Festival
Interview: Jamaica
Publicerad: 26 augusti 2010 av Redaktionen @ Festivalrykten
They were supposed to perform at Hutsfred, however, this weekend you are lucky to see them in Stockholm at Popaganda. The French-duo released their debutalbum No Problem recently and you’ve probably heard their single I think I like U2. Festivalrykten.se had a chat with Antoine from the band Jamaica.
You are from France but named your band Jamaica, why ?
The name is great and we’d love to be invited to Jamaica once. It’s a hommage of course, to the country and to bands with names referring to places. And ”France” doesn’t sound that well.
For those bastards haven’t heard a single word of you guys, how would you describe your sound ?
First, I won’t call them bastards, those poor people. It’s guitar driven pop with a heavy twist, classic songwriting and solos up to date.
This spring I as so many other came across your single, I think I like U2, can you tell us more about it ?
It’s a happy studio accident, two songs that were left aside which, put together, became a good song, between an enthusiastic Police single and a power pop engine. And So-Me and Machine Molle directed a brilliant video for it.
As I understand you do music for the clubs without synthesizers, how is that possible ?
Synthesizers are great machines yet we don’t use them on stage so it was rather pointless to let them enter the studio. It was all about rock with guitar, bass and drums.
Xavier de Rosnay (Justice) and Peter J. Franco has helped you to produce your debutalbum, how come that you were lucky getting help from so great musicans ?
Xavier has been a friend of ours for a long time now and was willing and available to help us out. He brought Peter aboard to share the production duties. We were very lucky indeed for them to have so much time to spend on our record.
Finally, what do you expect from Stockholm this weekend ?
We already wandered around the city and it’s always a pleasure to come there. People dress really well so I hope we won’t be disappointed by the usually stylish audience.
Text: Magnus Olsson