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 Álvaro López

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 Álvaro López 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^[1]. 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 are one of the main suppliers of music for the international broadcaster: The Extreme Sports Channel.

The band released their new album The Elements on 9th August 2007, it was co-produced and mixed by 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 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. ^[2] ^[3] ^[4]^[5]

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 ^[6] 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.

The band are currently scoring the music for the British feature film City Rats which stars Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan and is due out mid 2008.

1 Band members
2 Discography
3 Trivia
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Band members

Julia Johnson - Vocals/Piano/Keys
Mark Maclaine - Bass/Production/Programming
Álvaro López - Drums/Programming

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

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

[edit] Compilations

Glastonbury Unsigned 2005 Album (2005)

[edit] Film and TV scores

City Rats (Feature Film - Full Score: 2008) [1]
Streetball Extreme: Battle for Europe (TV Series Score: 2006) [2]
Genex (TV Series Theme : 2006) [3]
The Passenger (Film Score : 2006) [4]
Dolls (Final Credits Music : 2006)
Snows in the House 3 (Feature Documentary Score : 2004) [5]
Verbier Ride 2004 (TV Series Score : 2004) [6]
Snows in the House 2 (Feature Documentary Score: 2003) [7]

[edit] Trivia

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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 worldwide 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 Cobra Beer's '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.