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The band La Femme in a photo by JD Fanello

La Femme

Summer Series kicks off in style with superchic French psych-rock collective La Femme bringing the glitz, with support from Sam Quealy.

Archived Event

DatesThu 06 Jul 2023
TimesDoors 19.30
SpaceThe Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court
Price£32.25 (includes £3.75 booking fee)

Formed in in 2010 by a duo of Biarritz punk kids rejected by Parisian art schools La Femme are now arguably France’s biggest band and have established a cult international reputation. Having audaciously gambled with a DIY US tour before they were signed, generating their own hype and hoodwinking the French music industry into chasing after them, they returned to Paris as bona fide red carpet stars and have since picked up multiple gold records, soundtracked Celine and Yves Saint Laurent runway shows, and twice featured on the cover of France’s most influential culture publication, Les Inrockuptibles.

Their most recent album Teatro Lucido serves as a good introduction - an eclectic, unpredictable mix of genres, language and sounds that takes an eclectic trip through electro-pop, psychedelia, surf rock, space age country and disco, all produced with a widescreen cinematic boho imagination.

If you’re after a band that tears up the rule book and creates a wildly inventive, kaleidoscopic musical party, look no further.

Their visceral imagination doesn’t just win listeners over; it leads them hand-in-hand to beguiling places

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La Femme, Y tu te vas

+ Sam Quealy

La Femme are joined by techno pop-princess and long-time collaborator, Sam Quealy. A lover of the 80s and 90s, the Paris based songwriter mixes the past and future to create her own present, with a mesmerising stage presence and a magnetic aura that's almost otherworldly. Expect a heady mix of techno pop, fast-paced nostalgic beats and bold lyrics.

A low fi photo of singer Sam Quealy sittign astride a Triumph motorcycle at night

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