[ LE CHAT NOIR - Transatlantic alternative garage rock 2-piece band based in Devon, UK ]

[ Monday 30-08-10 ]

Today we're busy getting ready for our trip to Belgium and the Nethlands - we leave on Wednesday, we're very excited! Our show at the Aeon Festival on Saturday was a great experience as always, thanks again to Niki and the Aeon team! Here's a video of the first three songs we played:

Teddy
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[ Wednesday 18-08-10 ]

We're delighted to be playing the Aeon Festival again on Saturday 28th of August. It's a fantastic festival that gets better and better each year! After that, we're returning to Belgium and the Netherlands for some great shows in early September, after which we'll be cracking on with writing a new album and preparing for Ivylive on September 10th, where we'll be supporting Athlete.

Teddy
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[ Wednesday 28-07-10 ]

We have a last-minute show in Paignton booked for this Saturday at The Lighthouse, supporting Chieftown - details at the Facebook event page below.

Chieftown + Iconyx + Le Chat Noir

Teddy
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[ Friday 23-07-10 ]

We had a great time in Bristol and Exeter - thanks again to Pint O' Spirits and Rough Cut respectively for asking us to play the two shows! You can see a couple of nice videos from Exeter below:

Le Chat Noir - Silver City Burns @ The Cavern, Exeter, 20/07/2010

Le Chat Noir - Deserter's Lament @ The Cavern, Exeter, 20/07/2010

Teddy
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[ Saturday 10-07-10 ]

It's been a quiet time in the world of Le Chat Noir over the past month, so we're excited to be heading up to Bristol tonight to play at Fizzycyst, a 'monthly crap-science themed gig/club night in a cavern, under an old pub, with a laboratory for mixing liqueurious and intoxicating chemicals, a particle acceleration area for atom bonding and vigorous movement, a decontamination area to fuse and regenerate, plus toxic chemical deposit rooms for leaking'. Sounds like fun to me! We'll be playing with Pint O' Spirits, who kindly invited us to play the show - they're great lads who we have giged with before at the sadly-defunct Area 81.

Last night we played at Ryan's Bar in Torquay, and worryingly Eileen suffered stabbing pains in her wrist at the end of the show, so we had to cut our set short - we're both hoping she'll be OK tonight!

Hope to see all you Bristol-dwellers there!

Teddy
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[ Friday 04-06-10 ]

We're off to Twangfest in Whitchurch tomorrow - we've played there twice before and we're really looking forward to it, particularly due to rumours regarding a certain special guest who might make an appearance!

Teddy
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[ Sunday 30-05-10 ]

We had a great time at Kingsfest in Wales, as always - here's a link to a video of us covering Helter Skelter by The Beatles!

LCN ON YOUTUBE

Teddy
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[ Tuesday 20-04-10 ]

Firstly, for some reason some of our e-mails have been going missing. Because of that, we've decided to set up a Yahoo account for e-mail correspondence from now on - if you have tried to contact us any time in the past few weeks/months and never got a reply, we'd appreciate you trying again via this new address: lechatnoirband@yahoo.co.uk - thanks!

Secondly, we just got back from Belgium - we had a wonderful time, as always! 5 great gigs, we can't wait to get back over to the continent later in the year! In the meanmtime, we're gonig to start working again on album number 4 - watch this space for news!

Teddy
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[ Wednesday 07-04-10 ]

This Sunday we're playing at The Old Firehouse in Exeter, then a few days later we're off to Belgium for 5 gigs in 4 days!

A couple of the shows have only just been confirmed, so the full tour now looks like this:

15/04/2010 @ Bar Mondial, Antwerp
16/04/2010 @ JH Lido, Grobbendonk
17/04/2010 @ Delirium Bluesfestival, Lichtervelde (16.45)
17/04/2010 @ JH De Styx, Peer (23.00)
18/04/2010 @ Kaffee I.P. Tende, Zwevegem

We're really looking forward to hitting Belgium again, it's probably our favourite country to play! We hope to see lots of our Belgian friends and fans there!

Teddy
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[ Monday 29-03-10 ]

We finally got the video footage back from our gig with Nick Oliveri at Muziekgieterij in Maastricht last November.

He says some very nice things about us from around 2:30 in and dedicates Millionaire to us!

Teddy
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[ Monday 22-03-10 ]

Our second album, Deadwood, is now officially SOLD OUT!

All 1000 copies have been sold, and it joins Tales From Silver City in being out of print... for the time being, at least!

For those of you who have not heard or do not own either of those albums, you can still hear them streamed in high quality at Bandcamp - and if you like them, you can download them in a variety of lossless formats for only 5GBP per album.

http://lechatnoir.bandcamp.com/album/deadwood

http://lechatnoir.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-silver-city

Teddy
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[ Thursday 18-03-10 ]

It's been a quiet couple of months in the world of Le Chat Noir - after 3 years of non-stop gigging and working hard, in which time we've played around 300 gigs all over europe and recorded 3 albums, we decided it was time to take a step back and have a little break for a bit.

Trying to keep momentum going at this level in the music 'business' can be tough - whilst we're proud of all that we have achieved in a relatively short time - and without much in the way of outside help - it is sometimes hard to stay positive and focussed when you're putting all your energy into something and not always getting the results you want.

Having done a lot of soul searching, we've both agreed we want to continue playing together - in the end, we just love playing music! Sometimes it's easy to lose sight of why you are doing something in the first place when you're dealing with all the other stuff around it.

So, what's the future for Le Chat Noir? Well, we have some good shows coming up, including our first 2010 visit to the continent in April, and we're starting to think about album number 4. After a few false starts we're looking to return to our roots - raw, full-on garagey rock.

However, this time we intend to try and find label backing and possibly management - though we have had a bad experience or two in the past with getting involved with outsiders, we both feel that to take it to the next level we really need some help in terms of promotion and distribution.

If anyone thinks they have any contacts that might prove fruitful to us in our search, please get in touch!

Teedy & Eileen
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[ Monday 25-01-10 ]

We did our first gig of 2010 on Saturday - we had some booked previously but we were snowed in!! It went really well, Eileen and I have been going to the local gym for the past month and I really felt a difference - my lung capacity felt better, in the past there were some parts of the set where I was really pushing myself vocally that felt much more within my limits now. The turnout was really good and we had a great night - my new Orange bass amp performed admirably in my guitar rig, pumping out plenty of noise!

We have a last-minute show booked at The Old Firehouse in Exeter on Wednesday (27th), it's free entry so don't miss out! We'll be playing at 10PM.

Teddy
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[ Monday 11-01-10 ]

WE ARE PULLING OUT OF THE CAVERN GIG IN EXETER ON WEDNESDAY.

We're totally snowed in out here on the moor and the weather forecast this morning says more heavy snow is coming in tomorrow - we're going to be the worst hit area of the country!

Sorry to that for anyone who was thinking of coming, hopefully we'll get an Exeter gig some other time soon!

The start of 2010 has been a bit slow, we've spent most of it holed up at home due to the aforementioned snow. We have, however, started work on album number 4! We'll let you know more as it progresses!

Teddy
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