The cool cats from BEST Magazine (Florian specifically) came to ask us all sorts of questions in between the sound check and the release concert in Paris at Café de la Danse. So (spoiler alert) we decided to keep the current line-up!
When it came time to bring out the second single, we realized that we needed to find the appropriate follow-up to “A Son of Sam”. It was winter and the idea of one of the slower and darker songs – our first consideration – suddenly seemed less like a good idea. “The Ballad of John”…
The start of 2020 was a blast for LUX. We had a great gig in Paris on 31 January at the Bus Palladium with all 5 of us on stage. (LIVE VIDEO HERE). We had just come down from that and were heads down into the songs for the next album when the world turned…
Every outing brings new sensations, new images, new faces and sometimes new friends. Le Martin Pêcheur, “Scots Pub”, is a cover for what is, in fact, a small haven for music, tucked away next to the Canal de Loing in Nargis. The owner Pete is the most magnanimous of hosts along with his wife…
New songs, new songs, new songs, LUX has gone back to the studio to record two new tracks. This time around Sylvain plays all of the instruments from percussion to bass to guitar (of course) working closely with Peter Deimel. The two songs will figure on the re-issue of “Super 8” scheduled for re-release this…
LUX is a new name for a project that began in 2009 when Sylvain Laforge found his way into my orbit in Paris. The songs came forth like water and still do and we began gigging in Paris a few months after our meeting. Perhaps we were so entranced by the writing and composing that…
Now that Infinite Mind is out and about, it’s time to take note of – and to thank – the various media from both sides of the English Channel that took the time to shout it out. The video was premiered exclusively by BEST magazine (thanks BESTies!) and was playlisted by Rolling Stone…