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THE INSPECTOR CLUZO @ EUROSONIC FESTIVAL
Date : 13/01/2010
Location : Eurosonic Festival, Groningen
Mood : Tulip

We're back from Groningen, Netherlands, where we've played at Eurosonic Festival. Actually, we played even two times in a row (first at Huize Maas and then at Vera) because the boss of the festival asked us if we could do an extra show... well, we can!

Here's a little video of the live show at Vera, 14/01/2010



An Interview by the great german tv show RockPalaast

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Pictures of the shows




More pictures here

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And some reviews of the shows, in dutch, but translated here by our friend Yvonne !
Click on the title to access the original review in dutch

by 3VOOR12
At Huize Maas the next surprise dives up, again a French band: TIC. A duo on guitar/vocals and drums with a hard-hitting show. The singer/guitarist is changing between a soulful falsette + funky guitar, to next switch to raw metal with roaring voice. TFB they call themselves and they go off against America, businessmen in the musicindustry, the audience itzelf - '"you bastards behave like we are an English band!!!" - but also mrs.Carla Bruni (the wife of the French president Sarkozy - editor) is not spared. Very entertaining en catchy songs brought with tremendous energy, including FTBP.

by Festival Junks
We stay in Maas for the next act. TIC consists of 2 men, one rough with long hair en beard and both in a tight suit. On CD these gentlemen sound rather intelligible. Live it is roaring and shouting/screaming. Everything but subtle. The nice thing about this band is that we are dealing with a french form of Jack Black. The anecdotes about everything the 2 Frenchmen hate and the constantly kicking the drums down are funny.

by Roarezine
Yours truly didnt know that Youthless was cancelled, but the present audience tells me that the French rock duo TIC was a very good substitute. The show starts when a part of the drums gets thrown away and this is only the start of a remarkable performance. The band calls themselves The French Bastards and make clear that they have a big dislike of Sarkozy, Paris, English people and the United States. Halfway the set 2 young ladies are 'called' to get on stage to support the band with dancing to their heavy rock songs. From this moment on a beautiful pit starts and full Vera comes loose. A more than good - also thanks to the good, high voice of the singer - and entertaining performance.

by Kicking The Habit
Next the curiosity is awakened by a name of a French band at Vera: TIC. When entering seeing a small drumkit at front of the stage, already promises much good. And yes: TIC turns out to be a male drum/guitar duo with a privilege (or passion...) for Black Sabbath and Led Z.-kind of riff rock with solid groove, combined with pinched high vocals like Jack Black can do and much, much slander and cheap jokes. Yeah, Veras audience likes that, the response is getting louder per song. Especially when the french bastards, as they call themselves, clarify to awfully dislike bassplayers. Its not for nothing that the bands website is called ftbp.com. At times this duo is very good and intense, it's always amusing, although at the intermezzo 'I want to fuck the wife of the French president' a little bit cheap. 

by Live XS
Because of a schedule change, by chance I can catch a piece of the show that I missed on thursday. This tight in suit dressed French duo turn out to be 'the real' entertainers with a deeply rooted rock&roll mentality. The guitarplayer is a combination of Angus Young with Björn Ottenheim, where at unexpected moments also a Michael Jackson-like falsetto comes out; the drummer looks like a stray businessman who meanwhile rocks hard. Professional audience controllers with balls.

by Planet Trash
The French duo TIC is closing the night. Beech rock by two men who don't wish to take themselves and the world too serious. A big relieve compared to all those 'little bands' walking around in Groningen, only to please the right people instead of doing their own thing.

by Alternative Blog
Sometimes you’re just out of luck at Eurosonic. There is a long not moving line in front of the Walrus, where Shaking Godspeed will be playing. So we head to Vera to exclude the chance of missing Wolf People. To my surprise there is still a party on stage with TIC, 2 French who also call themselves The French Bastards. To find out more about this band you should not look for www.theinspectorcluzo.com but to www.fuckthebassplayer.com. This explains a lot about the band, they don’t have a bass player en don’t ‘restrict themselves for use of language’.The bands bio is short but strong: ‘fucking …. etc…The music is best described as ‘filthy’ rock&roll with humorous lyrics. The cd also has horns and organ, but I haven’t seen those instruments live. Unfortunately I was too late to write an extended review of this show, but what i found was a sweaty group of enthousiastic fans, wildly moving in the pit. The two men on guitar and drums are neatly dressed in costume, but that’s just a shell. I see the guitarist pitting towards the audience and the drumkit also is not spared. Together the French call the audience to break down Vera, because according to them, that is part of a real rock&roll concert.

by Oor.Nl
The award for the coolest band of Eurosonic goes to the French The Inspector Cluzo. Rock & roll with a lot of humor. There is jumping, laughing and especially enjoying in an increasingly crowded Vera. To make the party complete, a few people are invited to dance on stage, to the pleasure of the band, who also clearly are enjoying themselves. But all jokes aside, the vocals are insanely good and all songs are put together excellent. The Inspector Cluzo is a perfect festival band. We are looking forward to seeing them back this summer.

by File Under
This 2-piece rock’n’roll machine roars through Vera as a madman and they won’t go away until the roof is off. They dont need a bass to put down a good groove and striking are the style references to Led Z, includiing robert plants vocals. The invitation to the audience to come on stage is gratefully accepted and tired but fulfilled TIC is led out.