B A B Y L O N C I R C U S
February 3rd 2010 14:57
B A B Y L O N C I R C U S
“Mix Django Reinhardt with Jacques Brel, ad a little Gogol Bordello and you’ll come close to what Babylon Circus sounds like”
Detroit News, USA
Lyon based Babylon Circus is music laced with ska, gypsy, rock, vaudevillian antics, dancehall & reggae. Their first Australian East Coast tour in 2008 saw this 9 piece band sell every show out, with audiences screaming for more.
In March 2010 they will return to launch their new album La Belle Etoile (Cartell Music) and to pass on their infectious energy to the audiences at the main stage of Womadelaide & Womad NZ as well as venues across the country.A true musical menagerie, 9-piece big band Babylon Circus, have notched up over 900 concerts in 30 countries and built up a worldwide following with their electric live shows and addictive albums.
As befits a band with their name, their exploits include police chases, beatings and imprisonment in Irish jails, bathtub vodka, double concussions and hospitalisation in Russia and Muslim carnival processions in Syria. They have to be seen to be understood.
It started in Lyon, France, during 1995, when singers David Baruchel and Manu Nectoux devised a racy sound mainly fuelled on punk energy and hot with defiant social anthems sung in French and English – sometimes both in the same song.
The duo worked with seven partners in crime who are at least as mad about music as they are: Georges on guitar, Olive on keyboards, Dadé on drums, Basile on bass, Rimbaud on accordion and saxophone, Laurent on trumpet and Clément on trombone.
The Basement - Sydney - Fri March 5 & Sat March 20 - thebasement.com.au
WOMADELAIDE - Sat March 6 - Mon March 8 - womadelaide.com.au
Corner Hotel - Melbourne - Wed March 10 - cornerhotel.com
WOMADNZ - Fri March 12 & Sun March 14 - womad.co.nz
The Zoo - Brisbane - Thur March 18 - thezoo.com.au
Great Northern - Byron Bay - Fri March 19 - thenorthern.com.au
Plays like the amped up soundtrack to a Parisian merry-go-round from the future” Global Rhythms NY
“A tremendously entertaining album” BILLBOARD
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