Festival Minuit Avant La Nuit

17H30

Ry Cuming, better known by the stage name RY X, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He first found success in 2013, with his single “Berlin”, which charted in the U.K. Top 40. He was born in Angourie in New South Wales and grew up with music from artists like Jeff Buckley and Pearl Jam, which influenced his early music. In 2010, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he kept working on music and was noticed by the label Jive Records on which he released his self-titled debut album under his real name in the same year. After going on tour with Maroon 5 as their opening act, his next release after a small break was published in 2012 with the single “Howling”, now calling himself RY X. After signing to the label Dumont Dumont, he released the EP “Berlin”, of which the title track was used in an European Sony advertising campaign, which lead to a huge success. When he released his RY X debut album “Dawn” in 2016, it charted in several countries and was received very well. After another break, he released the single “Untold” in October 2018, announcing his second album called “Unfurl” to be released in February 2019.

R Y X

_Berlin
_Only
_YaYaYa
_Sweat
_Salt

18H30

Keaton Henson (born 24 March 1988) is an English folk rock musician, visual artist and poet from London, England. Henson initially started recording songs in his apartment in London purely for his own consumption, but after he gave a recording of one of his songs as a gift to his best friend, he was encouraged to put his music online. He self-released his debut album Dear… in November, 2010. Henson has released six studio albums, with one released under the name Behaving, as well as a book of poetry called Idiot Verse. Henson got his breakthrough when Zane Lowe played the song “You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are” on BBC Radio 1 for the first time on September 7, 2011. As a musician Henson usually sings and plays guitar or the piano. He suffers from serious stage fright so he rarely plays bigger concerts and prefers to play at smaller venues, galleries or museums.

KEATON HENSON

_You
_Small Hands
_Alright
_Flesh and Bone

19H30

Nat Ćmiel, better known by their stage name yeule, is in their own words, a: multiverse entity [, a] dissociate self Based in London, this Singapore-born songwriter, singer, and producer artist makes thoughtful electronic music. They are signed to New York-based Bayonet Records, who released their debut record Serotonin II in 2019. Their second LP, Glitch Princess, is scheduled for release in 2022.

YEULE

_Don’t be so hard on your own beauty
_Pretty Bones
_Pocky Boy
_Pixel Affection

20H30

Jorja Alice Smith (born June 11, 1997), better known as Jorja Smith, is an English R&B singer-songwriter from Walsall, West Midlands. Born to a Jamaican father and an English mother, Smith grew up listening to reggae, punk, hip-hop and R&B. She began writing songs at the age of 11, and cites Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Adele, Sade, Nina Simone, and the Streets as her biggest influences, as well as Amy Winehouse, about whom she claims to have been “obsessed” with her 2003 debut album Frank, as a teenager. Amy’s raw approach to songwriting has been a major inspiration for Smith, who now likes to address social issues in her songs: When things are going on in the world, I think it’s important to touch on them, because as a musician, you can make people listen. As soon as people press play, you’ve got their attention.

JORJA SMITH

_Blue Lights
_Be honest
_Don’t watch me cry
_On my mind

17H30

Men I Trust is an indie-electro-dream pop trio from Quebec City, Quebec formed in 2014 and made up of Jessy Caron (guitar, bass, keyboards), Emma Proulx (vocals) and Dragos Chiriac (keyboards, mastering). Former singer (2014-2015) was Odile Marmet-Rochefort. They are all in DIY: record, mix, master, shoot their music videos themselves and self-manage. In an interview, the band explained their songwriting: “We will never write about something we don’t feel deeply and directly about. So that’s why a lot of our lyrics are kind of philosophic ideas, because they convey a general feeling that we have. It’s important for us that the lyrics be timeless, so we can think about the lyrics longer than the music. It’s always something that happened to us. It’s never an imaginary story or character. It’s always true and true to us. The three of us have to feel it.” In a Reddit live Q&A, Emma stated about their band name: “Jessy and Dragos created the band before I arrived and they wanted to have a positive band name. They first wanted to call it simply ‘Trust’ but the name was already taken. It became Men I Trust.”

M E N I T R U S T

_Show me how
_I hope to be around
_numb
_Say, can you hear

18H30

Divine Ikubor, known professionally as Rema, is a Nigerian singer and rapper. In 2019, he signed a record deal with Jonzing World, a subsidiary of Mavin Records. He rose to prominence with the release of the song “Iron Man”, which appeared on Barack Obama’s 2019 summer Playlist.

R E M A

_Dumebi
_Ginger me
_Bounce
_Woman
_Beamer

19H30

The 1975 consists of Matthew Healy (vocals/guitar), Adam Hann (lead guitar), George Daniel (drums), and Ross MacDonald (bass), all of whom are from Macclesfield in Cheshire, England. The four band members, now based in Manchester, met in Secondary School and began playing together as teenagers. The eclectic four-piece band have amorphous drifts between brooding art rock, crisp electronica, dancefloor R&B, and 80’s gloss pop, as well as lead singer Matthew “Matty” Healy’s stories of lust, intoxication, and the unabashed grittiness of modern youth. Common themes in their lyrics range anywhere from dysfunctional relationships, to the failure of modernity.

T H E 1 9 7 5

_Elixir
_We stayed up all night
_I can’t keep up
_placid acid

20H30

Fink is a blues/electronic band fronted by Fin Greenall (who also uses the moniker for solo work), bassist Guy Whittaker, and drummer Tim Thornton.

F I N K

_Warm shadow
_This is the thing
_Pilgrim
_Shakespeare

17H30

From his basement recording studio in the small town of Issaquah, WA outside Seattle, Brian Fennell began to write and record songs under the name SYML, which means simple in Welsh. Adopted and not knowing his history or connection to his Welsh roots, many of these songs are influenced by the complex feelings that come from unknown lineage.

S Y M L

_Fear of the water
_I wanted to leave
_the war
_where’s my love

18H30

Originally formed 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland, Beach House is an American dream-pop duo consisting of of French-born Victoria Legrand (vocals, keyboards) and Baltimore native Alex Scally (guitar, keyboards). Despite their summery name, Beach House creates music that is dark, dreamy, and alluringly hypnotic. In an interview with LiveAbout, Scally summarized their music as following: I think that’s very much what the ‘beach house’ feel is: going off to a different world. It’s not really a vacation; vacation for me is when you go away, but you’re still thinking about all the things you’ve left behind. Their self-titled debut released in early October 2006 via Carpark Records, the same label who also distributed 2008’s Devotion. Since 2010’s Teen Dream are Beach House signed to Sub Pop Records. The duo’s critically acclaimed fourth studio album, Bloom, peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 chart in June 2012, following its May release.

B E A C H H O U S E

_Space Song
_Silver Soul
_PPP
_On the Sea

19H30

Benjamin Clementine is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist, poet, artist and singer-songwriter born and raised in London. He later moved to Paris, France where he became homeless in his teenage years and started to busk on the streets of Paris. His performances made him a cult figure in the music and art scene. His music is part of the art pop, contemporary classical and experimental pop genres. His debut album ‘At Least for Now’ was released in 2015 and earned Clementine the Mercury Prize. It contained some of his most popular songs such as ‘Condolence’, ‘Nemesis’, ‘London’, ‘Adios’ and ‘Cornerstone’. His sophomore album ‘I Tell a Fly’ experimented with more instrumentation than his debut, introducing the harpsichord and various avant-garde elements. This album contained some more fan-favourite songs like ‘Phantom of Aleppoville’, ‘Jupiter’, ‘Quintessence’, ‘Ave Dreamer’ and ‘One Awkward Fish’.

B E N J A M I N C L E M E N T I N E

_I won’t complain
_Nemesis
_Condolence
_London

20H30

Micah Davis (born June 8, 1993), known by his stage name Masego (which means “blessings” in African Tswana language), is an American singer and saxophonist from Kingston, Jamaica. He grew up performing in his local church band. He’s the leader of the Trap House Jazz collective and label, which boasts more than 100 members. He’s best known for his work with producer Medasin. The duo released The Pink Polo EP in 2016, which gained more than six millions streams on SoundCloud.

M A S E G O

_Tadow
_Mystery Lady
_Silver Tongue Devil
_Lavish Lullaby

21H30

Billie Marten, born Isabella Sophie Tweddle is a singer-songwriter and musician from North Yorkshire. She first came to fame at the age of twelve when her music cover videos on YouTube attracted many spectators. Billie released her first EP Ribbon in 2014, and her second EP As Long As, came a year later in 2015. Right after, in 2016, she released her first record named Writing of Blues and Yellows.

B I L L I E M A R T E N

_Bird
_Creature of mine
_Vanilla baby
_Mice

22H30

I’m Aurora Aksnes, from the west coast of Norway. I’m a dreamer, and a thinker. I write music out of all those thoughts hoping it means something to others than myself. AURORA is a singer-songwriter, born in 1996 in Stavanger, Norway. A self-taught pianist, she released her first singles in 2012 and 2013. In 2014, she released two more singles, assumed the stage name “AURORA”, and signed to Decca and Glassnote Records. In 2015, she released her debut EP Running with the Wolves. Her debut album All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend was released in 2016, to positive reviews and received a score of 80/100 on Metacritic. She released two parts to her sophomore album, Infections of a Different Kind (Step I) in late 2018 and A Different Kind of Human (Step II) in mid 2019.

A U R O R A

_Runaway
_Into the unknown
_Cure for me
_Murder Song

23H30

London Grammar is an indie-pop trio made up of Hannah Reid, Dan Rothman, and Dot Major. Described as a group made in a “post ‘The xx’” era, London Grammar defies and transcends any comparisons. The group formed in 2009 at Nottingham University where they were attending, with Rothman studying Economics, Reid wanting to be a psychoanalyst, and Major working on his English (Dot) major. Reid and Rothman corresponded via Facebook and met up to collaborate and shortly thereafter spotted Major playing djembe in the Student Union and asked him to join. They played a few local shows and had positive feedback, but their real breakthrough was when they recorded and posted to YouTube their song “Hey Now” in 2012, which was received to much acclaim. Ministry of Sound took notice and signed them.

L O N D O N G R A M M A R

_Hey now
_How does it feel
_Nightcall

24H30

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (b. December 18, 2001), known professionally as Billie Eilish, is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Working alongside her older brother Finneas, her co-writer and producer, she’s taken the internet by storm with her haunting vocals and eerily beautiful lyrics and genre-defying production that was poised to breakout. For Billie, creating music wasn’t always her niche—dancing was. Born and raised in the entertainment mecca of Los Angeles, from a family comprised of musicians and actors, Billie was enthralled in the spotlight of dance. However, amid a growth plate injury in 2015, she was in practice for a recital dancing eleven hours a week for, she became an underground pop sensation.

B I L L I E E I L I S H

_Lovely
_Bad guy
_Bored
_Ocean eyes

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