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Olivier Perola and Arnaud Stosse-Valentin met in 1988 in High School Poincaré in Nancy. They were seniors in High School at the time, majoring in Philosophy and Art. They have looked down on each other for several months, then, awkwardly enough, fell in love with each other. They then decided to play the guitar together. That was when the story really started. A first child was born from this union: ..Evil in my brain.., a 10-title tape which was recorded with an Amstrad hi-fi and Tandy..s mikes and the help of some guy named Xavier Klaine, who had just won the Nancy Conservatoire..s first prize in piano. But the latter took part in the songs playing the bass, since he had mistaken his instrument when he left home. That was Alive the Roupettes.. first feat of arms.
It was almost randomly that they played on stage for the first time in a trash metal festival (find the intruders!) among burping and distraught hairy musicians. There, the famous drummer of the hard rock band ..Aftermath.. took the drumsticks and never let them go: Jean-François Dedieu was, from then on, the band..s drummer. Alive the Roupettes was thus complete, but made its first mistake: each member of the group gave himself a ridiculous nickname.They signed up their SACEM contracts of their second demo ..Coquelicots of death.. in 1992 under these nicknames.. Better second demo, since it was recorded on a 4-track tape recorder TASCAM 424, which was, for the age, the forefront of home-studio technology.
The band then got more famous and started to tour throughout the region. 1994 was the year of more serious projects as François Hadji-Lazzaro (Garçons Bouchers, Pigalle) spotted them and they finally signed up their first album at Boucherie Prod / PIAS The album ..Beautiful Father.. was released and well-come by the public. A hundred concerts were then performed (one of them at the Elysée-Montmartre), playing as the first parts of cool bands such as Garçons Bouchers, Raoul Petite, Ludwig Von 88, Aston Villa..
In 1998, the band thought about confirming with a second opus, but it was slightly slacking off, so the band was dissolved. Xavier, the bass player, found shelter in Paris, Jean-François left for Auch, in the Gers to raise ducks. Concerts got rarer, the tracks of the second album more or less stagnated. In spite of a last memorable concert at the Terminal Export in 2000, Alive the Roupettes signed up for a big, almost never-ending break. Until 2002, nothing happened, except for a few ..apéros.. when tracks were being listened to one more time, which was quite pathetic.
No one ever thought they had such an incredible capacity of recovering. And yet, 2003 is the year when everything starts anew and the left-aside album is reconsidered and brought up-to-date thanks to Cubase: everything is recast, kneaded and mixed. The quartet is now a duet; the original pair is back. The album comes to life under the name ..Saint-Max... The latter had first been recorded with real instruments and the four of them, but was then promoted by the two fellows with play-back tracks and quite an artificial sound, which turned out to be the diametrically reversed process of a so-called normal band.
Alive the Roupettes is thus back. Its name now is ..Saint-Max.. and it performs karaoke and STUUUUUUUUUUUFF.
