“Our arrival in America was a statement,” Xavier agrees, albeit tentatively. They made dance music rock ’n’ roll, rendering it so that America could really get stuck in, and becoming a lynchpin of the burgeoning EDM movement. Looking like a couple of film star Hells Angels, playing in front of wall-to-wall Marshall speaker cabinets and a giant neon cross, they tore the lid off venues coast-to-coast with the caustic electro-disco of their debut album, ‘†’. Early tours, amusingly captured in the 2008 film A Cross The Universe, saw them rewrite the book on how the USA perceived dance music. Presentation and style have been one of the keys to their success. All the focus on clothing is more than idle chatter. “It’s like a snake changing its skin, I guess,” he sighs.Īs Gaspard suggests, Justice are returning renewed: a third iteration of the band for a much-anticipated third album. Gaspard looks his white denim ensemble up and down. It felt like we were getting half the product.” “We felt the same when we saw Slash and he didn’t have his top hat. “It must be like seeing AC/DC and Angus Young isn’t wearing his schoolboy shorts and cap,” says Xavier, who has darkly handsome pop star good looks.
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“They hadn’t had the full Justice experience,” states Gaspard, dry as sand. Touring the first album, one day we performed in denim jackets and people were massively complaining, saying, ‘What is this scam? Where are your regular jackets?’ It was disappointing for them picturing us on stage that way.” “It’s funny,” adds Xavier de Rosnay, whose Paris home we’re in, “we’ve been confronted about this before. “Less leather, more pleasure,” he deadpans. He is, after all, the hairier, more rock star-looking half of Justice, a duo usually seen in biker jackets and black T-shirts. It seems incongruous, and takes a while to get used to. Gaspard Augé is dressed entirely in white denim.
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