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Thermoboy

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About Me


Construit sur les cendres de deux formations rock réunionnaises des années 90, Thermoboy est un concept-groupe brûlant : rongés par le feu de la pop et du rock minimaliste, les membres de ce power trio reprennent aujourd’hui leurs guitares et concrétisent enfin un projet musical de longue date. Fred (guitare, chant), Keng-Sam (basse, chant) et Olivier (batterie, chant) font feu de quelques influences évidentes : Pixies, Sonic Youth et Nirvana entrent en collision avec les Beatles, dans un répertoire de compositions mêlant mélodie et bruit blanc. Thermoboy n'a pas inventé la poudre, mais sait s'en servir avec brio et énergie. Après avoir choisi quelques scènes de renom en 2006 (Rock Sessions du Kabardock, Grand Boucan, World Cup de Surf de Saint-Leu), le groupe entame une année de développement avec les premières parties de Burning Heads et de Therapy?. « No Patience for Painting », premier E.P. autoproduit du groupe, est en cours d’enregistrement et sera distribué numériquement courant 2007.
Plus d'infos sur : www.thermoboy.com
Stuck on his native Reunion Island (Indian Ocean), Fred Banor a.k.a. Thermoboy never walked down the "world music" path as his dad once predicted. Raised to the sounds of U2, The Cure and mainstream 80's pop music, his musical tastes sharpened through the years and started pointing to bands like The Smiths, Prefab Sprout, Joy division and R.E.M. Back in 1990, His first band, Peanuts, became quickly reminescent of various international acts that had somehow managed to reach the emptiness of Indian Ocean : Pixies, Nirvana and P.J. Harvey started influencing his songwriting, constantly developing and reaching maturity while discovering lo-fi acts like Sebadoh, Pavement and Pedro The Lion. Years after its demise, Peanuts morphed into Thermoboy, claiming its right to a "line-up libre". Thermoboy 's music is still played in trio : Olivier, Fred's very own brother, stands behind the drumkit and joins forces with bassist Keng Sam, and a random analogic synthetizer which was stolen to The Rentals. Thermoboy are actually working on its self-produced debut EP, entitled "No Patience For Painting", to be released as a free download on their website.
Official website : www.thermoboy.com

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Member Since: 4/16/2006
Band Website: thermoboy.com
Band Members: Fred Banor, Keng Sam Chane Chick Te, Olivier Banor

Thermogang : Gobking , Joanna Starostin , Jay Boother
Photos : Olivier Dumont

Sounds Like: the real thing, walks like an egyptian.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

NEW TRACK - No Code

Straight out of the Thermostudio, as promised. A preview of "No Code", from the forthcoming E.P. Also available as a free download at www.thermoboy.com. Hope you enjoy it.F.
Posted by Thermoboy on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:03:00 PST

ProToolerie

Hey guys, since the old blog is inactive, we're now using that one. Just a little word to let you know that Thermoboy is actually recording a bunch of new tracks, including "Home Of The Bitches" which...
Posted by Thermoboy on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:18:00 PST

GIG ALERT : Thermoboy+Burning Heads+Therapy?

Thermoboy will be supporting Burning Heads (FR) and Therapy (ROI) @ Rougail Rock 2007 in Saint-Pierre (Reunion Island) on april 6th, starting at 10PM. That's one hell of a sweaty night for you guys, i...
Posted by Thermoboy on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:48:00 PST

ESPN.com Motion: James the MVP with 29 points

hahamy browser actually filled the subject for this post AUTOMATICALLY. i started typing whatever i was typing and it gave me this. feck. now that reminds me that i have a lebron james jersey that won...
Posted by Thermoboy on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:59:00 PST

SIGNING UP AT HIP PLACES

Oh well, everybody else is doing it, despite the NAUSEATING design... Invited by the sexiest telegraphist on earth, Thermoboy signed up recently at myspace.com : Thermoboy's myspace page. It was reass...
Posted by Thermoboy on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:38:00 PST