How's this for genre fusion? Melbourne pub rockers The Escargo-go's decided they wanted to find out what French pop songs from the '80s, the '90s and now sound like played greasy, booze-fuelled pub rock style, so that's exactly what they sought to do.
But this time, they've come out with quite the opposite — behold, The Escargo-go's covering the rock'n'rolling Carole by The Peel Tempel in French. Oui, oui, you heard right.
Led by Frenchman Charly Cheese, who arrived in Australia seven years ago, the cheeky video features five blokes and a bear playing a Korg rocking out to the sweet sounds of The Peep Tempel's classic in what looks like someone's backyard — who wants a sunkissed Paris cityscape with all its perfectly chic buildings and a gloriously romantic Eiffel Tower for a backdrop when you can have an abandoned trolley with an esky jammed into it? We'll tell you. Nobody.
Sadly, Cheese is leaving Australia at the end of the month, calling an end to your new favourite themed band. Not all is lost though: before they bow out, you can catch The Escargo-go's at The Public Bar in Melbourne on 21 August, where you can blow them sweet kisses in farewell.
Note the lads all wearing Peep Tempel shirts, that incredible mullet wig and enjoy. And maybe watch while having a cigarette because that's what all sickeningly cool Parisians do.
