Bestival, non? People were all in costume, very high on drugs, it was a very psychedelic experiment! And everyone went on stage, there was a stage invasion, Thomas invited everyone to come in costumes, it was very chaotic in a beautiful way! Yeah, we did one with only teenagers who were on ecstasy, who were on drugs. This is the first time you’ve been in the UK for a while? Laura Snapes met guitarist Christian Mazzalai. Long the butt of many jokes, French pop music’s goat could have been saved by the band’s 2000 debut, United – had they not eschewed their mother tongue to sing in English, thus losing the République’s famed support for native musicians and falling foul of the Toubon law, a quota which stipulates that 40% of music played on the radio must be in French.
Along with Deck D’Arcy and Thomas Mars, and later on his brother, Laurent Brancowitz, he’s been a member of the Versailles quartet since their early 90′s school days, but it’s only been with the release of their almost universally acclaimed fourth album this year, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, that their native critics have bestowed upon them the rightfully deserved amount of praise.įrom the French perspective, it’s almost possible to understand the distaste at Phoenix’s musical collaboration horizontale.
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