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• IKU History : 14 Live Videos from 2007

  Monday, Jun 30, 2008 9:00AM / Video / Music

  If you want to see and hear how IKU were before 2008, check out the following videos, produced by Les Films du Crépuscule and shot in Paris at the Batofar, on February 4th, 2007 during the music festival "Dirty Babes Fest".
  
  
  
  
  Among those "old" songs, the only ones we're still playing since our new line-up, are Extremist, Courtney (a new version) and  Wolf's Smile.
  
  1 - Extremist
  
  

  
  

  
  
  2 - Eyes to the Ceiling
  
  

  
  

  
  
  3 - Courtney
  
  

  
  

  
  
  4 - Putrefaction
  
  

  
  

  
  
  5 - Stop
  
  

  
  

  
  
  6 - Rock 'n' Roll Girl
  
  

  
  

  
  
  7 - Pay ! Pray !
  
  

  
  

  
  
  8 - Tara
  
  

  
  

  
  
  9 - Dissexion
  
  

  
  

  
  
  10 - Lulluby In Bloom
  
  

  
  

  
  
  11 - Wolf's Smile
  
  

  
  

  
  
  12 - Fuck you up!
  
  

  
  

  
  
  13 - Rebel Girl
  
  

  
  

  
  
  14 - Outro (I am a Radikal Whore)
  
  

  
  
  
  

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• Some IKU's 2008 videos

  Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 5:49PM / Video / Music

  Check out some of reharsals and live performances that we did between January and June 2008 with our new drummer, So. Noel. More stuff coming soon !
  
  
  Private Showcase performed on January 20th, 2008, one week before our first gig with Sophie. Excerpts of three new songs : "Wolf's Smile", "Blackberry Morning" and "Daddy Cracker". 
  
  
  Improvisation during a music rehearsal, on April 13th, 2008. It finally becames one of our new tracks, "Harpies of RMI (Muscador)".
  
  
  Live performance of the song "Wolf's Smile" at the Pix Bar in Paris, on June 7th, 2008.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Who is IKU ?

  Thursday, Jun 12, 2008 5:01AM / Information / Music

  
  

  
  

  Warning ! From left to right : Akasha (bass/vocals), Sophie (drums),
  Solange (guitar) and Anne (guitar) - Photo by Fanny
  

  
  IKU is a French band formed in 2004.  Members included Akasha Lust a.k.a. Sick Lust (Bass guitar and singer), Solange Protin (guitar), Anne Mercier (guitar) and Céline Vanier (drums), who left the band and was replaced by So. Noel in December 2007. They’re starring in the documentary film Rock 'n' Roll Girls (2008) directed by Frederic Ambroisine.
  
  The band, close to its parisian roots and to many bands of Paris, has already played in almost 50 different places in France and recorded 2 E.P CD ("Tara" and "Urban's Crack") that will be listenable soon.
  
  

  Tara EP  tracks-listing :
   DisseXion
  Eyes to the Ceiling
  Fertilizer
  My Place
  Tara (excerpt on IKU MySpace page)
  

  
  

  
  

  Tara EP CD cover (front)
  

  
  

  Urban's Crack EP tracks-listing :
  Extremist (excerpt on IKU MySpace page)
  Stop (excerpt on IKU MySpace page)
  Putrefaction
  Courtney
  
  
  Urban's Crack EP CD cover (front)
  

  
  Urban's Crack EP CD cover (back)
  
  
  Urban's Crack 7" Vynil (front) (2 tracks : Extremist / Putrefaction)
  
  
  

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• First step on Alive Not Dead

  Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 4:59AM / Information

  Hello Everyone,
  A friend of us told us about that website so we said, why not stay in touch with the rest of the world?
  Let us introduce us, IKU is a 4-headed band based in Paris, we play rock'n'roll since and we've already recorded 2 EP. We gonna add music soon !
  We are here to know you, lovely artist from another country !
  IKU
  
  
  

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