Holy National Victims

Support show for Sugarplum Fairy at the Atelier. pictures by Dan Thuy. more pics here



Biography:



The cornerstone for Holy National Victims was laid on a cold winter day in 1999. Charles and Francis discovered a mutual passion for rock legends like Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. Since both were playing the guitar, the next logical step was to form a band. Lucky as they were, they found an equal-minded drummer, Kim, and bassist, Arnaud, in their class. The perfect singer for HNV turned out to be Alain , an old kindergarten friend of Francis. Since this was everybody's first experience in a band they started by covering seventies rock songs to get musically accustomed to each other. Soon, they couldnt repress the creativity and started to write their own songs. A self produced limited edition first album followed shortly afterwards, "International Vegetable Meeting" (2002). Jean-Paul replaced Kim after his departure to the UK. His enthusiasm and influences changed the sound of HNV for the better. It's only at this point that they felt ready to present themselves to the public. Their first real concert was at the Emergenza festival 2003 where they reached the finals, to everyone's surprise. This opened new doors and the same year they performed on the main stage of Rock Um Knuedler as well as at the infamous E-Lake festival. Although this was already a huge success for a Luxembourgish band they weren't satisfied just yet. The mission was to get known outside of this small country and prove that Luxembourg isn't popular just for banks, so they started to record songs at Charles' home studio. But, due to A-level preparation (talented and studious!) it took them longer than expected to complete their second album (although they like to refer to it as the debut album since it's completly different from the first one which was rubbish) With 4 members currently at university in the UK, Germany and Switzerland they don't have much opportunity to perform to audiences. Holy National Victims released their double album "take this ride or you will never know" on 13 September 2006 on Winged Skull Records.



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