I don't know what my colleagues expected when these ladies set up to play their Tiny Desk concert, but I bet it wasn't a mega-distorted bass line over a hip-hop beat and raspy yowls. Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the rock duo known as the Nova Twins.
The ladies from London had no intention of easing into this performance. They launch right into "Cleopatra," a song that plainly tells haters to kick rocks, then dive headfirst into "Monsters," a fierce confrontation with their shadowselves. As they duck below the Desk to make adjustments to the "massive pedalboards back here, like, the size of spaceships," South explains that they are "massive pedal nerds." (We set up a "pedal cam" just for this show.) Love adds a Harp Blaster microphone to the entourage, giving "Hummingbird" a supernatural quality.
This bass-heavy, vocally charged performance turns the expectation of what nice, polite girls are supposed to play on its head. With the audience's help, Nova Twins turns all the way up for its final song, a heavy rock adventure aptly named "Choose Your Fighter."
SET LIST
- "Cleopatra"
- "Monsters"
- "Hummingbird"
- "Choose Your Fighter"
MUSICIANS
- Amy Love: vocals, guitar
- Georgia South: vocals, bass
- Jake Woodward: drums
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Nikki Birch
- Director/Editor: Kara Frame
- Audio Technical Director: Josephine Nyounai
- Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant
- Audio Engineer: Hannah Gluvna
- Production Assistants: Dora Levite, Dhanika Pineda
- Photographer: Sofia Seidel
- Tiny Desk Team: Josh Newell, Ashley Pointer
- Series Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Executive Director: Sonali Mehta
- Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
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