The Frente! Backlash

by jesse grant

It wasn’t long ago that Angie Hart was a sixteen year-old regular at our favourite Fitzroy live-music venue, the Punters Club. That was just prior to one of the bar tenders asking her to join his band, Frente!, at which very moment they began making a bunch of memorable pop songs that’ve pervaded the airwaves over the last few years. Along with bands like Clouds, Falling Joys and the Underground Lovers, Frente! have been giving people a catchy alternative to grunge and techno and it was all pretty peachy until they went and hurt our ears with their song “accidentally Kelly Street” and it doesn’t seem like anyone’s willing to forgive them. Now the band’s leaving for America, where they’re at the top of the charts, leaving us with Silverchair and Ratcat for company. Great.

Vice: The last few years have been crazy for you, right.

Angie:

Really, it’s so bad you have to leave the country?

Yeah, right on. And your album Marvin The Album did really well here and now it’s killing over there too. That’s awesome.

And you worked with Prince’s producer, Michael Koppelman on this album too? Amazing. How did that happen?

You guys are signed to Mushroom. Do they break your balls?

So they didn’t mind when you posed nude on the cover of Juice last year?

And, lastly, when you do choose to wear clothes, what’s your favourite trend of right now?