YOUNG AND SEXY play "vividly pretty orchestral pop" at Zaphod Beeblebrox.

"Subtle, atmospheric acoustic songs give way to driving piano sing-alongs. The groups vocal duo, one female, one male, do not so much duet together as much as mesh together, sharing lead and background duties. And the combination is gorgeous. Both instrumentation and melody are at times so intricate they seem deceivingly simple. Lush and beautiful." - POPMATTERS.COM

Related Artists: BELLE & SEBASTIAN, NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, THE BEATLES, HEFNER.

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & STELLA ARTOIS
PRESENT...

"vividly pretty orchestral pop" - NOW Magazine

From Vancouver/ Mint Recording Artists
YOUNG AND SEXY

+ THE GETALONGS

Friday, December 5 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $6 only at the door

"Subtle, atmospheric acoustic songs give way to driving piano sing-alongs. The groups vocal duo, one female, one male, do not so much duet together as much as mesh together, sharing lead and background duties. And the combination is gorgeous. Both instrumentation and melody are at times so intricate they seem deceivingly simple. Lush and beautiful." - POPMATTERS.COM

"WOW. This is the kind of cd where all I want to say about it is "it's damn amazing, just go buy it," but to give you readers a bit more to chew on, I'll tell you why it's so great. Now, it's hard for me to make comparisons with this kind of music because I don't really listen to any acoustic stuff, with guitar, bass, piano, synth, drums, and male and female vocals. But I can tell you about the feeling I get when I listen to it. I feel like these guys are playing real songs about real emotions and real people that they know, but it's not hard and heavy, it's rather soft and comforting with absolutely no cheese factor. This is art, made by real people
that are humans just like you and me. This is real, and I just love it"
- JONONATION.COM

Young and Sexy's earliest beginnings can be traced back to a fateful day late in the fall of 1993 outside the Bread Garden just off Robson street, in the heart of downtown Vancouver. Lucy Brain, (then an art student at Simon Fraser University), conversed briefly with Paul Hixon Pittman (a university drop-out) while he prepared her a sandwich. Minutes later, with sandwich in hand, she turned with some surprise to see him running down the street after her. The romance between the two didn't last too long, and speaking frankly, their split was well beyond the realm of devastating for Paul. However, lending further credence to Hemingway's assertion that a person isn't real until they've had their heart broken, it was the pain of the break up that seemed to get Paul putting words to his songs. Before the debacle, he was obsessed primarily with trying to create a melody as beautiful as the Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping," and with this near impossible goal in mind, he prolifically turned out one gorgeous melody after the other. But it wasn't until he started coming up with lyrics that he realized it was Lucy, with her perfect pitch and a childhood in Britain still faintly detectable in her voice, who would truly enable his harmony-laden compositions to come to life. And thus we have the beauty of the band, once lovers, the two lead singers have salvaged an unlikely friendship from the remnants of a sour break up, and have devoted themselves to the sweet music they make together.

Colin McLaine, a visual artist and accomplished lead guitarist (and the guy who first made it necessary to wear a helmet to their live shows), joined to form the triumvirate first known as Young and Sexy. This initial incarnation was a riveting thing to behold. Only Colin ever seemed to have any idea what would happen next, and often even this was called into question. He was firmly committed to experimentation and never approached a song the same way twice, baffling all with the sheer audacity of his tangents. Though it was a wildly entertaining couple of years, and Paul and Lucy knew they would never be able to replace him, Colin eventually went his own direction.

Ron Teardrop, the mild-mannered Austrian skin-beater, had already joined the band by this point, and soon after another irreplaceable man-child, Maritime multi-instrumentalist Teddy Bois, would join the fold. It is hard to miss the miracles Mr. Bois' musicianship works throughout their debut album, though offering up a vivid description of the sounds his keyboard makes is beyond me. Rounding out the roster is André Lagacé, of July Fourth Toilet reknown, who ably takes on the responsibility of both bass and electric guitar and also makes this officially the warmest, most genuinely down to earth group of musicians in the Western World. The group was signed to Mint Records in the fall of 2001, and in March 2002 released its debut album "Stand Up For Your Mother", which was a mainstay of Canadian college radio stations for many months, and made several North American critics' year-end top ten lists. Its successor, "Life Through One Speaker", was recorded over a scant two week period in near-seclusion on British Columbia's scenic Galiano Island in March of 2003 and was released in October, 2003.

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