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Speaking via Zoom from his home in Brooklyn, flamboyant Electric Six frontman Dick Valentine who is readying the release of the band's next album told me: "I'm feeling like a millionaire bucks.
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Read more: 14 music festivals to look forward to in Cornwall in summer 2022 Others playing between June 2 and 5 include Manic Street Preachers, Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Melle Mel’s Furious 5 & Scorpio, DJ Yoda, Elektra Fence (Ru Paul’s Drag Race), Krafty Kuts, The Future Shape Of Sound, Loup Garoux (Ed Harcourt), Will & The People, Oh My God! It’s The Church and Craig Charles. The band whose massive hits Danger! High Voltage and Gay Bar introduced a run of 14 albums - yes, 14 studio albums since 2003 - are just one of the acts at the festival in the grounds of Scorrier Estate, where Dick will also be playing a solo acoustic set. Other than freshening the band’s on-stage wardrobe, Valentine said, the band isn’t planning many big changes to its always-spirited live show.Dick Valentine, of Michigan rockers Electric Six, famously sang that he wanted to take you to a gay bar but he may have mellowed with age as what he really wants is a Cornish pasty at The Great Estate festival this summer. Now Electric Six is back in touring mode.
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“This album was very much cobbled together as we did it.” “Honestly, the only concept going into it was that (the song) ‘Table and Chairs’ was going to be on it,” Valentine said. But the band has stayed on its schedule of releasing a studio album every year and doing a considerable amount of touring.Īnd as has become the band’s custom, Electric Six went into “Zodiac” with no real plan. Smorgasbord (Keith Thompson) and Percussion World (Mike Alonso) are now the bassist and drummer. There have been a couple of personnel changes. Since then, it’s been pretty smooth sailing for Electric Six. Dequindre (Chris Peters) and bassist Frank Lloyd Bonaventure (Mark Dundon). The revamped lineup also included guitarist The Colonel (Zach Shipps), guitarist Johnny Na$hinal (John Nash), keyboardist Tait Nucleus? (Christopher Tait), bassist/guitarist John R. When the band finally resurfaced in 2005 with “Senor Smoke,” it was on a new label, Metropolis Records, and with a lineup in which Valentine (real name: Tyler Spencer) and drummer M (Cory Martin) were the only original members. The group lost its record deal with XL Recordings, and the lineup changed. That album made a splash in the United Kingdom, spawning a pair of top five hits (“Gay Bar” and “Danger! High Voltage”) and going gold.Īfter the success of “Fire,” Electric Six went through some significant changes. The band initially didn’t get much going and broke up for a couple of years before releasing its debut CD, “Fire” under the new name Electric Six in 2003. The Electric Six began developing its varied style and considerable personality in Detroit in 1996 under the name The Wildbunch. There’s driving rock on “After Hours” and “Countdown to the Countdown,” smart funk-rock on “Cluster(expletive),” and hook-filled dance rock on “Jam It in the Hole.” It’s all topped off by a righteously rocking cover of the Spinners’ “Rubberband Man.” Second time’s the charm Already firmly established as a party band with lyrical wit, catchy melodies and a dance-worthy rock and roll, Electric Six has created one of its most consistently entertaining albums in “Zodiac.” With serious fans telling Valentine that “Zodiac” may be the group’s best record, the lack of advance preparation seems to be working just fine. “It’s kind of exciting to - in a span of a month - go from having no idea what it’s going to sound like to, ‘Wow, this is going to be a good album.’” Front man Dick Valentine takes it all in stride.įor the past three albums, the group had only one finished song when it started the recording process, he said. The band had just one song idea when it started recording “Zodiac,” its latest effort.
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The group has released one a year in the past six years, which is proof enough that these musicians don’t get bogged down in the creative process or the studio.įor that matter, Electric Six often doesn’t do much preparation before recording - not even song-writing. Third Ave., Portland.Įlectric Six isn’t a band to obsess over its albums.