They’ve come a long way since forming back in 2008 as a Cambridge-based musical experiment meshing classical music with dance music. Their six top-five singles included two number ones in ‘Rather Be’ and ‘Rockabye’, while their 2014 debut album New Eyes reached number three, and they have sold 13 million singles and more than a million-and-a-half albums worldwide. Not many dance acts start life as string quartets - but Clean Bandit’s fusion of classical and electronic music has powered them to worldwide success.Ĭlean Bandit have become one of the UK’s biggest acts of recent times. I did it a bit for my A-level, but that was probably a bit shit.”Ĭlean Bandit’s single “Come Over” (Atlantic) is released on 11 August.Jack Patterson is the main production mastermind behind Clean Bandit.
We’re definitely going to work with an arranger, because it’s not something we’ve done before in its entirety. “We’re figuring out now what we’re going to do. He admits he’s not sure his grade-four clarinet skills are entirely up to the task. “In September we’re doing a symphony based on the album with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester,” says Patterson. Looking past the summer, Clean Bandit will be reconnecting with their other love, and won’t be needing a vocalist. “Can you imagine if he just started singing and he sounded like Frank Sinatra? Or Sam Smith.” “Maybe it’s Luke,” suggests Chatto of the one member who hasn’t made it for the interview and who is, it seems, even more reserved than his brother. But, admits Patterson, “I think deep down we’re sill looking for one singer. It’s this free-floating, carnival vibe that will make Clean Bandit an undoubted hit at next weekend’s Latitude festival. At Glastonbury, the band were joined by Love Segga, Stylo G and Rae Morris (“Up Again”) for a riotously good-natured party set that drew the weekend’s biggest crowds to the John Peel tent. They’re hugely entertaining, Amin-Smith excitedly bopping about with his fiddle, Chatto beaming serenely behind her stand-up electric cello, the Patterson brothers intently working their instruments behind them.Īnd in the middle, touring singers Elisabeth Troy and Florence Rawlings do a brilliant job of rousing the ecstatic crowd along to the clubby beats, and ably covering all the bases from a debut album bristling with guest vocalists.įor their summer run of UK festivals, though, Clean Bandit are hopeful that the likes of Jess Glynne (“Rather Be”) and Stylo G (“Come Over”) will be jumping onstage. That evening at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Clean Bandit more than get away with it. But it seems like we’re just about getting away with it.” So at that time we decided to open it into a collective where we could work with him when he had time, but also other people.” Patterson nods, adding: “We were a bit worried about how it would work for us, without a lead singer. “Then he decided to do a PhD in laser analytics and didn’t have time to do the band. Ssegawa-Ssekintu “Love Segga” Kiwanuka, vocalist on “Mozart’s House”, “was at university with us and he was very much our lead singer when we started,” explains Chatto. We hadn’t really seen any other acts doing it until then.” “When we saw that, it gave us confidence that we could do something like that too. Like us, they’re four instrumental musicians and no vocalist – and it works,” shrugs Patterson. “Those guys, not just musically but ideologically, were a big influence. The Hackney collective’s label Black Butter discovered Clean Bandit, first releasing “Mozart’s House” in late 2011.
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