Crack up For Amnesty International
Hey! Did you know there was a new T80 song available online? we recorded “Crack Up” (an A.R Kane cover) for Buffetlibre DJ’s who’ve been producing a HUGE compilation for Am...
more pics from the session for album#5
News from the Lab
Helloo, We’re almost there, putting the final touches to the songs for our #5 album. It’s too early to describe it (and I’d love to avoid the usual promo crap “our best albu...
session#2 is coming to an end. 300 harmony vocals, 25 minutes of...
session#2 is coming to an end. 300 harmony vocals, 25 minutes of percussion, 3 or 4 synth Jams, 20 something guitars, 1 Jim Gilette scream etc…and our long overdue sofa arrived today (it̵...
Winterlong
Hé, It’s that time again, WINTER, when we always record our albums. It makes we want to change that routine, so let me write it loud: T80’s 6th album, we’ll be recorded either in ...
TAHITI 80 on bandcamp
Two Thousand and nine light years from home
Salut,2009 is nearly over, let me tell you how it was for us. It went sooooo fast, it’s almost unbelievable.It started with snowfalls in Germany and ended on an perfect Indian summer morning...
it’s that time again. Drunken Santas…Guitalele…...
it’s that time again. Drunken Santas…Guitalele…etc.
hého Activity Center has been out in the US for a week now, we’ve getting some really good reviews, which is good news. I’ll gather some of them and will post external links later on. W...
Our Favorite Shops
Hey,Long time, no see! Here’s some news:-T80 hit the USA: Tomorrow (November 24th) Activity Center will be out in the USA!The artwork is slightly different from the original version (differen...
A present for you! Here’s an unreleased rmx of Unpredictab...
A present for you! Here’s an unreleased rmx of Unpredictable by our friend Flairs. Check his video for his brand new single “Trucker’s Delight”, it’s pretty funny!
"This is it"
Ouch…pfff…. So, That’s it…”This is it”…we played our last show for the Activity “Many People Complain” Center Tour. The very last show of the y...
US day#1 & 2
Get Tickets for the LA Show on Nov 5th at The Troubadour! suppor...
Get Tickets for the LA Show on Nov 5th at The Troubadour! support: Brookville
T80’s South America Photo album
T80 hits the USA…shortly
South America #2
South America #1
They do have strange animals in South America…
Duck Dance with Mehdi in Santiago on the stage of Centro Cultura...
Duck Dance with Mehdi in Santiago on the stage of Centro Cultural Amanda (Chile). Featuring Raphael Leger & Pedro Resende. Directed by Xavier Boyer
flyers for Chile & Uruguay
Where will we play next? identify the player (or team) and find ...
Where will we play next? identify the player (or team) and find the country X
Two to Go
Hello,We’re back home after 13 days of music, travel, fun etc. in both Japan & Thailand.Japan was great as usual, except for one big storm that made us cancel one of our shows, but weR...
Nothing's gonna stop me now *
heho! Still in Bangkok, for 2 days. Pedro & I have officially started our jobs as producers: we spent all day with Thai band Sqweez Animal working on 2 of their songs. Cool. It’s actually...
Music in a green time*
Sawadee krub, That’s it: the Asian “come back tour” is over. (our tour is nearly over too…sniff). Last night, we performed in a huge venue (at least 6,000 were people in her...
Pics by Tahiti 80
Tahiti Touring Party
Hey, So, we finally left Japan. 5 long days & short nights, as getting adjusted to the time difference is impossible for me in Japan. I’d need to stay longer there and then I’ll exp...
ouch.
Hello, Ouch. it hurts. My head. Last night. Kinda crazy. While the other guys were sleeping, I did various interviews and photoshoots, with roses and a horse, his name was Marron by the way and he...
Not exactly eagles… Laurent Fetis, Jean Luc Singerat: Watc...
Not exactly eagles… Laurent Fetis, Jean Luc Singerat: Watch out, here I come!
In libération today
Les rapetouts
Travellin'
Hello, Even though, we’re still recovering from 4 days of hard work (amongst other things) in Taiwan, we’ll be on the road this Sunday & Monday. First, with a show at Vireux (in Les...
Just Like Carole King
Ouch. I feel like yesterday lasted at least 3 days. Can’t believe, we started at 8 am with a bicycle ride under heavy rain with ponchos (J’s pics are lost in his broken camera…zut...
that’s where we’ll be tonight!!!
Tour Report (June 09)
Back from our Normandie & Britain “tour”…and ready to start again!Let me remind you what happened:First we did that DJ set in Rouen, a selection of “relaxed” track...
Med & I will be playing a few songs (and purchasing records)...
Med & I will be playing a few songs (and purchasing records) at Pure Groove records, around noon…or something like that! 6-7 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9JX closest tubes - Farringdon (3...
Just signed up for my Dipity account.
T80 Cathedral Mix part A
Hola, For those who can’t be here tonight (June 26th) in Rouen. here’s the mix in 2 parts. Feel free to download it, listen to it while watching a picture or a painting of Rouen’s...
T80 Cathedral Mix part B
Rock'n'Roll facts Vol 78
Hi there,Last week’s shows (minus the long drives) were a lot of fun. Villeurbanne was cool, we played between raindrops (no, it’s not a band name), it felt great to be back on stage af...
To celebrate the end of spring, the coming of summer and the rel...
To celebrate the end of spring, the coming of summer and the release of Unpredictable rmx ep here’s MaRadioStar’s rmx version of Unpredictable! Enjoy!
Giant Pink Rabbits…& T80 (Med, Raf, Jason, Julien, Xav...
Giant Pink Rabbits…& T80 (Med, Raf, Jason, Julien, Xavier, angy & Pedro) in Chartres
Xav Strummer
Coming up in June!
Helloooo, here’s the menu,-June 2ndwe’ll start with a Tahiti 80 party (#2) at Le Motel (Paris 11è), with Axe Riverboy & Lecube performing acoustic sets. Mederic (aka Spanky) & L...
next week’s party. Tahiti 80 DJ set with Axe Riverboy &...
next week’s party. Tahiti 80 DJ set with Axe Riverboy & Lecube (acoustic live performances) design by Jean Luc ‘simply the best’ Singerat for Phantom
Hi there,what’s up?Pedro & I are still at the lab prod...
Hi there,what’s up?Pedro & I are still at the lab producing Mehdi Zannad (aka Fugu) ‘s new album. It sounds great, and the fact that the songs are in French makes it quite exciting:...
Homeward Bound
Hey,Back home after 2 exhausting days in London. We started out with a show at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, which was pretty good, even though, I guess, it didn’t feel like playing the UK as th...
London Cowboys
Hi there,Tahiti 80 will play in London Tomorrow (May 5th) at the Hoxton Bar & Grill(2- 4 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU).We’ll be on at 10 pm (there are also 2 bands on the bill,...
Sunday papers (l’est républicain) X
Besançon, here we come!
738 Western Shirts
Hi there sorry I haden’t posted anything in years… Let me get back to the Alhambra show. It was definitely one of the highlights of our career. Great venue, great crowd etc. here’...
Tahiti 80 hits London!
see you at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen on May 5th. click on the banner to purchase tickets.
P-P-P-Poster!
50x70cm - Silkscreen Poster by Jean-Luc Singerat (www.phntm.com) limited to 65 copies! It will be on sale at the show, and then if there are some copies left on the soon to be finished T80 shop!
designed by Jean Luc Singerat for Phantom (www.phntm.com)
Keep on poppin' in a free world
Hi, Tomorrow we’ll play in Paris- La défense (on the “parvis”), at 1pm. It’s indoors, in a “magic mirror”, and it’s free. come with a lunch box! best, X
Taratata Full Version
here’s the full interview and 2 songs (“All Around” & Ronettes’ cover “Be My Baby”) we performed on taratata.as you’ll see we don’t speak Japanes...
The circus is in town…
berlin 1
Invited
Hallo,This is our third day in Germany. Alles Gut.Last night in Munich was really cool. The atomic café is definitely one of our fav’ clubs in the world. The show was good, very groovy. I thi...
East Bound
Hi there, Just a few words to let you know we’ll be in Strasbourg tomorrow sharing the bill with Leila (while les Bleus will play against Argentina, sniff), and then we’ll travel all ov...
Up To Date (2009)
Hi there,So I guess the big news is that we’ll be back on the road very shortly! Germany, here we come! France, we’re back! Here’s the full list of the February shows and more11/0...
“Wallpaper…” album of the day on Mojo’s ...
“Wallpaper…” album of the day on Mojo’s website!!!! “Defeat sodden streets and winter gloom with a great summer record.” Guess what…it made my day!!!!X cl...
Tahiti 80 and some friends wish you the best for 2009
Hellooo… here’s the 2009 musical greeting from T80! ...
Hellooo… here’s the 2009 musical greeting from T80! Let’s play do a blind test, which songs have been used to create it? 3 words (Tahiti, 80 & 9) come from non-T80 songs (if y...
here are our pics from the Asian tour!!! X
2008? It was a pretty good year!
Hello,I can’t believe how fast 2008 went. Last January, I was in Japan promoting the Axe Riverboy album with 2 shows in Tokyo and Osaka (strangely enough I performed early versions of “...
Seoul Deep
Hey, that’s it, the Asian Tour is over…I can’t believe how fast it went…The Seoul show was great, I have to say that Koreans are the fans who scream the loudest in the worl...
One more time again… nice souvenir from Taipei
"Who needs lyrics when you can have a “couac couac” sound?"
hey, recovering from a crazy night in BKK. The show was great, it’s always cool when you hear the crowd singing our choruses louder than us! Today is off, tomorrow we’ll leave for Japa...
new pics
Tahiti 80 will play in Bangkok…still keeping our fingers c...
Tahiti 80 will play in Bangkok…still keeping our fingers crossed though
Hi, here’s a tiny bit from last week’s concert (whic...
Hi, here’s a tiny bit from last week’s concert (which was great) in Tours.The rest of the shows were very cool too. more on this later. This week, we’ll be in Lille, Lyon & C...
The bags are packed, the guitars have been tuned…etc TAHIT...
The bags are packed, the guitars have been tuned…etc TAHITI 80 will be on tour in France this November !!!!04 Nov Bateau Ivre/ Les Rockomotives/Tours05 Nov Barbey/Bordeaux06 Nov Woodst...
Taratata
Great News, T80 have been invited to play on France Television’s one and only musical show :”Taratata”! Click on the link above if you wanna attend the show, it will be recorded o...
Maroquinerie pics & review for Izdi
Maroquinerie pics by Matthieu Marquenet / A French Photographer
courtesy of WW2W! We love this blog!
Le Mouv' session
If you didn’t know what to do tomorrow afternoon, come and watch us play a few songs (with the full band) at “La maison de la radio” (Avenue du Président Kennedy, Paris 16) for a ...
Lomo Amigos
Last summer, we were given a camera by the lovely lomo people, our brief was to shoot whatever we wanted. That’s exactly what we did! Check the results on their website.
The Fool of the King?
(aka Le Fou Du Roi) T80 will perform 2 songs on Stephane Bern’s France Inter show on Tuesday (30/09/08) from 11h to 12h30. Other guests on the program are Josiane Balasko, Bataille et Fontai...
directed by Romain Chassaing
Fly like an Eagle (in birkenstock’s)
OUT NOW in France!
Déjà vü
YO!After 3 take offs & landings (and a sleepless night in Murcia), Mederic & I arrived safely in Tokyo. Just on time to take a shower, buy some underwear at Uniqlo…30 minutes later we...
on the set
Think pink
T80 shooting the video for “All Around” earlier toda...
T80 shooting the video for “All Around” earlier today. (the video is directed by Romain Chassaing, pic by Benoit Tregouet)
Space Kelly
Yo, A few days ago, I received Space Kelly’s “My Favourite Songbook Vol.2” in the mail I was happy cos’: it’s a cover/tribute project, and we definitely share the sam...
Here’s Steve Lawrence’s song covered by Space Kelly
Hello, Sylvain & I making full use of the Antonelli “C...
Hello, Sylvain & I making full use of the Antonelli “Comet 2498” to cover a song called ‘T###K F#R # M####E” (will you find the title?) X PS; yes, we’re back at th...
Look what I got as a birthday present!!!! My bro found this orgi...
Look what I got as a birthday present!!!! My bro found this orginal vintage souvenir t-shirt on ebay!!!! Just like the original which gave its name to our band, this shirt’s sole purpose was ...
24x7 Boys-Teaser
the new logo…
Back in Pink, Blue & Black
Hi there, ‘Don’t know if you followed our latest adventures, but “Activity Center” our 4th album is done. (applause!) It took 3 months to complete it. Starting with a few co...
Yo les Kidz!
HI, so, we’re putting the final touches to our album…I re-sang a few lines, we added a few bells and whistles (organs mainly)…and tonite, I’ve just finished the lead and (nu...
Allô Tina? Mederic & xavier using a new instrument: le tel...
Allô Tina? Mederic & xavier using a new instrument: le telefon
I was made for lovin’ you…yes indeed
All Around track sheet…sort of
The Boyz are back in t-t-town!
Bonjour, we spent another sunny day in our cellar, perfect if you’re not looking for that California tan… I finished the vocals and added various guitars on All Around. Sylvain perform...
ALMOST THERE
Yeah. I recorded one more vocal today, for a song called “All Around”. So, our next move/masterplan is/are: -to start pre-mixing some songs and -to finish the overdubs on the others. ...
The Percussion Marathon is done. Raf did a great job at the shakers, maracas, tambourines, bongos, claves & cowbells. I recorded the lead vocals for “Come On Now”. YEAAAAAHHH. 2 mor...
he’s our cook, our mandolinist… he’s a cookoli...
he’s our cook, our mandolinist… he’s a cookolinist. Chez Joey!
OK. our label, Barclay, visited us at the studio today, they seemed pretty excited about the new versions. Which is good new for us. We spent the day listening to rough versions of the songs, I wro...
Recording Unpredictable
rasta vibration pic by sly
Today, Sylvain and I travelled across the countryside (surrounde...
Today, Sylvain and I travelled across the countryside (surrounded by yellow colza fields) to pick up this wonderful Vox AC30.I’v’ also purchased 2 Ibanez pedals. Can’t wait to try...
hallo, There was a relaxed vibe floating in the air of the lab, on this sunny saturday (was it the first sunny day of the year?): BBQ, listening to what we had recorded late at night, a few guitar...
X:Ma, I look like a horrible tiny monster P:No, I think you̵...
X:Ma, I look like a horrible tiny monster P:No, I think you’re terrific X: are you kidding me? P: No, I would never lie to you X: Thanks, padre. Do you want a cup of hot cocoa? (sorry for thi...
THOUSAND LEAVES
Yo, we’ve recorded vocals today. A lovely bridge for “Dream On”. If you’re familiar with French pastry, I would call what we’ve done a vocal “Mille Feuilles̶...
The Bleu Note
We found casimir!!!
Hello, Hi, I’ve just finished a lead vocal for a song called “Dream On”. Mederic played some guitar on “Brazil”. still going strong! we’re going to bed! love X
Dodo
Bonjour or maybe Bonsoir, “it’s another day for T80 in a recording studio” (to sing on Phil Collins’ hit) What happened today? Mederic played a 12 string Charvel surfcaste...
le darnetal barbershop trio. barbershop, are you kidding me?
The Party's Still Going, P.S.G!
YO! More guitars today. I used a ‘76 Aria lp Custom & a ‘68 Gibson Es355. Sounds Grrreat! I’ve recorded vocals for “Brazil”, Yeah! The Darnetal Barbershop Tri...
guitar day. Telecaster Custom 76 Les paul Signature 73 Mustang 68 Rickenbaker 91 Eastwood JLS 07 Guild D40 02 Epiphone Jumbo 92 Gibson J45 04 keep on rockin, bises X
Padre, Med, Jiien, Robine, Simon, Zavier & Oko
anybody selling a wurlitzer?
Changes...
Hello, long time no see! we’re back at the lab… I don’t know if we told you before, but Sylvain our drummer suffers from tinnitus. Besides hearing white noise in his ears, most...
Reprezent #1: Mc Zee, Da Padre, DJ Ahmede
Los Groovy Lips
Hola que tal? Early in the morning, pedro recorded some sort of upright bass on “Fire Escape”, it sounded great, even though I hadn’t showed him the right chords…! Anyway, ...
Hello, Today was off for me, as I had to be in Paris on Monday morning (we left the studio at 3.30, went to bed at 4 and I woke up at 7- work more to earn more?) (!) Last nite, we worked on Tune ...
Speciale dédicace à sylvain.
Voilà. we’re going to bed. Today was “guitar day”. For the first time you’ll hear a rickenbacker on one of our albums. I thought you might wanna know. A demain, Xavier X
Having fun, having a bud. Here’s the new concept: pedro wi...
Having fun, having a bud. Here’s the new concept: pedro will sing, I will wear bandanas and mederic will play weird African percussion
Hélloo, Sylvain’s recording some percussion at this very moment. Mederic and I have tracked electric guitars earlier today. The game (France Vs England) is getting closer. Here are 2 questio...
Med+Zav Nice sweaters…I love my haircut. montage by sly
Hého, back at the lab’. Recording guitars, eating chili con carne etc. Life is sweet… A+ X
Floppy Ghetto Blaster
STEREO STUDIO #1
Here’s what I’m listening to at the moment: Adrian Baker -VibrationsI got this L.P for one euro. It’s an interesting cross between The Bee Gees (for the disco bits) and The Beach ...
Yo, this is Channel T80! wanna know Mederic’s sock colour? Find out this and more thanks to the “T80 Web Cam” Look On Your Right!————-> P
Musicians Gone Wild
Hé,So, we spent a day trying to get a decent Hi Hat sound…Yes, this is music. Sometimes, it’s all about focusing on small details to get the right sound image.We’re enjoying Kinde...
Slow preparation, fast execution…
PeBRIAN ResendENO
SETTING UP THE SYSTEM!!!
HI, this is the official start of the session…after 650 meters of cables, 80 beers, 65 new holes in the studio walls etc…we’re starting the proper tracking of this record. The fir...
While cleaning up the studio shelves, we fell upon a rare collec...
While cleaning up the studio shelves, we fell upon a rare collection from France’s answer to The Monkees, Les Charlots. It was quite refreshing to hear this Gainsbourg parody…the rest...
