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Published: 15 October 2009

Vague bring their new sounds

PREVIEW: NOUVELLE VOGUE
Roundhouse

IT'S not rock ’n’ roll, but you may like it.
Nouvelle Vague’s performance in one of Camden’s larger venues tomorrow (Friday) will hopefully be more up-tempo than some of their Sunday afternoon, sofa-surfing, shop-playlist stock.
The cover band collective that put sunshine into some of the edgier pop songs of the 1970s and 1980s are back. Stranger things have happened than the group’s 2007 appearance on French TV with Moby to perform at snail’s pace the Depeche Mode classic Just Can’t Get Enough.
With more bluegrass and less bossa (country fans take note). third album, 3, is thankfully music to move to. Eternal lounge lizards they may be, but the Nouvelle Vague troupe have now worked with The Specials’ Terry Hall, Bunnyman Ian McCulloch, and even got their own, personal Jesus in Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore.
Some things, however, remain the same, with French producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux still at the helm; the pair have now racked up a decade ensemble.
With Nouvelle Vague’s ever-revolving line-up of syrupy-voiced young female singers, filling the vacuous and distinctly unloungy Roundhouse should be pas de problème.
RUSSELL HANDY
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