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After 8 shows in 8 days in the UK things are picking up speed (se websites under shows). It has been a Gonzo ride and we have enjoyed every minute of it. Following this tour are some great things, much due to some fantastic work by Lenise at Relentless Promotions. We met amazing people on the way, every single show opened more doors, and we are trying to grasp what seems to be going on. So what did this week bring except 8 great shows?
Radio:
May 11 – Pure Pop Radio – “Night Generation”
June 29 – Virgin Radio, Paris (Label Rock) – “Sunshine Underground”
June 30 – Americana UK Radio monthly podcast – “Free The View”
July 2 – Real Rock Radio (Tom Russell Show) – don’t know which track!
July 2 – BBC Radio 2 (Maconie & Radcliffe) – “Straightway Ride”
July 2 – XFM Scotland (Jim Gellatley’s “Music Response”) – “Sister Fatale”
July 7 – Express FM – “Night Generation” & plugs for gig at the Fat Fox
Press:
Press Association have reviewed the album giving it 7/10, se below under New Reviews.
Classic Rock Magazine will be reviewing the album in the August issue, out August 20:th.
Time Out, June 24, 2008
Giglisting: “La Fleur Fatale + The Morlocks“ (se clipping below)
Bradford Telegraph & Argus, June 26, 2008
Psychedelic Swedes La Fleur Fatale are on their way to Shipley. The band will be at the Freestyle PM Lounge promoting their debut album, “Night Generation”. The album, which received critical acclaim on its release in Europe earlier this year, captures the Sixties groove with sitar and swirling organ, adding modern, ethereal flourishes that extend its appeal across the generations, from today’s indie kids to the flower children of the original psychedelic movement.
Bradford Telegraph & Argus, June 27, 2008
Psychedelic Swedes La Fleur Fatale will be promoting their debut album Night Generation. It captures the sixties groove with sitar and swirling organ, adding modern, ethereal flourishes that extend its appeal across the generations, from today's indie kids to the flower children of the original psychedelic movement. Support is from Indigo Crow. Doors open at 7.30pm.
The London Paper, June 27, 2008 (circulation 396.730)
Giglisting: The Dials, Matthew Ryan, La Fleur Fatale at The Sheepwalk is on Saturday, 5th July at Jul 5, 8pm
La Fleur Fatale
Rock
Psychedelic-tinged rock-pop tracks from the Swedish band's album, Night Generation.
Venues hosting this:
Barden's Boudoir (BR: Dalston Kingsland; Bus: 67, 149, 243)
Events:
La Fleur Fatale at Barden's Boudoir (Sunday, 6th July)
Waltham Forest Guardian, June 27, 2008 (circulation 46.775)
PSYCHEDELIC NIGHT AT WHAT’S COOKIN’
THE return of the acid country, folk-garage, psychedelic pioneers is upon us. The Dials have a wonderful new album out which has been getting ecstatic reviews. So, get along to the What's Cookin' Kitchen on July 5 for some splendid slices of 70s San Francisco-style country, sweet melodies, pop hooks and sweeping lap steel. Support comes from Pennsylvania with Matthew Ryan who was once called the best songwriter to come to Nashville for years by Steve Earle, More psychedelic pop comes from the shores of Sweden with La Fleur Fatale, who are in the UK for the first time.
The List, June 26, 2008 (circulation 16.000)
La Fleur Fatale, Bo Deadly and Dennis Law Jr
Psychedelic Swedes poised to release their debut album 'Night Generation. (+ gig info for Pivo Pivo the 3:rd of July)
GCC Music Guide, June 30, 2008
Gig listing
Yorkshire Evening Post, July 4, 2008 (circulation 100.596)
Dorset Echo, July 11, 2008
Stockholm Syndrome
By Marco Rossi
LA FLEUR FATALE
Night Generation (Killer Cobra)
I'VE just had a minor revelation - so I hope and trust you're all very pleased for me. The revelation I'm talking about is simply this: in all the time I've spent truffling about on this planet - and I'm racking up some serious notches on the old belt now - I've never heard any Swedish rock or pop music which I've actively disliked. That's a hell of a strike rate for one country. Right back as far as Ola & The Janglers, The Hep Stars and The Tages, Sweden was producing bands whose music properly hit the spot in my little universe.
I'm not claiming that Sweden is immune to rotten music, y'understand; simply that I've yet to hear it if it exists. Hell, I didn't even particularly mind Roxette, even if I wouldn't necessarily be barging anyone out of the way in order to snap up a copy of Listen To Your Heart at a car boot sale. The reason for this lengthy preamble is that I've just been knocked on to my can by the superb debut album from yet another high-quality Swedish ensemble, namely Night Generation by La Fleur Fatale. The very moment I clapped ears on the sitars, backward guitar and low Mellotron glow of opening track Straightway Ride, it felt like coming home.
Sure, it's psychedelic, but it also happens to be some of the most inspiring new music I've heard this side of Fleet Foxes. The best Swedish bands seem to be intuitively hard-wired to the life-giving source, and so it proves with La Fleur Fatale.
The keening Badfinger harmonies of the title track will bump-start even the most sluggish of hearts; likewise the surging sunburst corona of Sister Fatale. Any band with the blithe cheek to write a song called I Wanna Be Adored, without even the briefest nod in the direction of The Stone Roses, is alright by me - although, oddly, The Stone Roses are exactly who they call to mind on the linear, blissed-out Free The View. Nor indeed is Golden Hair to be confused with the Syd Barrett/James Joyce beauty of the same name, but you'll forgive it anything when that lovely, shape-shifting chorus shimmers into view, crushed into a gemstone by judiciously applied compression.
Night Generation is full of surprises: odd textures tumble in and out of the mix and chord sequences consistently arch away from an easy resolution, all of which is evidence of a genuinely psychedelic mindset - which you won't find me complaining about for one moment. Find out more, and befriend them forthwith, at www.myspace.com/lafleurfataletheband.
Hackney Gazette, July 2, 2008 (circulation 19.506)
Time Out, June 24, 2008 (circulation 86.000)
Online:
Interview: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_feature.php?id=5596
www.moveeverything.com – gig listing
www.s1play.com – gig listing
www.ThisIsLondon.co.uk – gig listing
www.ents24.com – gig listing
New Reviews:
Press Association, July 10, 2008. Appearing in: Leicester Mercury(circulation 117.028), Hull Daily Mail (circulation 92.264), Nottingham Evening Post (circulation 55.347), Evening Sentinel (circulation 96.095)
“La Fleur Fatale - Night Generation: Swedish four-piece La Fleur Fatale formed from the ashes of various promising bands, and now release their debut Night Generation. Opener Straightway Ride is a trip through 60s psychedelic pop and loveliness, as is much of the rest of the album.
There are nods to The Byrds, Teenage Fanclub and sadly overlooked Scots Cosmic Rough Riders, making for an album, that, even if isn't the height of originality, is at least glorious to listen to. Rating: 7/10 (Review by Andy Welch)”
BluesBunny.com
“A Swedish psychedelic band? That would be La Fleur Fatale so we are told. We get them all here at Bluesbunny Towers. Not that they are really psychedelic of course. There are Ray Manzarek style keyboards in there and the harmonies are pure late sixties/early seventies California but the most impressive thing about this album is the songs. Can you believe that they contain hooks and melodies? Well believe it because they do. Not just one or two songs either as this entire album is full of them.
From the pure West Coast delights of the title track "Night Generation" through the embarrassingly catchy "Sunshine Underground" to the hippy trippy "Free the View", this band's influences are clear. Nothing wrong with that of course but before you dismiss them as mere pretender to a throne once occupied by the Doors or the Strawberry Alarm Clock take a listen to "Swift Flash of Mind" or "Sister Fatale". Now there's an indie crowd satisfying, festival tent filling pair of songs for you. La Fleur Fatale even manage a bit of neo Lennon melancholia ("Seven Years") to end the album as well. All bases covered (and a hidden track right at the end too)!
It's a pretty simple idea - just give people songs that they can sing along with and put a veneer of the past over them. Hooks and melodies are a bit of a novelty these days and this album could well become one of those essential purchases for the summer of 2008 because of them and, in consequence, will surely be heard booming out of iPods everywhere. Maybe there is a future for pop music after all.
Available from CD Baby.”
Popism.com
“Being halfway between the long lasting “Swedish invasion’s” sixties garage revival and its more contemporary sounding (power) pop extremes, this debut could easily sneak up the international charts before you know it.
Swirling Farfisas and Vox Continentals, crunchy power-chords along with sunshine-y vocal harmonies are all set to please various kinds of tastes. Occasionally Eastern flavoured pop psyche, put through the Mancunian prism will surely recall the likes of The Stone Roses (‘Straightway Ride’, ‘Free the View’), or Oasis (‘Children of Neon Lights’, ‘Swift Flash of Mind’), and there’s even a song called ‘I Wanna Be Adored’, equally slightlydelic, being proof as good as any of the band’s own tastes.
My own picks of the bunch are the pair of ‘Night Generation’ with it’s moody Velvet Underground vibe with (much) more harmonies, and the late-Beatles-through-Fannies-like ‘Out of Our Dream’. And in case you feel like air-guitar strumming, the early’70s ‘Stones rawk-out of ‘Sister Fatale’ is good as it gets.
Goran Obradovic”
What can I say… keep blooming folks!
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www.lafleurfatale.com | www.marvel.nu
www.myspace.com/lafleurfataletheband | www.myspace.com/marveltheband
www.myspace.com/gamlestadensfribrottare - BOOK A FIGHT!
Postal Address: Gråbrödragatan 10, 582 18, Linköping, Sweden (NEW address!)
Visiting Address: Östgötagatan 7, 582 32 Linköping, Sweden
Phone: +46(0)13-120080 / +46(0)708-777 256
LFF US representation - www.missingbeat.com
LFF US Fan Site – www.swedishinvasion.com
LFF SonicBids EPK – www.sonicbids.com/lafleurfatale
MÄRVEL SonicBids EPK – www.sonicbids.com/marvel
12 Jul 2008 07:54 PM tag: News
We just got an invitation to play at the International Pop Overthrow Festival In Liverpool!