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Capitol Records
Released: November 30, 2004 |
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Dirty Vegas
When South London trio Dirty Vegas won the Grammy for Best Dance Single last year, the cameras panned across Robert de Niro, Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel and Stevie Wonder in the front rows to reveal...three empty seats. The boys, of course, were in the bar. It's not that they didn't respect America's most prestigious music award, more that despite three nominations, it never occurred to them that they might win. "We were on the sauce all day," explains singer Steve Smith, "and they wouldn't let us take our drinks to the seats."
So they had to run down the centre aisle of Madison Square Gardens to pick up their award, visibly panting. "We didn't know how to react," says Paul Harris. "We all went a bit strange. It's great, but it is a bizarre thing to have on your mantelpiece."
For One, their follow-up to 2002's Grammy winning self-titled affair, Dirty Vegas remembered that making music was meant to be fun. They filled a van with studio equipment and set off on a 14-hour drive to a beautiful old stone cottage overlooking the sea in the far north of Scotland where they could work with no time restrictions and no distractions. "From then on, the album just came," says Steve. "The boys would be working on a track, I'd bang it on the iPod and go for a walk round the loch, and by the time I came back I'd have the lyrics. We did more up there in a week than in four months in London. Looking out of the window at trains and cranes isn't that inspiring."
So the guitars came out from the start with the new album, and instead of using synthesized string sounds on lush tracks like "Save Me" and "Human Love", they used a real eight-piece orchestra. "We started putting samples down again, but it sounded sterile," explains Ben. "As soon as we set up the drum kit and started using loops of our own drums, there was more life in it. A lot of things here were recorded in one take."
As the wonderful widescreen pop of “Walk Into The Sun” suggests, One marks a great artistic leap forward for Dirty Vegas. Recorded in London, Cornwall, and Scotland, the album features a richer, more organic approach than its technology-driven predecessor. Tracks such as “Save Me” and “Human Love” see the South London-based trio incorporating full-bodied live instrumentation – including an eight-piece orchestra – into their idiosyncratic musical mélange of sounds and styles. The result is altogether extraordinary – an eclectic, unique collection that establishes Dirty Vegas as one of the most adventurous and forward-thinking bands of our time.
Tour Dates with Tears for Fears:
10/26 Washington, DC - Lisner Auditorium
10/28 New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
10/30 Boston, MA - Orpheum
11/1 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
11/3 Detroit, MI - State Theatre
11/5 Lakewood, OH - Lakewood Civic Auditorium
11/6 Columbus, OH - PromoWest Pavilion
11/7 Milwaukee, WI - Northern LightsTheatre
11/9 Minneapolis, MN - State Theatre
11/15 Boulder, CO - Macky Auditorium
11/17 Temecula, CA - Pechanga Resort & Casino
11/18 Temecula, CA - Pechanga Resort & Casino
11/20 Reno, NV - City Center Pavilion
11/21 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
11/23 Los Angeles, CA - UniversalAmphitheatre
11/24 Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
11/26 Tucson, AZ - Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre
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