The Shoes (French band)


The Shoes are a French electro-rock duo originally from Reims created in 2007. It consists of Guillaume Brière and Benjamin Lebeau, who are both songwriters and producers.
Before creating the concurrent group in 2007, Benjamin and Guillaume were the two members of The Film, a rock band that formed in Bordeaux in 2005. Guillaume Brière also formed the duo G. Vump along with Brodinski from Reims. Brière is also known under the alias Vladimir Cauchemar since 2017.
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History

On March 7, 2011, the band released their first album Crack My Bones, on the independent French label Green United Music. The album includes ten original tracks, including nine in collaboration with French and international artists such as Esser, Wave Machines, Primary 1, Anthonin Ternant and Cock'n'Bull Kid.
At the same year, several of the songs on the album also resulted in the making of video clips: Cover Your Eyes, Wastin' Time and Stay the Same.
The Shoes performed at La Cigale during a sold-out concert on 9 November 2011. They were then among the ten finalists of the Constantin Prize in 2011 and won the 'Innovation Award' at the UK Music Video Awards 2011 with the clip Cover Your Eyes.
The album Crack My Bones was placed in ninth place of the ranking of the "100 best albums of the year 2011" by the magazine Les Inrockuptibles.
They performed to Emilia Clarke on Le Grand Journal featuring their friend Peter "Dennis" Brown of the project Postaal. Postaal went on to have limited success of its own.

Discography

Albums

Scandal
  1. New York
  2. Baby Baby
  3. Crack My Bones
  4. Let's Go
  5. '7 AM
  6. Bored
  7. Whips Like a Clap
  8. Investigator
  9. What Kind of Girl?
  10. America
  11. Knock Out
  12. America
  13. Amknock Out
  14. America
Crack My Bones
  1. Stay the Same
  2. Cover Your Eyes
  3. People Movin'
  4. Wastin' Time
  5. Time to Dance
  6. Cliché
  7. Crack My Bones
  8. Bored
  9. The Wolf Under the Moon
  10. Investigator
Chemicals
  1. Submarine
  2. Made For You
  3. Drifted
  4. Lost In London
  5. Vortex Of Love
  6. Us & I
  7. Give It Away
  8. 15 Instead & Brown
  9. Feed The Ghost
  10. Whistle

EP and singles

Knock Out
  1. Knock Out
  2. Red Light
Stade de Reims
  1. America
  2. America
  3. Keep That Control
  4. Keep That Control
Oh Lord
  1. Oh Lord
  2. People Movin'
People Movin'
  1. People Movin'
  2. Bored
  3. People Movin'
Stay the Same
  1. Stay the Same
  2. Stay the Same
  3. Stay the Same
  4. Stay the Same
  5. Stay the Same
  6. Stay the Same
  7. Stay the Same
  8. Stay the Same
Time to Dance
  1. Time to Dance
  2. Time to Dance
  3. Time to Dance
  4. Time to Dance
  5. Time to Tanz
  6. Time to Dance
Give It Away
1960's Horror ft. Dominic Lord

Productions and synchros

SynchrosPeople Movin' for Jean-Charles de Castelbajac défilé Bored in the 3rd season of Gossip GirlTime to Dance in ''Les Infidèles''

Awards and nominations

Antville Music Video Awards
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