The Lovers

There are at least six bands called The Lovers: 1 - A French Duo from Sheffield (UK) 2 - A German eurodance act from the 90's 3 - A Swedish Indie-rock band 4 - A Slovakian rockband 5 - A German Garage Band. 6 - Alice Offley's 4 piece all female guitar band from London (UK). 1- The Lovers are a French electronica/ Neo Burlesque band based in Sheffield, England, consisting of real-life lovers Fred de Fred and Marion Benoist. Their music is usually upbeat, satirising French stereotypes, with special fondness for songs about food and sex. The couple started working on music after a chance meeting with Jarvis Cocker, who wrote them the songs 'La Degustation', 'Fred de Fred' and 'Basque Country'. These songs feature on their self-titled debut album, "The Lovers", which was co-produced by Dean Honer and Parrot of All Seeing I, Kevin Bacon and Jon Quarmby (Finley Quaye, Pretenders etc...), Leigh Devlin and Robin Downe. The Lovers have been at the forefront of the 'Neo Burlesque'/'Gypsy Madness' mouvement, often playing with 'Lost Vagueness'. They have collaborated in the past with Richard Hawley, Kings Have Long Arms frontman Adrian Flanagan, Afterflife, Budnubac, they also formed part of I Monster's live show. In previous work, Fred worked for Sheffield studio FON. Marion is a former bunny girl, who has worked with producers such as Nellee Hooper, and wrote the song 'Wonderland', which took Moloko's Róisín Murphy to number two in the dance charts. Their music has attracted a rapidly growing audience, reaching from the duo’s adopted home of Sheffield to all over the UK, The Netherlands, Germany and Singapore.Their recordings have graced TV adverts ('La Le', used on TV advert for McDonalds; 'Crik Crak', on a number of others (Robinsons Fruit Juice etc...); 'French Kiss', on the soundtrack of BBC TV series 'Sugar Rush' ) and are even being used as a grammatical teaching tool by Linguascope and the French Board of Education. Their 2nd album “Pardon My French was produced and mixed in Austin Texas by Gabe Rhodes (Beth Nielsen Chapman, Willie Nelson, Kimmie Rhodes, Billy Joe Shaver etc. … ) and Joe Gracey (Steve Ray Van, Ray Campi, Butch Hancock, Joe King Carrasco, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys etc...) They are accompanied on stage by guitar player Bryan Day (Carmen Ghia and The Hotrods, Tony Christie) and drummer Marc Hoad (Pink Grease). 2 - The Lovers is a German eurodance act produced and arranged by David Brandes, John O'Flynn Daniel Peyer, David Brandes, Helmut Rüßmann. They recorded the hit "Love Me To The Limit". 3 - The Lovers (DE) Formed in Winter 2007 and playing together since April 2008. Toby and Flori started the band cause theres no exciting band in berlin(except for the fuzztones maybe).... They found their guitar player johnny while he was hangin around and asking people for beer money... Flori met their organ player Ari while they were both ditching school...and their drummer is an old friend of them. The Lovers members come from a quite diverse musical background (punk, garage, 60s, surf, electro) but their main influence is good old 60s garage sound..... They are planning on bringing out their first single later this year....like in december or something! www.myspace.com/1234thelovers 4- Formed in the autumn of 2006, The Lovers (formely The Stereotypes) are the brainchild of singer/guitarist Leo Zethraues and basist Mattias Dzieciniak. The two met during and outdoor drinking event during that same summer and joked around about creating a band, wich eventually came to pass. The first member to join the band was David Smidelik who was only prescent for a single rehersal before moving on to metal project "Touch of Taint". The basist came close to dying by almost falling out of a window during this rehersal. The band has since then been joined by Marcus (last name unknown)and reherses at a undisclosed location. Rumuors are that the band sounds a bit like a fusion of Joy Division and The White Stripes. First release is expected in late spring of '07.