Les Sans Culottes sound has variously been described as “Tristan Tzara and Little Richard in a knife fight,” “Kim Fowley and Serge Gainsbourg in a game of pictionary,” and “Laetitia Costa, Marcel Duchamp, Tuli Kupferberg, and Charo playing spin the bottle.” Yet everyone agrees it has to be believed to be seen. It is Grand Guignol rock au maximum French rock for English speakers and others.
While the band’s passion for singing in French in Brooklyn might appear at first blush to be quixotic or even absurdist, as time goes on more and more people seem to realize exactly what the band is saying regardless of what language they are saying it in even while it is filtered through assumed personas. And perhaps there is something revolutionary in that.
Those Frilly Parisian Underthings, the Seven-Headed Beast from the Hard-Scrabble Streets of Menilmontant, the Masters of the French Rock n Roll, and the Francophonic Tsunami, LES SANS CULOTTES, are Brooklyn, NY’s premier French rock n roll band. Renowned for their high-energy, take-no-prisoners live performances, the band has spread the Gospel of French Grand Guignol Rock and Roll across the USA, as well as French Canada and French France since their Americain debut in 1998. LES SANS CULOTTES have released 9 recordings.