Debout sur le Zinc


Debout Sur Le Zinc is a French music band.
After their first 1999 self-titled album, their subsequent album L’homme à tue-tête released in May 2001 gained them media acclaim and public popularity. By the time their 2004 album Des singes et les moutons enhanced their repertoire, they were selling out venues such as La Cigale and touring internationally. Songs from their latest album Les Promesses were featured in their first concert at the oldest music hall in Paris, the Olympia, where they played to a full house on May 16, 2006.
The band acknowledges influences from traditional French music and Irish music, rock, klezmer, and many styles that are considered dance hall music, such as gypsy jazz, tango, waltz.
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Background

Debout Sur Le Zinc members have described themselves as an Irish folk group synthesized with a rock band. Simon Mimoun and Olivier Sulpice met Christophe Bastien and Cédric “Momo” Ermolieff in high school. Simon met Fred Trisson at university, and Fred introduced the band to his childhood friend Romain Sassigneux. They began performing together in bars and on the street and with groups such as Garçons Bouchers and Les Ogres de Barback under the name Debout Sur Le Zinc as of 1996. William Lotvi joined as their bass player in 1998.
The idea for the name Debout Sur Le Zinc, literally “standing on the zinc,” originally came after a concert in which Christophe, guitarist/singer was standing on the bar counter playing the accordion. The discovery that the bar or zinc—the material bar countertops were once made of—used to serve as a stage for people to recite poems, sing or make political speeches, and the expression also being in a poem by Jacques Prévert further reinforced the name.

Group members

  • Cédric Ermolieff: drums, percussion, xylophone, backup vocals
  • Simon Mimoun: vocals, violin, trumpet
  • Romain Sassigneux: clarinet, vocals, guitar
  • Olivier Sulpice: banjo, mandola, backup vocals
  • Fred Trisson/Triska: accordion
  • Thomas Benoît: double bass, bass
  • Chadi Chouman: guitars

Previous group members

  • Christophe Bastien: guitar, vocals
  • William Lovti: double bass, bass
  • Marie Lalonde: guitar, vocals, ukulele

Discography

Debout Sur Le Zinc : First Album
  1. La Pantomime
  2. La Valse Misère
  3. Dialogue De Sourds
  4. Emilie
  5. Au Comptoir
  6. L'abbé Chamel
  7. Le Grand Chemin
  8. Yvonne
  9. ?
  10. Ma Petite Chérie
  11. L'ambition
  12. La JeunesseL'Homme à Tue-Tête : Second Album
  13. Plein Comme Une Barrique
  14. L'homme à Tue-tête
  15. Les Manigances
  16. Les Petites Envies De Meurtre
  17. 2 X Oui - Intro
  18. 2 X Oui
  19. Le Roi Du Monde
  20. Dans Le Métro
  21. Désert
  22. Slawek
  23. Me Laissez Pas Seul
  24. La Rengaine
  25. Ton Petit Cirque
  26. Un Jour De Moins
  27. Où Est L'histoire
  28. Les Sens InterditsDes Singes et Des Moutons : Third Album
  29. Les Moutons
  30. Le Bleu Du Miroir
  31. Elle M'ennuie
  32. Chut...
  33. Elle
  34. Les Mots D'amour
  35. Comme Un Ange
  36. Si L'idée Nous Enchante
  37. Les Voisins
  38. Les Angles
  39. Marée Noire
  40. Hop Là!Les Promesses : Fourth Album
  41. Des Larmes Sur Ma Manche
  42. Rester Debout
  43. Un Jour Ou L'autre
  44. Comme S'il En Pleuvait
  45. Te Promettre La Lune
  46. Les Tontons
  47. Fallait Pas
  48. La Déclaration
  49. La Lettre Perdue
  50. Mieux Que Rien
  51. De Fil En Aiguilles
  52. Un Défaut De Toi
  53. Anita
  54. La Pantomime 2