Hadouken

...You’re not a gangsta
you live with your mum
and you work in ASDA...

Hadouken are: James (singing, Production and rants), Pilau (Tuneless thrashing, Vocals, and hairspray tactics), Alice (Square Synthesis, Keyboards and being late) and Nick (Drums and leader of the anti-weasel movement)

Less hyped than their counterparts The Klaxons, Hadouken mine the same late 80’s and early 90’s musical influences that the music press have chosen to conveniently label as ‘New Rave.’ Mistaking fluorescent clothes and raw energy for a rave revival this labelling threatens to kill off a scene in much the same way as it did early Electroclash.

Leeds based Hadouken, who take their name from a special ‘fireball’ move in the ‘Street Fighter’ computer game, are like a clash of The Streets and Dizze Rascal with a day glo clothing factory. Performing danceable grime, with songs that refer to ‘Indie Cindys’ and girls with Lego haircuts, they ridicule the conventional indie scene with an angry wit.

Their debut track ‘That Boy That Girl’ is being championed by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 1, and has been described as a ‘Snarling work of genius’ by the NME.

“It makes me want to smash bottles over my head. In a good way."

To find out more about the band - not much more mind you - visit their MySpace page.. and then take a magic marker to your trainers.…

www.myspace.com/hadoukenuk

MP3: Hadouken - That Boy, That Girl

Video: Hadouken - That Boy, That Girl