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| | Posted by Les Skalopes on Wednesday, April 23rd at 06:33 AM
Born during winter 1997, Les Skalopes, a band from Bures sur Yvette (Paris suburbs) strides fervently over concert halls, festivals and ballrooms to make people know their music : ska music mixed with a punkrock spirit, and powered by a boosting rhythm section, a generous brass section and the energetic voice of their female singer, mocking the shortcoming of modern societies .
The 10 musicians share their passion of music through more than 150 concerts, sharing the stage with The Toasters, The Slackers, Emir Kusturica, Inner Terrestrial, Les Fils de Teupuh…
Concerts which have enabled them to build up a faithful and vaster and vaster audience as much as a solid stage-band reputation, far from the showbiz glittering world and the preformated actual musical trends.
After several demos, the band produced their first LP “Chasse à l’enfant” (Children to hunt) in 2005, with a video produced in December 2006.
The band second album will soon come up.
… On tour ...
“La Croisière Skamuse” 2002 and the « Skaraté Tour » 2003 (French west coast), the “Kosovo Project 2005” in France, Italy, ex Yugoslavia, the” Wild Cocktail Southern Tour” 2006 in the east and south of France
… Medias talk …
“Les Skalopes” develop a very pure ska “répertoire” carried by a generous brass section and magnified by the voice and energy of the singer.”
“… Faithful to real ska music, this festival welcomes Les Skalopes, a band touring a lot which has one recognition in Paris and around.”
… The band …
“To understand what is Les Skalopes, you have to see the band on stage because of the whole atmosphere. We are 10 guys moving all around, sometimes on small stages, all packed. It’s some mess worth watching! And our singer is everywhere jumping, singing. We call her our Pauline Black”
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