villette

Wednesday 12th July saw Villette take over the Earwax show and perform an exclusive live acoustic studio session as well as picking the music for a studio takeover. 

Founded on the Anglian folk circuit in autumn 2003, brothers William and Leigh Robertson were compelled to form the perfect group; a seductive potion of music, poetry and romance conspicuously absent from the British scene. Relocating to London, they found the perfect rhythm section in Gabriel and Monsoon, and Villette were born. In the short time that the group have been together, they have performed alongside acts as diverse as The Libertines and Martha Wainwright, at many of Londons premier underground venues.

Villette attract a devoted fanbase who had craved a group to call their own. A group who appeal as much to the head as to the heart, who make music to fall in love with and in love to. An outfit fired as much by the poetry, painting and passion of the Romantics as by the music of Kate Bush, R.E.M., Simon & Garfunkel and Sunny Day Real Estate. A quintessential British band with universal appeal.

Villette recall a time when people were besotted with bands; a time when groups transformed the way that their fans considered their own lives, incorporating cultural spheres beyond music into a coherent group identity. Only by transforming the individual can music change the world. However, it often takes more than just great music to light the fuse. It requires a vision, encapsulated in performance and aesthetic, in lyrical content and in conversation. Villette offer you the complete package. Welcome to our world.

> Click here for the show playlist

DOWNLOADS

The Earwax live session tracks are now available to download by clicking on the links below:

> Celestial Bodies

> Romance
> Goodnight (I'm An Angel)

LINKS