Postponed: Nouvelle Vague Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 3 November

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Postponed: Nouvelle Vague Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 3 November
The concert will be postponed due to the death of Olivier Libaux, co-founder of Nouvelle Vague.

New date: March 30, 2022. All redeemed tickets are valid!

One of our definite favorites Nouvelle Vague performing new wave hits as chansons, bossa novas and beyond returns this time to compile a grand festive set based on some of the coolest songs on their first two albums.

With a name that means "new wave" in English and "bossa nova" in Portuguese, Nouvelle Vague's moniker neatly sums up the group's concept: remaking classic new wave singles with a Brazilian pop twist. Nouvelle Vague is the brainchild of French producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux.

Prior to this collaboration, Collin played with the trip-hop outfit Ollano; composed film soundtracks such as The Kidnapper's Theme; and released electronic music ranging from club-oriented material for Paper Recordings to more eclectic fare for Fcom and Output Records (under the aliases Avril and Volga Select, respectively).

Libaux played with various French pop bands during the '90s and began working with Collin in 1998. For Nouvelle Vague, Collin and Libaux recruited half a dozen French and Brazilian vocalists who were unfamiliar with the original versions of songs like Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and XTC's "Making Plans for Nigel" to ensure that their renditions had their own identity.

Nouvelle Vague was released in Europe in 2004 and received U.S. distribution in spring 2005, which coincided with tour dates in locales as far-flung as Shanghai, New York, Los Angeles, and Rio de Janeiro.

Nouvelle Vague's second album, A Bande a Part, arrived in summer 2006. The following year, the team returned with Coming Home, a collection of songs from films given the Nouvelle Vague treatment. New Wave, a collection of covers by new wave artists, also arrived in 2007.
Place: A38 Ship Budapest
Address: 1117 Budapest, Petőfi Bridge, Buda side
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