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About Me

LOS BONOBOS are a duo who fuse elements of French folk and funky bluesy guitar with cheeky lyrics. They are: Heike, eccentric Germanic by birth- and blessed with a special sense of humour- and Lionel, moody Frenchman (Breton, actually!) in charge of guitar. Heike arrived at singing via the theatre/ performance art route. Lionel used to tour with Blues and Gothic bands. Together they create mellow tunes with easy-on-the-eye costume changes (lots of those!), from tomboy to diva and beyond. Their lyrics focus on the ridiculous ("Haircut") with cheeky wordplay ("Lettuce Make Love") and some shameless ransacking of foreign tongues ("Beaujolais Blues", Sushi Lover). Oh, and there is always room for improvisation. Be prepared to be surprised. Feedback from recent gigs: "Fantastic... I haven't laughed like this in weeks..!"

My Interests

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Member Since: 26/03/2006
Band Members: Heike F. -singer/songwriter, and Lionel P. guitarist/groove rider.
Influences: Heike says: Dunno.. animals mainly. Take their example: Each one has been given a noise to communiate with, and they just get on with it and stretch that as far as it will. If it's a grunt it's a grunt.. My palette lies somewhere between chirping and grunting. There you go. Musically I am still learning. If I had the choice I would probably want to write songs like Martyn Jacques from the Tiger Lillies. Over to you Lionel, you're going to have to provide our street cred here.. Lionel? Say something, quick..! (Any day now, folks, he's a do-er, not a talker.)
Sounds Like: they're having a lot of fun
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Los Bonobos need You!

Dear Dears,Los Bonobos are playing at The Albert pub MONDAY 16th February, 9pm.Usually we are not asking much of you in the way of attention, but this time round we would like to impress on you how im...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:27:00 GMT

gig on Monday 22nd September

We would like to let you know that we are playing a few songs Monday night (22nd September) in Brighton at the Latest Bar (used to be the Joogleberry, in Manchester Street). Starts at 8pm, a...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:42:00 GMT

gig on Sunday rescheduled due to Candy Bar refurb

..TR> Los Bonobos Gig at Eurotrash 10 Aug 2008, 20:00 - candy bar [Edit] [Cancel] bottom of st james street, tiny door watch out for it. Brighton, London and South East UK CANCELLED Hi Folks, sorr...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:38:00 GMT

Quick hello

Oh, so much has happened recently, I must sit down and write it soon. We were on radio last week, and tonight we have a gig in the sweetest little venue. So little in fact, that we could have sold it ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:27:00 GMT

Did some free recording

We recently had the opportunity to do a day's worth of recording at a brandnew studio in the Docklands, London. We really didn't have to pay a penny, which was a promotional offer (sadly finished now)...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:05:00 GMT

Back on the Blog!

Hi,thanks for everyone who checked into our Myspace every so often. The reason why we hadn't updated it with any blogs for a couple of months: First we worked all hours to save up for a month in the U...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:07:00 GMT

Like a Puppet on a String

Hi,here is another video post by our recent Healthy Concert host Ian:http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q92/beatroute23/?acti on=view¤t=losbonobos.flvWell, what can I say... never quite imagined ...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:31:00 GMT

Healthy Concert video snippet

Hi,Ian the lovely guy who hosted last Saturday's Healthy Concert has posted a video of one of our songs under this link:http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q92/beatroute23/?act ion=view¤t=MOREWIND...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:35:00 GMT

Gigs, gigs,gigs!

It's gig week for Los Bonobos! Just like buses, these come three in a row after a relative lull over Xmas and the New Year. Last weekend, we played to the good people of Whitstable in Kent- and what a...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:14:00 GMT

Don't mention the band

HI,it's Heike here.I know my grandma would be proud of this, so here it goes, this week's claim to fame: On my way back from the train station I was stopped in the street and asked whether I have time...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:56:00 GMT