Les Bien: good stuff
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Your Paris-based blogger is always glad to find Irish acts who love le French touch. Neil Hannon is a noted Francophile, for instance, and Dark Room Notes paid homage to classic French cinema in their video for 'Love Like Nicotine'.
And then there's Dublin electronica duo Les Bien (right). As well as the French name (suggestively sexy, at the expense of correct grammar - very Parisian), they're an electronica duo and you can't really get more French than that, non?
Mais si! *Gallic shrug* The two lads, Simon and Leon, have a cracking track called 'We Don't Speak French'. It's a fine bit of dancefloor français with, for that extra Parisian touch, a breathy female asking "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" every few seconds.
The tune has come to our attention because of its video by NYU Tisch School Of Arts student Kelly Goeller. Their collaboration is part of the Hot Press/NYU series of videos. An excellent concept - unfortunately, Hot Press thinks that the video is for 'Can't Speak French' by Le Bien. In fairness to HP, though, the band's own website (not updated in a year) calls them Le Bien and speaks about their "raison d'aitre" (they can't spell French either). And Kelly Goeller's site calls the Le Bien too.
But they're Les Bien on their MySpace page and in the photo above. And, given our puerile nom de blog, choosing which band name to use was a no-brainer.
You can hear more from Le(s) Bien at their MySpace page. Here's the aforementioned video for "We Don't Speak French":
7 comment(s) so far...
Re: Les Bien: good stuff
the two boys have french names, and if i can remember correctly from the garden party last year, their sound engineer is french :-)
By Edith on
Monday, February 18, 2008
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Re: Les Bien: good stuff
Edith, did they tell you if it's Le or Les? We need closure!And did Simon introduce himself as Simon Le Bien?
By aidan on
Monday, February 18, 2008
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Re: Les Bien: good stuff
Update: I see they're billed as Le Bien on the Childline Rocks poster, so perhaps that settles it...
By aidan on
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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Re: Les Bien: good stuff
i think it was definitely Les Bien at the garden party because the whole band was there...
and if it's simon by himself (like when i saw him at the village) it's Le Bien.
plural when there's the full band, singular when he's alone, it'd be logical wouldn't it?
By Edith on
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Re: Les Bien: good stuff
Edith = genius
By aidan on
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Re: Les Bien: good stuff
lol
thank you! haha.
By Edith on
Thursday, February 21, 2008
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