La Belle Etoile

Lyon based Babylon Circus is music laced with ska, gypsy, rock, vaudevillian antics, dancehall & reggae. A true musical menagerie, the 9-piece big band have notched up over 900 concerts in 30 countries and built up a worldwide following with their electric live shows and addictive albums. As befits a band with their name, their exploits include police chases, beatings and imprisonment in Irish jails, bathtub vodka, double concussions and hospitalization in Russia and Muslim carnival processions in Syria.

It started in Lyon, France, during 1995, when singers David Baruchel and Manu Nectoux devised a racy sound mainly fuelled on punk energy and hot with defiant social anthems sung in French and English - sometimes both in the same song. The duo worked with seven partners in crime who are at least as mad about music as they are.