Les Sans Culottes
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| Les Sans Culottes | |
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| Origin | Brooklyn, New York |
| Genres | French rock |
| Years active | 1998–Present |
| Labels | Vibratone Records Escargot-Go |
| Associated acts | Electric Six, Detroit Cobras, Satanicide, Bill Carney's Jug Addicts, The Metropolecats, The Don't Look Now Jug Band, The Tombstoners, Anna Copacabanna and The Mg 5, The Spunk Lads, Gaijin A Go Go, Steve De La Steve and Goatpants, Bernie Luau and The Easy Leis, Night Wigga, Madam Robot and The Lust Brigade, Discovery, The Electric Mess, Moisturizer |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | |
| Clermont Ferrand : vocals Kit Kat le Noir : vocals Edith Pissoff : vocals Theo Neugent : guitar Johnny Dieppe : Keyboards Sid Vichyssoise : Bass guitar Jacques Strappe : Drums |
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| Past members | |
| Gigi Soleil Albert Camembert Jean Luc Retard Beau Pantalons Luc Panatalons - aka Le Marquis! Celine Dijon M'Arc de Triomphe Max Gauche Francoise Hardly - aka Jeanaté Gilles Pamplemousse Lola La Chaise Malcolm Smart Ali La Pointe Axl Rouge Pascal Blase - aka Horace de Bussy Jean Paul Georges-Ringo Jacques Sheer-Rock Cal D'Hommage Maurice Chevrolet Roget Bontemps Jean L'Effete Pierrot Le Fou Joe Camus Anouk Ennui Harry Covery |
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Les Sans Culottes is a French language rock band from Brooklyn, New York. They perform original material as well as covers of French rock songs and French-language reworkings of some classic American rock songs. Their name is a reference to the citizen soldiers of the French Revolution.
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[edit] History
The band was formed in 1998 by Clermont Ferrand after he travelled to France and developed a deep interest in French pop and yé-yé music of the 1960s, particularly artists such as Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, France Gall, Jacques Dutronc and Nino Ferrer. The band made its debut in April 1998, at Freddy's Back Room, a neighborhood bar in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The original lineup was singer-frontman Ferrand, vocalists Kit Kat Le Noir and Gigi Soleil, drummer Albert Camembert, bassist Jean Luc Retard, keyboardist Beau Pantalons, and guitarist Luc Panatalons - aka Le Marquis!. Retard quit following this first show (only to return the following year), thus inaugurating a long list of over 25 lineup changes over the next ten years. Vocalists Ferrand and Kit Kat Le Noir are the only remaining original members.
In 2005, the band's guitarist and drummer attempted to start another French language band with some former members and others and to call themselves "Les Sans Culottes". The original group brought a trademark infringement claim in Federal Court in Manhattan which resulted in a court order barring the new group from using the name of the original group. The new group eventually reformed as Nous Non Plus.
In June 2008 Les Sans Culottes embarked on a 10-city US tour with The Detroit Cobras.
In July 2009 the band played its first ever shows in France, performing at La Feline and L'Opa Bastille in Paris and at the 18th annual F'Estival des Musiques d'ici et d'ailleurs in Châlons-en-Champagne.
In October 2009, bassist Francoise Hardly (aka Jeanaté) left the band to join The Detroit Cobras and was replaced by Sid Vichyssoise.
The band is currently at work on its seventh album.
Their song "Allo Allo - I love you" of the album "Fixation Orale" was selected as the background for Nexus S Ad (published on Dec 2010).
[edit] Discography
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[edit] Albums
- "Les Sans Culottes" (1999, Escargot-Go Records)
- "The Ennui and the Ecstasy" (2001, Escargot-Go Records)
- "Faux Realism" (2002, Aeronaut)
- "Full Frontal Crudité- Live in Paris" (2003, Digital Club Network)
- "Fixation Orale" (2004, Aeronaut)
- "Le Weekender" (2007, Vibratone Records)
- "Pataphysical Graffiti" (2012, Vibratone Records)
