French music on the rise?

noisemerchant79 · by **noisemerchant79** on Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:13 pm

Is it me or are french musicians making a by line for these shores to infiltrate our once great empires music scene. Don't get me wrong I love the French, I just wonder what is happening over there? are the kids just becoming cooler? or has this been planned for a while? A few of my current french favourites struting around london at the moment include John and Jehn and Underground railroad. http://www.youtube.com/v/tnhYa21HfL8 check the video.

da-boy-ch · by **da-boy-ch** on Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:19 pm

they've always been cooler i thought?
french music...hmmm i only know MC Solar and he is boss

The Yak · by **The Yak** on Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:31 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Villa_%28band%29

Subversive · by **Subversive** on Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:02 pm

Kap Bambino are pretty good, if you like headache inducing electro

Fishwick · by **Fishwick** on Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:40 pm

The Monkey is reborn @the Smugglers, Roker beach Sunderland from May 2nd 2008. Sunderlands newest rave venue.

Dirtblonde · by **Dirtblonde** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:50 am

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by noisemerchant79
 Is it me or are french musicians making a by line for these shores to infiltrate our once great empires music scene. Don't get me wrong I love the French, I just wonder what is happening over there? are the kids just becoming cooler? or has this been planned for a while? A few of my current french favourites struting around london at the moment include John and Jehn and Underground railroad. http://www.youtube.com/v/tnhYa21HfL8 check the video.
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French rock is pretty cool at the moment, I love Underground Railroad. They played at our old F*CK night at Korova, but unfortunately we were away and couldn't see them! But I've been in touch and i'll bring them to Liverpool again, to play at our Liverpool Calling night!

I think the good thing about French music is that they don't have NME nor BRIT school...even the unoriginal bands who rip off The Libertines are usually much better than the holloway road wannabes over here.

There's a compilation called "Paris Calling" which features some really cool french bands such as Second Sex (their "Lick My Boots" track is totally ace, very Gun Glub), The Plasticines, Les Shades etc...i recommend it!

Pravda are ace, and Nelson are fucking fantastic. We did a "Paris Calling" night at Korova last year, with Brooklyn, Sheraff and Nelson...Nelson were just amazing. I hope to do something like that again!

BimboLimboSpam · by **BimboLimboSpam** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:07 pm

It's all about Fatal Bazooka

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Subversive · by **Subversive** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:52 pm

Is that Yelle in that video Bimbs? The girl on the phone

BimboLimboSpam · by **BimboLimboSpam** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:14 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Subversive
 Is that Yelle in that video Bimbs? The girl on the phone
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Oui

Subversive · by **Subversive** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:35 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by BimboLimboSpam
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Subversive
 Is that Yelle in that video Bimbs? The girl on the phone
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Oui

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Her solo stuff is pretty good too. Have you heard of Soko?

BimboLimboSpam · by **BimboLimboSpam** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:57 pm

Nope, not dead keen on Yelle to be honest or much of the stuff I heard while I was out there, except all the stuff on this radio station that has no presenters or adverts and can only be picked up in remote parts of the countryside... http://www.radiocoteaux.com/

They're very into 'slam', which is like a cross between rap and chanson, basically just spoken word stuff, and the most famous guy is Grand Corps Malade, but he's one of the few French men who can actually make the language sound unsexy.

kyoto-geisha · by **kyoto-geisha** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:43 pm

I'm not down with Soko however I think Yelle rocks!

a cause des garcons and that whole Tektonik dance craze thats kicking off in europe is pretty crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36e9kZcRWGI Just google Tecktonik and it brings up load sof randomn youtube vids of kids doing this crazy 90's rave thing

I know what you mean - it appears cool to us cause its french but is it really? Just looked at John and Jehn and they are bloody cool though. I think I hate them, they're too fucking cool. That video si wicked though, dirty birds

Subversive · by **Subversive** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:04 pm

The Shoes, there's another bunch of French newbies for you - they're doing loads of remixes at the mo

The Yak · by **The Yak** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:50 pm

I like em. They got soul.

TAXI!

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 The Shoes, there's another bunch of French newbies for you - they're doing loads of remixes at the mo
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DJIdiot · by **DJIdiot** on Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:07 am

Admittedly the French are making some big sounds at the moment, but there's some awesome stuff going on in UK too.. check these guys out:

www.myspace.com/theslipsmusic

Amazing production with some killer tunes to mix. Enough said ;-)

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