CrazyDisco

by Petar PLAMENOV

15 October (Saturday),2011
Start& 22:00
Sofia Live Club
Address:
Sofia, 1 Bulgaria Square, NPC, subway with the fountains
Working time: 20:00–07:00
Nr seats: 270
Mobile: 088 833 11 93

Arguably one of the best live dance music shows CRAZY P has made their name with infallible combination of lushly structured songs and live power. In fact, the demand for live performances from Crazy P has required the addition of extra musicians to produce the show. CRAZY P along with their full live band will bring an eclectic selection of their decade-spanning back catalogue and new material from their forthcoming album releasing this year.

With a new album recorded and all-but mixed, the artists formerly known as Crazy Penis have toned down to appeal to the popular market. ‘Yeah, the Penis has gone,’ says singer Danielle Moore. ‘Thank God, because when my nana said it back to me it just didn’t sound right. We got some flak from a Christian church in Manchester about the flyposters too, although now we’ve had a bit of a backlash in New Zealand, because apparently Crazy P is another name for crystal meth there. You can’t win.’



You can’t, particularly if you’ve just finished a record you’re utterly satisfied with and don’t, as yet, have a record label to put it out. Beginning life as a production outlet for founders Chris Todd and Jim Baron when they were at university in Nottingham a decade ago, the club-friendly disco/house/funk outfit have grown in number and ambition since then, with the new, as-yet-untitled album – their fifth, the last one being 2005’s A Night On Earth – representing the quintet’s most collaborative effort yet. ‘We all went into the studio to write at the same time,’ says Moore, ‘which – I hate to use this word, because it’s so overused – made it more organic. We started with live instruments this time, and that’s very hard to recreate electronically, whereas when we did the other albums the samples and keyboard parts would come first. I think the confidence to do that comes from playing live.’ Add a guest slot from DJ Deep and the cream of local DJ talent to the mixing pot alongside the Crazy P live experience, and you have another unmissable Ultragroove. (David Pollock)

Now a serious live proposition, as well as accomplished DJs and producers, the group's electric live shows have reaped earned them worldwide recognition, with the particular fervency of their Australian following leading to new album Love On The Line being released there several months earlier than in the UK. 'You could call our stuff sunshine music: it's really well suited to sunny days and the outdoors,' Moore says, 'and so with it being such an outdoor culture there we've built up a great relationship with Australian fans. We've done really well in the UK recently as well, so it's not only the sunny places that get us.'

Love On The Line, Crazy P's fifth LP, will be released here in the autumn, and Moore feels it marks a welcome return to their roots. 'We've rediscovered a lot of disco in recent times and I think that's reflected in the record. That's been the great inspiration of late, along with people such as Grace Jones, Jamie Lidell and Maurice Fulton, who's got a fantastic way of creating really hypnotic disco. There are elements of all of them in the new record, but above all it sounds like us realising what we're good at and really making the most of it.'

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