Play! Rock en Seine 2017 Playlist

by Robbie Morrissey

24 August 2017

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Rock en Seine returns this year with a great line-up. The xx, PJ Harvey, Flume, Franz Ferdinand, The Shins, Mac DeMarco, and much more are expected to round off the festival season in style from 25-27 August in Domaine National de Saint-Cloud. Check out some of Europavox’s picks ahead of the three-day event and have a listen to our playlist below.

DBFC

Based in

France, Paris, Bordeaux, Manchester

Style

Electro, Rock

DBFC is not exactly a newcomer. It is a new band, but both of its members have already shown their skills in other projects. Mancunian David Shaw has played with Blackstrobe and Vitalic. He also started a solo adventure called David Shaw and The Beat, ...

Barbagallo

Based in

France, Toulouse, Perth

Style

Pop

Science is unequivocal: without an event of cataclysmic proportions or the intervention of a god of some kind, turning the world upside down is an impossible task. You want summer in December? There seems to be only one solution: cross the Equator, head south ...

Témé Tan

Based in

Belgium, Brussels

Style

Groove

When Tanguy Haesevoets was studying in Andalusia, people had trouble pronouncing his first name, so they simply called him Tan. He kept this nickname for his music project and added another word, Témé – two syllables meaning ‘the hand’ and ‘the eye’ in ...

Rejjie Snow

Based in

Ireland, Dublin

Style

Hip-hop

Alex Anyaegbunam or Rejjie Snow as you know him, has been rhyming since he was a kid in Dublin. When the opportunity came to go Stateside for a soccer scholarship, the then 17-year-old headed to Atlanta and found himself falling for music. He later moved to ...

Frustration

Based in

France, Paris

Style

Punk

Frustration is an important, even historical, name in the Born Bad roster: their mini-LP Full of Sorrow was the label’s first release back in 2006. Frustration is also an important name in the very definition of their sound. Rare are the bands whose name fits their music so perfectly.

Le Villejuif Underground

Based in

France, Villejuif

Style

Rock

Gathering information on Le Villejuif Underground means trying to find out whether the impressive number of crazy stories about them really happened or not. Alarmingly, it seems that all of the tales are true. Their singer used to live in a squat, then the ...