HomeWhat's OnGig Reviews
Nouvelle Vague, Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
IT may have been freezing cold outside but trendy French music collective Nouvelle Vague filled Wolverhampton's Wulfrun Hall with the sounds of sizzling smooth jazz and hot Latin beats.
This unusual band specialise in acoustic and 60s-style bossa nova versions of some of the best punk, post-punk and new wave songs of the last 30 years.
Led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libraux the band has a flexible arrangement using up to eight different women singers, mainly French.
Other highlights were an uplifting version of The Buzzcocks' Ever Fallen In Love? New Order's Blue Monday - without a synthesiser to be heard - and a rousing, anthemic treatment for a certain unmentionable Dead Kennedys song which certainly got the audience going.