GazCloud - Bass/Violin/Vocals,
Monsoon - Drums,
Paul - Lead Vocals,
William - Guitar/Vocals
Influences
Kate Bush, Idlewild, Morrissey, REM, Simon & Garfunkel, Sunny Day Real Estate * * * The Brontes, Coleridge, Ted Hughes, Keats, Shakespeare, Shelley * * * John Constable, Johan Christian Dahl, Gustave Dore, Simon Marsden, J.M.W. Turner
Sounds Like
'London is a veritable goldmine of obscure bands but I'm betting Villette are at least the most eloquent out there, if not one of the most passionate and captivating. Their music conveys a delightful romanticism; Villette could be to literature what Morrissey was to social commentary and you can't get finer homage than that.' Room Thirteen
'a band with the full package.' High Voltage
'a band capable of something truly special.' UK Music Search
'full of romanticism.' GIITTV
'Mark Almond going Wild(e).' Sounds XP
'a band of a quintessentially British style and an equally British passion for music.' Xtra
Founded on the Anglian folk circuit, brothers William and Paul tried to form the perfect group; a potion of music, poetry and theatre absent from the British scene. Relocating to London, they were joined by GazCloud and Monsoon. In the short time that the group were together, they performed alongside acts such as The Libertines and Martha Wainwright at many of London's premier underground venues.
Villette attracted a devoted fanbase who wanted a group to call their own. A group who appealed as much to the head as to the heart, who made music to fall in love with and in love to. An outfit fired as much by the poetry, painting and passion of the Romantics as by the music of Kate Bush, R.E.M., Simon & Garfunkel and Sunny Day Real Estate.
Villette recalled a time when people were besotted with bands; a time when groups transformed the way that their fans considered their own lives, incorporating cultural spheres beyond music into a coherent group identity.
Tons of love from San Francisco!!!! When are you gonna play here?? Whats new??? I fell in love with 'Drama Girl'. You're sooooo good!!! Luv u my fav' romantic poets.
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I've been trying to find something to say on the split for weeks now and still the words are inadequate, paper-sacks over an exquisite body.
I believed in Villette. I felt something more magnificent than I have ever known, personally, before. Something liberating and shatteringly beautiful.
So the end seems unfitting, unnerving and apocolyptic in scale.
Best regards for future projects... Know the world will wait thousand years for you to change your minds. x
It was really something boys. Thankyou for shaping my years as they've been. Best wishes for all of you. I shall be following your respective other projects! <3 x
Your disbanding makes me sad but thanks for everything! I'm so sorry I didn't get the chance to see you live as I discovered your work quite recently and can't just jump on a plane to England for the farwell gig. Anyway, I have to state it here: I will stay with your music. The combination of its aesthetic profile, the sound, the fierce lyrics sung meticulously; it sounds urgent. Will look to your future projects very soon. Thanks, Maria
