QX catches five minutes with Kele Le Roc ahead of her PA at Kazbar this Sunday!
Hey girl! What’s new in Kele land?!
Ahhhh, loads! I just completed a new album which is musically based on dubstep but it’s also a musical experience. I say experience because a whole new concept on performance pieces called ‘Future Fallen Angel’ about an angel that comes to Earth on a mission and falls in love with a human, so becomes human then all hell breaks loose. The audience are part of the show. It’s just in development stages, but it’s all very exciting. I’m also part of a girl 60’s tribute trio; I host and sing within an amazing burlesque show called Burlexe. And I’m off on tour with Basement Jaxx… I have a new track on their new album.
You’re performing at Kazbar on Sunday! What can we expect from your show?
I like to get the audience involved in my shows so that they feel like they are of part of it!
Which current artists are on your iPod playlists?
I listen to mainly mix-tapes as I like a variety of music, but I’m a big Prince fan so he’s always on my iPod!
What would be your all-time favourite Prince album?
I can’t pick my favourite Prince album because there are just too many that I love. Lovesexy, perhaps.
What tune never fails to get you on the dance floor and why?
‘I’ve Found a Place’ by Tweet!
What’s the most embarrassing, exciting, shocking or weird thing to happen to you during your career?
Embarrassing! I will go with that’s as it’s important to embrace these things to show we are all human! [Laughs] I was on the panel one year at the urban music conference, I walked on stage thinking I was cool in dark glasses – yeah, it was sunny that day – and I stacked it as I walked to my chair! I nearly choked and died as I couldn’t stop laughing and then I kept bursting out in random laughter through the conference! [Laughs]
• Kele Le Roc performs at Kazbar (50 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UL) on Sunday 26th May at 9pm.
