Sol! sol! Solidarité!

March 6, 2006 9:41 PM

I would like to find some French Canadian music that is about the protests of the Summit of the Americas that took place April 2001 in Québec City. Failing that, dissent, civil disobedience, protests, police (over)reaction, etc would also be good themes.

I've got some video footage that I shot during the protests and I finally have the resources at my disposal to edit it.

I would love some music to go along with it and I'm sure there's some local rock/metal/rap/alt/whatever group that took inspiration from those protests. I know that's pretty damn specific, so songs that are generally about protesting and dissent are cool too. Indie is preferable because I'd like this video to be legal; I'm going to need a group that's approchable.

I haven't decided if I'm going to go with a mix of several songs or one song throughout (if you're in a French band, here's a shot at a topical music video!). It will probably largely depend on what I can dig up.

posted by ODiV to media & arts (4 comments total)

Godspeed you black emperor! or one of the related Montréal groups?
posted by holgate at 9:47 PM on March 6, 2006

I think you want to look into Les Cowboys Fringants. Maybe En Berne in particular, which is quite relevant.
posted by mikel at 10:12 PM on March 6, 2006

Against Me! is always good for this kind of thing, though depending on the crowd you show the video to it might come across as clichéd. Their newest album has a song called "Miami", inspired by the Nov. '03 anti-FTAA protest in that city and "Baby I'm an Anarchist" is a classic:

'Cause baby, I'm an anarchist,
You're a spineless liberal.
We marched together for the eight-hour day
And held hands in the streets of Seattle,
But when it came time to throw bricks
Through that Starbucks window,
You left me all alone.

posted by drewbeck at 10:26 PM on March 6, 2006

Unless you need the band to be local? …
posted by drewbeck at 10:29 PM on March 6, 2006