Talking with Laurent Cuchi from the Four Aces
How did the band get started?
Summer 2001 : taking advantage of a gig in a Parisian bar, Laurent (singer), Nico (drums) and Malo (double bass) were hitting some booze and started to talk about forming a band. First, they called themselves "The Rockets" and were mostly "white rock" styled. When the first guitarist left, Laurent, who was also playing with the "Rock - A -Tones" for a couple of years, asked his guitarist Jean Charles to join them and that was the real start of "The Four Aces", a serious combo who doesn't takes itself seriously ! They changed their repertoire and choose to turn more Rockabilly. Most of the songs were covers however, they would play them their own way. Their first live gigs happened during parties at friends' and the first official show took place in St Malo (France) on July 2002. After many gigs in different places during the year of 2003, the band decided to stop, Laurent continue to play with the Rock-A-Tones and Nico joined The Atomics. In the early 2005 Nico, Malo and Laurent decided to play again together and asked Marco (Rhythm All Stars) to play with them, his answer was "yes". The Four Aces are back. After 1 year of rehearsal the band now plays a mix of cover and own songs and was ready to hit the road again. But after a few years, the band had to stop again, when Nico left for new adventures with Easy Lazy "C" and his Silver Sleepers, untill june 2010, when Carlos, also member of King Baker's Combo, join them on drums. In 2016 we have a new bass player, Thierry (from the Ol' Bry).
How did the band get started?
Summer 2001 : taking advantage of a gig in a Parisian bar, Laurent (singer), Nico (drums) and Malo (double bass) were hitting some booze and started to talk about forming a band. First, they called themselves "The Rockets" and were mostly "white rock" styled. When the first guitarist left, Laurent, who was also playing with the "Rock - A -Tones" for a couple of years, asked his guitarist Jean Charles to join them and that was the real start of "The Four Aces", a serious combo who doesn't takes itself seriously ! They changed their repertoire and choose to turn more Rockabilly. Most of the songs were covers however, they would play them their own way. Their first live gigs happened during parties at friends' and the first official show took place in St Malo (France) on July 2002. After many gigs in different places during the year of 2003, the band decided to stop, Laurent continue to play with the Rock-A-Tones and Nico joined The Atomics. In the early 2005 Nico, Malo and Laurent decided to play again together and asked Marco (Rhythm All Stars) to play with them, his answer was "yes". The Four Aces are back. After 1 year of rehearsal the band now plays a mix of cover and own songs and was ready to hit the road again. But after a few years, the band had to stop again, when Nico left for new adventures with Easy Lazy "C" and his Silver Sleepers, untill june 2010, when Carlos, also member of King Baker's Combo, join them on drums. In 2016 we have a new bass player, Thierry (from the Ol' Bry).
How would you describe your music?
I try to play 50s Rockabilly
How long you been a musician for?
I sing since 1997, I started because I love Rockabilly since more than
30 years. And when I saw Bands on stage, I told myself, I too would like to do
this.
What got you into rockabilly?
A friend of mine in school made me listen Gene Vincent, After that
after that everything changed.
How do you see todays rock & roll scene?
How do you see todays rock & roll scene?
The rockin scene today is a mix of young cats (who love 50s Rockabilly
and modern bands) and old ones with differentes tast, but now the rockin' scene
are really in the move, with many peoples listening not only 50s Rockabilly but
also 60s Garage.
You got any mad stories from being on the road?
I remember once or
we flew to Portugal. We all carried a t-shirt from our band, a stewart asked us
who we were, after that he went to the front of the plane, he picked up the
microphone and announced that there was in the ' Plane a famous group and asked
people to applaud. It was amazing to see all the passengers applauding us when
no one knew us
How do you see the bands image?
I don't know exactly, for my band, we are well know here in France and
of course I love that. For the other bands, they have a good image too, because
you can't love music without live music.
What are the bands plans for 2017?
We working for our third album, and we would like to play in new place
like England, big festival like the Rockabilly Rave, Sweden, Finland.... (we
played in Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and all over France
off course).
