Video

La Fièvre

Official video, from our debut album Rage nue.

  • Music by Garage Blonde
  • Lyrics by Jean Palomba
  • Directed by Bertrand Montboisset

Ils arrivent (Les Hommes Minutes)

Official video, better experienced in HD! Song off our debut EP.

  • Music by Garage Blonde
  • Lyrics by Jean Palomba
  • Directed by Matthieu Baillard
  • Edited by Laure Temperville

Electric Light - PJ Harvey cover

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her album Is This Desire album, here is a French cover of PJ Harvey's Electric Light.

  • Lyrics & music : Polly Jean Harvey
  • Adapted by : Jean Palomba
  • Arranged by : Garage Blonde
  • Directed & edited by : Garage Blonde

Music

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Debut album Rage nue available

Rage nue, Garage Blonde's debut album, available on CD, vinyl and digital via La Discrète Music.

  • A Side
    1. Sourd et absent
    2. Ce qu’il faut
    3. La Fièvre
    4. J’me souviens presque
    5. Vénus pain bis
  • B Side
    1. Jeu de fatigue
    2. Tsar
    3. Sue & Syd
    4. Étoile Poker
    5. Ils arrivent (les Hommes Minutes)
    6. Blanche
  • Written, composed, produced and performed by Garage Blonde
  • Mathilde Blonde : vocals, guitar, zither, keyboards, harmonium.
  • Nicolas GB : bass, guitars, drum machines, vocals.
  • Jean Palomba : Lyrics.
  • Recording, mix, mastering: La Fraiseraie électrique.
  • Artwork : Garage Blonde.
  • First edition of 150 numbered copies of CD and 100 numbered copies on vinyl.
  • Silkscreen printing by Garage Blonde at Turboformat workshop in Avignon.

Order the album

Debut EP available

Garage Blonde's debut 4-track EP, available May 18, 2018 as CD and download.

  1. Sourd et absent
  2. Sue & Syd
  3. J'me souviens presque
  4. Ils arrivent (les Hommes Minutes)
  • Mathilde Blonde: vocals, guitar, harmonium, keyboard
  • Nicolas GB: bass, guitars, drum machine, vocals
  • Music: Garage Blonde
  • Lyrics: Jean Palomba
  • Recording, mix, mastering: La Fraiseraie électrique
  • Artwork: Garage Blonde.
  • Raw kraft cardboard cover, linocut.
  • Limited handcrafted series, 200 numbered copies.

Download the EP

Order the CD

The lyrics

Handwritten lyrics of Sourd et absent
Sourd et absent
Handwritten lyrics of Sue & Syd
Sue & Syd
Handwritten lyrics of J'me souviens presque
J'me souviens presque
Handwritten lyrics of Ils arrivent (les Hommes Minutes)
Ils arrivent (Les Hommes Minutes)
Handwritten lyrics of Ce qu'il faut
Ce qu'il faut

Gigs

Upcoming gigs

We'll be back soon on the road. Lookout!

Look back

  • - Garage Blonde @ Akwaba Coop Culturelle, Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, France

  • - Garage Blonde + Elastocat @ Le 11, Avignon, France

  • CANCELED - Garage Blonde @ La Boiserie, Mazan, France

  • - Garage Blonde @ Auditorium de la Médiathèque, Cavaillon, France

  • - Garage Blonde @ Festival Courts-Circuits, LaScierie, Avignon, France

  • CANCELED - Garage Blonde @ La Combe du Lynx, Saint-Alban, France

  • - Garage Blonde - Showcase, Walrus, Paris, France

  • - Garage Blonde - Release party, Turboformat, Avignon, France

  • - Garage Blonde private gig, Avignon, France

  • Garage Blonde @ Fenouil à Vapeur, Avignon, France

  • - Garage Blonde (end-of-residency performance), + Elastocat, , Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France

  • - Siestes Musicales de l'Université d'Avignon , France

  • - Jean Palomba, Garage Blonde @ , Avignon, France

  • - , Avignon, France

  • - Jean Palomba, Garage Blonde, Farouche Zoe & Les Garçons Electriques @ Greenrock & Poetry, Roquevaire, France

  • - , Briançon, France

  • - , Arles, France

  • 18/05/2018 - Garage Blonde + Grandes Mothers - Release Party @ La Mesón, Marseille, France

  • 09/03/2018 - Garage Blonde + Nasser @ Les Passagers du Zinc, Avignon, France

  • 09/12/2017 - Garage Blonde + Melissmell & Matu @ La Gare, Coustellet, France

  • 08/10/2017 - Galerie Europ'art, Aigues-Mortes, France

The band

What's Garage Blonde?

Garage Blonde are Mathilde Blonde, vocals, guitar, keyboards, and Nicolas GB, bass, guitars, vocals, drum machine.

An intimate and strange road trip, a feverish and colorful pop, both minimalistic and enthralling. Garage Blonde are French, sing in French. Their songs flow on a poetic wave of electric overdrive.

picture of Mathilde Blonde

Mathilde Blonde

Vocals, guitar, keyboards

picture of Nicolas GB

Nicolas GB

Bass, guitars, vocals, drum machine

picture of Jean Palomba

Jean Palomba

Writer for the eyes and ears

The encounter

Nicolas, Mathilde and Jean meet in the end of 2015 during sessions of Croire au Jaguar, a radio creative workshop. They like to knead sound matter and words. Mathilde and Nicolas consider forming a duo. They search themselves and come to realize they need a base ground to root their wavy improvisations.

The spark

Nicolas and Mathilde ask Jean to lend his quivering and swarming writing. Jean agrees to provide words and images, and reworks the structure, shapes and flesh of his writing to adapt to the fluctuating soul of Garage Blonde.

  • Mathilde Blonde and Nicolas GB
  • Mathilde Blonde and Nicolas GB
  • Mathilde Blonde and Nicolas GB
  • Mathilde Blonde and Nicolas GB
  • Mathilde Blonde and Nicolas GB
  • Mathilde Blonde and Nicolas GB
  • Mathilde Blonde and Nicolas GB
  • Mathilde Blonde et Nicolas GB

Pro area

EPK
PDF EPK (in French)
Press clips
Press clips (PDF)

Contacts :

Band: Mathilde and Nicolas

garageblonde(AT)gmail.com

Production / Booking: Michel Audouard

ladiscretemusic(AT)gmail.com

International promotion / digital: Matthieu

captn(AT)goodmornincaptn.com