HARD-FI

Caméra de surveillance



Le groupe d’indie-pop Hard-Fi s’est formé en 2002 à Staines dans l’ouest de la banlieue de Londres en Angleterre. Il est composé de quatre membres, Richard Archer (chant), Ross Phillips (guitare), Kai Stephens (basse) et Steve Kemp (batterie). La formation rencontre rapidement le succès grâce à son premier single, "Hard to Beat". Le quatuor livre ensuite le titre "Living For the Week End" avant de sortir son tout premier album, "Stars of CCTV" en 2005. Le public et la critique sont sous le charme.
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From Staines, an unfashionable London commuter town under the flight path of Heathrow Airport (it's the home of fictional gangsta Ali G) come tales of working class frustrations and ambition played to a ska soundtrack. With harmonicas honking like car horns and lyrics about ATMs, Hard-Fi's music never strays far from the streets. July 2005's debut album Stars of CCTV enjoyed both immediate commercial success and a nomination for 2005's Mercury Music Prize (an award designed to showcase the year's 12 best albums from U.K. and Irish artists) leading to inevitable comparisons between bandleader Richard Archer and the Streets' Mike Skinner, but also Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and - perhaps most accurately - the Specials' Terry Hall. Whether or not the band go on to fulfill their early promise, this was the sound of the suburbs in England during the summer of 2005.
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