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gamine

elitism for the masses...

About Me

Hello, we are Gamine, would you like to see our video? It's for a song called 'Oh, mon chéri!' which is on our lovely album, 'Sabotage'. You just have to press play...
HELLO EVERYONE
First of all, etiquette dictates that we should satisfy your thirst for information. We'd normally be inclined to let you know about our lovely album, 'SABOTAGE', and how it has changed people's lives and made them into entirely decent human beings, about how our concerts have more or less revolutionised the world of music, not to mention scandalised those who previously thought that strumming a handful of E chords was enough to win acclaim. But, no, life is too short to talk about our unique talents. We'll let you decide if you're worthy of us.
However, if you come to the conclusion that you have what it takes to succeed as a Gamine fan then we welcome you with open arms. Some of you at this point are no doubt desperate to prove your worth with a copy of our MARVELLOUS ALBUM, 'SABOTAGE', which you cannot, for love nor money, find in the town you call home. Well, we have a solution: you can BUY IT ONLINE here at www.theflowershoprecordings-online.com
In the meantime, feel free to download our songs, share them with your pals, put them on all your computers and iPods and use on MySpace as often as you want.
And if you're feeling in the mood for extra Gamine, why not click on the playlist opposite or visit us at www.last.fm/music/Gamine/Sabotage to listen to our album, or come to our PureVolume page to find some more songs to download, or come and find us on Facebook (we're just so modern, aren't we)?
And finally, an exciting new development, A GAMINE GROUP! Yes, we are happy to announce our approval of a group that has been founded in our name by one of our lovely friends. You can find it here, at "Distingués Lovers of Gamine". Feel free to join and add your two penn'orth / two cents / euros / yen / kroner etc. We would like to point out that mindless adulation of your heroes is not obligatory (as we could easily become even more big-headed than we are already) and that all interesting discussions (in any language) are welcome.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/11/2005
Band Website: gamine.net
Band Members: Claudia and Ian
Influences: French films noirs, especially if they have 'Rififi' in the title; 'A Bout de Souffle'; 'Daisies'; Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, Julie Christie, Greta Garbo and Audrey Hepburn; Cary Grant and Alain Delon; Fred Chopin; Tom Waits; Richard Wagner; Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, John Barry, Edward Artemyev, Gabriel Yared, Angelo Badalamenti, Michel Legrand, Nino Rota and Zbigniew Preisner; David Goodis and Raymond Chandler; Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Pierre Melville, Guy Maddin, Federico Fellini, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Stanley Kubrick; Jerome K. Jerome and Boris Vian; Jorge Ben; Bob Paisley; Kraftwerk and cycling; D.A.F. and Pyrolator; Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra; Isaac Hayes; Michel Polnareff; La Lupe; Astor Piazzolla; Scott Walker and Marc Almond; Chet Baker (singing) and Shirley Horn; Shirley Bassey, Richard Harris, Johnny Harris and Jimmy Webb; Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra; Magazine, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Psychedelic Furs; Pizzicato 5, Akiko Yano and Y.M.O.; Jane Siberry and The Cocteau Twins; Julie London and George Formby (especially their hard to find 'Love Duets' album on 78rpm...), pianos, French chanson...
Sounds Like: Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, St. Etienne, Goldfrapp, Madeleine Peyroux, Billy MacKenzie, Barbara, Francoise Hardy, Peggy Lee, Julee Cruise, Mazzy Star with a piano, Stina Nordenstam, Antony and the Johnsons with a lady singer.

Record Label: slaughterback
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Doing time in Heaven

One thing I learnt in the Indian sub-tropics is that you cannot decapitate Buddha and hope to get away with it.Up until this catastrophic morning, I was blessed with a certainty of heaven's approval o...
Posted by gamine on Thu, 29 May 2008 05:03:00 PST

Playing with Sparks

25 May 2008, 20:00 Islington, London, London and South East NW1Cost : 20 pounds.SPARKS 21 ALBUMS IN 21 NIGHTS-NO. 1 IN HEAVEN (1979)..... and GAMINE! Only an invitation to support Sparks could inspire...
Posted by gamine on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:33:00 PST

Gamine in Moscow

Hello darlingsAs you may know, we recently popped over to Moscow to entertain our Muscovite friends with some special Russian-style Gamine 'romance' songs.We had a lovely time and have decided, with o...
Posted by gamine on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:44:00 PST

Did I fill the world with lovebirds?*

While most suitors choose expensive earrings for birthday presents, some try to do something a little more special. On one of these occasions, my beau, having doubtless been made aware of my irrationa...
Posted by gamine on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:32:00 PST

Daily Profunditties

Inconceivable though it may seem, I have secretly been harbouring a desire to go camping. Naturally, you may chuckle at the idea of Gamine going camping, as has everybody else I have probed on the sub...
Posted by gamine on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:58:00 PST

A 'Mary Poppins' episode ('Voice of Space' revisited...)

Hello darlingsNormally we wouldn't respond to begging, but since it is Christmas, or "Winterval", as Blair's Blackshirts have offensively re-christened it for fear of offending people who don't believ...
Posted by gamine on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:53:00 PST

Gamine's efforts to organise World Peace

Hello darlingswe thought we should tell you about yet another of our exciting adventures. This time we were invited by the Great Satan itself, America, to come and entertain its minions at its very ow...
Posted by gamine on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:32:00 PST

Gamine have invaded YouTube...

Hello darlingswe thought we would brighten up your afternoon by telling you that we have indeed sorted out the dire state of the popular video site, YouTube, by adding our own estimable presence to it...
Posted by gamine on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:06:00 PST

Voice of Space

Hello darlingsThank you all so much for your responses to our last missive. It appears that some of you understand this computer malarkey rather well, so we have done our best to appear similarly well...
Posted by gamine on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:16:00 PST

How very modern we are!

Hello darlingsnow that we have mastered our computers and become part of the modern world, we wanted to ask if any of you had done the same, specifically with reference to the whole Torrent download t...
Posted by gamine on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:17:00 PST