Come with Love Machine as we tell you the story of the best band of the last five years (yes, even better than Razorlight) that you've never heard of.
That band had the, let's face it, terrible name of Lorraine, but lo, they were an incredible band. A 3 piece from Norway that sounded exactly how you'd expect a 3 piece from Norway to sound: warm washes of glorious synths, skyscraping melodies, icy synth riffs. They had at least 9 hit singles.
The problem was, they were 4 years too early.
Like Clive Sinclair and his C5, the world was simply not ready for Lorraine (ed-Lorraine were also much better than the C5 which wasn't very good) - for this was a time when the Pigeon Detectives reigned supreme (yes, we'd erased that from our minds but it is worth reminding ourselves what humanity is capable of at its worst). Their record company also didn't help matters by filming a video, the cost of which could have settled several 3rd World Nations' debts and going on an all-or-nothing campaign which, seeing as radio stations were only playing songs with loud spiky guitars in and Borrell and Doherty-a-likes, resulted in nothing being the outcome.
So, they went away, and lo, we have The Blackroom (so named after a fire in their rehearsal room which destroyed most of their equipment). They have toughened up their sound, gone a bit more Depeche Mode and a bit less A-Ha, but they are none less incredible than before.
The world is ready, and the world (well, at least Love Machine and all of our friends) will be at their first London gig at The Water Rats in King's Cross on December 7th. Come join us.
In the meantime, check our their songs on MySpace (there are loads more to come) and here is a little Youtube teaser thingamajig:
11 Days to go........
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