The Truffauts

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The Truffauts
General information
origin Nuremberg , Germany
Genre (s) Indie pop , indie rock
founding 1986
Website www.truffauts.de
Current occupation
Jean-Jacques Boucher
Guitar , vocals
 Ronald Chateauroux
Guitar, vocals
 Olivier Durange
Jérôme Racuse (since 2016)
former members
bass
 André de la Cour (until 1988)
Drums
 Frédéric "Fred" Batteur (until 2008)
Eric Eskofier (2008–2015)
bass
 Armand Couronnier (1989–1990)
Live and session members
singing
 Gisela "Gisèle" Lipsky
guitar
 Stephanie Loew
Tatjana Maté
Lothar Schrems
Julie La Colline

The Truffauts is a German indie band from Nuremberg .

history

The band was founded in 1986. It is named after the French director François Truffaut . All band members have French stage names. The real name of "Jean-Jacques Boucher" is Joachim Busch and "Ronald Chateauroux" with the family name Rothenburger. Both also play together with Gisela Lipsky, née Enslein, who partly supported vocals, and her husband Milan Lipsky in the band Die Lipskys . Rothenburger is editor-in-chief of the youth magazine Stafette . “Armand Couronnier”, actually Armin Kröniger, used to be the band leader of an NDW band called Drahtfunk Deutschland and a guitar pop band called The Tundra Talk , in which Martti “Mäkkela” Trillitzsch ( Buddy & the Huddle ) also played. He also released an EP entitled EP Poems From the Sun on 9pm Records under the pseudonym "Dan Blocker" .

André de la Cour played bass on the first two Truffauts albums. In 1988 The Truffauts were represented for two months with Billy-Ze-Kick in the indie charts of Spex magazine and reached number 17. Armand Couronnier was on bass on the third album and on the EP Pablo Picasso ( cover version of Jonathan Richman's song). In 1991 they received a scholarship from the city of Nuremberg . Internal differences led to a longer creative break in the period from 1995 to 2001. In 2008 Eric Eskofier took over the role of drummer.

Many of the band's records have been reviewed in trade journals and other magazines, including contributions in Spex, Rolling Stone , Ox-Fanzine , Musikexpress / Sounds , Zillo , tip and Wiener .

Discography

Albums
  • 1987: Fanny! ( LP , Sputnik / EFA )
  • 1988: Billy-Ze-Kick (LP, Sputnik / Semaphore )
  • 1990: Flowers on Your Stomach (LP / CD , Sputnik / IRS)
  • 1992: Almost Classical Stories (LP / CD, Day-Glo / Rough Trade Distribution )
  • 1994: Catholics & Coffeebreaks (CD, TUG / Semaphore)
  • 2000: The Truffauts In Candyland (Online Album, records.de)
  • 2001: In Candyland (CD, Fieberkurve / Media Arte)
  • 2003: Are Things OK Now? (CD, TP 9 / Rough Trade Distribution)
  • 2006: Tous les dimanches (CD, TP 9 / Rough Trade Distribution)
  • 2006: Traquilizer (Online Album, Fuego )
  • 2008: To Your Heart (CD, TP 9 / Rough Trade Distribution)
  • 2010: The Pleasures of Life (CD, TP 9 / Rough Trade Distribution)
  • 2015: Sycamore (CD, TP 9 / Rough Trade Distribution)
Singles / EPS
  • 1987: In Your Sleep / Between The Lines ( 7 ″ , Sputnik)
  • 1988: Mandy (The Crowd of Fury) (7 ″, Big Store)
  • 1989: Pablo Picasso (7 ″, Sputnik)
  • 2000: Sofa EP (Online EP, records.de)
  • 2012: On dit que le bonheur est toujours ailleurs (CD, TP 9 / Rough Trade Distribution)
Compilation Contributions
  • 1987: Between the Lines on The Sound & The Fury (Big Store)
  • 1989: From Bad To Worse / Always The Same Film on Some Little Fish ... (Sputnik)
  • 1990: Between The Lines on Let's Have A Barbecue ... (Noet Lachten)
  • 1997: Garde-le Pour Toi on Love Is My Only Crime III (Veracity)
  • 2000: Your Hands on Under The Influence Of Bad Weather (Fieberkurve)
  • 2002: Eteins La Lumière on road cruiser one
  • 2003: Kaleidoscope on United Zoo Of Waldstock 2 (Benghazi)

Music videos

  • 1997: Garde-le Pour Toi (Director: Tina Herms)
  • 2001: Asshole (Director: Wolfgang Obermair)
  • 2001: Windowsill (Director: Wolfgang Obermair)
  • 2003: I've Changed My Mind (Director: Wolfgang Obermair)
  • 2003: Kaleidoscope (Director: Olaf Bieber)
  • 2008: Il fait moins 10 (Director: Fred Kreutzer)
  • 2010: Write me a song (Director: Chateauroux)
  • 2015: She's Hugging Trees (Director: Chateauroux)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jo Seuss: "The Truffauts" present their tenth album - wonderful charm and a few barbs , Nürnberger Zeitung , October 13, 2010.
  2. ↑ website of the band The Lipsky . Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  3. ^ Stephanie Siebert: The Nuremberg band "The Truffauts" released their eighth album - Musical Nonchalance from Franconia. Nürnberger Zeitung, June 2006.
  4. ↑ Compilation of record reviews on the band's website.