Win tickets to see Team Ghost and Anoraak!

Ooh la la, we’ve got a bit of a French giveaway for you today. The Oui Love tour is hitting our shores this month to introduce us Brits to the most exciting acts of the New French Wave. This year, it’s Team Ghost and Anoraak who feature, and they’re playing the following dates throughout May:

Mon 16 Bristol, The Louisiana

Tues 17 Birmingham, Hare & Hounds

Wed 18 Manchester, The Castle

Fri 20 London, CAMP (with after-party DJs until 4am)

There are a pair of tickets up for grabs for each of these shows! To be in with a chance of winning, all you need to do is ‘Like’ our Facebook page (if you haven’t already) and then share a bit of the French love by getting a friend to like it too. We’ll pick a lucky pair for each date to win! Just leave your Songkick username as a comment here to mark your entry (and let us know which city).

Here’s a bit more info on the bands who are playing:

Team Ghost is the new project from Nicolas Fromageau: founding member of M83, the groundbreaking French outfit often credited with inventing chillwave. Bowing out of M83 in 2003, Fromageau left his native Antibes and headed for Paris to form Team Ghost with multi-instrumentalist Christophe Guérin and producer Jean-Philippe Talaga. Team Ghost take the M83 blueprint of electronica and shoegaze, add krautrock rhythms, post-punk and stark synth-pop, the result is atmospheric, angular and oftentimes dark electronica.

Anoraak is the current guise of Frederic Riviere: producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and another major player in the French electro pop scene. Having started his musical career in a series of indie-rock bands that never felt quite right, Frederic relocated to Nantes in Western France where his present day sound began to take shape. The first Anoraak EP Nightdrive With You (2008) was inspired by a mixture of influences ranging from twisted disco to 80s synth. Debut album Wherever the Sun Sets (2010) saw Anoraak continue to develop his distinctive sound, with nods to Italo-disco, Motown and funk, plus richly-layered instrumental loops and the odd touch of nostalgic pop.