http://twangtone.com/b/ My lovely source for female vocalists on the dark side en Serendipity 0.8-beta2 - http://www.s9y.org/ http://twangtone.com/b/index.php?/archives/123-Justine-Frischmann.html Justine Frischmann http://twangtone.com/b/index.php?/archives/123-Justine-Frischmann.html#comments http://twangtone.com/b/wfwcomment.php?cid=123 0 http://twangtone.com/b/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=123 marta014@yahoo.com (Marta) <img width='83' height='110' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://twangtone.com/b/uploads/justine_frischmann2.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /><br /> ICE QUEEN: Justine Frischmann<br /> BAND: Elastica<br /> ORIGIN: Twickenham, UK<br /> GENRE: Britpop<br /> ACCOMPLICES: Donna Matthews (guitar), Annie Holland (bass), Justin Welch (drums)<br /> DISCOGRAPHY: "Elastica" (1994), "The Menace" (2000).<br /> INFLUENCES: Wire, The Stranglers, The Fall, The Buzzcocks, Adam and the Ants, Blondie<br /> <br /> IMHO: Justine is a perfect definition of cool. I hate that adjective, because I find myself using it too many times instead of thinking a little more and trying to find a better word, but if I take into consideration the common understanding that we all have for this word, Justine suits it at its perfection. Elastica came around 1993-94 and rapidly climbed to the top within the Britpop charts. It is widely known and publically admitted by the band that they ripped off songs from Wire and The Stranglers, but how can a band that rips off other bands be so successful and be liked also by the followers of the copied bands? Because they were cool. And Justine was such an inspiration for fellow band frontwomen with her agressive and careless attitude. If I could just imagine what they could have become if drugs hadn't delayed their second album for 6 years before a long announced death... When the long awaited second album came out ("The Menace"), they were just not cool anymore, I just didn't care, I had moved on to other bands with more history and depth (Curve, hell yeah!). However, Elastica and Justine, the rebel girl of Britpop who seduced Brett Anderson, Damon Albarn and the rest of the world, have a privileged spot in my musical history and I will always play them gladly. <br /> <br /> FAVORITE SONGS: "Car Song", "Never Here", "Love Like Ours", "Waking Up", etc<br /> FAVORITE ALBUM: "Elastica"<br /> <br /> SEEN THEM LIVE: December 12th, 1995, in Sala Zeleste 2 (Barcelona, Spain). 40 minutes of coolness. My friend and I got there early (the perks of public transportation), and while we were eating peanuts by the door waiting for time to pass by, Justine came outside to smoke a cigarette and we got an autograph in the peanut can label. <br /> <br /> WHAT OTHERS SAY: If you are into Elastica, I deeply recommend <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,664759,00.html">this long and detailed interview published</a> in The Guardian, and find out what Justine is out nowadays. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:40:57 -0500 http://twangtone.com/b/index.php?/archives/123-guid.html