Artist Info

Three words, in French, often punctuated by an exclamation mark. ‘Vive La Fête’ translates as ‘Long Live The Party’ (as in celebration, festivity, bash, all-nighter, not as in some political wing).
It’s a statement of positivism, a declaration of intent: music and people, dancing and romancing as a
life-force, a big no to anything conformist and square.
Of course, the fact any decent party should include the proverbial promise of sex and drugs and rock
‘n roll also accounts for the choice of the name of this band...

Vive La Fête History

In 1997, when Danny Mommens, at that time bass player with renowned Belgian art-rock band
dEUS, met blond bombshell Els Pynoo, lightning struck and assorted bells started chiming. They soon
indulged in the sort of sticky things most newly-met lovebirds tend to favour, but they also did the
decent thing: to seal their love and lust, they recorded some music in Danny’s home studio. Originally
intended as (...ahum) bedroom material, those tracks nevertheless got released on the Paris EP.
Calling themselves Vive La Fête, Danny and Els initially were treated like an anomaly: they
unanimously and publicly vowed allegiance to sleazy glamour, cheeky humour and anything-goes
optimism (quite a feat in the irony-ridden late nineties) and made a kind of music that blended the
least expected (and at that time, the least favourable) influences and genres into a truly unique
sound.

Attaque Surprise, their first full album released in 2000, offered an honest and detailed insight into
The World of Vive La Fête: sex and erotica, but doubt and heartbreak too; exuberance and trash,
interspersed with contemplation and self-analysis; goofiness and good old fun, with the right dose of
discipline.

2001 saw the release of Vive La Fête’s third album République Populaire. Taking in hard-edged
electro, cinematic synth pop, gentle torch ballads and wigged-out rock-outs, République Populaire
proved to be both diverse and highly personal.

Then in a weird turn of fate, a fashion rollercoaster swiftly took Vive La Fête around the world.

“Her best friend’s a supermodel, her boyfriend’s a rock star and her biggest fan is Karl Lagerfeld. Els
Pynoo of Vive La Fête : a Blondie for electro’s new generation.” - i-D Magazine
The real breakthrough came in spring 2002, when Karl Lagerfeld proclaimed himself Vive’s biggest fan
and returned the favour by letting them play a live set during the Paris presentation of his Chanel
collection. Vive La Fête performed in front of the world’s most renowned fashion editors and fashion
photographers and made fashion news headlines everywhere. Lagerfeld also took the band on board
for his subsequent Chanel shows in Tokyo and Las Vegas. Suddenly, Vive’s phone number was in
every fashionista’s book and Els Pynoo was heralded as a new style icon. Italia Vogue dedicated a 20-
page photo shoot to the Belgian beauty, and both American Vogue and Vogue Paris followed duly.
New York avant-garde magazine V got Vive to pose on its glossy pages ànd to play on their exclusive
parties while British style bible i-D got into a Vive frenzy as well.
The band also played at the Bal de la Rose, the annual celebrity bash in Monaco, hosted by the royal
family of Monaco.

Well, basically a new album, their fourth, called Nuit Blanche (an expression the French use to
describe a festive night without sleep). The album is very well received all over Europe. Sales go well
and the album gets a place in several charts worlwide.

"Nuit Blanche" is released in Brasil, April 15th, 2004! ST2 Records in Sao Paulo will unleash the CD for
the Brazilian market and will also export it to South and Latin America.
Mid april VLF go to BRASIL for 2 concerts at the festival Abril Pro Rock in Recife and an extra show in
a club in Natal. All three shows were a big success, VLF is in great shape, the crowd went wild
(brazilians like to party!) and the press was impressed.

"Nuit Blanche" is released in Brasil, April 15th, 2004! ST2 Records in Sao Paulo will unleash the CD for
the Brazilian market and will also export it to South and Latin America.
Mid april VLF go to BRASIL for 2 concerts at the festival Abril Pro Rock in Recife and an extra show in
a club in Natal. All three shows were a big success, VLF is in great shape, the crowd went wild
(brazilians like to party!) and the press was impressed.