Sarah Nixey made her show business entrance as one third of the darkly glamorous pop group Black Box Recorder. She was in the severe, dreamy centre, singing scheming songs that were deadly serious about trivia, and deeply frivolous about important matters. She sang the songs as if they were bruised lullabies, as if she was soothing the 20th Century to sleep.
Sarah is now solo. Her flash, exotically electric singles The Collector and Strangelove were like manifestos proclaiming that she’s as committed to the idea of pop as a dream, a fantasy, as she had been in Black Box Recorder, but this time the surreal edge, the emotional pressure, the deviant intensity is all her own.
She sings smart pop songs. They tell heady, half-crazed stories about minds and bodies, flesh and spirit, memories and illusions, desperation and passion. She sings them on her forthcoming album Sing, Memory with that tough, tender combination of explicit English detachment and cryptic European emotion that’s all her own.
BBR @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
On Thursday 23 July, Black Box Recorder will be performing at Queen Elizabeth Hall. On stage time 8pm. See below for further details.
Black Box Recorder – The Southbank Centre, London
Black Box Recorder return to London for a special headline date at Southbank Centre on 23 July 2009. For more info and tickets go here
As if to prove that the much-fêted ‘entente formidable’ between Great Britain and France is rather more than a one-night stand between a dowdy looking local lad and a rather suave foreign exchange student consummating the construction of nuclear power stations, military collaboration and tighter border controls, Sarah Nixey is releasing a sparkling new lingua franca single: Le Temps De L’Amour.
Written by Gallic genius Jacques Dutronc (amongst others) for his wife to be, Françoise Hardy, this trippy electropop swinger is backed by Ici Avec Toi – Sarah’s own composition, a gauloised-up translation of the dreamily romantic When I’m Here With You.
Release date: 16th June 2008
Christmas Number One
Frosty Nixey appears on The Black Arts new single Christmas Number One. Released 3rd and 10th December by Fantastic Plastic. Available on limited edition, festive green vinyl and digital download.
Christmas Number One is a special yuletide collaboration from Black Box Recorder and Art Brut.
Exclusive tracks and remixes
Buy the singles and album from emusic.com plus The Black Hit of Space radio edit and an acoustic version of When I’m Here With You.
Remixes of the single When I’m Here With You coming soon.
You can download from no end of places. Both iTunes and eMusic have exclusive acoustic tracks too.
New Podcast
It includes three tracks recorded for JuiceFM in Brighton and there’s some chat with the fantastically welcoming host at the radio station, Boogaloo Stu.
You can subscribe to the podcast by clicking the subscribe link on the podcast page.
The Black Hit Of Space
CD single and limited edition 7″ vinyl relesased on 9th July. In the meantime, here’s the video
KCRW plays Sing, Memory
Various tracks from Sing, Memory have been played on California’s leading radio station KCRW. On Friday 20th April, Strangelove was selected for the ‘Today’s Top Tune Podcast’. Here’s the link
