‘I have been sick for 17,000 days!’ he also said before getting into ‘Garbage city’ with the help of his drummer Nicky Flemming.
His garage rock varies from 50s doo-wop-impregnated songs like ‘Dead Wrong’, to dangerous-blues-charged tunes like ‘Build. Destroy. Rebuild.’ But the music is constantly a high-energy vibe built on a palpable tension, scratching your ears with menacing accelerated parts, ready to crash like an engine turned bad.
Sure there’s something extremely virile in all this, but it is never forced as it’s sweating authenticity all the way, and you finally really believe him when he says that ‘these songs were written for anyone who’s ever been shot or hit by a train’.
Someone was constantly asking for the Sam and Dave’s cover, ‘Hold on’, with no success because they didn’t played it, but they, of course, played their other destroyed-totally-rebuilt cover of ‘You Rascal You’.
He recently made the cover of the magazine LA Record, he opened for Florence and the machine last November, his song ‘Come alive’ was used for the promo of the TV series ‘Vampire diaries’, and it was the second time he was playing at the Bardot for the weekly ‘It’s a school night’. Chris Douridas who hosts this event each Monday said that Hanni El Khatib will release a full-length album next June, it will be sure a hot summer release.