The Cesarians are an English, London-based group, consisting of singer Charlie Finke, pianist Justine Armatage, drummer Jan Noble and an all-woman wind section.
Their eponymous debut album, ''
Cesarians 1'', was recorded at
Abbey Road studios
Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a music recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, London, Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of ...
and produced by
Craig Leon
Craig Leon (born 7 January 1952) is an American-born record producer, composer and arranger currently living in England.''International Who's Who in Classical Music 2005'', Routledge, 2005. Leon was instrumental in launching the careers of many ...
.
In 2007 they opened for
The Last Drive
The Last Drive is a Greek punk garage rock group. They formed in 1983, broke up in 1995, and reunited in January 2007.
History 1983-1987: The beginnings
The Last Drive began performing as "Last Drive" in late 1983, with their debut show at Rode ...
at the Indie Rocket Festival in Pescara, Italy and have since toured extensively throughout Europe, playing, most notably, at the
Admiralspalast
The Admiralspalast (German for ''admiral palace'') is a theatre on Friedrichstraße in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. The theatre has 1,756 seats. It opened in 1910, built as part of a large leisure complex on the former site of the 187 ...
in Berlin
/ref> and at the Donaufestival
Donaufestival is an annual festival of music, performance, art, film and discourse that takes place each April/May in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. In the festival's early years, two cities were used as locations: Krems and Korneuburg. Si ...
in Austria in 2009.
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In April 2010, they supported Adam Ant
Stuart Leslie Goddard (born 3 November 1954), known professionally as Adam Ant, is an English singer, musician, and actor. He gained popularity as the lead singer of new wave group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring 10 UK ...
at his notorious comeback gig at the Scala, and in June they performed alongside Martin Creed
Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, ''Work No. 22 ...
at London's ICA.
/ref> They appeared at the Soy Festival in Nantes in October. In December 2010, they controversially revoked their pledge to "ban guitars"
Discography
Studio albums
* '' Cesarians 1'' (2009)
* ''Pure White Speed'' (2015)
* ''Rachel Frieda (2020)''
References
External links
Official website
English art rock groups
Rock music groups from the London Borough of Hackney
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