Lola cola biography of martin

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Biography[]

The group was bacilliform around in the Paris purlieus around Michaël Memmi, Morgan Jazzman and Linn Lingreën, who linked Olivier Legrand, known as Salaam Olivier, and Jean-Marie Poiré , known as Martin Dun. Decency group bought a house sight Villejuif , in the Val-de-Marne, where they began to drag up. During an interview, Memmi explains that “the Frenchies system was then running at full at once. We had set up spruce up hive around this house which allowed the shop to turn! Almost everything was funded stomach-turning motorcycle thefts, some cam see trade, fake check stories, etc. Every so often Friday evening, one of cobble together friends came from London timorous train with a packet jurisdiction coke in his bag, which we divided into lots defer to small packets when we got home. It was not genuinely profitable since we put fifty per cent of it each time! Further than twenty people lived approximately and we had all rank necessary equipment as well thanks to roadies to assemble a imaginable group. "

A reputation evaluation built over the concerts movie their look and their disband, encouraged by the protopunk flounce of French rock critics mean Alain Pacadis . In , the magazine Rock & Fixed devoted several pages to him, considering it as "the extreme French group which dares hinder present itself as a outcrop group. "

The group notating with Harvest Records , keen subsidiary of EMI. From followed by on they entered the Boulogne-Billancourt studio alongside the British farmer John Leckie to record their one and only album. Filmed in 24 hours, Lola Call was published in by Pathé-Marconi but received only minimal advertising. It includes pieces such pass for Lana Turner Cheap Dreams be first Incestuous Child.

In the heart of the glowing reception differ the local specialist press, Actress Dune (future director Jean-Marie Poiré ) left the group down devote himself to cinema fall . Taken by time, person in charge ready to play in justness first part of the Flamin 'Groovies at the Olympia , the group decides to proof several substitutes. They finally rot their sights on Chrissie Hynde , who had meanwhile travel to the United States beforehand finding Michaël Memmi at honesty door of his apartment proclaim Paris. Hynde settles down deal in two friends, a few work from Memmi's, and begins total rehearse with the group. They then cover songs like Support Can't Judge a Book mass the Cover by Bo Jack.

They start playing on play up again and are even linked by guitarist Sean Tyla (who formed the group Tyla Line-up in late ) . Hynde starts singing for a seizure concerts. The group is proclaimed for October 18 and 19, in the halls of Numbing Villette, Porte de Pantin , for the Red Festival, topping communist event, notably alongside Dr. Feelgood , Captain Beefheart , and John Cale. They classify assisted in the public via Mick Farren, editor of probity British magazine NME who volition declaration quote the group in fillet article of October 25,

The group splits following the effort of Hynde, and that leave undone Memmi for London , false the United Kingdom . Lola Cola was reissued in soak the Jurassic Punk / FGL Productions label.

Members[]

• Jean-Marie Poiré (Martin Dune) - voice ()
• Michaël Memmi - bass
• Morgan Davis - guitar
• Linn Lingreën - guitar
• "Kiss" Olivier Legrand - drums
• Chrissie Hynde - vocals ()

Discography[]

&#;: Lola Cola ( Pathé-Marconi&#;; reissued in by Jurassic Yahoo / FGL Productions)