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!
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…
The new album, GRAVITY, is still wet behind the ears and it’s already been a wild ride. The reaction from the independent press has been overwhelmingly positive – first for the single “A Son of Sam” and its official music video which was spectacularly playlisted by both Rolling Stone France and Apple Music…
OMG! On 31 October, the duo of LUX the band ended up being invited to play at Paris’ Le Trianon to support the legendary Blue Oyster Cult. All we can say is thank to the gig booker, Veryshow, thank you to Le Trianon for the warm welcome and great sound, thank you to BOC…
In the final moments of our recording session at Studio Black Box, when all of the songs for the album had been recorded, one song remained. A purely acoustic track, a song for two – for and by and about the duo of LUX the band, that had seemingly been put aside for another day….
One of the first questions people ask is: “what kind of music do you play?”. We have often wondered ourselves how best to describe our songs as the usual categories don’t quite seem to fit – rather like Goldilocks testing beds at the house of the three bears, some felt “too hard” and others…
THANK YOU ! Words are insufficient to describe how very grateful LUX is to all the people who contributed to our crowdfunding. Nearly 100 people participated on and off the kisskissbankbank website to help bear the costs of recording our first album. And here they all are, the believers and the dreamers,…