Hello everybody,

our new single Territory will be released on December 4th, so don't hesitate to pre-order it on our myspace page !
Tracklisting :  1. Territory
                    2. Tiptoe

Keep on rockin' !
E./1984

Hello again,

Meanwhile, for those who still don't know Open Jail, our first album, or would like to rediscover it,


See you soon,
E

Hello everyone, bonjour tout le monde !!!

Changes are coming everybody !

1984 is about to have a new skin,
black and white is over,
a new single will come in September.
A new rock sound is being prepared in our electric brains, in our feverish hands.

We've been living very hard times these last weeks, very personal things, the zebra men were tired. There will be changes even in the faces you'll see on stage when we'll be back on tour ...

we are metamorphosing

enjoy your sunny days!
E.  x

End of hibernation : spring tour

hello everybody,

after three months without playing live, 1984 comes back : we'll be touring
in Germany in April and May, plus one night in Austria in early June.
We really look forward to coming back to Germany, people's welcome was so
great during our last tour in November 2008 with Blood Red Shoes ! This
time, we'll be headlining the venues, we'll perform of course the songs
on the album Open Jail, but we'll complete our set with some new stuff,
too.
Other gigs may be added in the following days, one or two in Germany, and others in Switzerland.

Here are the confirmed gigs :

18.04.09 Mannheim, Alte Feuerwache
24.04.09 Halle, Club Drushba
25.04.09 Hamburg, Molotow
29.04.09 München, Atomic Café
30.04.09 Osnabrück, Kleine Freiheit
01.05.09 Berlin, White Trash
02.05.09 Leipzig, Sweat

05.06.09 Vienna, Flex

This serial of concerts will begin with 2 gig in Paris, one at the Flèche d'or on 11th March, the other at the Backstage on 25th March.


The production of two videoclips has been achieved, too : one for Cache-cache, the other for Desert Dancers.
They'll be on our page soon.

from the cold Strasbourg,

keep on rockin' !

1984

Back from our November tour in Germany and Austria with Blood Red Shoes.
Great nights, great crowds, great welcome!
We took a few days to “come down to earth”, things were so intense, people had never been so enthusiastic about our music!
And about our shout contest, too! The city that shouts the longest and the loudest will be known very soon ...
You can already have your idea about this crucial question by following this link: http://www.youtube.com/user/band1984TV. We've put all the videos online and our last show of the year in St Gallen/Switzerland ended this funny contest very well.

There are a lot of “souvenirs” to talk about. Lots of pictures, especially during our day off in Berlin when we had a photoshoot all day long : Clockwork orange's remake under a bridge, Bruno playing the bum, Thomas and i (Etienne) beating him ; taking pictures with the policemen ; charming a wooden full-size toy of Pinocchio ; drinking some cocktails in a David Lynch's atmosphere bar ; being desperate not to be accepted in the 3 fitness centers we tried: incomprehensible when you see our athletic bodies ! ; etc ...


We lived so many important moments this year, we'd just like to thank the people who enabled this evolution fot the band.
 First, you, people who came to the gigs and gave us a warm welcome all the time! A special thought to the german people that came to Switzerland to see us playing.
 Then, cheers of course to our sound engineer Jérôme, the coolest guy in the world; to Hubert, the madest man in the world, who developed a labyrinthine video programm and Philippe who fiddles with pictures like noone during our set ! A man working for Tide tv came after the show in Hamburg and said “You sound like Joy Division with Pink Floyd's black and white pictures behind you !” Now we know what to say when we're asked to describe our music : pink floyd's joy division.
 People from Weekender Records label also do a great job, thanks to Justin, Desi, Anni, Ben and all the crew for their welcome in the Weekender zebra-wallpainted office!
 And of course, Blood Red Shoes, ... Thanks to them, we played in so many places, so many great venues in different countries! And since April and our first tour with them in UK, we're really good friends. We love them, their music, the way they live it and understand it. They see in their increasing success the opportunity to promote bands they like, to share always more with people. It's all about sharing and spontaneity, music has to be alive and Blood Red Shoes illustrate this idea perfectly. We miss them a lot.


So now it's “winter break” in the Christmas and mulled wine's city of Strasbourg. But we won't be lazy. All December will be devoted to writing and playing new stuff. We'll also record a cover of a 80's song of our choice for the Rewind project of Buffetlibre in UK.
Tours are planned for early 2009, but not confirmed for the moment.


All the best for this cold winter
and don't forget to rock !

1984

The end of a tour… 1984 has just finished its last UK tour with the Blood Red Shoes and Rolo Tomassi.....

Another great music experience and new funny “rencontres”…....

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Some fugitive memories…....

The enthusiasm of English audience towards our music.....

The present given in Manchester (it will be well used)....

Streets ofAberdeen during a Saturday night (thanks to the drunken men who gave us thepink cowboy hat!!).....

The meeting with friends in Glasgow (Crack Fox, Fin, Daniel…)....

The channel view from Portsmouth....

This guy from Strasbourg met in Norwich (pretty weird isn’t it?)....

Skipping rope's training....

The Norwich stage invasion / crowd surfing during the last BRS’ song....

Steven and Ruben on the roof of a car, 4 am…....

Jardin Sauvage… Hip Hop connexion....

That American guy in Birmingham....

The London Astoria stage invasion / frog surfing....

James’shair....

The kindness of Rolo Tomassi band members…....

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And the friendship of the BRS!....

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Some links: ....

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=90LsK3laUhU

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ymIohHS-LW0....

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See you soon in Germany…....

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To be continued....

Hi everybody,

Our single 'Cache-cache' will be released in Germany, Switzerland and Austria on 29 August 2008, that means this friday !

And the album 'Open Jail' will be available in these same countries on 24 October 2008.

Before our german promotional tour in November, we'll be in Hamburg for the Reeperbahn Festival on Thursday 25th September and then in Berlin on 8th October, for the Weekender-Popkomm Abend at the Magnet Club.

Keep on rockin'

1984

Great news !
1984 come back to UK in October for 9 gigs supporting the Blood Red Shoes !

october
13 - wedgewood rooms, portsmouth (14+)
15 - cockpit, leeds (14+)
16 - academy 3, manchester (14+)
18 - drummonds, aberdeen (14+)
19 - king tuts, glasgow (14+)
20 - academy 2, newcastle (14+)
21 - waterfront, norwich (14+)
23 - academy 2, birmingham (14+)
24 - astoria 2, london (16+ /14+ with an adult)

Little souvenirs from our last tour in UK on band1984TV !

Frogs will shake the island again !

Keep on rockin'




Bonnes nouvelles !

1984 repart au Royaume-Uni en octobre pour 9 dates en première partie des Blood Red Shoes !

Ci-dessus les dates de concert.

En attendant, retrouvez les images de la tournée UK précédente sur band1984TV !

A bientôt