L'Enfance Eternelle - Le jour des fous

Bio
"L’Enfance Eternelle is born in November 83. The story starts quite fastly as a gig is found before the first note to be played. September 85 sees a second TV on FR3, then come the recording of a new 4 track demo tape, issued to 500 copies and quickly sold out. On May 17 1986 a gig at La Bourse Du travail in Lyon with the band Gestalt is recorded, to be the first album. 1200 peoples attend to theis Jour des Fous. From September to December 1988 the second album is recored, La Terre des Innocents. The release party accored at le Truck in front of 1200 persons for a party together with their old chaps Opéra de Nuit on April 15 1989. The last demo, never finished is the end of the band in December 1990. Bertrand “Cheap” goes on with Bob's Your Uncle and The Camelia Street Blury Experiment in Paris. Fabrice Della-Malva and Jérôme “Dien” Bideaux make an hardcore band: Garlic Frog Diet. Christophe Neau goes for jazz rap with Lex Léo. Pat aka DJ Pee found his own band Le Peuple de l’Herbe, his brother Kriss doing the sound for concerts with the succes we know. Marquis opens a trendy piercing shop on Lyon. Franck “Kreppux” goes on with theatre and chanson. Pascal “Bô Mouton” Prenez band’s photographer becomes a syndicalist. Jérôme Margotton founds the acid jazz band Mo’ Jazz Beats, and then mOko (www.moko.fr). Denis Lecarme runs into French chanson with L’Orchestre de Poche and nowadays under is own name www.denislecarme.com"

Line up
Denis Lecarme (singer), Fabrice Della-Malva (bass guitar), Franck Biasini (drums), Jérôme Margotton (keyboards), Thierry Pilat (drums), Jérôme 'Dien' Bideau (guitar), Pierre-Etienne 'Jimmy' Michelin (drums), Bertrand Clechet (guitar, bass guitar, harmonica), Christophe Neau (drums)

Useful Links
Myspace Page
Lastfm.
French New Wave

The band has released their entire discography on a two-disc collection on Infrastition records:
Buy it here.

Discography
-Le jour des fous (1986) LP
-La terre des innocents (1989) LP
-1984-1991 (2007) CD x2

Tracks of L'Enfance Éternelle appear on following compilations:
-Facteurs d'ambiance : Essai (1988)
-Transbo Sessions 90 (1990)
-Passage du trou marin (1991)
-Transmission 81-89 The French Cold Wave (2005)

L'Enfance Éternelle - Le jour des fous (1986)
1 Violet winter
2 Gaminas
3 The smile of an old clown
4 Behind the beauty
5 Consumed passion
6 Shine of passion

Get it here.