Franz Ferdinand are huge fans. The lead singer (whose name I temporarily forgot) did a full page article in NME on how he'd been influenced by Sparks.....
Billy MacKenzie (R.I.P.) ws also a fan as are VInce Clarke, ANdy Bell (both of Erasure), Martin Gore (of Depeche Mode he covered Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth), Justin Hawkins (ex- of the Darkness) covered This Town...as 'British Whale'. On top of the Siouxsie Sioux (she of Banshees fame) is on record as being a fan (if I recall, they did a fairly awful cover of This Town, too). Then theirs Faith No More....look for a song by Weird Al Yankovic called 'Virus Alert' which sounds very much like Sparks and features a strangely familiar mustachioed keyboard player in the (cartoon) video....it's on Youtube.
In France I know Rita Mitsouko as huge fans! I recently read a biography of the band written by Fred Chichin's brother. He said that Fred and Catherine has been huge Sparks fans since ages! Their music has been influenced, of course. Ariel Wizman -musician and TV producer- is a huge fan too. MJ
On 04/01/07, ladystardust <marie-jeanne.pim...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> In France I know Rita Mitsouko as huge fans! I recently read a > biography of the band written by Fred Chichin's brother. He said that > Fred and Catherine has been huge Sparks fans since ages! Their music > has been influenced, of course. > Ariel Wizman -musician and TV producer- is a huge fan too. > MJ
Oooh, I'd forgotten about Les rita mitsouko....are they stilla round? I have a couple of their albums....fantastic stuff, but I can only ever pick their stuff up when I'm in Paris...
Will Vigar <imman...@gmail.com> wrote: On 04/01/07, ladystardust wrote:
> In France I know Rita Mitsouko as huge fans! I recently read a > biography of the band written by Fred Chichin's brother. He said that > Fred and Catherine has been huge Sparks fans since ages! Their music > has been influenced, of course. > Ariel Wizman -musician and TV producer- is a huge fan too. > MJ
Oooh, I'd forgotten about Les rita mitsouko....are they stilla round? I have a couple of their albums....fantastic stuff, but I can only ever pick their stuff up when I'm in Paris...
> On 04/01/07, ladystardust <marie-jeanne.pim...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > In France I know Rita Mitsouko as huge fans! I recently read a > > biography of the band written by Fred Chichin's brother. He said that > > Fred and Catherine has been huge Sparks fans since ages! Their music > > has been influenced, of course. > > Ariel Wizman -musician and TV producer- is a huge fan too. > > MJ
> Oooh, I'd forgotten about Les rita mitsouko....are they stilla round? > I have a couple of their albums....fantastic stuff, but I can only > ever pick their stuff up when I'm in Paris...
> W > -- > "A Knife and Fork in a World of Soup"
They prepare a new album "Variety"!! March 2007 on Because Music.This album is produced by The Rita and Marc Plati who worked with David Bowie and Louise Attaque (another famous french band).On this album, Catherine will have a duo with Serj Tankian from "System of a down". They will be on the french TV France 2 in "Taratata" on the 12th of January.A few years ago, Sparks made a live appearance with them in this program with the hit "Singing in the shower tonight" . I will tell you more about the new album when I hear it. MJ
On 05/01/07, ladystardust <marie-jeanne.pim...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> They prepare a new album "Variety"!! March 2007 on Because Music.This > album is produced by The Rita and Marc Plati who worked with David > Bowie and Louise Attaque (another famous french band).On this album, > Catherine will have a duo with Serj Tankian from "System of a down". > They will be on the french TV France 2 in "Taratata" on the 12th of > January.A few years ago, Sparks made a live appearance with them in > this program with the hit "Singing in the shower tonight" . > I will tell you more about the new album when I hear it.
> <br><br> > <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/01/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ute Kassner</b> <<a href="mailto:utek...@yahoo.de">utek...@yahoo.de</a>> wrote:</span> > <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="q"> > <div>> I can only ever pick their stuff up when I'm in Paris...<br> </div></span> > <div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=nb_ss_w/171-7863426-1201058?__mk_fr_FR=%C5..." target="_blank"> > http://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=nb_ss_w/171-7863426-1201058?__mk_fr_FR=%C5...</a></div></blockquote> > <div> </div> > <div> </div> > <div>Thanks, but sadly, I no longer have credit or debit cards....I've decided to go for cash only! So I really do have to go to France to buy ;-)</div> > <div> </div> > <div>Will-- <br>"A Knife and Fork in a World of Soup" </div></div>
