Vive La Fete

   
Artist: Vive La Fete

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Republique Populaire

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Attaque Surprise

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 15


   
 Nuit Blanche

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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Glamorous electro-rock duet Vive la Fête acclaim from Belgium and ar, perhaps, i of the most distinctive European bands to successfully fuse synth pop and electro with a aphrodisiac, decadent aesthetic and punkey energy Department. Originally formed as a side project by Danny Mommens, ex-bassist for Belgian indie rock legends dEUS, to play some medicine together with his girlfriend, Vive la Fete (which literally translates as "Long Live the Party") promptly conventional themselves as a potent musical force-out and became a full-time job for everyone involved with the picture. Vive la Fete was formed in 1997 in Belgium when Mommens met Els Pynoo, ex-model and aspirant singer. The two cursorily observed their reciprocal love for all things kitsch, '80s electro-pop, and Serge Gainsbourg and became romantically involved. The identical get-go recordings of Vive la Fête were made by the pair in 1998 in Mommens' abode studio -- these eight-track demos were afterwards released by Kinky Star as the Je Ne Veux Pas EP (aka Paris). The first full-length proper, Attaque Surprise, was issued in 2001 by Belgian label Surprise Records. Pynoo handled vocals, Mommens switched from bass to guitar, and the band's lineup was rounded up by Dirk Cant on bass and Roel vanguard Espen on keyboards, piece Dirk Jans or Matthias Staendert took turns manipulation drums. With a aphrodisiac, vibrant good influenced by flash '80s electro-pop as intimately as guitar john Rock and the intention to make "medicine for everyone -- homosexuals, lesbians and everyone else -- to have fun to," Vive la Fete were ready to guide on the mankind. And the human race surrendered, although not quite the adult wide one that villains from sight movies seek to reign, simply just the world of high fashion. Perhaps thanks to Els Pynoo's former modeling feel and her contacts inside the diligence, or for some other, less obvious reasons, Vive la Fete's music soon became a highly sought soundtrack for various fashion shows.


By the time the band got around to cathartic its second gear book, Republique Populaire in 2002, famed French fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld had proclaimed himself a huge winnow of the group. He frequently secondhand their music during his shows, and soon offered the band an chance to perform live at some of his high profile shows in New York and Tokyo. That same year, Mommens took portion in what was to become dEUS' leave-taking go in supporting of their singles digest, suitably highborn No More Loud Music. Upon finish the tour the band called it quits, much to the dismay of their fans. Mommens was directly justify to centralise on Vive la Fete broad metre. In 2003, the band issued their third and mayhap strongest record, Nuit Blanche. In reinforcement of Nuit Blanche, the band toured relentlessly -- since their lyrics were virtually exclusively in French, their attract was clearly somewhat limited to continental Europe; however, they also performed successful shows in Russia, Mexico and Brazil. In 2004, dEUS conceiver Tom Barman distinct to raise the band for at least one more record, and Mommens promptly went back into that sheep pen. The roger Sessions proved turbulent, and Mommens left the band for good in front the record (issued a year later under the rubric Pocket Revolution) was completed. Vive la Fete continued their run of successful albums with Grand Prix, issued in 2005; Vive les Remixes, a collection of remixed tracks and covers (including, among others, a live deal on Deep Purple's "Child in Time"), followed a year after. In 2007, Vive la Fete returned with Jour de Chance, which the musicians themselves considered their "rockiest" endeavor to appointment.