Pop and Electro Concert at the Usine à Gaz
FESTIVAL: UÀG x LES HIVERNALES
Three worlds to light up the winter
A high-energy evening where discovery rhymes with excitement. The Bernese trio Cocon Javel sets the tone with electronic pop with incisive punk influences, as sweet as it is corrosive, which they call Candy Roquefort. Sweet as candy, sharp as blue cheese. With lyrics in French and English and explosive energy, the trio is sure to heat up the room. Heat will also be the theme with CHAUFAU, a Lausanne-based band that shakes up the status quo with its zany post-prog mix of dance-punk, electro sequences, krautrock and new wave – in short, a deliberately unconventional soundscape. ‘It's the end of the world but not the end of the night,’ proclaims one of their songs. Well said, because Lulu Van Trapp will take up the torch with all the urgency that characterises them. The Parisian quartet, a totem group for a generation in search of intensity, imposes a feline and theatrical presence. It sweats as much as it undulates. A true cry of love for contemporary chaos, their music provokes a collision of desire and disorder. This first evening of Les Hivernales promises a journey in three stages: exploration, intrusion, exultation.
