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Biography

Les Fatals Picards is a French rock/punk band, founded in 1996.

The Fatals Picards are best known to general audiences because they represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song '' L'amour à la française (Eng: "Love, French Style"), after winning the national selection.

Their name means "the fatal from Picardy (region)|Picardy ".

Characteristics

The lyrics of the Fatals Picards are often of a parody|parodic or humoristic character, though some songs, more particularly in the recent years, are more of a militant left-wing kind.

Some of their songs are satire|satiric :

''L'enterrement de Derrick ("the burial of Derrick"), about the namesake character of the German police TV series Derrick (TV series)|Derrick .

Le jour de la mort de Johnny ("the day of the death of Johnny"), about French rock singer Johnny Halliday . The Fatals Picards and Johnny Halliday were both at the same record company, Warner Bros. Records , who decided not to include the song on the album

Les Bourgeois — fake left-wing militant song, probably satirizing militant bands such as Têtes Raides ; the title is reminiscent of a famous song by Jacques Brel .

Cure Toujours , about Goth subculture|Goth youth imitating the looks and appreciating the music of The Cure . The guitar and vocals are reminiscent of Indochine (band)|Indochine .

Sauvons Vivendi , parody of songs from e.g. Band Aid (band)|Band Aid that attempt raising awareness about humanitarian causes... but in this case, calling for help for the industrial and financial group Vivendi and stock traders.

Commandante , parody of songs by e.g. Noir Désir , mixing somewhat confused but strongly expressed left-wing political messages and somewhat meaningless Spanish lyrics meant to give a South American feel (in the Fatals song, the Spanish backing vocals are actually road directions).

Monter le Pantalon , parody of Tomber la chemise by Zebda .

Bernard Lavilliers , satirizing the image of French singer Bernard Lavilliers as a former adventurer active in South America, who has "seen it all".

''C'est l'histoire d'une meuf , parody of the video for a song by humanitarian band les Enfoirés . The Fatals Picards accuse some of the singers in that band of being in there only to restart a flagging career.

Chasse, pêche et biture , a jab at hunter s, accused of being drunk too often. The title is also a jab at the fringe political party Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition .

Boum parodies the songs from French rock band Superbus (band)|Superbus (accused of having lousy lyrics centering on teenage loves and parties).

''Je viens d'ici , satire of alleged bigotry in Corsica .

Et puis merde, je vote à droite ("and fuck all that, I vote right-wing "): a man discovers that he prefers voting right-wing, and all of a sudden appreciates right-wing artists and professes conservative social views.

Musical influences range from straight rock to punk, chanson , etc.

Band members

Laurent Honel : guitar/singing/bass (2000-)

Jean-Marc Sauvagnargues : Drums(2002-)

Paul Léger : Lead Singer (2004-)

Yves Giraud : bass (2005-)

Former member:

Ivan Callot : Lead Singer (-December 2007)

Discography

''Amiens c'est aussi le tien - D.I.Y. (2000) (the title is a pun)

Navet Maria - Next Music - (2001) (the title is a pun on Ave Maria and "turnip", which is also slang for "bad film" in French)

Droit de véto - Next Music - (2003)

Picardia Independenza (2005) (the title and sleeve cover are faux Corsica n independentist, except that Corsica is replaced by Picardy and the emblem of Corsica is replaced by a beet, one of the major crops of Picardy)

Pamplemousse mécanique (2007) (the title is an allusion to A Clockwork Orange , with the orange being replaced by a grapefruit )

Public (Live, 2008)

Le sens de la gravité (2009)

Coming out (2011)

Fatals s/ scène (2011)

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