Concrete Playground

So this week it has all been about redheads. The Devoted Few, a great news piece I saw on BBC about 3,000 red heads getting together in Breda, Netherlands, and now La Roux, whose name translates from the French as “The Red”. I am here to tell you that Jackson, with her partner in synth crime Ben Laingmade, are here playing the Parklife tour and are stopping in up the road at The Enmore Theatre.

The London duo are still pretty fresh, having released their first album last year after briefly toying with the idea of writing acoustic music. They are far from fledgling though; their singles hitting the top ten in the UK and their heads being all over the UK press. Not Your Toy is their latest single and is a good example of their slick synth-driven pop, with the very memorable vocals of 20-year-old Jackson over the top of dinkey 80’s derived electronic pop.

Their live show is much hyped including praise from NME, which described the singers performance as holding “Gobsmacking intensity”. They have been all over the globe lately drumming up hype and playing festivals and shows, including Lollapalooza, a spot on the massive US TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live, a support tour with the geezer princess Lilly Allen and they even teamed up with Franz Ferdinand to cover Blondie’s Call Me at a NME festival.