History
Femme Fatale could be recognised as a more hardcore sounding alternative to Death from Above 1979. Jesse plays all the instruments, sings all the vocals, and wrote all the songs on each recording, but (Sebastien Grainger is credited with playing percussion on Fire Baptism). Although Femme Fatale is seen as a side project of Death from Above 1979 it didn't start out that way. In Jesse's own words, this is how it all came about:
Al-p was in a band called the Spiral Hill with half the people in Sick Lipstick. I was in a band called Standing 8 and we had just broken up. Me and Robin Young(the keyboard player from Standing 8) stole the bass player and singer from Spiral Hill and became Black Cat No. 13. Al-p recorded the Black Cat No. 13 records.
Black Cat was a frustrating band to be in so we started Femme Fatale while it was still happening. I met Seb when I was trying to find a drummer to play in Femme Fatale. That's how Death from Above got started. Al and I kept recording together and that's how MSTRKRFT got started.
That's the whole story.
Sometimes good things come out of bad circumstances.
There was a live band for a while, but no one in the band could keep up with the brutal touring of this insane project. Often at the end of nights, white guitars would be red with blood. There are no lyric sheets from the first two albums, because JFK didn't want them released to the public for many reasons. The members of the touring Femme Fatale band were, Scott Henderson on bass, Robin Young on keyboards, Andrew Scott, Kevin Marchand, and A.Dixon playing guitar, Sebastien Grainger on drums, and Jesse Keeler doing vocals. Keeler's Femme Fatale bandmate Andrew Scott went on to join The Meligrove Band.
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