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Louis Philippe

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A potted biography could read like this: Louis Philippe - French musician and writer, born in Normandy, lived in Paris, Brussels and now London, which has been his residence since 1987. Loves his Burgundy wine, Arsenal FC, Francis Poulenc and the poetry of Philip Larkin. So-called 'cult artist' associated with él records in the late eighties, with a small but dedicated fan base; 17 albums released to this date, plus many collaborations with other artists (Valérie Lemercier, April March, Mathilde Santing, Cathal Coughlan, Cinnamon, The Clientele, La Buena Vida, Bertrand Burgalat, Sean O'Hagan, HaLo, Keiichi Suzuki, PJ Proby, Simon Fisher-Turner, Laila Amezian, etc); better known as a political essayist and football writer in his native country; lesser known for his knowledge of edible fungi. Trained as a philosophy teacher, first real job as a cook. Decent-ish chess player. Co-author of the 'Dictionnaire du Rock'. Very busy. Make that very very busy.
Other new releases (click on the pictures for more details):
Louis Philippe Live double-album
. Listen to four of this album's songs here
Stuart Moxham with Louis Philippe, 'The Huddle House'. Listen to four of this album's songs here
Finally, you can also listen to many, many more Louis Philippe songs on the net here , thanks to virb.com, the connoisseur's alternative to MySpace.

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Member Since: 11/22/2006
Band Website: louisphilippe.co.uk
Band Members: I've been a "solo" artist for over twenty years now. A description that is both inexact and unfair to the musicians who've spent most of this time with me, and who have helped me shape my songs all through this period. None more so than Danny Manners, pianist, double-bassist and superlative arranger, to whom you can, and should pay a visit to .
Influences: Ravel, Poulenc, Fauré, Brian Wilson, Prefab Sprout, Bobby Fuller, Jacques Brel, The Kinks, XTC, Richard Thompson, The Zombies, Quarteto Em Cy, Jackie deShannon, Les Baxter, Bertrand Burgalat, Burt Bacharach, Edu Lobo, Sibelius, Duke Ellington, The Young Marble Giants and it goes on, and on, and on.
Sounds Like: summer, sometimes; or autumn; or spring; winter on occasions.

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Record Label: wonder records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Playlist for a rotten summer

You may wonder, of course, 'what summer?', if you're living in the British Isles, or in the rest of Western Europe; so let's just take 'summer' in its sense of a calendar season&.wait&the sun's just p...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:07:00 PST

Making Hay with the Young Marble Giants

I could start with this old lady, who'd made a hat out an umbrella and was feeding absent cats just outside the venue, muttering to herself whilst looking at Ken, Andrea and myself in the eye.Or with ...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Mon, 28 May 2007 02:40:00 PST

WCR radio interview online...

I couldn't possibly call this a blog entry. It is more a very brief public announcement. I visited Chris Evans in Wolverhampton last week, jumping at the chance to take part in a two-hour show about...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Wed, 23 May 2007 07:18:00 PST

A Japanese spring

It was like seeing an old and very dear friend for the first time in ten years - to find out that this friend looked even younger now than then. I hadn't travelled to Japan since Danny and I did our ...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Sun, 13 May 2007 07:44:00 PST

An Unknown Spring

Finishing a record is like saying adieu to a friend on a train platform.   (Cheer up, Louis&)   The finality of it, the melancholy of it.   (Have a drink!) ...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:40:00 PST

Louis Philippe Live on MySpace

Apologies - this is not a proper blog entry, not yet anyway. I've been thinking about putting together a young explorer's guide to the terra incognita of classic French pop. You know, Christophe, Mich...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:05:00 PST

Records old and new, three heroines at the Jazz Cafe, and Judee Sill in Heaven.

First things first. A strange adage, isn't it? What about second things third, for a change? But we'll deal with logic later. I'm not thinking very logically at the moment. A very agressive bug has ra...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:27:00 PST

Back in the studio!...and live album news.

Ken and I have drifted into the recording of my new studio album; yes, drifted is the word. We'd finished working on The Clientele's strings arrangements; and, suddenly, with the Live! album already i...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:56:00 PST

Live Album Tracklist

Ken Brake and I mastered the two discs which will compose my live double album yesterday (that is Tuesday 9 January). Phew. I'd promised a full tracklist a while ago; I can now fulfil that promise, no...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:59:00 PST

A new MP3 for the angels. Still something to do with John Lennon.

The blog can wait. Quite fun to change these MP3's from time to time. This new one is as obscure, and unexpected as they come. A commission from S.H.A.D.O. Records in Italy, back in 2000; ''could you ...
Posted by Louis Philippe on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:10:00 PST