Festival Monte le Son : Concert de Paris Banlieue

For this new edition of the Monte le Son festival, the libraries are celebrating music by women! On this occasion, the Médiathèque Françoise Sagan welcomes the pop formation Paris Banlieue, who present Dans des lieux, a poetic and mischievous record recently released on Cartelle.

Paris Banlieue is originally a Franco-Spanish trio (three voices, keyboard, guitar, hand percussion and trumpet) performing poetic and humorous songs, in an acoustic pop-rock-punk style that draws on every verbal and musical register.

A first album, Gueuseries (April 2020, released by Langue Pendue on cassette and by Snap! Clap! Club on vinyl), was recorded by Sylvain Quément (of the Radio Minus project) in live takes made over one afternoon in an apartment.

The record was embraced by fans of the most lo-fi French underground (reviews by JD Beauvallet, Olivier Lamm…), and also found echoes internationally (Monorail in Glasgow, Big Love in Tokyo…).

The three members, Clara and Leonor Pernas and Adèle Duhoo, spent five years on and off, alongside their schooling and then their studies, writing songs, developing new structures and adding instruments to arrangements inspired by those of the Beatles and the Kinks, while varying styles as much as possible (their influences ranging from rockabilly to folk and reggaeton, as well as jazz and electronic pop), and introducing other languages such as English and Spanish, in order to build a new album, Dans des lieux (December 2025, released by Langue Pendue, Snap!

Clap! Club and Cartelle).

Alternating takes (always live) made by Sylvain and those made by the members themselves, sometimes over the phone, the album is meticulously structured into different stories and sub-sections, and stages the tension between the group's great spontaneity and its efforts at structure and contrast.

Overall, it evokes the idea of movement between places, echoing the group's name (Paris Banlieue) and the context of separation (Paris/Madrid) in which it was written.