Vive la Fête is a music duo from Ghent

Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

 (Belgium

Belgium

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) formed in 1997 by lovers Danny Mommens (guitar and vocals) and Els Pynoo (vocals).

Biography

Vive la Fête was founded in 1997 when Mommens (then still playing in his former band dEUS) recorded a few demos with Pynoo on his 8-track recorder

8-track cartridge

Stereo 8, commonly known as the eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, or simply eight-track, is a magnetic tape sound recording technology. It was popular in the United States from the mid-1960s through the late 1970s, but was relatively unknown in many European countries...

. These demos were released on the EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Je ne veux pas (sometimes also referred to as Paris) which gathered some attention because it is reminiscent of eighties music

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

. Their first success came with their debut Attaque Surprise (2000). Later records such as Republique Populaire (2001) and Nuit Blanche (2003) made them popular, especially in the fashion world

Fashion

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, where Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel...

 is one of their fans, and has enlisted them to perform at a number of his big shows in New York and Paris.
In 2005 they released Grand Prix and toured all over Europe and played some shows in Brazil and Mexico.

Albums

• Attaque Surprise (Surprise Records, 2000).
• Republique Populaire (Surprise Records, 2001).
• Nuit Blanche
  Nuit Blanche (Vive la Fête album)
  Nuit Blanche is the third album by Belgian electronic group Vive la Fête.-Track listing:#"Nuit blanche" - 3:27#"Touche pas" - 3:28#"Jaloux" - 3:54#"Joyeux" - 4:14#"Mon dieu" - 4:16#"Maladie d'un fou" - 3:55#"Assez" - 4:33#"Noir désir" - 5:56...
  
  (Surprise Records, 2003).
• Attaque Populaire, compilation (Surprise Records, 2004).
• Grand Prix (Surprise Records, 2005).
• Vive les Remixes, remix album (Surprise Records, 2006).
• Jour de Chance (UWe, 2007).
• 10 Ans de Fête (Firme De Disque, 2008).
• Disque D'Or (Firme de Disque, 2009).

EP's

• Paris - Je Ne Veux Pas (Kinky Star, 1998)
• Tokyo (Surprise Records, 2000)
• Schwarzkopf Remix (Surprise Records, 2004)
• La Vérité (Surprise Records, 2006)

External links

• Official site
• [ AMG]