We Have Band (and another anecdote).
Darren Bancroft and I used to work in a bar on Kingsland Road. We enjoyed the odd tequila and tonic together and spent our Sunday afternoons sitting on the street outside the bar making each other laugh with our weak impressions of people we knew or swapping anecdotes (true or half true) on the Shoreditch locals that passed by, usually tales of friends of friends of friends with just a grain of truth, created solely for our own amusement. From this misty eyed account, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was a vague, rose-tinted episode in my oft-recalled distant past. In fact, it was just the the beginning of last year but life moves fast in London town and much has happened since. Darren then, had recently joined forces with Tom and Dede, friends of his from his days as an intern at EMI, they’d just started kicking out dance pop jams as We Have Band. As it turned out, this went rather well. After a short run playing east London’s club nights, they were caught on French label Kitsune’s radar (who released their first single), played SXSW, won the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition and haven’t looked back since. Last New Years Eve they played the 333 on Old street. This New Years Eve they’re playing the Pyramid festival in Melbourne, Australia. Love that.
This is their latest offering Honey Trap as remixed by Le Matos. The original is available for free download on We Have Band’s website, but I think I almost prefer (no offence WHB) this remix for the Housey piano riff and its Acid-Disco dark-depths-of-the-dancefloor feel.
Go see them live, they are very good. They are playing Kill Em All’s spectacular on 11th Dec with Hercules and the Love Affair and some other friends of mine the equally fabulous Stopmakingme and Disco Bloodbath.
