It was during the pandemic that “the Goguettes in trio but four” meet their audience. Their parodies of songs offered as remedies for melancholy with funny and impertinent lyrics. It is strongly recommended to see or review the show recorded last December at the Chanzy Theater in Angers that we broadcast this Thursday in the 3rd part of the evening in “Plage aux spectacles”.
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Always armed with their faithful piano, but also with gleaming guitars and breathtaking high-end synthesizers, the four acolytes take on French song in all directions to give advice to Jean Castex with Rita mitsouko sauce, how to love at the time of veganism on the notes of the song ‘le premier pas’ by Claude-Michel Schoenberg. The goguettes summon Village People to tell us about Macron and “on the march”, Francis Cabrel to make fun of the COVID or even Gotainer for “where is the pangolin”!
Parodies of French songs, an acid and funny look at society, this is the DNA of the “Goguettes”. This group formed in 2013 really made a name for itself during the pandemic by posting DIY clips for the net. In August 2020, They accumulated up to 12 million views on You tube. From then on, everything accelerated, invitations on the radio, on TV, in the newspapers and despite the COVID, concerts and tours followed one another. One of them “Conflmés” was also the subject of an immersive documentary, broadcast last January on France 3. They are four, Clémence Aurélien, Valentin and Stan, almost all have ties with the Pays de la Loire region and their credo, in the great tradition of chansonniers, is to make people laugh and think! their parodies are political and social; No one is spared, politicians first, Macron of course but also many others…
In a good-natured tone, these troublemakers heal through laughter all the annoyance and feelings of fed up caused by our intensive use of all-out news and social networks. They wash away our certainties, our evasions, make fun of political jargon, but also of our most intimate behaviors when they become caricatures of ourselves. They then adopt vis-à-vis them, a self-mockery of good quality.
video length: 03min 33
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the pangolin
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Their audience is right or left. They claim “the 50 shades of the Left”. A common point, they never refrain from voting in elections because they believe in civic engagement, culture, civil society. With impertinence, they draw from the repertoire of popular memory and appropriate the heritage of French song.
Their somewhat wise and polite look contrasts with the beasts of the stage that they are, interpreting furiously and without any restraint, the riffs of Johnny or Rita Mitsouko. On stage, his four accomplices play exchange and improvisation brilliantly and share with the public their beautiful complicity.
Who are these four wags?
They met at the “limonaire”, a famous wine and song bar in the 9th arrondissement. The café-concert creates a goguette evening every Monday, open to all those, excluding artists, who have something to say.
Clémence is a doctor in musicology, pianist and harpsichordist. Instead, she listened to cantatas, arias by Bach or played the complete Couperin on a harpsichord. She will prefer variety, camping tours, bars and provincial scenes and goguettes. With stars in her eyes, she tells us that it was by becoming familiar with the chords specific to the harpsichord that she left music theory to enter the harmonic universe.
Harmony is jazz, it is the accompaniment of songs.
Aurélien is a free radio host. He recorded his first album and defended on the radio the RAREDMI… (The Rally for a Radical Improvement in Listening and the Diffusion of Unusual Music). For RADIO G (Radio Angers) he hosts interviews with artists who perform in Angers. This is where he met Dick Annegarn, Bertrand Belin, which he later opened for. In the Inrocks, on the net, we talk about him as a new Dick Annegarn. He created “Le Saule”, an independent label with which he produces about fifteen artists. He joined Les Goguettes in 2013.
Valentin is a musician and always wanted to be. Since his childhood in Orne, he has been immersed in jazz, from a long family of instrumental musicians. Today he goes from bass and a rock chord to ukulele without shuddering. At first, he published himself, with his label “Hé Ouais Mec Productions”. His repertoire is romantic at will but already not devoid of humor. Valentin is behind “La symphonie confinée”, a video on the song “La Tendresse” by Bourvil, created with 40 musicians, each at home but gathered for the occasion on the net. Again, four million views…
A song, it goes under the door, it crosses the border, we remember a melody, we do la la la and we start again in chorus, whether we are from here or elsewhere!… »
Stanislas is not only “guogetier” as he is called, he is a specialist in labor law for a legal publisher. He totally assumes his “double life”. He writes a goguette, when it takes him! For this he makes his harvest of newspapers and weeklies every week. His goguettes are always rooted in the social or the political.
video length: 02min 47
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the sucker box
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