Help - name of 'band'

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...that french sounding band with a french sounding singer (female) who did 'loungey' covers of largely 1980s hits (Specials/Undertones are annoyingly the only ones I can actually remember now)....quickly now.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Nouvelle Vague

[Keef]

I was thinking of "Air" who did "Sexy boy".

[????]

Sean gets the beer...ta

[SeanMacGabhann]

There wasn't just one breathy singer tho - there are loads of them. The joke does wear thin after a while too

[????]

There's just a couple of their covers I seem to remember I like so was going to have a look...

[flapjackdavey]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Nouvelle Vague

yeah ! they're effing sh1te . !

[ruffers]

The bloke who is the band always tried to get vocalists who've never heard the song so they'd approach it as fresh as possible. I first heard them through their cover of Marian by the Sisters. It's nowhere near as good as Scooter's...

[5imon]

pff..they are a complete one trick pony.

i was just going to write that I didn't know how they've managed to sustain the conceit for ..what is it...6? albums then i remembered: they don't write their own stuff.

if this is the result of physical purchases, legalise piracy says i.

[HonaloochieB]

They're a 'five pint' kind of group. When I've had a few they seem marvellous fun, when cold sober I wouldn't know because I've never heard them in that particular condition.

And on pissed-up reflection, I don't think I'd want to hear them sober, and I reckon they wouldn't want me to either.

I'll feckin' lounge version Guns Of Brixton, you, you bastards. Jaysus it wasn't that good first time around.

[flapjackdavey]

5imon Wrote:

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> pff..they are a complete one trick pony.

exactly . could never see the point of them really ....