This article is about the musician. For her self-titled EP, see
Little Boots (EP). For the Roman emperor with this nickname, see
Caligula.
| Little Boots |
Little Boots in 2012 |
| Background information |
| Birth name |
Victoria Christina Hesketh |
| Born |
(1984-05-04) 4 May 1984 (age 28)
Blackpool, Lancashire, England |
| Genres |
Electropop, synthpop, nu-disco |
| Occupations |
Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments |
Vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, Tenori-on, Stylophone |
| Years active |
2005–present |
| Labels |
IAMSOUND, 679, Atlantic, Elektra |
| Website |
littlebootsmusic.co.uk |
Victoria Christina Hesketh (born 4 May 1984),[1] better known by her stage name Little Boots, is an English electropop singer-songwriter.[2] Her stage name comes from a nickname given to her by a friend, a reference to her unusually small feet. As a musician, Boots sings and plays the piano, keyboards, synthesizer, Stylophone and a Japanese electronic instrument called Tenori-on.[3][4] After a return to college to focus on her studies, Hesketh along with two of her fellow students formed the electropunk band Dead Disco. The band had limited releases of their four singles but due to increasingly different ideas about the band's musical direction Hesketh left to pursue a solo career.[5] Hesketh has cited as influences The Human League, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears and Jean Michel Jarre.[6]
Hesketh began writing her own songs and posting covers on social networking sites such as YouTube and Myspace. After appearing on several shows including Later... with Jools Holland and Last Call with Carson Daly, Hesketh entered production on her debut album Hands. With increasing media attention regarding her then-yet-to-be-released debut album, Hesketh topped the BBC Sound of 2009 poll and received a Critics' Choice nomination at the 2009 BRIT Awards.[7] With the release of her debut, she was linked to a recent wave of breakthrough female artists in their twenties playing 1980s-influenced music, including Lady Gaga, Ladyhawke, Florence and the Machine and Elly Jackson of La Roux.[8]
Her debut album, Hands, released on 8 June 2009, peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and at number twenty on the Irish Albums Chart. The first single off the album "New in Town" became a top twenty hit,[9] while the next single "Remedy", produced by RedOne,[10] reached the top ten. She has also released the EP Illuminations in the United States.[11] Her second album is scheduled to be released in sometime during 2012.[12]
Hesketh was born in Blackpool, Lancashire to English parents;[13] her father has a car sales business and her mother is a writer. The eldest sibling with three brothers,[1] she was raised in the area of Thornton, between Blackpool and Fleetwood, Lancashire.[13]
From the age of five Hesketh played the piano and began lessons at six,[14] later taking lessons from Arthur Lingings and eventually winning a music scholarship. During this time she was taught how to play the flute, was a member of the school choir and travelled regularly to Manchester to take lessons on her harp. Trained initially in classical singing by Janet Wunderley, by the age of thirteen Hesketh was writing her own songs.[14]
Hesketh attended the Rossall School in Fleetwood,[15] and then Blackpool Sixth Form College;[16] it was around this time that she entered the ITV talent competition search Pop Idol aged sixteen. Reaching the third round, she was eliminated by the producers of the show and did not reach the panel of judges.[17] She stated, "It gave me a thicker skin and it made me realise that it wasn't a short cut to getting where I wanted to be."[18]
After singing with the Lancashire Youth Jazz Orchestra and performing with a jazz trio for some time Hesketh decided to prioritise her education and studied cultural studies at the University of Leeds, attaining a first-class honours degree.[19] She subsidised her course by playing "awful, schmoozy lounge versions of Norah Jones songs" in hotels around the north-west. "It paid me loads of money, but it's not what I wanted to be doing" she said.[20] It was during her time at Leeds University that Hesketh, along with two of her fellow students, formed the all girl band Dead Disco, Hesketh herself eventually becoming the lead singer.[20]
While studying at the University of Leeds, Hesketh answered an online advertisement posted by Lucy Catherwood and Marie France looking for a lead singer in order to start a band.[21] Sharing an interest and love of The Killers, Ladytron, The Rapture and Siouxsie & the Banshees, they formed the electropunk band Dead Disco in August 2005,[22] The band got their name through randomly picking words from a hat.[23] With Dead Disco, Hesketh sang lead vocals and played synth, while Catherwood and Franceon played guitar and bass, respectively.[24]
With only a few songs written, Dead Disco began playing gigs around the north of England; their live gig in the headline slot at the "In the City" event in Manchester gained them enough recognition to get a recording stint with James Ford. Working with Ford in his London attic studio, the band issued a limited release of their debut single "The Treatment" in April 2006 on the record label High Voltage.[21] Their second release "City Place" was a digital-only release through Playlouder Records.
With the success of several sell out gigs and an appearance at the Leeds Festival, the band moved to Los Angeles to begin recording their debut album with Greg Kurstin. However, it was around this time that Hesketh herself began to write songs not in keeping with the band's "indie" style. Choosing a new musical direction, Hesketh left Dead Disco; they officially revealed their disbandment on their Myspace blog in December 2008.[25] In an interview with The Times, Hesketh spoke about her gradual shift away from the band: "All the time I'd been hiding my own songs and finally I had to make the sort of music I actually wanted to listen to. [...] Before I used to always think, 'What would a jazz performer do?' or 'What would the band do?'—Now it's so easy because it's 'What would I do?' It's just me."[26] In a later interview Hesketh noted that the bands' label was pressuring the group to have a certain style and that her fellow band mates lost confidence in her because she wanted to write "cheesy" songs.[27]
[edit] 2008–10: Mainstream success, Hands and Illuminations
With her departure from Dead Disco in August 2007, Hesketh decided to begin a new solo career in pop. She returned to her parents' house to begin recording various covers of pop songs by artists which included Girls Aloud, Kate Bush, MGMT, Hot Chip, Madonna, Blur, Estelle, Alphabeat, Wham! and Miley Cyrus and posted them on social networking websites YouTube and Myspace. Within a year she had narrowed down a list of her songs to create an album and by getting in touch with Greg Kurstin,[28] with whom she had previously worked with Dead Disco, Hesketh started production on her debut album Hands. In early 2008 she began using the stage name Little Boots. Hands was recorded in Los Angeles with Greg Kurstin and Joe Goddard,[29][30] and by January 2009 she had begun to compile the album's track listings. During this period Boots topped the BBC Sound of 2009 poll ahead of the likes of White Lies, Florence and the Machine and Empire of the Sun, leading to surge of media attention regarding her then-yet-to-be-released album.[31]
Hands was released on 8 June 2009. A limited edition 12-inch vinyl of the album was also released on 10 June, which was limited to 1000 copies. The album peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and has produced the top twenty hit "New in Town" and top ten hit "Remedy". The album also did well in Europe and Japan.[32]
Critical response to the album was generally favourable, generating a score of 70 on Metacritic.[33] In a review for musicOMH, Michael Cragg called it "a well-crafted, glorious pop record."[34] ClashMusic.com reviewer Joe Zadeh disagreed, writing that the album "falls victim to attempts to reach beyond more boundaries than necessary, and thus ironically loses the concentration of the more earnest listener."[35] David Renshaw of Gigwise.com described Hands as "a big pop album" that "rival[s] Lady Gaga, Girls Aloud or Lily Allen."[36] Ben Thompson of The Guardian wrote that the album's production was "diverse" and called the song "Symmetry", a duet with Philip Oakey, a "joyous cross-generational head-to-head."[37] NME reviewer Emily Mackay wrote that "Little Boots gives us an inspiring story of self-realization" and called the album "brilliant."[38] Pete Paphides of The Times named "Stuck on Repeat" the album's "best moment" due to its "exquisite vulnerability."[39] Boots was also nominated for Critics' Choice at the 2009 BRIT Awards.[7] She was included on Esquire magazine's list of sixty "Brilliant Brits 2009",[40] and was named a 2009 artist to watch by American magazine Rolling Stone.[6]
Boots collaborated with illustrator and artist Chrissie Abbott for the artwork of the album.[41] The artwork for the album has been compared to Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon because of its geometric design and fairytale imagery.[42] The album was released in the United States on 2 March 2010,[43] debuting at number seven in the Top Heatseekers chart.[44]
On 9 June 2009, Boots released an EP entitled Illuminations in the United States and Canada. It includes "Stuck on Repeat", "New in Town", "Magical", "Love Kills" (a cover of Freddie Mercury's 1984 song) and "Not Now" (which is only available on the US edition).[11][45] Designed to help relaunch Elektra Records, the EP peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart on 27 June 2009.[46]
In an interview with music website Artistdirect on 1 March 2010, Boots stated that her second album would be "rawer and a bit more down-to-earth. It'll still be magical, but quite dark and spooky at the same time." She added that she has drawn inspiration from the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.[47] On 1 May 2011, she performed at China Music Valley Music Festival in Beijing, during which she performed a new song called "Crescendo".
In late September 2011, Boots performed several old and new songs acoustically at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles.[48] One month later, on 24 October 2011, she released a mixtape called Shake Until Your Heart Breaks and announced that she would embark on an international DJ tour to promote her new material.[49] She would later release the song "Shake" digitally and on a limited edition vinyl on 13 November 2011.[12][50] Boots collaborated with English electronic producer Michael Woods on the song "I Wish", which premiered during Woods's set on BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix on 10 December 2011.[51]
Boots unveiled her third new mixtape, Into the Future, on 9 March 2012 via her official SoundCloud page. The mix includes re-workings of Azari & III's "Reckless with Your Love", Kylie Minogue's "Slow" and the title track a Tensnake remix of "Every Night I Say a Prayer" which she wrote with Andy Butler of Hercules and Love Affair.[52] On 22 April 2012, "Every Night I Say a Prayer" was released as a free digital download and on limited 12" vinyl on 679 and Trax Records to coincide with Record Store Day.[53] She supported the launch with a short live set at Rough Trade East in London on 21 April.[54][55]
Little Boots' first televised appearance was on Later... with Jools Holland on 7 November 2008. She was invited to perform on the show after posting songs on MySpace.[56] On 4 March 2009, Little Boots appeared on late night television show Last Call with Carson Daly in the United States where she was interviewed by Daly and several clips from a Los Angeles nightclub performance were shown.[57] Little Boots performed "Stuck on Repeat" using the Tenori-on on the 11 May 2009 edition of BBC Breakfast.[58] She returned to Later... with Jools Holland on 15 May 2009, becoming the only artist to perform on the show twice prior to having an album released.[56] This was followed by an appearance on the BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour on 27 May 2009.[59] Also in 2009, the song "Meddle" was featured in an advertisement for Victoria's Secret.[60] On 5 June 2009, she appeared on Bebo music show Beat, performing "New in Town" live in the studio.[61]
On 3 July 2009 Little Boots closed out Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.[62] A week later, she performed at Oxegen 2009 on the Hot Press New Bands Stage, her first performance in Ireland.[63] The following weekend she performed at T4 on the Beach 2009 on both the T4 and 4Music Stages.[64]
Little Boots performed "Remedy" and a cover version of JLS' "Beat Again" as part of the Live Lounge segment of BBC Radio 1's The Jo Whiley Show on 19 August 2009.[65] Later in the month, Little Boots performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals on the Radio 1/NME Stage.[66] Between those appearances, she also performed at Manchester Pride 2009, an LBGT pride event.[67] In September 2009 she was scheduled to embark on a five-city North American tour to support the Illuminations EP.[11] The following month she performed on the main stage at the Bestival 2009 in Downend, Isle of Wight.[68]
Little Boots went on a five-city sold-out US tour in the autumn of 2009 in support of Illuminations.[43] On 26 October 2009 Little Boots performed as the main act at 53 Degrees in Preston, Lancashire.[69] Along with this, Little Boots revisited the Blackpool Sixth Form College to film a 360 Session for Channel 4. The college's media studies, music technology and college magazine all got to work with her and Sixth Sense, the college magazine, managed to get their second exclusive interview with Little Boots, which was published in January 2010.[16] On 7 December Little Boots dueted with Gary Numan on the 6 Music Live Combos show, broadcast on 11 December.[70]
Little Boots performing in
Seattle in 2010
On 2 March 2010 Little Boots was scheduled to embark on a thirteen-date North American tour to coincide with the release of Hands there.[43] She toured without her laser harp because she was not a certified laser operator (which is a legal requirement in the US for certain laser appliances) and therefore she was not allowed to travel with the instrument.[71] However, on 17 March, seven of the planned concerts were cancelled; Little Boots cited this was due to "unforeseen circumstances and commitments in the UK".[72]
The following month, Little Boots performed a set in the Gobi Tent at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. She told the audience that much of her crew and costumes had been stranded in the UK due to the Icelandic volcano—which had forced some UK artists, such as Gary Numan and Bad Lieutenant, to cancel their Coachella engagements entirely—and that aspects of her set had to be improvised at the last minute.[73] Two months later, Little Boots performed on the NewNowNext Awards show on the United State LBGT cable channel Logo.[74]
Many of Boots' songs have been used on television and film. "New in Town" has appeared numerous times, including in the 2009 American horror film Jennifer's Body[75] "Remedy" was used in the Dollhouse episode entitled "Belle Chose".[76] It was also used in a scene in the third series of Gavin & Stacey.[77]
"Meddle" was featured in the ninth episode of the third series of the British teen drama Skins, titled "Katie and Emily" and broadcast 19 March 2009. It also appears in a Victoria's Secret commercial, along with appearing in the new Channel 4 comedy series, Friday Night Dinner. The Hands track "Click" was used in the twentieth episode of The Vampire Diaries, "Blood Brothers", and in the sixteenth episode of Melrose Place, "Santa Fe", which aired on 30 March 2010.
Boots has contributed to a documentary about the Stylophone.[10] She has also collaborated with RjDj, and released a remix app for the iPhone entitled The Little Boots – Reactive Remixer, which allows users to remix "Remedy", "Meddle" and "New in Town" and share it over social networking sites.[78]
Boots has joined the War on Want campaign, part of which supports protests against sweatshops in India.[79]
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Little Boots |
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Hesketh, Victoria |
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English electronic musician and singer |
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5 April 1984 |
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Blackpool, Lancashire, England |
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