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Second Person

Second Person are a British band that mixes influences from trip hop, jazz, hip hop and electronica to form Post Trip Hop.

In late 2001, singer Julia Johnson and producer/bassist Mark Maclaine met, and early the following year formed the band Second Person. Drummer Álvaro López was recruited in mid 2004 to complete the current line up and their debut album Chromatography was released later that year. It went on to sell out of its initial white-label run in United Kingdom, USA and Australia through word of mouth and publicity generated by musical placements on documentaries and extreme sports films[1]. The opening song "Too Cold To Snow" was later featured in the closing credits of 2006 film Dolls. The band went on to record a live DVD at the The Bedford in London and score music for a number of British broadcasters (including BBC and Channel 4) and are one of the main suppliers of music for the international broadcaster: The Extreme Sports Channel.

The band released their new album The Elements on 9 August 2007, it was co-produced and mixed by producer/engineer Tony Platt (Bob Marley, Iron Maiden and also credited with engineering the second biggest selling album of all time: AC/DC's Back in Black). This album has already gained a high media profile in the UK as Second Person are the first British band to have raised the $50,000 target on Sellaband - which allows fans to invest directly in bands on the site. [2] [3] [4][5]

The band have written a follow-up album to The Elements and will be titled "Come to Dust". This full length album will include the songs such as Gone Fishing, the video for which (directed by Katy Davis) has already gained play on MTV and is currently being used as part of Cobra Beer's sponsorship of ITV movies in the UK. Many [1] of the videos for this album are either completed or currently in production, and video directors include: Ebba Erikzon (Radiohead's "2+2=5" video), Mina Song (Gnarls Barkley: "Crazy"), Everton Sebben, Ben King, Susan Luciani and Andy Marshall.

The band recently completed work on composing the music for the British feature film City Rats which stars Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan which was released in the cinemas in April 2009 and reached number 6 in the UK DVD charts later that month. The band have just announced that thay are also working on a set of new music videos with world-renounced stylist Mia Morgan. [1]

Band members

Discography

Albums

Compilations

  • Glastonbury Unsigned 2005 Album (2005)

Film and TV scores

  • City Rats (Feature Film - Full Score: 2009) [2]
  • Streetball Extreme: Battle for Europe (TV Series Score: 2006) [3]
  • Genex (TV Series Theme : 2006) [4]
  • The Passenger (Film Score : 2006) [5]
  • Dolls (Final Credits Music : 2006)
  • Snows in the House 3 (Feature Documentary Score : 2004) [6]
  • Verbier Ride 2004 (TV Series Score : 2004) [7]
  • Snows in the House 2 (Feature Documentary Score: 2003) [8]

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b Second Person website
  2. ^ Power to the fans - profits to the bands | Money | The Guardian
  3. ^ Money, music and the web - Times Online
  4. ^ Mi2N - Music Industry News Network
  5. ^ SellaBand releases first batch of crowdsourced CD albums
Bibliography
  • Bloomberg.com online edition - 5 June 2007
  • The Guardian newspaper UK: main section (plus online edition) - 15 March 2007
  • London Lite newspaper UK - 15 March 2007
  • Thelondonpaper newspaper UK - 15 March 2007
  • BBC 6 Music Radio Music News Interview (plus online article) 14 March 2007
  • The Times newspaper UK: Knowledge Section (Saturday 26 November 2006)
  • BBC Radio 2 Interview (The Weekender with Matthew Wright - 3 November 2006)
  • Future Music Magazine Magazine UK: Interview (November 2005)
  • The Independent newspaper UK (23 October 2002: pg 12)
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