Whether it’s anti-Muslim sentiment on Facebook, a terrorist attack on a music venue, or yet another over-reported Donald Trump quote, the world can feel like a hopeless place. It can be hard to counteract the hate and division happening in the world.
Le Galaxie, decided to do something positive and send it out into the world. Namely, recording a version of Friendly Fires’ ‘Paris’ with vocals from Elaine Mai.
The band say:
The internet is a miserable place right now. Understandably. Good people feel compelled to disseminate displays of ignorance and bigotry to shame, highlight and challenge it. We need to confront it all. But it’s hard on your outlook, it’s hard on your hope and hard on your faith in human beings. So we had a idea: take Friendly Fires’ banger about Paris, a city that ALL people deserve to love and explore, and Le Galaxie it. We wanted to take a tune we loved and make our own romantic, emotional and optimistic version with a big help from the one and only Elaine Mai. Nous espérons que vous apprécierez xx
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Le Galaxie have some shows coming up and all are on sale now:
27th December – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick
28th December – Cypus Avenue, Cork
29th December – Tricky’s Mc Garrigles, Sligo
30th December – Roisin Dubh, Galway
31st December – NYF Street Fest, Dublin @ St. Stephen’s Green w/ All Tvvins, Wyvern Lingo & Otherkin
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
