With numerous no 1 hits between them, this savvy bunch of young singers and producers have ridden the house revival all the way to the top of the charts. Sam Wolfson salutes a changing of the guard
Right guys. Guys? Hello? Hi? If we could just get all the artists sitting over there? Guys? I am standing on a chair in the middle of the Guardian canteen, shouting like an idiot, and being ignored. Today feels more like organising a school trip than conducting interviews with seven of the brightest stars in UK house: singers Jess Glynne and Sinead Harnett, producers Duke Dumont, Gorgon City and Secondcity, and one-stop songwriting/singer/production shop MNEK. This group of people have not only created a string of insanely huge chart-topping records, but theyve also opened the door for others to do the same. The boring, manufactured pop orthodoxy has been knocked off its perch by a bunch of British kids.
But they dont want to talk about that right now. Actually, they dont want to talk to me at all. Theyre busy planning which of their Ibiza dates overlap and telling each other which of their tracks they pump at the gym. Jess and Sinead quickly fall back to their shared north London upbringings and spend some considerable time impersonating suburban rudeboys. Muswell Hill is an ard area, jokes Jess, her impression accompanied by sarcastic gun fingers.
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by Sam Wolfson via Electronic music | The Guardian
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