Imagine Goldfrapp & The Banshees meeting the Twisted Scissor Sisters down the discotheque, or a gothic electropop adventure.
You may know Chungking – Brighton based, born and bred – from their rather splendid and critically well-received album The Hungry Years a couple of years back. This isn’t very helpful, and you might have to forget everything you thought you already knew, because for their second album Stay Up Forever Chungking – Sean Hennessey and Jessie Banks – have delivered an almighty beast of a modern pop album. If The Hungry Years was Chungking flicking through the papers while eating a croissant on Sunday morning, then Stay Up Forever is the sound of the band kicking off their shoes and dancing right through Saturday night and beyond. ‘Love Is Here To Stay’ is the perfect example of this; a sassy slice of low slung, dirty funk that, according to Sean is a "filthy song which says it’s okay to put your hands down somebody’s pants and not necessarily mine – get the motor running and we’ll stick our hands down everyone’s pants’". Recorded almost entirely in a room above ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser’s pub in Brighton, Stay Up Forever takes Chungking in a new direction, but that’s not all to have changed since the band’s early days. While they were once ‘an item’ their partnership is now strictly business, and what remains is a solid affiliation concentrating on shared instincts and an intimate ability to second-guess ideas, melodies and production touches. Inevitably this is, at times, an incredibly intimate album.
"Essentially," Jessie explains, "what we love is song. That’s as close as we can come to defining our favourite music. With this album specifically we’ve tried to make a good pop album."
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The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) April 21, 2009 | Stephanie Rice A dying Battle Ground man told his girlfriend that he had been hit by a car, then said that a girl hit him, and later a girl had hit him with her fists, according to an affidavit filed in Clark County District Court.
The affidavit was filed in support of search warrants for a 2002 Honda Accord and the home of its owners.
No arrests have been made in the death of Curtis Dunn, 24.
Dunn died April 13 at Southwest Washington Medical Center, where he was taken after his girlfriend found him injured outside their home on the corner of Southwest 19th Avenue and Third Street.
According to the affidavits, written by Battle Ground Police Sgt. Jason Perdue, Dunns girlfriend said Dunn stepped outside their residence to smoke a cigarette at approximately 12:30 a.m. April 12. Five minutes later, she went to check on him. She said she observed a dark-colored vehicle with tinted windows at the corner, and a male outside the vehicle, yelling. Neighbors reported seeing the man getting back into the vehicle before the driver, a woman, sped away. go to web site 2002 honda accord
One neighbor said he watched the vehicle as it drove by his home and he could see a female very upset and crying and the male subject punching the inside dashboard of the vehicle, as if he were angry, Perdue wrote.
The search warrants were filed for the couples car and home.
Dunns girlfriend told police that Dunn was bleeding from the mouth when she found him.
Dunn was helped inside, then taken to the hospital.
Initially, police werent sure whether Dunn was hit by a car, accidentally or deliberately, or attacked.
The cause of death was head trauma, according to the Clark County Medical Examiners Office.
Medical Examiner Dennis Wickham told police Dunn had bruising on the left side of his face and a fractured skull, plus a broken jaw.
Dr. Wickham stated that he did not believe the injuries were consistent with a vehicle collision but rather a blow to the face, Perdue wrote.
At 11:57 p.m. April 12, the husband of the registered owner of the Honda Accord had contact with Battle Ground police officers when the car in which he was a passenger was stopped. The man was drunk and had a bandage over his right eye. He told police hed been in a fight.
Stephanie Rice
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