GAGGLE
GAGGLE are a 22 girl strong alt indie choir. Led by Deborah Coughlin (formerly 586), they are going to take over the world, chew it up and spit it out.
GAGGLE is a response to boring man bands, bad burlesque and an alternative place for women in music that doesn't involve drinking yourself to death out of boredom or anxiety. GAGGLE is art it’s not about being sexy (JUST being sexy). People bang on about being unique and different, but due to an abundance of big egos, post-bullying complexes and affection addiction in music, very few actually make big bold creative moves. GAGGLE is bold, big and scary -- it's not generic. If you want something clever and quality, you get smart creative people in -- and the collective ability of GAGGLE is much greater than any other band - they are big achievers, ladies of way above average smartness and there's lots of them. Every girl brings a different dynamic, attitude, past and future to the group and the interaction between them on a personal and social level create a movement that is impossible to replicate setting them apart from any other band around at the moment. As a group they are a force to be reckoned with musically, sexually and creatively. GAGGLE speak the truth.
Deborah: “I went to a convent, I did all those piano grades, and I've studied writing. I get choral arrangement. But this isn't choral arrangement. It's experimental. More voices is more freedom -- I don't audition -- every girl has her own vocal super powers -- its not like they are relying on some amp, or nord to get their own special sound - they got it in their mouths & we can back it up with any kind of backing track we like -- or go acapella. Everything about GAGGLE is complex, the music is just one part of it, GAGGLE could become anything -- a internet dating site, frock shop or socio-political movement. With 25 different ways of thinking, through art and fashion to marketing to music, there are ideas flying about from the totally bizarre to the pop genius. The aura around the group on stage is terrifying and exciting and something to wonder at.”
GAGGLE have already been played on Radio 1, 6Music, XFM, NME Radio, Resonance etc in the UK and more across the globe. They have featured in NME, Times, Evening Standard, Independent, Guardian, Vice, Clash, Heat to name a few.
In Summer 2010 GAGGLE are doing almost all of the UKs major music festivals including multiple performances at Reading and Leeds.
September 2010 will see GAGGLE debut their reworking of 1969 WI opera The Brilliant & the Dark at the Women's Library, before touring it.
This autumn GAGGLE will be recording their debut album. This will see Deborah working with long time writing partner and super talented producer Simon Dempsey (aka Spawn of Gaggle), as well as some other extra special guests.
GAGGLE ARE:
COUGHLIN
HONEY
MISSMISS
WUNDERLA
LAUNETTE
ALIBI
CULWICK
LUDDITE
POLYDOROU
D
GUSSET
DANA
STRICK
GREEN
NAMSOO
KUMARI
LIPSTICK
MCCLEAN
TALLULAH
BIGMAR
VENUS
LEXI
LAUREN LAVERNE, BBC RADIO 6
"GAGGLE look like a bunch on nu rave pre Raphaelites...with amazing Technicolor cloaks on….they sound absolutely wonderful on air but are something you want to experience live....they're brilliant which is extremely exciting."
JAMES MCMAHON, NME
"Unless you mainline LSD and read The Female Eunuch from Morning until night...unlike anything you've ever seen."
REBECCA ROBINSON, NME
“Gaggle – the most exciting, innovative and genuinely imaginative force at large in music right now…..they’ll be simply massive in 2010”
HUW STEPHENS, BBC RADIO 1
"The most extraordinary band I've heard in a long time, called Gaggle... With a name like Gaggle they're going to be good, right? They are. They're brilliant."
THE GUARDIAN
“Are sure to draw converts to their burgeoning cult”
DAZED AND CONFUSED
“Ever evolving”
THE TIMES
“Beyond description”
TIME OUT
“Stunning”
CLASH
“Powerful, original and moving”
HEAT
“Fantastic”
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