Chester French

Tonights Chester French gig at Botanique's Rotonde was short, around 45 minutes, sweet and highly enjoyable. And with only 60 ish people in the audience, they managed to do what much bigger bands have failed to do here, and got the denizens of Brussels dancing en masse. Meanwhile yours truly did his one man mosh pit impression, pogoing along to the beat like some kind of demented dancing bear.

The only track of theirs I'd heard before was She Loves Everybody which I aquired courtesy of a free download. I'll put that to rights later when I give the album I bought after the gig, Love the Future, a spin. Not a bad buy for 5 euros, signed by the dude with the mike.




The band were formed by Maxwell Drummey and D.A. Wallach at Harvard University in 2003 and are named after the sculptor Daniel Chester French, who among other things designed the statue at the Lincoln memorial.

A piece of trivia for the geek files - Chester French were one of the first bands to promote themselves using Facebook, being freshmen at Harvard at the same time as a certain Mark Zuckerberg launched his social website.