Locnville
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Locnville is a South African Electro Hop music duo. Identical twin brothers Andrew and Brian Chaplin formed Locnville in Cape Town
, South Africa
, in 2009. The twins are singer-songwriters, song producers and musicians, in addition to being guitarists, drummers and business entrepreneurs.
Their debut studio album entitled Sun In My Pocket was released in South Africa in February of 2010 and had proven to become a major success, peaking at #1 on the RISA South African Albums Chart
and later winning them the award for “best newcomer” at the 2010 MK Awards.
Their second studio album entitled Running To Midnight was released on July 1, 2011, including a high-definition
music video
for one of the album’s tracks entitled “Stars Above You”.
The twins are related to the late Charlie Chaplin
(Their grandfather was the first cousin of Charlie Chaplin).
, United States
on May 14, 1990 to Pam Eichner, an American actress, and Spencer Chaplin, a guitarist. At the age of two they relocated to Cape Town, South Africa, where the family lived together until their parents’ divorce in 1997. The twins then started spending alternate weeks with either parent. Eventually they returned back to the United States in 2001 with their mother and finally moved back to South Africa in 2003 to live with their father.
Andrew and Brian discovered their passion for music at the age of six when they got their first guitars. The twins regard the bands Pink Floyd
and Oasis
as big influences who’s music was regularly played by their parents. Andrew elaborated in an interview: "Our family was pretty musically orientated, so I think we got a pretty good sense of melody and rhythm from a young age.
Gabi Le Roux who introduced them to Khayelitsha
-based artist Given Phike. Soon the twins and Given Phike created the musical trio
III (Three).
On August 27, 2007, III released a twelve track album, entitled What They Say, on a South African mobile phone based social networking application called MXit
. They were the first group in South Africa to release music in this format and in this sense made local music history. The album went onto to achieve double platinum download sales status, selling over 500,000 copies in South Africa.
The group disbanded soon after and Andrew and Brian Chaplin went on to create Locnville, the name of which is still a mystery, however the twins did say it has to do with their background and the fact that they had lived in both the United States and South Africa.
format with the original title of Retro Electro in November 2009. The CD
format of Sun in My Pocket was later released in South Africa in February 2010 after being remastered in the UK by Wez Clarke (Ministry of Sound, Hed Kandi).
Locnville were later deemed the "buzz act" at the Midem International Music Conference in Cannes in January 2010, sparking interest in the duo from international record labels. In May 2010 it was announced that Locnville signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music International.
During September of 2010, the twins visited the United Kingdom where they met their fans and worked on their materials. The single "Sun in My Pocket" is also featured in EA Sports FIFA 11
.
and Twitter
, being abuzz with the news of its release. Various competitions to encourage the purchasing of Running To Midnight where also created.
The new album was written and recorded over 9 months in Cape Town, the USA, and whilst on the road promoting their debut album across Europe.
In an interview, one of the twins, Andrew, stated that the new album was “much more relevant to where we are now”. The other twin, Brian, added that the new album is “not our previous album”; saying in so many words that the new album brought with it new sound and “a seriously intense and fun story”.
| style="text-align:center;"|2010
|Sopot Hit Festival
|Foreign Hit Years
| 11 place
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| style="text-align:center;"|2010
|rowspan="3"|Sun In My Pocket
| Best Newcomer (MK Music Awards for)
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| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center;"|2011
| Best Newcomer (SAMAs)
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| Best Selling Album (SAMAs)
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Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, in 2009. The twins are singer-songwriters, song producers and musicians, in addition to being guitarists, drummers and business entrepreneurs.
Their debut studio album entitled Sun In My Pocket was released in South Africa in February of 2010 and had proven to become a major success, peaking at #1 on the RISA South African Albums Chart
Recording Industry of South Africa
The Recording Industry of South Africa is a trade association that represents the collective interests of producers of music sound recordings, major and independent record labels in South Africa. Formerly known as the Association of the South African Music Industry it was established in the 1970s...
and later winning them the award for “best newcomer” at the 2010 MK Awards.
Their second studio album entitled Running To Midnight was released on July 1, 2011, including a high-definition
High-definition video
High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280×720 pixels or 1,920×1,080 pixels...
music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for one of the album’s tracks entitled “Stars Above You”.
The twins are related to the late Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
(Their grandfather was the first cousin of Charlie Chaplin).
1990-98: Early years
Andrew and Brian Chaplin, were born identical twin brothers in New YorkNew York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on May 14, 1990 to Pam Eichner, an American actress, and Spencer Chaplin, a guitarist. At the age of two they relocated to Cape Town, South Africa, where the family lived together until their parents’ divorce in 1997. The twins then started spending alternate weeks with either parent. Eventually they returned back to the United States in 2001 with their mother and finally moved back to South Africa in 2003 to live with their father.
Andrew and Brian discovered their passion for music at the age of six when they got their first guitars. The twins regard the bands Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
and Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
as big influences who’s music was regularly played by their parents. Andrew elaborated in an interview: "Our family was pretty musically orientated, so I think we got a pretty good sense of melody and rhythm from a young age.
2006-2009: “III”
At a young age the twins started performing at events in and around Cape Town and it didn’t take long before they were discovered by South African record producerRecord producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
Gabi Le Roux who introduced them to Khayelitsha
Khayelitsha
Khayelitsha is a partially informal township in Western Cape, South Africa, located on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town. The name is Xhosa for New Home...
-based artist Given Phike. Soon the twins and Given Phike created the musical trio
Trio (music)
Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:* A group of three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.* The performance of a piece of music by three people.* The contrasting section of a piece in ternary form...
III (Three).
On August 27, 2007, III released a twelve track album, entitled What They Say, on a South African mobile phone based social networking application called MXit
MXit
MXit is a free instant messaging application developed by MXit Lifestyle Ltd. in South Africa that runs on multiple mobile and computing platforms...
. They were the first group in South Africa to release music in this format and in this sense made local music history. The album went onto to achieve double platinum download sales status, selling over 500,000 copies in South Africa.
The group disbanded soon after and Andrew and Brian Chaplin went on to create Locnville, the name of which is still a mystery, however the twins did say it has to do with their background and the fact that they had lived in both the United States and South Africa.
Sun in My Pocket (2010)
After three months of pre- and post production by Deon Phyfer including two weeks of recording, mixing and mastering at LMX Studios in Cape Town their debut album, Sun in My Pocket was originally released on a music downloadMusic download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
format with the original title of Retro Electro in November 2009. The CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
format of Sun in My Pocket was later released in South Africa in February 2010 after being remastered in the UK by Wez Clarke (Ministry of Sound, Hed Kandi).
Locnville were later deemed the "buzz act" at the Midem International Music Conference in Cannes in January 2010, sparking interest in the duo from international record labels. In May 2010 it was announced that Locnville signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music International.
During September of 2010, the twins visited the United Kingdom where they met their fans and worked on their materials. The single "Sun in My Pocket" is also featured in EA Sports FIFA 11
FIFA 11
FIFA 11 is the 18th title in Electronic Arts' FIFA series of football video games. Developed by EA Canada, it was published by Electronic Arts worldwide under the EA Sports label...
.
Running to Midnight (2011)
On July 01, 2011, Locnville released their second studio album entitled Running To Midnight. The brothers started an official “one-hundred day countdown”, a move made to create a hype towards the build-up of the release. The move proved to be a successful one with social media networks, including FacebookFacebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
and Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, being abuzz with the news of its release. Various competitions to encourage the purchasing of Running To Midnight where also created.
The new album was written and recorded over 9 months in Cape Town, the USA, and whilst on the road promoting their debut album across Europe.
In an interview, one of the twins, Andrew, stated that the new album was “much more relevant to where we are now”. The other twin, Brian, added that the new album is “not our previous album”; saying in so many words that the new album brought with it new sound and “a seriously intense and fun story”.
Contra-Banned
When creating Locnville, the twins also decided to create their own record label called Contra-Banned that would distribute their music at the time on a so called “VirtualCD” format. They later on stated that the reason for creating Contra-Banned was that “artists get a tiny percentage at the end of it all...”, and they felt this was unfair as they put a lot of time and effort into what they did.Villey clothing
In December of 2010, the twin brothers released their own clothing brand called Villey clothing.Singles & Music Videos
- Sun In My Pocket (2009)
- 6 Second Poison (2010)
- There (2010)
- Love Rush (2010)
- Passion To Go (Radio Single) (2011)
- Stars Above You (2011)
- Staring At The World Outside (2011)
Awards and nominations
|-| style="text-align:center;"|2010
|Sopot Hit Festival
Sopot Hit Festival
Sopot Hit Festival - is international song contest, bringing contestants and guests who are stars with world recognition. It has been transmitted annually by the Polish Television in the coastal resort of Sopot, Poland...
|Foreign Hit Years
| 11 place
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2010
|rowspan="3"|Sun In My Pocket
| Best Newcomer (MK Music Awards for)
|
|-
| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center;"|2011
| Best Newcomer (SAMAs)
|
|-
| Best Selling Album (SAMAs)
|