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Recent Nightshift cover stars International Jetsetters are something of a local supergroup, featuring Loz from Ride, Mark Crozer and Fi McCall, who has guested with the Jesus & Mary Chain.

1.What do you think you sound like?

The Rolling Stones fronted by an angry Karen Carpenter trying to sound like The House of Love

2. What do you do when you’re not making music?

There's a good write up in the fly of International Jetsetters' recent show at the O2 Academy on the fly's website:

http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/reviews/live-reviews/4738/international-j...

International Jetsetters have been interviewed by Penny Black music.

Read the full article here:

http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Article.aspx?id=4956

Our favourite music magazine Nightshift has just published its December issue containing its Top 20 songs of the year and we've made the list with 'Never Slows Down':

The Band: International Jetsetters : Who ? An Oxford-based five piece band formed by singer and guitarist Mark Crozer and bass player Bert Audubert. They were joined by Loz Colbert (formerly of Ride and who also had been working with Mark, initially in Jim Reid’s band and more recently in the reformed Jesus and Mary Chain.) The line up was completed with the addition of Mark’s younger brother Paul as a second guitarist and local singer Fi McCall…

The Cellar

Shoegazing was a term of description offered almost as a piss-take of bands the music press of the early-90s considered to be somewhat lacking in charisma, hiding their dearth of star quality behind vast walls of turbulent guitar drones as they studiously avoided eye-contact with their audience.

The Oxford music scene magazine Nightshift had this to say about us after our appearance at the Oxford Punt music festival:

It's no exaggeration to say that INTERNATIONAL JETSETTERS hitting the stage at all, never mind on time and in front of a packed house, is a minor miracle. They have pedigree, which shows in their mature songwriting and sophisticated sound, oddly reminiscent of Sisters Of Mercy without the goth baggage, and better haircuts. One of the bands tonight most likely to make waves, and true to their name they fly off to New York the next day.

INTERNATIONAL JETSETTERS, increasingly one of our favourite local bands. Formed by Oxford pop veteran Mark Crozer and former-Ride drummer Loz Colbert, the pair of them now also part of The Jesus & Mary Chain, they're an amalgamation of everything that was great about indie rock, when that term actually meant something. From the narcotic fuzz of Spacemen 3 to the insistent jangle and drone of The Wedding Present, and lifted spaceward by singer Fi McFall's ethereal vocals, they're dark and dreamy but they rock like bastards.