FRENCH BOSSA-NOVA WITH NOUVELLE VAGUE AT B'ESTFEST!

After Manu Chao, Nouvelle Vague is the latest confirmation for B’ESTFEST! The band will performe in the second day of the festival, on 5th of July.

Nouvelle Vague are a French group of musicians led by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a word game referring simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s new wave of French cult cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of '60s Bossa nova-style arrangements (bossa nova meaning "new wave" or "new beat" in Portuguese).

On their first album, ‘’Nouvelle Vague’’, the group resurrected classics from the New Wave music era, and reinterpreted them in a bossa nova style. Their second album, Bande à Part, includes versions of "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" by Buzzcocks, "Blue Monday" by New Order, "The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen and "Heart of Glass" by Blondie.

The Nouvelle Vague versions of the songs "Too Drunk to Fuck" and "I Melt With You" (Modern English) were includded on the movie soundtraks of "Grindhouse: Planet Terror" (Roberto Rodriguez), and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie).

Nouvelle Vague gathers together many French artists who are not very well known on their own and considered as part of what is now called the "Renouveau de la chanson française" (the "Renewal of French chanson"): Anaïs Croze, Camille Dalmais, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain and Marina Céleste.

The tickets and the three day passes for B’ESTFEST are available in Diverta stores and online, on www.myticket.ro. The one-day tickets (4, 5, or 6 july ) cost 90 lei in pre-sale and 110 lei at the entrance. The three day passes are available at the price of 240 lei. The tickerts for B'ESTFEST AFTERSHOCK are 75 lei in pre-sale, 90 lei at the entrance.