Priorité à Gauche
May 7th, 2008 by sparky
Priorité à Gauche will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Priorité à Gauche – Biography
Priorité à Gauche are Jean-François and Didier – two French rock, rap, pop and roll stars who have wowed British audiences with their unique sound. This is a French exchange like you have never seen before. Whether rapping about the merits of British culture and their new-found celebrity, or getting back to their roots with just a couple of guitars, Priorité à Gauche are hyper-maxi cool and definitely ‘dans la maison’ – in the home.
The hippest music act to emerge from France in recent years, Priorité à Gauche have entertained audiences all around the globe, most recently with their all-acoustic show, ‘Unplugged’, whilst promoting their album of the same name – and reflecting on the world in their own unique and very Gallic way.
Priorité à Gauche have appeared on a variety of television and radio shows including The Now Show, Loose Ends, Parsons and Naylor Pull Out Sections, Front Row, Lenny Beige’s Variety Pack, The 11 O’clock Show and Edinburgh Nights. They have performed at the NME Brat Awards and Shepherd’s Bush Empire for Children in Need, as well as extensive touring around the UK, France and Australia. The highlight of their career however has to be when they played Humorologie – ‘the biggest comedy festival in flemish-speaking Belgium’.
Priorité à Gauche have also had their very own BBC Television series – ‘Le Hip Parade’, a weekly look at the top ten pop songs from around Europe where the number one song is always suspiciously by the same familiar French pop duo. They also presented “The World’s Most Bizarre Adverts’ – three hour long shows for Channel 5.
The 2005 Edinburgh festival saw the pair return to Edinburgh with ‘Remastered’, which according to their flyer consisted of ‘unique interpretations of their own songs from a career spanning six years. Sixty magnifique minutes – crammed with exclusive variations on all the hits that made them into the stars they think they are today. They also collaborated with fuzz-topped Popworld presenter Simon Amstell as his house band in the acclaimed sell-out show ‘The Last Minute Alternative’.
