Dragonette

...kissed
the boys and
made them cry...

Spurned on to record music in the wake of the Canadian shaming that was Nickleback, Dragonette are a duo, (assisted by drummer Joel Stouffer and guitarist Will Stapleton) who make sharp, sardonically witty electronic pop music.

“We met at a festival,” says Martina “I was the only chick on the bill, and I was singing what we affectionately call ‘tampon music’… You know, singer-songwriter, Ani Di Franco, Lilith Fair, Jewel-type music… tamponics!”

Dragonette skipped past the normal route of gritty bar gigs and fell into the music industry at the deep end. Their second-ever show was supporting New Order at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom, followed by a massive US tour supporting Duran Duran. “I’ve had a crowd of 15,000 people in the palm of my hand” says Dan. However the Duran Duran fan base refutes this claim in Blogs posted after the event, “This ******* terrible band from Canada opened… It was fronted by a slut wearing panties, and she was singing songs about Jesus and sex” wrote one reviewer.

Martina also wrote and sang lead vocals on a recent Basement Jaxx track, “Take Me Back To Your House”, and at the time had no idea that it was to be a single. Suddenly she was in the video cossack-dancing in front of a tank driven by Stalin!

As for the name…“Martina called her iPod that,” says Dan. “I saw it plugged in on her computer, and I thought ‘Wow, that word looks ******* cool.’ Then we post-rationalised it and said it was about this female-fronted male power band. It’s a fire-breathing dragon, but it’s a chick!”

“A dragon in stilettos,” says Martha.

To hear some ‘witty electronic pop’ visit their websites here…

www.dragonette.ca
www.myspace.com/dragonetteband

Dragonette release their first-ever single, ‘I Get Around’ on 30 April with the album following on 16 July.

The band are set to appear in a Breaking Acts feature in the Sunday Times Culture Section on 11 March.

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