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James Righton

(1983) Musician

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James Righton is a musician.

Quick Facts About James Righton

Born: August 25, 1983
Profession: Musician

About James Righton

[Wikidata] British musician... | [Wikipedia] James Nicholas Righton is an English musician and composer for film and television. He was the keyboard-player and co-lead vocalist of the London-based new rave band Klaxons, which disbanded in 2015. In March 2016, Righton announced his new project Shock Machine with a video directed by Saam Farahma

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Our intention when we first started as a band, was to be a rave band. We kind of just got it wrong.…

Band

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Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity…

Capitalism

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There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well.…

Arctic

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It's fair to say I'm becoming addicted to endorphins.

Addicted

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Klaxons was a really great chapter in my earlier life, and now I'm older and happy doing other things.

Great

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It's really important to push things as hard as you can but also remember who you are.

Hard

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My nan, God bless her, used to buy the NME, then go to the chip shop and be like 'ooh check out…

Arctic

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The elements of rave that we try to incorporate are the fun aspects.

Aspects

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With the second record there's a need to show that we weren't chancers, that we could play our instruments.

Could

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I remember looking at my iTunes and was like, 'I haven't listened to an album in about three months.' What happened? I…

Band

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We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.

Enough

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Drummers are tough.

Drummers

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After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk…

Folk music

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In the band's early days people didn't really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to…

Band

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It's expensive being in a band, way cheaper buying a laptop.

Band

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There's a few bands that I always read about that complain about everything: the travel, the fans... you know they could be…

Complain

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There are so many bands that after their second record are headlining music festivals, and they're still... suited to playing in a…

Festival

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There was always talk that the Horrors didn't have any substance but I think they're proving people wrong.

Always

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You have to set the bar higher and higher.

Bar

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There was a lack of inspiration in London. There were a lot of dregs of the Libertines' movement, and we didn't want…

Big

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