, we got a real star here
Nicole





Jun 4 2009 10:45 PM

Hey watsup? :)

jodz :)





Jun 5 2009 4:52 PM

reeally loving your song
cant wait to see you at tinthepark
but you have it as the 11th september - when your playin 12th july.
x
katalyst4christ





Jun 5 2009 5:03 PM

Amazing, amazing, amazing. Just bumped into 'Crying Blood' today on youtube, and I'm hooked. I will be telling all my friends about VV Brown!
John





Jun 6 2009 1:26 PM

A duet with Kings of Leon in the offering? I'd definitely pay to see that! Quality.
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Jun 7 2009 12:13 PM

new song - im still fly feat drake.....all my fly people get at me

if you have a facebook add me the link is on my page

BreeZa
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Jun 8 2009 1:17 AM

Thanks for the MySpace friendship. :) Check out our new album out now! Taxi Doll
♥ForsakenNJaded♠





Jun 8 2009 2:40 AM

I love your music I can't wait till your CD comes out!!
<3 Rina
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Jun 8 2009 8:05 AM

yo dont know if im late on this one but i saw a a feautre on you in urb magazine titled the next 100 artists..congrats to you!
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Mar 31 2009 1:11 PM

Hey!!

Thank You..

Whats really good though??

P.s. oh and really... please don't be a stranger

xoxo

BB
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Apr 3 2009 1:03 AM

U R DA BEST!!!!!
DC





Apr 4 2009 7:33 PM

Whens the album out???? Ive been waiting nearly a year!! Im about to explode!!!
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