BOOKING: BELGIUM: Simon/NADABOOKING simon@nadabooking.be Rest of the world Management contact
MANAGEMENT:
JB Biaggi - jbbiaggi@hotmail.com
Influences
CHRONOLOGICALLY: Dion & the Belmonts, Roy Orbison, Phil Spector, Ennio Morriconne, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who, Van Morrison, Donovan, The Turtles, The Velvet Undergound, The Left Banke, Caetano Veloso, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Leonard Cohen, The Carpenters, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Robert Wyatt, David Bowie, Queen, Jonathan Richman, Television, The Soft Boys, Talking Heads, early Cure, More Specials, Violent Femmes, Daniel Johnston, Nick Cave, They Might Be Giants, Boo Radleys, Pavement, MELLOW GOLD, Palace, Supergrass, Belle & Sebastian, and the superior genius of Mr Burt Bacharach.
Sounds Like
According to reviews we sound like "Casiotone Gainsbourg" (Entertainment Weekly), "Apples in Stereo, Zombies, Left Banke, Weezer, Grandaddy" (Inrockuptibles), "Byrds, Zombies, Pixies, Paul McCartney, Robert Wyatt, Eno, Wire" (Rock & Folk), "Boo Radleys, Grandaddy, Ween" (Magic), "Neil Young, Herman Düne + electricity, Syd Matters + drugs" (Technikart), "Apples in Stereo, Beulah, Weezer, Pavement" (Rock Sound), "Beach Boys, Grandaddy" (Trax), "Beach Boys" (Télérama).
CHICROS remixed in GREY'S ANATOMY
CHICROS' original BACK IN THE WILD (2005)
CHICROS' DISKONOISE (2007)
DISKONOISE soundtrack of FRANCE 5
NEW ORLEANS Zombie Trailer
Record Label
CHICRODELIC/Discograph (France), ART UNION (Japan)
WHO THE HELL ARE (LOS) CHICROS?
WE are a four-men band from Paris, France.
WE play indie/rock/pop/psychedelic/shoegaze music.
OUR songs deal with loneliness, mostly because we are alone when we write them.
WE play music for the heart, for the soul, for the brain. And for the body.
WE are fly. We don't wear suits and ties.
MOST bands want to be different, we want to be the same. And our songs are nice.
OUR first songs were released in 2003 on comps: I Hear Voices (with other artists like Notre Dame, Air, Visible Boy, Damien...) and Beautiful Music (with Portishead, PJ Harvey, Cibbo Mato, Comelade etc...)
.. Our first single BACK IN THE WILD was released in 2004. You might have heard it on a TV show called Grey's Anatomy.....
Our first EP was called TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL and was released in 2005.
Our next single DISKONOIZE was released in 2006.
Our first long player is called SOUR SICK SOUL and it's been out since 2007 (2006 in Japan).
The new album is a multi-conceptual LP called RADIO TRANSMISSION and it's been out in France, Belgium, Switzerland & Japan since May 18th 2009.
A lot of people like our songs and that makes us very happy. Some people don't like us and that's even cooler. This profile was edited with my balls.
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THESE GOLDEN TICKETS HIDDEN IN OUR 7" EP? 20 copies of our new 7" EP "What's New Today On TV?" contain a GOLDEN TICKET allowing its lucky owner to get a PRIVATE CONCERT by the CHICROS at his/her place! Get your copy and check if you are one of the lucky ones.
To get your copy, foreign people can go to the Chicrodelic online shop (click above).
Where is that "What's New Today On TV?" 7"?
-A Paris, chez tous les bons disquaires: Ground Zero / 23, rue Sainte Marthe, Paris 10eme ; Exodisc / 70, rue Mont Cenis, Paris 18eme ; Plus de bruit / 35, rue la Rochefoucauld, Paris 9ème ; Born Bad / 17, rue Keller, Paris 11eme.
-En Province, chez une quarantaine de disquaires cool, un peu dans toutes les villes.
-London: Brick Lane's Rough Trade
Bonjour les Chicros et bravo pour le concert surréaliste du 21 juin au milieu des mamies dealeuses de tartes aux myrtilles. On a passé un trés bon moment.
hey la Chicrosphère ! merci pour ce bon concert à Etiolles... bon champagne, bon gâteaux et bon concert !!! l'album est fort sympathique, ZAPPA, ELVIS en guest... miam miam !
VENDREDI 26 JUIN - GLAZ'ART
A partir de 20H30
Le mystère MORLOCKS reste entier ! Comment est il possible que ce furieux combo de L.A emmené par l’ultra charismatique Leighton Koizumi né dans les 80’s soit aujourd’hui meilleur que jamais ? “Du Iggy Pop version garage ! IMMANQUABLE !
A leurs côtés, AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR ou comment capter les ondes qui émanent du cosmos pour inonder une musique spatiale à la face du monde ! Les Français élaborent une musique des sphères, lyrique, emplie d’électricité statique, obéissant aux fluctuations incontrôlables et chaotique de l’espace et du temps...
Et les Teenage Moonlight Borderliners en première partie... INFERNO TOLEDANO + SHAZZULA en DJ set "We want your mind"...
