The Lovers (French band from Sheffield) played a live show on Sunday the 28th of September 2008 in Club 8, Amsterdam. Here they perform their hit "Crik Crak." Read their biography:
"Oui oui, we are French, live in Sheffield, love cheese and wine from Languedoc (in particular 'Minervois' and 'Fitou').
We met though a common Jamaican friend and producer Paul 'Groucho' Smikle after years of him telling me (Marion) I should meet 'Fred de Fred'.
I was just coming back from New York, only with my suitcase and pretty much heart- broken. I had all sorts of jobs there including one as a Bunny Girl. Before that I was in San Francisco where I was singing Jazz.
We finally met on September 11th 2001. We were in the studio recording a song called 'Metropolis':
"Tear down the building, tear down the walls, tear down the churches, tear down it all.
Well smash up the bridges, smash up the walls, we'll write a history and never fall ".
...when the phone rang and we learned what had just happened !
I had met Groucho when I was leaving in London where I had a band called 'Mademoiselle', qualified by The Guardian as "arty poppy-punk sexiness"! At that time I also worked with different producers, and one of my songs 'Wonderland' got picked up by Nellee Hooper. Featuring Roisin Murphy (Moloko) it got to No. 2 in the UK Chart Club, with a remix by Roger Sanchez the summer before I met Fred. So its that Sheffield connection again !
Fred had been friends with Mark Brydon for years. He came to Sheffield in the mid '80s after a party in the South of France where he met his long time friend Brad Scott (double bass and ukulele player). Brad arrived at the party from Pamplona dressed in a tuxedo, in an old Hillman car, with a ghetto blaster playing The Doors, and paying for his petrol with bottles of champagne along the way, as he had no money.
After 2 weeks of partying down there, Brad invited Fred to Sheffield. There he met Chakk and the Fon Force and decided to stay. Since then he has been involved in many forms of music in different countries :
~ Electro in Sheffield with Robin Taylor Firth (Nightmares on Wax), Robert Gordon (Sweet Exorcist), Sarah Jay (Massive Attack).
~ Rock album in Texas (about the 19th century Dandy of crime Lacenaire) with Joe Gracey (Stevie Ray Vaughan) and 'On picture in a frame' with 'la crème de la crème' of alternative Country Music, Kimmie Rhodes and Willie Nelson.
~ Flamenco show in Valencia with a Master of Flamenco Lele de Triana.
~ Voodoo Dance show in Ivory Coast with Haitian singer Ife.
Before and in between all that, he had a stint as a smuggler on a boat, run-ins with the Mafia in the old Soviet Union, lengthy stays in monasteries, and involvement in the student riots in Paris in 1968, and Notting Hill in 1975.
The Lovers started when we met Jarvis Cocker at a gig of Richard Hawley (a long time friend of Fred too), and started to talk about wine with him. Two weeks later we had a call saying Jarvis had written a song for us. It was 'La Degustation'.
Then Jarvis wrote 'Basque Country' (which is my story...I am Basque) and 'Fred de Fred'.
We wrote the rest of the album and co-produced it with Parrot and Dean Honer (All seeing I, I Monster), Kevin Bacon and Jon Quarmby (Finley Qaye, Pretenders), Leigh Devlin (Minus Blue) and our friend Robin Downe."
http://www.voilathelovers.com
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crik crik crak~ :O
chompoo123 3 years ago