Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see
Taylor Momsen and her band
The Pretty Reckless on their first shows in our country:
6 July at Barcelona’s Music Hall and 7 July at Madrid’s sala Caracol.
One night several years ago, Taylor Momsen’s father took his daughter to a White Stripes show. “Once I saw Jack White onstage, that was it.” Jack White’s raw power and deceptively simple guitar-and-vocal attack proved to be highly influential on the now 16-year-old Momsen, who began humming melodies before she could talk and writing songs at the age of five. “My rock idols are all men.” She says, so it’s not surprising that Momsen channels a lot of masculine energy on LIGHT ME UP, her rock-and-roll-heroine-in-the-making debut album with her band
The Pretty Reckless.
Momsen first hooked up with Khandwala (Blondie, Drowning Pool, Paramore, Breaking Benjamin) and partner and songwriter, Phillips in October 2008. By the spring of last year, they felt they had hit upon a sound that felt authentic to her. Phillips says. “Kato and I worked very hard to help Taylor reach her potential because we could see how talented she was right off the bat.” The album’s ferocity could raise an eyebrow from those expecting a pretty, blonde teenager to gravitate toward straight-up pop songwriting. “It’s heavier than people might expect from me,” says Momsen, who is best known as the actress who plays Jenny Humphrey on The CW’s
Gossip Girl. “But this album is the most honest expression of who I truly am.” So many artists these days let their voices be discombobulated by computers. Taylor doesn’t do that. She doesn’t need to. She can walk into a room and kick your ass.”
Neverlose will be opening the show. Based in sunny Almeria, in the south of Spain, Neverlose are Sara (singer), Martín (guitar and chorus), Amy (bass and chorus), Carlos (drums) and Álvaro (quitar). The band explode in energy on every stage they step onto and are dying to let us see what they have to say.
www.theprettyreckless.com