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Sunday, November 22, 2009 

Yes, that was the wildest party on earth ! Those who don’t believe it just need to watch the video by Robert van den Broek(on our myspace front page) .. no photoshop, no special effect (so we say), just a crazy night .. we performed with 2 greeque beauties : domina Lola and ....Prema.... … an unforgettable time!....


Sunday, November 22, 2009 
Risqué Suisse tour with Vive La fete - We made it !! and that was not that easy, with a gps asking you to do a u turn in the middle of the highway, passport lost 2 days before, a flat battery in Zurich.. but that was well worth it : great venues, Vive la Fête performed 3 fantastic concerts, and a great great crowd.. last but not least, we performed with 2 VJs, Ursula and Gema, from Barcelona..yes, Risqué is international, and what a team we made!!!It was our third time in Switzerland (it all started with the unforgettable l’usine in Geneva) and the only thing we can say now is : ‘Vive la Suisse !’
Sunday, November 08, 2009 

Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down - Risque Album Review

Risque - Photo: PvonB www.myspace.com/risquemusicbarcelona
Risque
Photo: PvonB link

Album Review

An eleven-track kinky electro perv-fest appropriately on the Some Bizarre label, this heavy-breathing, corrective slaps abounding, squelchorama owes much to Alison Goldfrapp's S & M adventures, echoing Soft Cell, Grace Jones and Donna Summer. Recorded in London's Soho and in très chic shadowy corners of Barcelona and the South of France, Risqué (French Natalie and Welsh Huw) spend their days away from light behind drawn blinds and their nights in places too scary to imagine.
The Velvet Underground's steely fetishista punitive Venus in Furs is given a funky make-over and the automated, robotic Push the Button echoes Annie's Lennox's best, disengaged chilly (á la Sweet Dreams) vocal, a turn-on in its frosty, do as you are told, whip-crack-away. 'Tie Me Up Tie Me Down' is reminiscent of Dave Ball's early (best) low-rent synth keyboards work, and Talking Heads' Psycho Killer thrusts itself into your face, astride a solid slab of perfect motorvating dance that rocks to Huelva and back. If the Flying Lizards coupled with Giorgio Moroder down a dark back alley, Do You Believe in Heaven would be the erogenous outcum. On Superstitious, the sang-froid promiscuous pants and groans heritage of Birkin, Faithfull, Nico and Gainsbourg slither amidst sap-raising LXTRNX FX, processed rock guitars and Chicory Tip scuzz. Tracks (check the titles!) such as Hot Line, Plastic Lover, Can't Stop, Dèshabille-toi...confirm this album as essential for subterranean clubs. Risqué are Kraftwerk on Viagra, powered by Duracell - the best fun you can have with your PVC clothes on.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 

http://www.muzzart.fr/lezine/chronik/risque-tie-me-up-tie-me-down.html


Risqué

Tie me up, tie me down
2009 - Some Bizarre
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Non content de promouvoir un artiste électro de valeur avec Vive la Fête, Le Son Du Maquis a également eu le nez creux concernant ce duo dont l'univers se rapproche de celui des Belges, à ceci près qu'ici, on se situe plus directement en terres 80's. Cette décennie se voit remise au goût du jour avec un brio dont peu font preuve, Risqué parvenant de plus à tenir sur la durée, soit treize titres, sans faiblir une seconde.


Ce n'est d'ailleurs surement pas un hasard si c'est le label anglais Some Bizarre (Soft Cell, Cabaret Voltaire ou encore Psychic TV, pour ne citer qu'eux) qui a signé ce groupe. Electro, rock, sonorités 80's voix émoustillantes, parfois encanaillées entrent ici en collision à tout instant et engendrent des morceaux plus que persuasifs, dont l'alliage groove et entrain démentiels/côté rock (exemple, l'excellentissime I Want Your Number) pour certains titres, ou les penchants délibérément 80's, dénués de toute tendance "autre" (Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down), tapent dans le mille et portent cet opus vers les sommets. Tubesque du début à la fin (Push The Button, auquel tout auditeur un tant soit peu normalement constitué ne peut résister, doté d'un chant, oeuvre de Billie Ray Martin, évoquant Annie Lennox), cette rondelle est en effet amenée à tourner un long moment dans les platines, voire à animer nombre de soirées dédiées à un courant superbement exploité et réactualisé, donc, avec un savoir-faire renversant de la part d'un groupe dont nous ne connaissions pour ainsi dire rien il y a encore peu. Les interventions extérieures y sont plus que concluantes, Pravda, entre autres, réalisant avec le duo une époustouflante reprise du Psychokiller des Talking Heads, vitaminée et gorgée de guitares mordantes, ainsi que d'une basse massive, tandis que le duo, côté reprises, complète le tableau avec Venus In Furs du Velvet Underground, ni plus ni moins, la voix de Nathalie et les séquences de Huw Williams le dotant d'une touche joyeuse qui contraste avec son contenu de départ.


Si ces deux covers exécutées avec brio s'avèrent donc abouties, il est à souligner que les collaborations, outre celle de Pravda donc, le sont tout autant, à commencer par Marylin, sur lequel apparaissent Amanda Lepore et Cazwell. La première y allant de son chant suggestif et le second de ses interventions presque hip-hop, alors que Huw et Nathalie les épaulent en élaborant des boucles 80's remarquables. Ou encore Plastic Lover et ses guitares de feu en introduction, où Pravda apparait à nouveau, accompagné cette fois de The Specimen, au refrain, à l'instar de la plupart des autres, mémorable.

Plus loin, ce sont Andrea B et Crackdown qui nous font l'honneur de leur présence sur un Superstitious aussi entrainant et énergique (riffs secs et brefs) qu'addictif dès lors que la première écoute est passée. Et enfin, pour achever le chapitre des "featurings", Ultrafox co-signe avec Risqué un Disorder électro-cold aux guitares cette fois assez "Curiennes", qui met un terme à ce Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down assez phénoménal. Autour de cela, Hotline (cette voix signée Nathalie, tentez donc d'y faire face sans succomber, c'est peine perdue) et ses six-cordes une fois de plus sobres et étincelantes, en adéquation avec ce titre plus léger, ou Do You believe In Heaven ?, plus synthétique et tout aussi probant, permettent à Risqué de continuer son festival, ce qui est aussi le cas, en fin de parcours, de Déshabille-toi et Can't Stop. Le premier très électro, avec des synthés dignes du Pretty Hate Machine de Nine Inch Nails, le second de même teneur, quoique porteur de guitares discrètes, avec en plus de cela les nappes efficaces en diable du duo.


Pour conclure donc, voilà un album en aux allures de révélation conséquente, dont on ne sait s'il perdurera mais qui, pour l'heure, tourne sur ma platine, et très certainement sur celles de ses autres possesseurs, de façon répétée. Indispensable et sans nuances qualitatives, même après une réflexion poussée...

Par A good day for a trip, le 28/10/2009 - muzzart
Friday, October 23, 2009 

Risqué featuring Cazwell 'Limosine' on player now!...taken from Cazwell's album 'Watch my mouth' out on Peace Bisquit NYC


Collaboration we did with him earlier in the year.......Enjoy!

Bisous

Nathalie and Huw
Risquéxxxxxxx
Sunday, October 04, 2009 
New Video - 'Venus in Furs' by Myl Morgen Starring Devon Eden and Vanille

Shot in paris......up on our page now!

Hope you love it as much as us....

Kisses

Nathalie and Huw
Risquéxxxxx
Thursday, October 01, 2009 



Risqué to support the fabulous Vive la Fete!

http://www.myspace.com/vivelafete1

in Luzern (18th Nov/cap. 800) in Zurich (19th Nov/cap. 800) + Fribourg (20th Nov/cap. 1000)...Switzerland

We look forward to meeting you there

Kisses
Nathalie and Huw
xxxxxx

Saturday, September 12, 2009 

Category: Music
http://skrufff.com/2009/09/risque%e2%80%99s-some-bizarre-sex-club-signing-interview/


Risque’s (Some) Bizarre Sex Club Signing (interview)

September 11, 2009 By: skrufff Category: INTERVIEWS

Risque': click on the picture to access their myspace

Risque': click on the picture to access their myspace

Erotic-electro duo Risque chatted to Skrufff this week about their just released debut album ‘Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down’ and revealed that they signed with infamous Some Bizarre boss Stevo after meeting him just briefly at a London sex club.“We only met Stevo once at the Skin Two rubber ball,” Risque vocalist Nathalie recalled, “His assistant joined us on stage to be whipped by a professional dominatrix from New York City.”“It was great night to remember,” she sighed. “We never met again. . . but we’re in touch every week.”The Some Bizarre label chief has long been known as one of the most colourful characters in the music business, at one point introducing a private chapel and confession box in the office for bands to deliver demo tapes. Two of his most influential signings of the 80s, Soft Cell and The The (aka Matt Johnson) both credited him with inspiring them to record ecstasy albums when the drug was still legal in 1981.“‘Soul Mining’ was one of the first Ecstasy albums. Not a lot of people know that,” Matt told Select Magazine in an interview in 1991. “Some Bizzare in the early ‘80s with Soft Cell, Stevo, myself, and do you remember Cindy Esctasy? That was how she got he surname, but that was like ten years ago,” he recalled.Chatting to Skrufff more recently (in 2007) Soft Cell song writer Dave Ball recalling being inspired to make Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing by Stevo when on a New York trip, also in 1981.“I think it was Stevo who first mentioned ecstasy to us,” Dave recalled. “He came in to the studio one morning saying ‘I had this amazing drug last night’, We weren’t really into drugs at that point, we didn’t know much about them beyond a bit of speed. He said try one of these.”“There was this girl from Brooklyn who was selling them for $6 a hit, per capsule and we did. We were going to places like Danceteria and Paradise Garage, hearing all this great dance music and E-ing off out tits. So we thought ‘Wouldn’t it be a great idea to make a full on club version of the first album?”RisquÇ - Polaroid by PvonBSome Bizarre talk aside, Natalie was chatting to Skrufff primarily to promote aforementioned album ‘Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down’, an electro-trash style record which includes contributions from Billie Ray Martin and New York tranny star Amanda Lepore.Natalie, a brain surgeon in France by day, handles all the lyrics while husband Huw does the music with a firm hand, she explained.He asks for opinions but he knows the answers before asking, he’s a control freak,” she laughed.“The music is always first,” she added.“I suppose it all started with the song ‘Tie me up Tie me down’ because the sound had something quite striking, punishing, disturbing, and kitsch at the same time. Though there is much more than one concept in ‘Tie me up Tie me down’ and despite the fact we can be dark, self-centered, sensitive, belligerent, we also hate taking ourselves too seriously.”“We’ve taken influences from everything, cinema (Almodovar of course), weirdos and common people, fetishistic and romantic, gay and straight, goth and comic,” she explained.Skrufff (Jonty Skrufff): I understand you’re a neuro scientist by day; how do your colleagues feel about your parallel career: are any/ many of your patients aware of your other persona?Risque’ (Nathalie): “I don’t have any ‘patients’ as such but if I had it would not be problem, I could blackmail them with a lobotomy so nobody would know.”Skrufff: Being a brain surgeon is one of those ‘dream jobs’ most kids consider: what are its downsides?Risque’ (Nathalie): “I don’t know, I never wanted to be a brain surgeon, I wanted to save the world. I saw once a human brain for real, and it doesn’t look good.”Skrufff: Nightlife is full of people taking all sorts of brain affecting chemicals; how much do you encounter patients who have partied too hard and damaged their brains?Risque’ (Nathalie): “We’re surrounded by them and if they bite you, you will transform yourself and become one of them . . .”Skrufff: Do you ever find yourself wanting to warn people against certain drugs?Risque’ (Nathalie): “Sleeping pills . . . a best seller of the pharmaceutical industry.”Skruff: Like all couples, you must have some big rows from time to time: how do you handle that when one happens when you’re doing a show?Risque’ (Nathalie): “We concentrate the argument during the sound-check, so when we play we’re at reconciliation time. It always works; satisfaction guaranteed.”Skrufff: There’s a strong sexual element in your music: how much is jealousy an issue with people or fans you meet along the way hitting on either- or both of you?Risque’ (Nathalie): “It’s never been a problem, we love having fans after us. It’s when there’s nobody hitting on us we get upset. We’re much more narcissistic than jealous.”Skrufff: Your PR mentioned you’re both bisexual; why do you think the mainstream remains more accepting of female bisexuality than male?Risque’ (Nathalie): “50% true. Female bisexuality is a male fantasy, I can’t say it’s really true the other way round.”Skrufff: Why did you get married; it seems conventional in contrast to the band’s image?Risque’ (Nathalie): “Because I wanted to buy myself an expensive dress and needed a special event to justify it . . . because Vegas  was warm enough to wear my summer dress even in winter . . . because we both love gambling . . . because it all felt right.”Skrufff: Surfing your Myspaces, you have 41,000 ‘friends’ how long did it take you to get them? How worried are you about Myspace dying?Risque’ (Nathalie): 956 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes. Long live Myspace. With good doctors like me, it will never die.”Risque’s debut album Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down is out now on Some Bizarre Records.RisquÇ - by Hungershotshttp://www.myspace.com/risquemusicbarcelona Jonty Skrufff Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jontyskrufff
Thursday, September 03, 2009 

Category: Music
Bonjour!

We are really happy to announce that Le Son Du Maquis (Paris) will distribute our debut album 'Tie me up tie me down ' in Europe!

Le Son du Maquis distribute IAMX, Zoot Woman and ACR amongs many other fabulous artists! (see our top friends for their myspace). Details will be announced on their website later this month,

http://www.maquismusic.com/new/home.php?langue=eng

Our CD will be out in Europe on October 22nd inc France, Germany, Benelux, Spain, Italy and Greece......amongst others

Genepool/Universal Music will still deal with UK!

Thanks for your continued support

Bisous

Nathalie and Huw
xxxxxxx

Thursday, August 20, 2009 
RISQUE
Signed to the legendary, if sometimes controversial, Some Bizarre Records label, which released early material by Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The The and Psychic TV, Risqué consists of French vocalist Nathalie Williams and her producer husband Huw. They release their debut album, 'Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down' this week. We spoke to Huw and Nathalie to ask our Same Six Questions.
 Q1 How did you start out making music?
Huw: I started really early, using Atari computers. I was brought up in a musical family, my parents both taught music in schools. There was always music played in the house, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie... I played percussion in orchestra in North Wales. One day, a friend sold me a bass guitar, a Rickenbacker copy, and showed me the bassline of 'Barbarism Begins At Home' by The Smiths. There was no turning back after that. I formed a band immediately.
Nathalie: Huw was playing with the bass from John Carpenter's 'Precinct 13' and asked lots of singers to write something for it, but it didn't work out. The day he asked me to write on it, it was instant chemistry. This was actually the start of Risqué. It turned out to be our first single 'Do You Believe In Heaven?', which was released by Substream in Sweden, and it's also on our debut album.Q2 What inspired your latest album?
Huw: MySpace was a huge inspiration with all the massive talent on it. It's a fantastic tool for collaborations.
Nathalie: 'Tie Me Up Tie Me Down' was inspired by the Pedro Almodovar film of the same name. 'Atame' [it's Spanish title] is one of my favourite films ever - Victoria Abril and Antonio Banderas are unforgettable in it - and of course, Huw's sound. It always creates a feeling which makes me think of something, a memory or just something I feel like talking about.Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
Huw: I have many ways of working, but my true passion is drums. I love drums and bass. I generally start with these elements using my Music Man bass guitar or my Roland System 100 modular synth. I'm a big fan of analogue synths for bass - I've been obsessed with bass from an early age.
Nathalie: I work alone on the first melody lines and suggest them to Huw. After that, it's a joint effort, a series of exchanges and shared reflections. We're so lucky we've got this connection and creativity to share together.Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Huw: I love Sinatra, Giorgio Moroder, Serge Gainsbourg, Link Wray, Suicide, Death In Vegas, The Cramps, early New Order. Current artists include Sexy Sushi, Kap Bambino and The Ravonettes. And I'm also still a huge fan of The Smiths. 'Screamadelica' by Primal Scream changed my world too. And of course Depeche Mode - Martin Gore's songwriting rocks ('Personal Jesus' is true genius!).
Nathalie: We've got more or less the same taste in music. I'd add dark singers like Johnny Cash and Trent Reznor. I also love poets like Baudelaire, writers like Kundera, and of course directors like Pedro Almodovar, and many many more... I love artists who are provocative, imaginative and unconventional.Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Huw: Keep an open mind! There's a lot of influences in there from Kraftwerk, John Carpenter to Talking Heads. There's something for everyone on our debut album, it's a culmination of years of personal experience. I'm proud of the record, proud of what Nathalie and I have achieved so far with Risqué.
Nathalie: Don't believe anything you see or hear. These songs are about love, etiquette, pain, sex ...or about what you want them to be about. 'Tie Me Up Tie Me Down' is a romantic story in my mind.Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
Huw: We hope Some Bizarre will arrange a label tour in the UK to help launch our record and promote the return of the legendary label. It's time for a Some Bizarre Records comeback for sure! We are also playing some great venues around Europe this winter, including Wasteland Party (Amsterdam), Recession Festival (Arhus, Denmark) and one of our favourite clubs, The Saturator (Warsaw, Poland). We have also started on ideas for our second album and would love to collaborate with more artists and also bring new producers to the table. We're very excited about our new ideas.
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