Mia Wilson - Vocals, Guitar and Piano Henri Harps - Guitar, Synthesizer, and Samples Johnny Lancia - Bass, Sampler, Guitar and Drum Programming
Influences
PJ Harvey, Joy Division, Nina Simone, Boards of Canada, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Sigur Ros, New Order, Cat Power, Portishead, Radiohead, Burial, My Bloody Valentine, Autechre and Tori Amos.
"If Tonic was still open, the French Exit would be headlining Saturday nights there...There’s been a big buzz about this band lately, not just because of frontwoman Mia Wilson’s cheekbones or the distant, offhandedly menacing allure she cultivates...long, hypnotic noir anthems...Wilson projects (her lyrics) with the same raw, wounded, vengeful authority as the great blueswomen of the 20s and 30s: she speaks to anyone who’s ever been done wrong....What a viscerally intense way to end what what’s been the best week of concerts in New York all year long." - Lucid Culture
Top 20 NYC Concerts Of 2008: "a smoldering, evilly beautiful show by the Brooklyn noir trio." - Lucid Culture
Top 100 Songs of 2008, No. 66, "Bad Sign": "Slowly slinky noir cabaret meets goth meets Godspeed You Black Emperor on this ferocious new one by the excellent NYC underground rockers." - Lucid Culture
"This noir triad drama slashing, dark, brooding coronaches that take their roots from authoritative bluenesses and psyche music, ofttimes with howling guitar or riotous keyboard orchestration. Get to cognise them now before it costs you an arm and a leg to see them." - Cindy's Blog
"...The French Exit were the highlight of the night, their dark, murkily beautiful reverb guitar-and-keyboard sound absolutely impossible to turn away from. Henri Harps’ richly metallic washes of chords rang out over Mia Wilson’s understatedly ornate, anguished piano arpeggios, drummer Bryan Sargent’s subtle accents quietly and effectively maintaining the intensity. Their songs burned like a pine pitch torch, slow and smoky but inexorably blazing, Wilson’s soul-simmered, wounded vocals impressively clear in the mix. There’s a hypnotic feel to pretty much everything they do: after awhile, the songs become pretty much impossible to dissect because they draw you in so deeply. Wilson’s lyrics were characteristically savage: “No, this won’t hurt,” she sang with an almost gleeful sarcasm in a new one, Bones and Matches, pounding and ferociously insistent over a repetitive piano hook. “Let me in, let me in,” she implored on the following number. They closed with a towering, majestic, organ-fueled version of Bad Sign, which might be their signature song, building to an explosion of distorted organ and reverb guitar as the chorus kicked in. Are the French Exit the best live band in town? They’re unquestionably one of them. If the darkness calls to you, so will their songs." - Lucid Culture
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Past Performances:
PHASE ONE 1.27.08 - Gallery Cabaret, Chicago, IL (solo) 2.18.08 - Silvie's Lounge, Chicago, IL (solo) 3.7.08 - Silvie's Lounge, Chicago, IL (solo)
PHASE TWO 8.20.08 - Rehab, NYC 9.20.08 - Freddy's Backroom, Brooklyn, NY 10.9.08 - Crash Mansion, NYC 10.26.08 - The Annex, NYC 10.28.08 - Piano's, NYC 11.1.08 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ 11.16.08 - Mercury Lounge, NYC 12.1.08 - The Delancey, NYC 1.6.09 - Mercury Lounge, NYC 1.16.08 - Fontana's, NYC 2.25.09 - Cake Shop, NYC (Freestyle Music Series) 3.10.09 - Lit Lounge, NYC 3.21.09 - Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA 4.1.09 - 92.1 WPTS in-studio "Live Show", Pittsburgh, PA 5.13.09 - The Local 269, NYC 6.17.09 - The Local 269, NYC 6.21.09 - Make Music New York Festival @ Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
7.29.09 - The Local 269, NYC 8.9.09 - The Annex, NYC
ELECTRICUS would like to invite you to listen to our recently completed project "Voices of the Weak & Mighty"... It will will be temporarily on our profile in it's entirety... so give a listen & feel free to send us your feedback... enjoy, michael (soundguy mike)
Hello folks, We want to invite you good peoples to some upcomings events: PAS will performing/presenting three shows next weekend. First on Tuesday Nov 3rd at Death by Audio with Abstract Artimus! Then we will be doing an audio installation for the Experi-MENTAL Festval and a performance at Monkeytown. See below: 11/03/2009 08:00 PM - Death By Audio W/ Abstract Artimus 49 South 2nd Street Brooklyn, New York 11211 US Cost:N/A Description:.abstract artimus .the armchairs .PAS .mystic motorcycles .da comrade .manson family picnic ______________ 11/07/2009 06:00 PM - PAS presents: The Experi-MENTAL Festival @ Goodbye Blue Monday 1087 Broadway, Between Stanton and Dodworth (Bushwick) Brooklyn, New York US Cost:Donation Description:Saturday, November 7th--The Experi-MENTAL Festival.............................Visuals by Big Brother on Acid...Music by Plague Doktor, The Strangewalls, Dead Girl History, Ghoul Poon, Nattahnam and the Jazz Fakers, Brandstifter, Fluid , Calves, Zilmrah, PAS (Post Abortion Stress) ___________ 11/08/2009 08:00 PM - PAS Presents-Experimental Music Showcase: Monkeytown-Brooklyn, NY 58 N 3rd St, (btw. Kent & Wythe) Brooklyn, New York 11211 US Cost:$10 Description:Four acts presented by PAS. Visuals by Big Brother on Acid 1-Zilmrah, 2-Kaoru Watanabe and friends, 3-Fluid from Chicago, 4-PAS featuring Michael Durek and Trinitron
dj's chuby242 & raymi7 will be spinning music and videos from bands of legendary labels such as: 4AD . Wax Trax . Creation . Cherry Red . cleopatra . Factory . Mute . Statik. Dro and many more!
Hello, ive been asked to being in MTV series.I am gone start a new mtv series!! But need a girl to be my GF on the show. Because, this show goes about a couple! Anyone interested being in MTV ?
Thank you for adding up & coming reggae/dub/rock trio The Roast Beef Curtains from LI, NY! Please check out our Summer Of Pleasure '09 tour calendar to catch a show nearest you! From NYC to the Hamptons, and more...
i would totally come to the show at garfield, but i am in utah for the present, my band actually has a show on the 21rst as well here, my band is called orcas fair whale
i see you guys are comein to Pittsburgh from march 21st till April first. im gona come to your show on the 21st. i got a show the 28th you guys should come check out
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