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A Riot In Heaven
3+ albums
post rockJiggy
about
EARLY YEARS: Some time in the 90's on the island of Mauritius, schoolmates Paco, Nico & Mabloon set up a band they call Eclectic. They quickly decide they would concentrate on originals rather than playing covers. They start playing mauritian venues and soon create a buzz. MLP completes the line up in 1997 in a definite way. This coincides with the band’s natural change in artistic orientation: the songs become raw and atmospheric, dominated by real song writing efforts and wizardry. It is an important period for Eclectic, as it inaugurates their sound which will remain to date Island Rock. Raw rock’n’roll built on the ashes of grunge music, echoing to Britpop but radically heading towards the future. Lyrically too, the band got thicker throughout the years, in spite of the fact that rock’n’roll bands in Mauritius have next to no future. Unable of vesting into a quiet life plan, they re-united in Europe, named themselves A RIOT IN HEAVEN and started it all over again. EUROPE YEARS A RIOT IN HEAVEN becomes internationally visible as from 2003, where they play a series of gigs at the House of Live (now Chesterfield Café) on Les Champs Elysées in Paris. These gigs earned them the ‘end of the world band’ nickname as their themes and commitment seemed at that time to forecast a dull future, which of course contrasted with the cynical cheesiness that this decade’s pop music will be remembered for. Wherever they played, people witnessed their sense of emergency, felt concerned
