Louise Attaque

Louise Attaque is a French band existing since 1994. Her style moves between chanson and folk rock. They evolved from the school band Caravage, their first album " Louise Attaque " sold 2.5 million copies right away. They sing in French.

History

Beginning of the 90s got to Gaëtan Roussel and Robin Feix know in school in Montargis. When shortly afterwards the drummer Alexandre Margraff came to them, they formed the band Caravage, after the Italian painter Caravaggio. Their first recordings sold only in the immediate vicinity but soon was followed by appearances in bars and beer tents. After the temporary lead guitarist David left the band, they looked by advert for a new member and found Arnaud Samuel, a violinist. The four finally in 1994 called themselves around in Paris Louise Attaque. The name refers to Louise Michel, an anarchist of the 19th century, and the Violent Femmes, an American rock band. With the eponymous first album until then little-known band managed the 1997 breakthrough. The album was one of the 50 most successful French albums of all time. 1998 was followed by a tour, which also later released on DVD. The second album, titled " Comme on a dit " sold 700,000 copies in 2000 even before Louise Attaque split to pursue other projects.

Gaëtan Roussel and Arnaud Samuel jointly formed the band Tarmac, while Robin Feix and Alexandre Margraff founded with other Ali Dragon. Well, five years after the release of " Comme on a dit" the four musicians were, however, together again at the fall of 2005 their third album, À plus tard crocodile ( a literal translation of See you later, alligator, one of the jazz and blues include music derived expression), which was published by the label ATMOSPHERIQUES on 5 September 2005, which had already released the first two albums. This was followed by tours of India, South America and Russia.

Discography

Videography

  • 2006: Ya t'il quelqu'un ici! ( recorded on 25 April 2006 at the Zénith in Paris concert recording )

Awards

Side projects

  • Tarmac
  • Ali Dragon
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