Jessie Ware

“I want to be a pop star, in the classic sense, like Annie Lennox, or Sade, or Whitney.”
(Jessie Ware)

Quite a quote for a newcomer. But now you know how high Jessie Ware's expectations are. Jessie Ware was first picked up by Jack Peñate, for whom she provided backing vocals live and in the studio. Via Peñate she came to SBTRKT (with whom she recorded a number of tracks for his debut) and dubstepper Joker.

Enter 2012. Jessie Ware is ready for her own debut: ‘Devotion’. An album in which she combines the ultra modern feel of downtempo R&B and British electronica with a dose of ‘melodrama’ from classic pop-stars like Sade and Whitney Houston. Jessie about that: “I wanted to combine electronic with a more classic songwriting. I didn't want it to feel too 'of now', so that's why I went back to beats and grooves of things I loved before, like Prince and Chaka Khan and Grace Jones.”

Her first Belgian indoor concert – after a visit to Pukkelpop this summer – will take place in the AB Club on 24 November. “Catch her before she gets big” was what we wrote back then. Now see: that concert was sold out in no time. So it's time for a second chance in 2013!

LCMDF

LCMDF will be supporting Jessie Ware on Saturday 30 March. Finnish and intensely insane. LCMDF stands for Le Corps Mince De Françoise and sounds very playful, disturbed and distorted.