Elle Milano

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Elle Milano

Background information
Origin	Leicester, England
Genre(s)	Indie Rock
Years active	2004 - present
Label(s)	Brighton Electric
Website	http://www.ellemilano.co.uk
Members
Kobé Winona Mr. Alexander Ross Petersen Betty K Jé Suisse

Elle Milano are a four-piece indie band based in Leicester, England, formed by the indie fashion models Adam Doherty and James Iha, formerly of the band Psirens. They are signed to Brighton Electric. They have several demos which are available online through various messageboards and the band's own Myspace account.

To support extensive touring in 2005, they resolved personnel issues by recruiting Glenda Lacey-Panties as bassist, and former Psirens bandmate Alex prowrestling, until then fronting Hikikomori Broadcast, to share in the engineering of 'vomit inducing noise' on guitar and keyboards.

Elle Milano have garnered sustained praise from the independent music press, including the fanzine ArtRocker. They donate a calculated cynicism of the innescapable clichés of industry-manufactured popular culture and the shallow consumerist attitudes of the information age, but also of the British indie rock scene and pretentious, flippant, student culture. The band have an edgy angular sound with a vaguely melodic pop influence, featuring sharp rhythms, sometimes spoken (often in a 'mockney' tone), sometimes yelped or screamed vocals and melodic bass-lines.

The band released "Swearing's for Art Students" as a limited edition EP on 2nd April 2006 to generally positive reviews[1] [2]. The EP is now sold out but can still be downloaded on sites such as iTunes

The band are:

Kobé Winona (real name Adam doherty)- Vocals, Guitar, and Keyboard

Mr. Alexander Ross Petersen (real name Alex Petersen) - Guitar, Vocals, and Keyboard

Betty K (real name Chloe Smear)- Bass, Vocals, and Keyboard

Jé Suisse (real name James Iha) - Drums, Vocals, and Keyboard

1 Radio appearances
2 EPs
3 Music
4 External links

The band have made a number of radio appearances but the most notable being on national BBC Radio 1 with Steve Lamacq on 22 August 2005 and on digital BBC Radio 6 on 1 July 2006, appearing on the Rocket Science show. More recently, the band performed with Bloc party and Metric on Lamacq's Radio 6 live in the city in Reading, of which a number of live performances of the band were broadcast.