Second Person (band)

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Second Person
Second Person 2005 by Annick Wolfers
Background information
Origin	London, United Kingdom
Genre(s)	Post Trip-Hop Electronica Hip-Hop Downtempo Trip-hop
Years active	2002 to Present
Label(s)	Independent
Website	http://www.secondperson.net/
Members
Julia Johnson Mark Maclaine Alvaro Lopez

Second Person is a British band that mixes influences from trip hop, jazz, hip hop and electronica to form Post Trip Hop.

In late 2001, singer Julia Johnson and producer/bassist Mark Maclaine met, and early the following year formed the band Second Person. Drummer Alvaro Lopez was recruited in mid 2004 to complete the current line up and their debut album Chromatography was released later that year. It went on to sell out of its initial white-label run in United Kingdom, USA and Australia through word of mouth and publicity generated by musical placements on documentaries and extreme sports films. The band went on to record a live DVD at the The Bedford in London and score music for a number of British broadcasters (including BBC and Channel 4) and one of the main suppliers of music for the international broadcaster: The Extreme Sports Channel.

It was a year before the band returned to the studio to start writing and recording a second studio album. In this time, they continued their work on film and television scores and concentrated on developing their unique sound. The band are currently working on an album (under the working title The Elements) that will be mixed by legendary producer/engineer Tony Platt (Bob Marley, Iron Maiden and also credited with engineering the second biggest selling album of all time: AC/DC's Back in Black). This follow-up album has already gained a high media profile in the UK as Second Person are the first British band to have raised the $50,000 target on Sellaband - which allows fans to invest directly in bands on the site.

The band have written a follow-up album to The Elements and will be titled "Come to Dust". This full length album will include the songs such as Gone Fishing, the video for which (directed by Katy Davis) has already gained play on MTV and is currently being used as part of Cobra Beer's sponsorship of ITV movies in the UK. Many of the videos for this album are either completed or currently in production, and video directors include: Ebba Erikzon (Radiohead's "2+2=5" video), Mina Song (Gnarls Barkley: "Crazy"), Everton Sebben, Ben King, Susan Luciani and Andy Marshall.

Contents 1 Band members 2 Discography 2.1 Albums 2.2 Compilations 2.3 Film and TV scores 3 Trivia 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Band members

• Julia Johnson - Vocals/Piano/Keys
• Mark Maclaine - Bass/Production/Programming
• Alvaro Lopez - Drums/Programming

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

• Chromatography (2004)
• Live at the Bedford (2006)
• The Elements (in production - due for release June 2007)
• Come to Dust (in pre-production - due for completion early 2008)

[edit] Compilations

• Glastonbury Unsigned 2005 Album (2005)
• Whatever the Weather (2006)

[edit] Film and TV scores

• Snows in the House 2 (2003) [1]
• Verbier Ride 2004 (2004) [2]
• Snows in the House 3 (2004) [3]
• Dolls (2006)
• The Passenger (2006) [4]
• Genex (2006) [5]
• Streetball Extreme: Battle for Europe (2006) [6]

[edit] Trivia

• The opening song "Too Cold To Snow" to their debut album Chromatography was featured in the closing credits of 2006 film Dolls directed by Susan Luciani and starring Joanna Lumley, Charles Dance and Denis Lawson.
• Guests on their upcoming albums include legendary British hip-hop producer/remixer Syze Up (Prince, The Neptunes, Jamiroquai etc), UK DMC Champion: DJ Muzzel, legendary Jazz trumpeter Jay Phelps, Steriogram drummer Jared Wrennall, amongst others.
• Second Person's video for "Gone Fishing" is currently playing on MTV and MTV Flux - by Katy Davis. This video has won a number of awards from short film festvials worlwide and the band have confirmed that she will be working on at least one other video with the band. Small segments of this video have also appeared on the 'CobraVision' short film festival sponsorships on ITV3.
• On 12 March 2007, Second Person reached 5,000 parts sold on Sellaband, thereby financing the production of the album The Elements.

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Official Sellaband website
• Second Person at MySpace
• Second Person live at Fabchannel at Paradiso in Amsterdam, January 7, 2007
• BBC Radio 6 Interview, March 14, 2007

[edit] References

• The Independent (23 October 2002: pg 12)
• BBC Radio 2 Interview (The Weekender with Matthew Wright - 3 November 2006)
• The Times newspaper (UK): Knowledge Section (Saturday 26 November 2006)
• Future Music Magazine interview (November 2005)