La Roux have been on a roller-coaster ride over the last 12 months with their first label Kitzune Music dropping them in November after their first single failed to sell, they were then snapped-up by Polydor and recently have been nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.
Electronic duo La Roux comprise of lead singer Elly Jackson and London producer Ben Langmaid.
Ben Langmaid prefers to stay in the background, he’s a London based producer and composer who has been involved with other music projects in the past but has finally found in La Roux the suitable project to let his long-term passion for 80s electro-pop shine through.
The Red-haired Elly Jackson just so happens to be the daughter of actress Judie Goodwin who plays June Ackland in police drama The Bill.
She had a difficult time in her early years as she was bullied at school because of her androgynous style, but has now made this her greatest strength as she designs all the funky clothes that she wears.
She claims to have come up the name for the band when she was when she picked up a book of baby names and came across La Roux.
Band member Elly Jackson is at the forefront of a pop music trend that features twenty-something women with a strong individualistic attitude.
Elly Jackson, said: “I never expected us to do well on the pop charts like we have done, but yeah, it’s nice anyway,” Elly says, referring to La Roux’s two most recent singles, In For The Kill and Bulletproof, hitting number 2 and 1 on the UK pop charts. “When In For The Kill first entered the charts we were chuffed about it, but then it started to climb and it reached number 2, so we were sharing space with genuine pop stars,” she explains from the back of La Roux’s tour van. “I was just happy because it meant that people were listening to our music. That’s the important thing.”
But despite the double-act’s runaway success La Roux aren’t a flash in the pan, as Elly states emphatically. “A lot of people think that we’ve just kind of appeared over night, but that’s not the case at all. We’ve been doing this for years. It took a couple of years of recording and writing together to find out what we liked and what we didn’t like, and then last year we started taking that around to labels and people who wanted to work with. It’s been a long time coming for us, so if people think we’ve just sprung up out of nowhere, they’re wrong.”
We have the fantastic Skream dub-step remix of ‘In for the Kill’.
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