Tagada Jones

Presented by RAGE TOUR.Tagada Jones has been touring national and international stages with their Punk-Hardcore for over 20 years.

Tagada Jones has been touring national and international stages with their Punk-Hardcore for over 20 years. The band has travelled through 25 countries, produced 9 studio albums, and burned up the stage over 1800 times!

Undoubtedly one of the only French Punk combos to export so widely while singing in their native language. Tagada is also about social consciousness, political commitment, and above all, a reference in terms of independence. ) as the embodiment of French “Do it yourself”.

While the combo started its career a little over twenty years ago as a 100% punk-rock quartet, their music has undergone some changes, notably a more electro-punk direction for a few years with the arrival of a fifth member on samples.

Today, the band has returned to its first loves and continues to compose punk music faithful to its roots, even if the electro-industrial aspect has not totally disappeared.

The band covers more than ever a musical spectrum ranging from English punk, from its origins to its 90s Californian version, passing through 80s French alternative, or even metal and hardcore.

These influences have been perfectly digested to ultimately result in music that sounds like nothing else but Tagada Jones! While the music has evolved, it remains immediately recognisable, notably thanks to Niko's voice, his enraged singing, and his militant lyrics.

Lyrics that have also undergone some evolution but remain largely focused on societal problems such as capitalism, globalisation, oppression, wars, racism, ecology, politics, religions, domestic violence, or freedom in the broadest sense of the term...

The themes remain serious, the vision terribly lucid, and the whole paints a p