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**Vox Pop has been selected to perform at this year's SXSW Festival at The Outlaw Roadshow showcase on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at Rusty's Austin**
Jamie noodles on multiple instruments and sings.
Before becoming hypersensitive from yoga, he used to enjoy single-origin Kenyan V60 pour-overs; he also likes restoring his bright orange '69 Danelectro Reissue and having the word 'broccoli' corrected to 'neocolonialism' on his iPhone.
Katherine ('Gypsy') plays bass guitar, sings and performs atonal synth improvisations on request.
She enjoys aged pu-erh, conjugating Latin verbs and reading about dead alchemists.
Nick ('Sneako') is a polymath and multi-instrumentalist. He likes to drink kombucha, paint babies and aliens with watercolors and sleep in Vox Pop's windowless, purple studio.
Alex is a highly evolved beat master, who was magically summoned from the waters of Lake George. He likes beer and bulldogs.
Eric ('Moped Man'), trombonist extraordinare, is the latest addition to the Vox Pop lineup. A soft-spoken man of mystery, he enjoys riding around town on his moped.
VOX POP'S beginnings can be traced to the fair city of Edinburgh, Scotland. After performing for BBC Introducing at the Glastonbury Festival in a previous musical incarnation, they migrated to a sleepy, fog-enveloped town just south of San Francisco called Pacifica, and wrote a set of songs in a house with an outdoor shower and uninterrupted view of the Pacific Ocean.
Much of their soon-to-be-released debut album was then recorded in a small room in Oakland, CA before they ventured to Los Angeles to mix their first EP, "French/Funeral", with Danny Kalb (Beck, Ben Harper).
En route, one member (who must remain nameless) was lost to the British Secret Service, MI5, and another talented potential guitarist (but devout Quaker) was reluctantly told that he probably shouldn't make the cross-country trip from rural Pennsylvania to San Francisco because the group's Californian drummer at the time occasionally practiced pagan ceremonial rituals.
After narrowly escaping vehicular death in Los Angeles, Jamie and Katherine took it as a sign from the gods that the time had come to go east; so with a completed EP in hand and 4 years' worth of material tracked, they arrived at Hope Street in New York City, walked into the first venue on the Lower East Side that caught their eye and knew right away that they must recruit both the quirky guitarist in tight white trousers and the tight drummer with a big smile playing behind him.
At their first East Coast gig, they thought it would be fun to audition trombone players by forcing them to improvise on the end of a song they'd never heard. They found Eric Ambrose, who ripped it up.
They have all since joined forces in a purple Brooklyn basement bedecked with a disco ball. See them live to get your hands on individually hand-painted, limited advanced copies of "French/Funeral" before the official release on March 9, 2013.
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