George Pringle
Headline:
‘I’m a bit of a spoilt brat’
Synopsis:
To her detractors, she’s pretty and posh, but she has created a cool genre all of her own.
George Pringle calls herself a diseuse, a French word that the dictionary defines as “a woman who is a skilled and usually professional performer of monologues”. Pringle is certainly a performer of monologues — her two records to date, February’s Poor EP, Poor EP Without a Name, and her new single, LCD I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, feature the 23-year-old Londoner delivering a succession of wry, arch, humorous or deliberately mundane observations about modern life in a dispassionate drawl. (The latter is a play on a song title from the most recent album by LCD Soundsystem, who Pringle believes have “gone all pop”.) But skilled and professional she is not, as she is happy to admit. And, since her emergence earlier this year, that is an opinion shared by a sizeable section of those who have heard her music and/or seen her live. ...
- Publish date:
- 1 December 2008
- Author:
- Dan Cairns
- Source:
- Sunday Times
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