Les Breastfeeders
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Formed in 1999, Les Breastfeeders were finalists in the 2003 edition of Les Francouvertes and also won the SOCAN award for best francophone song of the year in 2003, with their song Angle Mort. After releasing their first album entitled Déjeuner sur l'herbeDéjeuner sur l'herbe (album)
Déjeuner sur l'herbe is the first album by Québécois rock band Les Breastfeeders. The album was released in 2004 by Blow The Fuse Records-Track listing:# Mini Jupe et Watusi# J'pourrais pas vivre avec toi...
in 2004 on Blow the Fuse Records, Les Breastfeeders embarked on their first east-coast tour in the United States, while appearing on several American College Radio charts all while their popularity in their home province of Québec kept on rising. During the summer Les Breastfeeders played at Les FrancoFolies de Montréal
Les FrancoFolies de Montréal
Les FrancoFolies de Montréal is a large annual music and performance festival held in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, featuring over 1,000 French-language performers from all over the world, as well as attracting over 500,000 visitors....
(2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007) and opened for The New York Dolls at the Quebec City Summer Festival
Quebec City Summer Festival
The Festival d'été, or Summer Festival , has been taking place annually since 1968. It is organized by groups of businesspersons and artists of Quebec City in order to show the artistic, economic, and tourist potential of the region...
(2005), where they won the Best Canadian Artist – Étoiles Galaxie award (Prix miroir Artiste d'ici).
In February 2006, the band was asked to participate on the Joe Dassin
Joe Dassin
Joseph Ira Dassin , more commonly known as Joe Dassin, was an American singer-songwriter best known for his French songs of the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
tribute CD called Salut Joe! Hommage à Joe Dassin
Salut Joe! Hommage à Joe Dassin
Salut Joe! Hommage à Joe Dassin is an album containing 13 reinterpretations of Joe Dassin's most famous songs. It was released on February 7th, 2006...
, for which they recorded the song " Bip-Bip". They then took time to record and release their second album Les matins de grands soirs
Les matins de grands soirs
Les matins de grands soirs is the second album by Québécois rock band Les Breastfeeders. The album was released in 2006 by Blow The Fuse Records-Track listing:# "Viens avec moi"# "Chanson pour destinée"# "Funny Funiculaire"...
(August 2006), also on Blow The Fuse Records. The video for Mini Jupe et Watusi was featured on "The Knights of Fuzz" DVD, released by Dionysus Records.
On October 1, 2006, Les Breastfeeders, alongside Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines
Emily Haines is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. She is the lead singer and keyboardist of the band Metric and a member of Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she performed with her own name and under the alias Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton...
, Les Trois Accords
Les Trois Accords
Les Trois Accords is a rock band from Drummondville, Quebec. The band launched its first album Gros mammouth album in 2003. Some of the notable songs, taken from that album, include "Hawaïenne", "Saskatchewan" and "Lucille". Along with their videos, these songs received heavy exposure in Quebec...
and The Joel Plaskett Emergency
Joel Plaskett
Joel Plaskett is a Canadian rock musician originally from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia and now resides across the harbour in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia...
, took part in SEE VOUS PLAY, a show presented by Bande à part
Bande à part (radio)
Bande à part is the name of a website and a Sirius Satellite Radio station in Canada that are devoted primarily to French Canadian arts and music....
and CBC Radio 3
CBC Radio 3
CBC Radio 3 is a radio station that consists of two parts devoted to Canadian arts and music: a radio service which is available on Sirius Satellite Radio and streaming audio, and several daily and weekly podcasts from the CBC Radio 3 website...
.
Although the group's lyrics are all in French, Les matins de grands soirs
Les matins de grands soirs
Les matins de grands soirs is the second album by Québécois rock band Les Breastfeeders. The album was released in 2006 by Blow The Fuse Records-Track listing:# "Viens avec moi"# "Chanson pour destinée"# "Funny Funiculaire"...
got great attention from abroad with features and reviews in international publications and sites such as Blackbook Magazine
BlackBook Magazine
BlackBook is an American arts and culture magazine published 8x a year. Founded in 1996 as a quarterly publication, BlackBook has now expanded to a circulation of roughly 150,000. The magazine covers topics ranging from art, music, and literature to politics, popular culture, and travel guides....
, Spin.com
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
(Artist of the day), NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
and NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
. The video for Viens avec moi directed by Jean-François Caissy was video of the day on Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
, also on the list of best of 2007 videos to vote for on MTV2
MTV2
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and was presented at the 62nd Annual Edinburgh International Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival is an annual fortnight of cinema screenings and related events taking place each June. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival...
(June 22, 2008). The video for Funny Funiculaire was also featured on MTV2.
In 2007, Les matins de grands soirs
Les matins de grands soirs
Les matins de grands soirs is the second album by Québécois rock band Les Breastfeeders. The album was released in 2006 by Blow The Fuse Records-Track listing:# "Viens avec moi"# "Chanson pour destinée"# "Funny Funiculaire"...
was released in France (Boxson) and in the US (Blow The Fuse Records). The band embarked on a promotional tour and passed through France, Switzerland, England and the US, playing at events such as the South by Southwest
South by Southwest
South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...
Festival (SXSW) in Austin
Austin
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, the Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...
, North by Northeast
North by Northeast
North by Northeast is an annual five-day live music and film festival and music conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, held each June....
(NXNE) in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, The Great Escape Festival
The Great Escape (festival)
The Great Escape was a music festival held at Newington Armory, located within Sydney Olympic Park that took place in 2006 and 2007. Initially held over the Easter long weekend for the first two events, in 2008 it was announced the festival would take place on the Labour Day weekend, however the...
in Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
, England
England
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and back home in Montreal, they played at Les FrancoFolies de Montréal
Les FrancoFolies de Montréal
Les FrancoFolies de Montréal is a large annual music and performance festival held in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, featuring over 1,000 French-language performers from all over the world, as well as attracting over 500,000 visitors....
and at the M for Montreal
M for Montreal
M for Montreal was launched in 2006 and found by Montreal's Sebastian Nasra and U.K legendary concert programmer Martin Elbourne .M for Montreal is a scouting service and a networking platform held annually in November in...
showcase event.
In 2008, Les Breastfeeders went on a second tour in France and Switzerland and did their first gig in Spain before the release of Les matins de grands soirs
Les matins de grands soirs
Les matins de grands soirs is the second album by Québécois rock band Les Breastfeeders. The album was released in 2006 by Blow The Fuse Records-Track listing:# "Viens avec moi"# "Chanson pour destinée"# "Funny Funiculaire"...
in vinyl format, available with an extra song Pousse-Toi, a French cover version of Les Sinners' Nice Try. In France they performed on Fille TV and back in Canada, they composed "Lola The Mermaid", a song for children's television show "Roll Play
Roll Play
Roll Play is an inter-active preschool series created by J.J. Johnson, the maker of This is Daniel Cook. Produced by Sinking Ship Productions....
". And amongst their extensive list of shows, performed at the Ottawa Bluesfest
Ottawa Bluesfest
The Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest is an annual outdoor music festival that takes place each July in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. While ostensibly focused on blues, the festival has increasingly showcased mainstream pop and rock acts in recent years...
, at Canadian Music Week
Canadian Music Week
Canadian Music Week is an industry conference and music festival held over four days in various venues throughout Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-History:...
and at PBS's Wisconsin Public Television
Wisconsin Public Television
Wisconsin Public Television is a state network of public television stations operated primarily by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board and the University of Wisconsin–Extension...
studios to tape 30 Minute Music Hour.
October 2009 marked Les Breastfeeders' tenth anniversary, which they celebrated with a show in Montreal at Lion d'or.
In 2010, the band played at the 2010 Winter Olympics
2010 Winter Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport event held from February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University...
in Vancouver in front of an anglophone crowd who bombarded them with bottles, injuring the lead singer. They received another invitation to return to the Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...
.
Members
- Luc Brien (Vocals, guitar)
- Sunny DuvalSunny DuvalFrançois Duval is a Canadian rock guitarist and songwriter. He has been associated with the bands Les Breastfeeders, Les Cowboys Fringants and St-Sipolette. On Sunday nights at L'Inspecteur Epingle, Sunny performs as 'Pierre Rival' with Damien Robitaille . Together they are known as "Les Freres...
(guitar) - Suzie McLelove (Vocals, guitar)
- Joe (Bass)
- Johnny Maldoror (Tambourine)
- Pat No (Drums)
Past members
- Kiki Boone (Drums)
- Nicotine (Drums)
- Tony Cantara (Drums)
- Freddie Fourteen (Drums)
- Pat Sayers (Drums)
Albums
- Déjeuner sur l'herbeDéjeuner sur l'herbe (album)Déjeuner sur l'herbe is the first album by Québécois rock band Les Breastfeeders. The album was released in 2004 by Blow The Fuse Records-Track listing:# Mini Jupe et Watusi# J'pourrais pas vivre avec toi...
(2004) - Les matins de grands soirsLes matins de grands soirsLes matins de grands soirs is the second album by Québécois rock band Les Breastfeeders. The album was released in 2006 by Blow The Fuse Records-Track listing:# "Viens avec moi"# "Chanson pour destinée"# "Funny Funiculaire"...
(2006) - Dans la gueule des jours (2011)
Singles
- Tout va pour le mieux dans le pire des mondes (Single 2006)
- Pousse-toi (Bonus track on Les matins de grands soirs LP 2006)
Music Videos
- Viens avec moi
- Tout va pour le mieux dans le pire des mondes
- Funny funiculaire
- Tuer l'idole http://web.mac.com/joerocknroller/iWeb/Site/VIDEOCLIP.html
- Ça ira
- Minijupe et Watusi
- Ostrogoth-à-gogo (unreleased)