October 2007

The Quims Bric à Brac


French Touch

Tracy MOLOY, a French girl who’s going to immigrate in London to make a furious electro-pop make it her first band: ‘This is fucking brilliant’

Leemiller

I told you so about my younger brother who creates a band in Rennes. Their gigs were full out and work much better. New songs, new videos and you can find many links on their myspace page.

www.leemiller.musicblog.fr

Dick Voodoo
A part the Port of Le Havre, what kind of band plays music?
Dick plays Electro Billy!! What it is?
Its sounds like Suicide between rock & Rock
http://www.myspace.com/dickvoodoo

New Pretoria
They make a mix between the Smiths, Japan and Lloyd Cole.
Honest Parisian band
http://www.myspace.com/newpretoria

Nelson
The four of Nelson from St Germain-des-Prés plays a revival of cold wave from the 80’s (Joy Division, The cure, talking heads). On the ‘Revolving doors’ the song has got a kind of Ian Curtis language.
http://www.myspace.com/nelsonrock

Hey Hey My My
From a Neil young song ‘hey hay my may/rock’n’roll can never die…’’
http://www.myspace.com/heyheymymyband

Rodeo massacre
‘Play on gig is much better to make love’ said Brice Partouche.
http://www.myspace.com/rodeomassacre

I love UFO
Dark psychedelic rock. Between hardcore, noisy and experimental, they prefer to shake their body with a hypnotic wave of sons like with the same effect to take drugs
http://www.myspace.com/aysam

Pravda
1 boy, 1 girl (Suzanne, 25)
Thy said they make an artisan rock, a kind of ‘bedroom rock’
Between B52’s, Nirvana, they made sometimes songs from Motorhead or the Electro duo: Miss Kitten.
http://www.myspace.com/pr4vd4

Housse de Racket
Smash rock is a chic & sport, kind of electro pop funk, they want ‘to racket la House music’
http://www.myspace.com/houssederacket

TOP 50
If you want to see all the back catalogue from all of kind of English newspaper’s music list and the Top 50 from the audience of John Peel
www.rocklist.net

Who are they?

Teutonic Cover band-Top Funny!
This is Boy division; it’s not a gay band, but a German band (Hambourg), a cover band. Don’t’ laugh; they can play all of you want to listen, They play very well and they are in the German chart like in another time Abba cover band or queen cover band!!!
http://www.boy-division.de/index1.htm
http://www.boy-division.de/sound.htm

Don’t Look Back,…’Punk !
1/3 of the news in newspapers talks about big celebrity band comeback from the 70 or 80’s.
This month, we can read everywhere the sex pistols will going back and will make a gig or a big show to celebrate the 30’s anniversary of ‘Never mind the bollocks’. The show will be play in the Brixton Academy in London on 8th November.
Apart from that, their single ‘God save the queen’ will be out again in the single form to be re-place logical in the chart in a first place that it should be there 30 years ago.
The NME made a big campaign for the Sex pistols come back with many band who support them.
www.nme.com

MP3
An English call Venus Bogardus, from bath, creates a kind of mix rock with French poetry. The band has got also 2 members, who are poet and writer had got for many years a library.
A song call ‘Jacques Rigaut’ (a dandy dada in 1929- http://rigaut.blogspot.com/) made it by this quator.
Jacque Rigaut entitle his website: “my favourite book, is a gun”
www.myspacecom/venusbogardus

Frenglish blog about Swedish rockband, tell about the Nordics rock band, some funny, some ‘bizarre’ bands-The texts are funny;
Download free mp3
Go and see:
http://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2006/02/pop-peu-populaire.html

Picturesque Rock
Rolling Stone covers
If you have got a thirst of music without the noise, go and see all the Rolling stones magazine covers and discover the entire picture for all singers, bands you like since the beginning of the magazine.
40 years with all the Pop-rock icons

BLOG
Cemetary
This is the first virtual cemetery of blogs create.
If you’ve got to stop or give a death to your blog, take a print screen of your page with the date of the creation and the definitive closing and send it. It will be there for ever.
http://Lecimetieredesblogs.blogspot.com/

Mash-ups
Chris De line, an American, 23, who live in Andover in Minnesota made his own mash-ups.
You can find a remix of Peter, Bjorn and John vs Underworld or a Duo with LCD sound system and Johnny Hallyday ‘Johnny is playing at my house’
www.culturebully.com
NB: About Johnny Hallyday, our only monster Rock Star, will play in another episode of Pink panther!

Somewhere in Paris
Electro kitchen
An experimental laboratory electro rock & accessories.
The best quality of easy listening Electro in Paris.
You can listen and dance and buy some most interesting electro music:
Many labels: Relon (Berlin), Rephlex (London), Kitsuné (Parisian) and some new interest neo-disco style from Norway
My Electro kitchen: 60 rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris -Métro Rambuteau

And next month, i will try to speak about some new things about Switzerland band music, Belgium, French… Maybe more German cover band if you like that or Oasis cover band?! And some other news about Cult old music and my play list of a Deep South band of England that I saw on my summer holidays