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Update #3: GO WEST !
Hi everybody,
We're still far away from the US. Though we believe in you and your help ! Look at the flyers that you will find pretty everywhere in Austin and Paris soon ! Besides some first confirmed shows !
12th of August @ UNCLE MIKES, NYC
20th of August @ THE EVENING MUSE, CHARLOTTE
21th of August @ THE ROCKET CLUB, ASHVILLE
28th of August @ FITZGERALD, HOUSTON (+ The Baker Family)
Love
Philippe for General Bye Bye
Update #2: J-67 : Learn French !
Hi there,
J-67 : We're not yet far from home. It depends on you ! Learn some french because we are coming ! We just launched the video with French subtitles ! Enjoy and begin to practice ! :-)
Philippe for General Bye Bye
P.S : We added a new reward. Get some French lessons from me ! I'm a teacher in French language for foreigner ! Take advantage of this !
Update #1: General Bye Bye's report J-81 : 684$ = We love you
Hi there,
Thank you a lot to all the backers who already supported us ! After one week, we managed to raise 684$. It means that one of us can fly to the U.S or the whole band can go to let's say Le Havre in France ! It's a long way to the top as would say AC/DC...
Please spread the words, download for free Alphabet EP on our website : www.generalbyebye.com and forward the video around you ! We need you badly and we love you as well !
Philippe for GBB
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on April 9, 2010.
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A ticket for a show of your choice in the U.S + an autographed CD of Girouette LP + T-Shirt + Stickers + Buttons
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Get a one hour French lesson by a professionnal French teacher !
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A FRENCH KISS FROM ONE OF THE MEMBER OF THE BAND !
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All of the above + DVD Video Clip of Don’t Shoot The Rabbit (2 versions) + 1 unreleased track !
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All of the above + The movie of our previous tour in Eastern Europe “Bye Bye Ritournelles Tour” + 2 unreleased tracks !
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All of the above + a visit of Paris as you’ve never seen it by one of the member of GBB of your choice when you’ll get there.
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All of the above + a special French meal cooked by General Bye Bye
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All of the above + THE original General Bye Bye’s uniform !
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General Bye Bye is the result of an unlikely encounter in January 2008 of four people with completely different musical backgrounds. Left to their own devices they could have become, respectively, a Kantele’s conductor in Lapland, a producer of James Last Orchestra tributes, a singer of lullabies in Iceland or a gypsy guitar hero in Tajikistan. But instead, they got together.
Philippe BEER-GABEL (vocals, guitar, kantele), Jana KLEIN (vocals), Emmanuel QUIRIE (keyboards) and last but not least, the space cadet Etienne GILLET (drums, bugle), established their headquarters in Montreuil where they conceived their plans to produce new music that would blend sources and blur the lines between genres.
With sharp guitar riffs that suggest Blonde Redhead, sparkling piano Rhodes and a dreamy drum style, General Bye Bye have sculpted floating melancholic music that compliments the interwoven vocals. If they seem more gentle on their debut album, on stage they are transformed. Live, the Tana Quartet is substituted with psychedelic keyboards that hook the listener.
The band, armed with their first full-length album and a powerful live set, is on the march…
