Firecrackers
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Live for the first season
Firecrackers
sxrmsessions#7/first season
Just before a loud and intense gig downtown, the quartet from Grenoble, France, stopped by the sexroom to record an acoustic version of “Chasing down”, one of their numerous hits from their second self-titled album!
On a cold February night in 2005, they joined each other to play a Ramones cover just for fun. They just knew each other from the local music scene, & there was not much to do in downtown Grenoble, so why not play good old rock’n'roll uh? Yann had the “She Demon” riff, he played it to the others, and the song was completed by the end of the night.
From that point, everything just snowballed.
“She Demon” was to become the title of their first 6 tracks EP released by their own means only 6 month after this rehearsal, & few days after their 4th gig (opening for the Hellacopters !). There was no master plan, it just happened that they played more and more concerts, sold more & more records, and made more and more songs that were to appear on the first album “Gotta Love It” released in November 2006 by Un Dimanche Records. The album & the “Break Out” single did pretty well, concerts too, and the team grew by having Le Periscope as booking agency by the end of 2007.
It was by that time that they released their first 7″vinyl single “I must protect my soul/Out of Gasoline” and started thinking about the new album. So they did three sessions for the new album (entitled “Firecrackers”), and to make people happy before the release they had the “Still Alive/Chasing (roots) down” single out on Longfellow Deeds Records in November 2008.
They’ve already shared stages with bands like The Hellacopters, Sahara Hotnights, The Lords Of Altamont, Tokyo Sex Destruction, The Willowz, Hush Puppies, Robocop Kraus, Alamo Race Track, The Elderberries, Wampas, Burning Heads, Parabellum, Holy Curse, Rodeo Massacre, Kill The Young, Jerry Spider Gang, Bob & Lisa …