Last Train
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Jean-Noël Scherrer (vocals and guitar), Julien Peultier (guitar), Tim Gérard (bass) and Antoine Baschung (drums) met on the benches of an Alsatian college, but decided at the age of 15 that their future lay in rock. They listened to bands such as Band of Skulls, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Brian Jonestown Massacre, and in 2007 founded their own group, Last Train. From small concert to small concert, they finally managed to gain enough experience to win a young talent contest, which saw them share the stage with BB Brunes and Caravan Palace. The four Mulhousiens then went on to play a string of dates and release several EPs, including What's Wrong With Me (2012), She's Got Your Soul (2013), Cold Fever (2014), then The Holy Family (2015), whose title track managed to reach the top of the singles charts in France. A few months earlier, these "do it yourself" enthusiasts had inaugurated their own label, Cold Fame Records. The phenomenon caught the ear of Johnny Hallyday and Les Insus, who booked them to support their tour. On the strength of this experience, the Alsatians tried to concentrate their stage energy in a debut album, Weathering (2017), which contains two tracks from their previous EPs, "Fire" and "Cold Fever" . The dithyrambic reception they receive is no less enthusiastic for the following album The Big Picture (2019). The band followed this up with a tour of Eastern Europe and a triumphant return to France for an indie band, as Last Train played to full houses and took to the stage of Paris' Olympia for the first time in 2020. After the Covid-19 pandemic, Last Train returns in 2022 with an eighteen-minute track, "How Did We Get There?", accompanied by a video in the form of a short film directed by Julien Peultier. Back at the Olympia that year, the band followed this up with a festival tour, before putting the finishing touches to their fourth album, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2024), a conceptual opus conceived as the soundtrack to an imaginary film, featuring orchestral versions of songs from their repertoire arranged by Fabien Cali and performed with the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse. After a European tour, the band returns to the studio to work on album III (2025), which reaches number 73 in the French charts.
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