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C'est la Mort

Secretly American

About Me


The "t" is silent. Both of them.

English: Seattle's C'est La Mort are a dark and enthralling band who combine the drive of post-punk with the melancholia of darkwave and the textures of shoegaze.
Deutsch: Wir moechten Teil keiner Jugendbewegung sein. (Wenn Rio nicht dabei ist).
Francais:

for more pictures, anecdotes, info please go to
cestlamort.com

treating online polls like a voting machine in Florida/Ohio:

Category: Local band/artist (Unsigned)
"Where has this band been all my shoegaze-loving life?" - The Seattle Weekly
"Tödlich gut" - Coast is Clear

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/29/2004
Band Website: cestlamort.com
Band Members: Kim bass + vocals, Geoff guitar, Jim : guitar + vocals. Machell: drums.
Influences: Guitar Pedals, Shiny Objects, pretty much any band that ends in U.K.

Sounds Like: Bands that start with C: the Cure, Cocteau Twins, the Chameleons, Comsat Angels, Church, Colin Newman...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new website

we redid our website from the old black + white one (which was a pain to maintain) to a gray and white one (which is a bit less of a pain to maintain).  http://www.cestlamort.comCheck it out, let...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:06:00 PST

show some love...

and vote for us on the NW Source People's pics for best band. You can vote once per day. xo,C'est la Mortlink:click herehttp://www.nwsource.com/peoplespicks/2007/vote/?section= entertainment&lid=5277...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Wed, 16 May 2007 02:50:00 PST

Recording...

we're recording this weekend at Static Halos (Mars Accelerator home base). There should be enough for a full-length when it's all said and done.We'll post stuff when it's ready. Wish us luck....
Posted by C'est la Mort on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:55:00 PST

We're featured on a French podcast

We're featured on the weekly podcast for the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles along with Maps and some other great stuff. Go to http://www.lesinrocks.com/podcast.cfm.. to check it out. We're in po...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:25:00 PST

Flyering Etiquette: The Law of the Streets

Seattle has a long tradition of informal, "outsider" art, of which show flyers are probably the most transitory, yet most visible.  Artists such as Art Chantry and Jeff Kleinsmith established def...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:43:00 PST

friend no. 666....

well, as of now we have 665 friends.  Who's going to be the lucky number 666?  Request away, it is "November Coming Fire" right now...  Who will have the "samhain grin"?  Geoff...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:07:00 PST

NW Source People's Picks

Firm believers in the ideal verson of the masses, we were overjoyed to see that C'est La Mort was chosen as a finalist for the best unsigned band in the NW Source People's Picks for 2006.  link ...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:17:00 PST

Drummer-go-round

Josh had to suddenly leave the band due to health reasons, with his last show being 6/8 at the Vogue. Phil (Black Noise Cannon) will be filling in for our next show (6/22) at the Nectar and we are et...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:17:00 PST

Are you familiar?

Greg from the Are you familiar? blog wrote a short piece on Seattle, featuring Welcome, us, and the Beakers.  You can check it out here:http://areyoufamiliar.blogspot.com/I'd almost suggest calli...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:28:00 PST

Strength in Numbers reviews

nadamucho.com did dueling reviews of the Strength in Numbers compilation.  Read them here and here.For those of you too lazy to sift through things about all the other bands on there (or to follo...
Posted by C'est la Mort on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:25:00 PST