The first time that I heard Nouvelle Vague, which according to their website means New Wave in french and Bossa Nova in portuguese, was on David Byrne’s online radio station and immediatly when I heard a girl named Camille singing with her sultry breathy voice covering the Clash’s ‘Guns of Brixton’ I had to look to see who it was. The drastic contrast between Camille’s voice and the cool punk vocal style of Paul Simonon on his original version is one worth hearing.

The second time that I heard them was yesterday while I was at the trendy QI in Oxford with Dave and our now famous drummer friend having coffee. When Nouvelle Vague’s version of The Undertones ‘Teenage Kicks’ came on the overhead speakers our drummer friend commented something along the lines of, ‘Oh, that’s that french band that covers a bunch of male fronted songs’. I thought it was pretty cool that I had already known about them and immediately told him about their version of ‘Guns of Brixton’ and now I’m here asking you lovely readers to go on over to their site and hear their covers for yourselves!

Click Here to Listen to ‘Gun’s of Brixton’ by Nouvelle Vague
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www.nouvellesvagues.com

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