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Anne Pigalle is a French singer[1] and multimedia artist (writer, musician, art performer, poet, photographer and painter).
Pigalle grew up inMontmartre,Paris. As a teenager, she played guitar in anall-female band, hanging out withpunk musicians in Paris and London. She attended theSex Pistols gig at the Chalet du Lac in 1976. She appeared in magazines such asi-D,Magazine No. 2,Grabuge andFaçade.
In the early 1980s, she moved toLondon, performed in clubs such asVic Godard'sSubway Sect Club Left at theWag Club, inSoho made a recording of "Love For Sale" produced byAdrian Sherwood released on Illuminated Records and recorded forChannel 4 an opera calledThe Kiss, written byMichael Nyman and produced byDavid Cunningham. She then signed a contract withZTT Records and released an album on ZTT/Island Records in 1985 calledEverything Could Be So Perfect.
In 1986, Pigalle revampedCafé de Paris, a club in PiccadillySoho, London, with a new concept: Les Nuits Du Mercredi. She also played atRonnie Scott's Jazz Club.
In 1988, Anne take parts in the French tour Rock En France, 7 days, 7 French cities including Le Rex in Paris and with such bands asNoir Desir, lots of glorifying press followed
She was photographed byLord Snowdon,Mario Testino andNick Knight; her music and image were used in Japanese TV commercials forJean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld. Around that time she toured Japan and Europe. In 1989, she performed for TV arts programmeThe South Bank Show for the anniversary of the French Revolution. Other TV appearances includedThe Tube (in the UK), Ardisson'sBains de Minuit etJean-Patrick Capdevielle Totems duBataclan (in France), Japan and Mexico.
Pigalle left ZTT Records at the end of the 1980s and produced and starred in a Japanese commercial forIsetan department store with her song "Tango Contre La Montre" (on YouTube).
She was voted fifth Best Performer of the Year by Los Angeles radio stationKCRWMorning Becomes Eclectic. She played a show atChateau Marmont, Los Angeles, as well asJohnny Depp's clubThe Viper Room.
From 2001, mostly in London, Pigalle produced home movies and videos, electronic tracks, Polaroid self-portraits, paintings, poems, curated events in nightclubs, wrote an autobiographical screenplay, appeared in films, developed her art performances and the Amerotic Salons. The Amerotic Salon has been performed atThe Colony Room and atGlastonbury Festival. From 2005 to 2007, she exhibited her paintings and self-portrait Polaroids (for which she created visual sets, erotic masks and crowns of flowers) at the Charing Cross Gallery, Michael Hoppen gallery, and theAquarium Gallery. She called her art 'amerotic' ('âme' means 'soul' in French). In 2007, she launched a night at the Grill Room,Café Royal, calledSpirit of Ecstasy, where she performed a futuristic cabaret show along with bohemian poets. In 2009 and 2010, she sang at shows in Mexico and at the TuaregFestival au Désert in Timbuktu, Mali, Africa.Some electronic tracks appeared on Youtube, still unreleased commercially, co-written with TDS . With My Blonde, The Jewel, Journey through Europe and more ...
In 2010 and 2011, Pigalle released the trilogy,L'âmerotica Part I and II oniTunes - 21 surreal and erotic vignettes of poetry set to music. In 2013 she released a collection of new songs and erotic poems calledMadame Sex. In 2015, she releasedMadame Sex andL'ame Erotique as an art CD, and played live concerts in London. In spring 2015, Pigalle created 'La nuit Amerotique', a new venture night in Soho, with a new philosophy, performing various material relating to Pigalle, Soho, Art and Eroticism, in various locations. She included her poetry fromMadame Sex and invited performance artists who have lived and worked in Soho to illustrate and share the show. In 2016 she performed a show at theNational Portrait Gallery, London. In summer 2016, she played an art show,Not Dead at the G511ERY Gallery, dedicated to her late mother.In autumn-winter 2016/2017, Pigalle created the Madame Sex art performances in Pigalle, France, and followed up in the bars of Soho. In spring 2017, Anne organises an art show at Soho's We Are Cuts institution,Les P'tites Femmes De Soho, dedicated to nightlife's little women.[further explanation needed] In autumn 2017 she organised a multi-media evening in Soho,Soho Mon Amour, at the 01 zero studios. She performed again at the National Portrait Gallery in London during itsCézanne exhibition. She celebrated the 40th anniversary ofpunk with an art show and a concert of punk songs in Hackney Wick called 'Never Mind Jackson Bollocks, Here's Anne Pigalle...'
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2018: Performance of "Memo from Turner" for the 50th anniversary of the filmPerformance inPowis Square.[citation needed] Donald Cammell and Nick Roeg withMick Jagger, organised by Tom Vague .Donald Cammell was a friend of Anne's
October 2018: vinyl album release ofEcstase in Soho — 10 songs written and produced by Pigalle accompanied with film.Musicians guests includesGlen Matlock, original bass player of theSex Pistols, Terry Edwards ofGallon Drunk and Paul Robinson (Nina Simone). The photography for the cover are Anne's own self-portraits and graphics byMalcolm Garrett. 2019. Pigalle's image is used on a collage board at the entrance the Centre Choreographique National d'Orleans byAgnes B in connection with a touring exhibition Les Jeunes Gens Modernes on French New Wave.[citation needed]
April 2019: release of the CDEcstase with a multimedia show at theHorse Hospital in London;[citation needed]
October 2019: Pigalle is the award winner for best art film for the multi media projectEcstase at thePortobello Film Festival, 2019.[citation needed][2][3]
January 2020: Soho Extravaganza performance concert at century Soho with guestsRay Gange,Jenny Runacre,Museum of Soho, and Phil Dirtbox;
June 2020: Pigalle participated in theAdelaide Cabaret Festival, the largest cabaret festival in the world with two film bites for the special COVID-19 edition, replacing a scheduled live performance;
Summer 2020: Pigalle organised safe musical picnics in various bandstands including Regent's Park, Parliament Hill Fields and St Anne's Gardens in Soho;
September to November 2020: Pigalle's AlbumEcstase is featured in an exhibition at Switzerland Chur's Museum of Modern Art, Bünder Kunstmuseum, titledDance Me til the End of Love along with work by others includingAndy Warhol,Man Ray,Neil Young andDavid Bowie.Autumn 2020: Pigalle continued producing herEcstase hand painted art masks;
February 2021. Release of various tracks on Bandcamp. Live stream concert for Valentine's Day;March 2021. Winner of the Facebook app Uk Poets in London for Women History Month and World Poetry day 21/3/2021;
1 October 2021: Release of a limited hand painted edition art EP live in the studio,The Deal five new tracks produced by Anne Pigalle, 200 hand painted limited edition, on her website exclusively;
January 2022: Paints the front cover forSubway Sect's special edition vinyl albumMoments like these, produced byMick Jones, on Gnu Inc. Recordings; the painting itself hangs in Mick Jones' house
February 2022: performance in Soho's art decoCrazy Coqs Cabaret & Jazz Club atBrasserie Zedel;
April 2022: curated and performed in multi-media group showThe Mavericks of Naive Fetichism, with 11 artists featuringMark McGowan,Stewart Home,Ray Gange,Jenny Runacre,Vic Godard, Simon Ould, Tom Vague, etal..., at 41 Frith Street, We Are Cuts, Soho, London.
August 2022: Anne performs some of her songs atAndrew Logan festival of Love in Wales
December 2022 : Nomination Number 43 forPaul Weller The PrisonerPortmeirion cape club, followingDebbie Harry's nomination among many others.
February 2023 : a commemoration concert for Henri Paul Tortosa (Johnny Thunders, The Maniacs, and Festival punk de Mont-de-Marsan original guitarist) at the Dublin Castle featuring original member Chris Musto. Reviewed inLouder Than War
Spring 2024 : Screening of The Soho Connection ( part I ) as part of theexploding cinema festival at the new Cinema Museum London
May/June 2024 : Multi media show at Farsight Gallery, The Soho Connection, offDenmark Street with art, paintings, film, Q&A withChris Salewicz, and performances ( see Fad write up in references )
June 2024, launches La Nuit Amérotique at The St Moritz club inSoho, a modern cabaret based on the original radical cabaretLe Chat Noir in Paris, Review below1. On the night of Dec 4th Anne singsAs Tears Go By ( see video ), as suggested byAndrew Loog Oldham, the original manager ofThe Rolling Stones, song written byMick Jagger,Keith Richards and Andrew Oldham, first a success forMarianne Faithfull
January 2025 : poetry performances at the NewColony Room includesCharles Baudelaire,William Blake,Arthur Rimbaud and her own Amérotique poetry
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