La Roux are a duo comprising Elly Jackson, singer, keyboards and song writer and Ben Langmaid as co-writer and co-producer. Langmaid is seldom seen on stage and Jackson is often perceived to be a solo artist, although Jackson says they are “very much a half and half sharing situation… not like a singer producer outfit.”

And yet La Roux have become the pop sensation of 2009, their self titled debut album sold over 60,000 copies in it’s first week of release, earning the duo a number two in the album charts and going strong.

The band’s first single Quicksand was released in December 2008 and although it did not make the UK Top 40, the follow up single released in March did. In For The Kill the first single to be taken from the La Roux album reached number 2 in the UK and their latest effort Bulletproof gave the band their first number one.

Having won the O2 Silver Clef Award for Best Newcomer in 2009 and the Studio 8 National Music Award for Best Female Newcomer in 2009, as well as being featured as one of the Guardian’s Best New Acts of 2009, the band’s success should perhaps not be a surprise. The band are also amongst the recent Barclaycard Mercury Award nominees for 2009.

La Roux have supported Lily Allen on her UK tour, headlined the Samsung NME Radar Tour 2009 and have appeared at or are scheduled to appear at top UK festivals Glastonbury, Reading, Oxegen and  Leeds. They are currently in North America for an eight city tour and will return for one night at The Scala in London in September, before embarking on a tour of the UK in November.

La Roux are definitely the happening pop band of the moment and tickets for their upcoming UK tour will sell as quickly as their records have done this year.

This is a clip from La Roux performing Bulletproof on the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show on US tv from July 23.

La Roux UK Tour Dates

September 10  London – The Scala

November 12   Dublin – Academy

November 13   Leeds – University Union- Stylus

November 14  Newcastle – University

November 16   Glasgow – ABC

November 18   Birmingham – O2 Academy

November 20   Bristol – O2 Academy

November 21   Manchester – The Warehouse Project

November 22   Norwich – UEA

November 23   Southampton – Guildhall

November 25   London - Shepherds Bush Empire

November 26   London – Shepherds Bush Empire

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Not far behind the favourites are Glasvegas, Bat for Lashes and La Roux all quoted at 6-1.

The full list of nominations for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2009 and the albums they have been nominated for, are as follows:

Kasabian – ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’
Florence And The Machine – ‘Lungs’
Bat For Lashes – ‘Two Suns’
Glasvegas – ‘Glasvegas’
La Roux – ‘La Roux’ 6/1
Lisa Hannigan – ‘Sea Sew’
Speech Debelle – ‘Speech Therapy’
The Horrors – ‘Primary Colours’
Friendly Fires – ‘Friendly Fires’
The Invisible – ‘The Invisible’
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – ‘Twice Born Men’
Led Bib – ‘Sensible Shoes’