JACQUES DUVALL + Juan Doultremont + Miam Monster Miam + Android 80 + Charline Rose + UFO Goes UFA

Sat 26th May 2007

The Luminaire presents
Freaksville Cafe, with
JACQUES DUVALL
+ Juan Doultremont
+ Miam Monster Miam
+ Android 80
+ Charline Rose
+ UFO Goes UFA

Doors 8.00
£5 via WeGotTickets
£6 door

Ladies and gentlemen, we've rarely had a more inventive, talented, curious group of people inside Luminaire since we opened. Please, don't miss this.

Jacques Duvall is known as a sarcastic tunesmith for several french pop stars. His first claim to fame was 'Banana Split', a worldwide hit for sweet sixteen Lio, in 1979. But he had been writing songs since the mid '70s for French underground diva Marie France and for The Runaways - Joan Jett's all-female band.
He then succeeded Serge Gainsbourg as lyricist for Alain Chamfort, the french Burt Bacharach.
Other collaborations followed, with among others Jane Birkin, Etienne Daho, Sparks, Telex.

In short, this guy's a dude.

Now, some background:

Benjamin Schoos (guitar) created garage band Phantom with Sophie Galet (drums) and Pascal Scalp (bass). He then decided to sign Duvall on his newly born record label Freaksville Records.

Benjamin is a lunatic character, very much an original, kind of a mix between Syd Barrett and Tintin. The two nutheads got along fine and recorded the album in two days, one day for the backing tracks and one for the vocals. Duvall came along with lyrics that had been turned down by other singers, mainly because they were too risqué. The result would be the perfect soundtrack for a demented spaghetti western or a cheap but chic lesbian vampire movie.

"Bambi is dead."
- Juan d'Oultremont Juan d'Oultremont was born on April 13, 1954, the same day Auguste Lumière, the inventor of the cinematograph, was buried.
In 1958, he decides to become an artist, but prefers not to keep his parents informed.
In 1972 he enters an Art School and makes them believe he'll be an interior decorator. He leaves there six years later with a painter's diploma and all without having to hold a brush.
In 1976, he founds the Cissite Movement behind the one he's gathering, for more than 30 years, all his practises : art, teaching (he's an installation and performances professor at the ERG - Graphic design school in Brussels), writing (novels, news, comics, theatre), songwriting (in September 1989, he's having a bath when he hears on Europe1 that one of his songs just replaced 'The Lambada' at No.1 in the Top 50), graphic design (record sleeves for the famous label Blue Note), radio (taking place every day in the 'jeu des dictionnaires' and the 'semaine infernale', cult broadcasts on the Belgian radio- RTBF), television (in a Belgian television broadcast 'La Télé Infernale'), Pom-Pom Boy (he founded seven years ago, a battalion of 'man-majorettes' with his neighbours ... nothing surprising about the name of his society: 'Yes, but what's your real job ?' ) And now on the initiative of Benjamin Schoos (Miam Monster Miam), Juan d'Oultremont has just recorded an unreal CD. Between performance and muting blues. Nine tracks that would tear off tears to Bambi if only this poor beast had not died during the recording sessions at the Soundstation. Bambi is dead? That's precisely the title of the album And now a word about Benjamin Schoos aka Miam Monster Miam; "l'homme libellule"

With his sixth album, Miam Monster Miam is more astonishing and amazing than ever. At 28 years old, Benjamin reinvents a french pop music which is familiar (Leo Ferré and Serge Gainsbourg are there), melodious , uplifting and typically absurds referring to the bands which filled with wonder and enchantement the past 30 years. A world apart, with the unexpected appearing after each note.

Before that, Android 80s is one Brian Carney (Briandroid), founder member and synthman of 80s/90s psychedelic freaks Poisoned Electrick Head, now resident in Belgium and in cahoots with the Freaksville posse. A one-man electronic spectacle with both feet still squarely planted in the bizarre zone.

A recent addition to the bill is Charline Rose, who delivers marvellous French Folk Pop songs, penned by Jacques Duvall, in the style of Benjamin Biolay and Françoise Hardy.

Charline Rose trained as an actress. She played theater, use her voice for commercials then she left Belgium for the united states, where she appeared as an extra in several movies, such as 'Rocky V', Oliver Stone's 'The Doors' and 'Cry Baby' by John Waters.

As music is her passion, she went on tour with her friends Calexico and Giant Sand, with whom she occasionally sang. And so she met PJ Harvey whose song 'The River' was covered and adapted in french by Charline. During a Christophe Miossec concert she met Jacques Duvall who later introduced her to Fred Momont. The newly formed trio then elaborated Charline Rose's album, entirely carried out in Fred's bathroom and garden.

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