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About Me

French Disco is a new festival of French music in London, aiming to celebrate French inventiveness and innovation both classique and nouveau, and bring you some merde-chaud bands while we're at it.
We are currently working on next year's festival. To put your band forward, please read 'how we function' blog. Also visit thefrenchdisconnection.com to get an idea of the music like to promote.
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"Leading importers of quality French acts and party-throwers par excellence"
Drowned in Sound
"Excellent Francophile music series"
Playlouder
"Bring the best of the current crop of French bands"
Maps Magazine
"The newest 'nouvelle vague'"
Sounds XP
"French is the new punk"
Soit dit en passant
"Guaranteed to cause many an outcry of "j'aime la musique franÃ§aise!"
Flavorpill London

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/21/2006
Band Website: thefrenchdisconnection.com
Band Members: The French Disconnection is 4 girls completely mad (about music)
Influences: Good music, good films, art, going abroad, having fun, making people happy, drinking too much but not too often, making people drink too much, meeting funny foreigners, traveling to England, BEING FRENCH AND LOVING IT!
Sounds Like: In 2006 we've had: The Konki Duet, Sebastien Tellier, Bertrand Burgalat, Monade, DJ Oof, Jean-Claude Vannier, Fugu, Hushpuppies, u e h, Adam Kesher and Neimo

Other countries have got fine musicians too, and we also like: Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Kings of Convenience, Philip Glass, Grandaddy, The Postal Service, Simian, The National, Mojave 3, M Ward, The Knife, John Barry, Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, Danny Elfman, Elliot Smith, Mercury Rev, Devendra Banhart, My Morning Jacket, David Bowie, Tindersticks, The Shortwave Set, Sigur Ros, Flaming Lips...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

How we function...

Hello tous, We can't keep up with the messages... This is to explain how we work and what you can and cannot expect from us. Sounds Of Echo is based in Paris, therefore all info/records must be sen...
Posted by French Disco on Tue, 09 May 2006 06:09:00 PST

The Summer Collection - July 25th - London Luminaire

In this evening's proceedings, one can spot a great many influences from a rich pop tradition. This tradition is contemporised and dragged into all manner of interesting shapes and positions, none mor...
Posted by French Disco on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 07:35:00 PST

Spring Collection been and gone

The sold-out first instalment of this years French Disconnection Festival brings together two French musicians with markedly different temperaments, a generation or more apart, but who share a vision ...
Posted by French Disco on Wed, 31 May 2006 01:38:00 PST