The Bonaparte’s

The Bonaparte’s were active in the mid-80s. Listening to their two albums, the quartet shows a real influence from the English new wave scene, Siousxie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, Cure… Paradoxical when the references to Bonaparte are so numerous… And it is also Lol Tolhurst (Cure’s synthesizer) who will produce the group’s second opus “Welcome to the Isle of Dogs”. The Isle of Dogs refers to a district of London’s East End, former docks now rehabilitated and become a real second business center of the English capital. This same Tolhurst also produced the first EP of Baroque Bordello where we find the same rhythm section as The Bonaparte’s, Gilles Bourgues and Gilles Pradinas. It all started very quickly for The Bonaparte’s with notable performances at the Rex Club in Paris, then in 1986 at the Printemps de Bourges and the Transmusciales in Rennes. In total, two full years that saw them tour in France, but also in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Norway. It all ended just as quickly two years later, at the end of 1986.