Years active 1997–present Origin Nice, France (1997) | Website www.mydietpill.net | |
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Associated acts Dead Queen and The River, Kazan Members Vlad e. Andrijasevic
D'argirolle
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Alex Albums Songs for Your Daughters and Sons, Second Album Genres Alternative rock, Indie rock Record labels Static Noise Records, My Diet Pill, Autoproduction Profiles | ||
My diet pill ego i
My Diet Pill is a rock band from Nice, France. They have released three albums and three EPs to date. Since the very beginning, the band members do everything by themselves, including recording and booking shows. My Diet Pill's popularity is bigger outside of their native country of France and, thanks to the web, they have a growing number of fans all around the world. They have played more than 500 gigs in Europe and sold over 8000 copies of their second album.
Contents
- My diet pill ego i
- My diet pill 02 l air de rien
- Current Line up
- Fans
- Songs for your Daughters and Sons
- Discography
- Songs
- References
Vlad e. Andrijasevic and D'argirolle write most of the lyrics and music, the arrangements are done by the band.
My diet pill 02 l air de rien
Current Line-up
Fans
When Peer-to-Peer become a popular way to download music in mid-2000s, My Diet Pill fans used unusual promotional techniques: they included copies of the band's songs inside archives of other bands' music that are distributed on file sharing networks such as eMule. This had the advantage of giving them targeted exposure to fans of similar bands, and downloaders were likely to give this free music a chance even if they'd never heard of the band. This gave My Diet Pill unexpected popularity which resulted in a raise of album sales, merchandising and the creation of fan-clubs (in Argentina and France).
Songs for your Daughters and Sons
The band's third album was released on 12 September 2015, 10 years after the previous LP and 6 years after the last release. The reasons for that long hiatus are unclear. The album was produced by the iconic rock musician, Monte Vallier, former bass player in San Francisco's cult bands Swell and Half Church. In May 2014, the band organized a contest and 25 fans were selected to choose what songs from the 15 that were recorded would be on the album. In January 2015, a crowd funding campaign was launched to release the album in the form of a package including a vinyl record, a CD, a download coupon and a booklet including pictures by French photographer Roxane Petitier.
Discography
Songs
Sandy's BathroomSecond Album · 2004
Ego & ISecond Album · 2004
Summer SongMy diet pill · 1999