Mozart Would Not Enjoy This

Haters of Made In Chelsea look away now. No, I'm kidding. Please don't! I used to be a hater myself, but my housemates forced it upon me once and... well, you can probably guess the rest. However, I'm safe in the knowledge that I'm not obsessed with it, like so many are. I just find it fascinating to see how these people live. Craziness. Anyway, MIC (as it's affectionately known)'s redeeming quality for myself and many others is the music, chosen by a lady called Andrea Madden. Nice work Andrea! In one of the episodes was a song called "Nova" by this band.  Click here  for the Spotify link. It's a great song, so I looked for them on Spotify, and found this song, "All Eyes".

I normally like to start my posts off with a little bit of background about each artist. I feel like it helps us get to know them a bit better. Context always helps. But I can't actually find very much on this band at all. They're from London (obvs), their names are Hannah Reid, Dot Major and Dan Rothman, and they played a very well received gig at Electrowerkz a couple of weeks ago, but apart from that there's not that much. Nothing is really given away on their facebook page, twitter or even on their own website. Maybe that's what they're going for though, they want to be elusive and aloof... Maybe not. Anyway.

The thought of a band made up of family members used to fill me with a sickening sense of worry; visions of the Osmonds, the Von Trapps and the Cheeky Girls flooding my brain. But then I remember the coolness of Kings of Leon, the cutesie Jackson 5 and Irish group The Corrs (yeah I went there). So it was better for this band that I heard the song before I heard who it was by and that they were sisters. Obviously I wouldn't have been so silly as to reject it based on the fact that they're related, but at least I went into it with a clear mind. Haim (like the Corrs, Jackson 5 and Hanson) are named after themselves; Haim being their collective surname. (According to Wikipedia, the name Haim rhymes with rhyme. I know you've been wondering too.) These three sisters are from a musical, LA-based family and grew up listening to 70's and 80's music, which kind of explains the band's musical style.