HushPuppies is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 band influenced by the various bands of the sixties. Members of the group live in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

France

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, although originate from Perpignan

Perpignan

-Sport:Perpignan is a rugby stronghold: their rugby union side, USA Perpignan, is a regular competitor in the Heineken Cup and seven times champion of the Top 14 , while their rugby league side plays in the engage Super League under the name Catalans Dragons.-Culture:Since 2004, every year in the...

 and Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

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Members

• Singer
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  : Olivier Jourdan
• Guitar
  Guitar
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  : Cyrille Sudraud
• Drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  : Franck Pompidor
• Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  : Guillaume Le Guen
• Keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  : Wilfried Jourdan (Olivier's brother)

Biography

Four of the band's members - Franck, Cyrille, Wilfried and Olivier - grew up in Perpignan

Perpignan

-Sport:Perpignan is a rugby stronghold: their rugby union side, USA Perpignan, is a regular competitor in the Heineken Cup and seven times champion of the Top 14 , while their rugby league side plays in the engage Super League under the name Catalans Dragons.-Culture:Since 2004, every year in the...

, where they formed a group with others called the Likyds. This group specialised largely in cover version

Cover version

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s of sixties garage rock songs. The band split with four members later reuniting in Paris where they met up with Guillaume Le Guen from Bordeaux. This led to the formation in 2002 of HushPuppies.

The band describe their influences as being sixties groups such as The Kinks

The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...

, The Who

The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...

 and Small Faces

In April 2003, their first demo went on sale, followed by a 12 track live album Live @ House of Live. In 2004, two EP

Extended play

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s were released. The Garden being their first public presentation.

The following year, the band's first album, The Trap, went on sale. On September 13, they played for a live concert on a London bus, in Paris with a French radio, Le Mouv.

The band's second album, Silence is Golden, was released in November 2008.

In 2008 their song You're Gonna Say Yeah! was featured on the soundtrack of Guitar Hero World Tour

Guitar Hero World Tour

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Bipolar Drift is released in 2010.

EP

• HushPuppies EP - 2004

1. Natasha
2. Classic
3. HushPuppies
4. All I Know
   • The Garden - 2004
5. HushPuppies
6. You And Me
7. Pales Blue Eyes
8. Automatic 6
   • You're Gonna Say Yeah! - 2005
9. You're Gonna Say Yeah!
10. Packt Up Like Sardines in a Crushtin Box
    • Single EP
11. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
12. CPPDCC (Ca Peut Plus Durer Comme Ca)
13. Packt Up Like Sardines in a Crushtin Box (Live)
    • Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors EP - 2008
14. Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors (I want my Kate Moss) (Radio Edit)
15. Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors (I want my Kate Moss) (Cucumber Remix)
16. Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors (I want my Kate Moss) (Munk & Thelonious Remix)

Albums

• The Trap - 2005

1. 1975
2. Packt Up Like Sardines in a Crushtin Box
3. You're Gonna Say Yeah!
4. Marthelot 'N' Clavencine
5. Sorry So
6. Pale Blue Eyes
7. Comptine
8. Bassautobahn
9. Alice in Wonderland
10. Single
11. You & Me
12. The Trap
13. Automatic 6
    • Silence Is Golden
      Silence Is Golden
      Silence Is Golden is a proverb. It could also mean:* "Silence is Golden", the slogan for AMC Theaters in Tampa, Florida* Silence is Golden , a song recorded by The Four Seasons and The Tremeloes...
      
       - 2007
14. A Trip To Vienna
15. Lost Organ
16. Moloko Sound Club
17. Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors
18. Love Bandit
19. Down, Down, Down
20. Fiction In The Facts
21. Lunatic's Song
22. Hot Shot
23. Broken Matador
24. Harmonium
    • The Bipolar Drift - 2010/2011
25. Open Season
26. Okinawa Living Wage
27. Stop
28. Low Compromise Democracy
29. Zero One
30. Every Night I Fight Some Giant
31. Frozen Battle
32. A Dog Day
33. Poison Apple
34. Rodeo
35. Twin Sister

Live album

• Live @ House Of Live - 2003

1. Turn on the light
2. You ain't better
3. C song
4. Six feet under
5. Emma
6. Ça peut plus durer
7. All I Know
8. Natasha
9. Anybody's answer
10. HushPuppies
11. Classik
12. Behave

External links

• Official Site
• Official Myspace