{"id":19578,"date":"2014-09-25T02:46:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=19578"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:41:34","slug":"introducing-grand-blanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/introducing-grand-blanc\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing : Grand Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grand Blanc<\/strong> is another of these highly active French bands we couldn\u2019t ignore. The guys at Grand Blanc follow Moodo\u00efd closely in their footsteps, albeit with a darker, colder eastern approach to their music. You will absolutely dig their video too for \u201cDegr\u00e9 Z\u00e9ro\u201d.<\/p>\n

The band originates from the land where\u00a0tall cathedrals are built next to blast furnaces. Where crossing borders didn\u2019t take too long if you took the motorway. Where people used to listen to Bashung (a French singer\/songwriter) in the 80\u2019s, when France rocked Joy Division t-shirts. Grand Blanc comes from the deep eastern rurality of France, where French talked little literature, a lot about music, where Saturdays were spent praying for a good gig in town that night, where we would head to the football stadium, and pray again for a goal (either side you were on, really didn\u2019t matter). From where you\u2019d head for the bar, rather than going to Church. Some of us wanted to go head first in those furnaces, others wanted to end up in the Cathedrals.<\/p>\n