Fischerspooner

Fischerspooner are...

• Casey Spooner - vocals
• Warren Fischer - keyboards

Three years ago the smell of hype hung thick, pungent in the air. Seemingly the apocalypse was about to accur. Move over Dalai Lama. The oracle was wandering the earth in human form and glittery panstick and his name was Casey Spooner. Ministry of sound smelled the bait and jumped on the electroclash trend signing up two New Yoik’ performance artiste fashion queens called Fischerspooner (who had played their debut gig in a shabby branch of Starbucks just 18 months before) for squillions.

…On reflection it was all so doomed to fail.

In the most bizarre partnership since booby Sam Fox and beardy Mick Fleetwood ‘hosted’ The Brits Mariah (scary) Carey unwittingly joined forces with Fischerspooner to annihilate the music industry. Carey with her garage door opening squeals and catastrophic flop movie and album ‘[you can’t make a turd] Glitter’ making the execs at Virgin sweat and Spooner with his £2 million advance still warm in pocket and barely Top 100 tickling album # 1 (2002) gathering dust on the shelves. Ouch.

The year is 2005 and things are very different, Scissor sisters have brought gender bending performance skits into the mainstream with the edges rubbed down flogging the biggest selling album of last year for one. Meanwhile electroclash has been spruced up and gone all white lightning bus shelter chart friendly with the assistance of Girls aloud, Rachel Steven’s and the latest pop strumpet to fall prey to Richard X.

Now Casey Spooner and his cohort Dan Fischer return with the low key but none the less warmly received single Just let go (as glorious, but less vacant than their debut Emerge which stalled at # 25 in 2002) and album Odyssey with tracks co penned by Linda Perry (she whom performed CPR on Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and (albeit briefly) Pink’s careers) and less powder more pomp contributions from David Byrne.

Words: Luke-Joseph Putres