LUX will be playing at OPA next Saturday night (14/03/15) for the first concert of the year at winter’s end. The hour-long will include 4 tracks from the EP and a selection of our other songs. Some bands start with just a few songs; in the case of LUX we prepared a wealth of songs before putting a band together. All these “new” songs are all jostling to come out to be played. We can’t wait to take them out for a spin, in your company of course!
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…
LUX was lucky in having several photographers at the last concert in Paris at La Boule Noire. This blog is to thank them all again for giving live music a sort of extended play once the gig is over. They are: Jehsong Baak who has followed us from the beginning, Yann Charles who met LUX…
La Sorbonne is a unique place for a rock concert – acoustic is the rule – so LUX was in full band modest “unplugged” with Nicolas Deschamps as second guitarist and Aurélie Simenel on drums/percussion. A beautiful evening in a legendary place. Photo courtesy Alice Briesz
Inspiration can come in from anywhere and everywhere if one is ready for it. Sometimes our songs evolve first from music which inspires a text or from a text which stands alone until the music is put to it. “Island” was inspired by and written on and about and for the place and people of…
Hey hey hey, LUX has crossed the Atlantic to bring their Velvet Rock home to New York City. It will be acoustic and it will be groovy. Check out our Facebook for times and places. www.facebook.com/luxtheband Photo courtesy: Eric Massaud Poster: Mike Derez
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…