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This week in asking the wrong questions to the lead-singer of a moderately famous Americana band who are big in California and Germany.  Joey Burns from Calexico gets annoyed at your reporter’s questions, but still answers them pleasantly...

“This place is a bit big for us” says Jamie T, blinking in the lights of the Astoria. It wasn’t too long ago that he was playing London’s grimier dives armed only with a bass guitar and a pad of scrawled lyrics, but the success of his singles, “If You Got The Money” charted at 13 and “Calm Down Dearest” entered the Top Ten, mean that tonight one of central London’s bigger venues has sold out, largely to a younger crowd than the hipsters who first championed him.

Purveyors of electronic music have traditionally struggled when attempting to create an engaging and entertaining live experience, forever plagued by the fact that laptops have always lacked the visceral energy of a guitar. There’s something quite numbing about watching a sunken faced geek gently fondling a mouse while staring fixedly at their laptop screen.