Artist description Perhaps the most influential artists in the history of the avant-harde music scene, Frenchman Jacques Renault Sinclair and England's Nigel Blackenbridge have consistently confused audiences the world over thanks to their uncompromising image, obscure lyrics and radical approach to music (read: pointlessly unstructured). Grocery Spanking Records will be reissuing Jacques and Nigel's entire back catalog beginning in June 2003. All the original LP's will be available, including bonus tracks and liner notes by the duo and their associates.

Music Style Avant-Harde

Musical Influences Jacques, Nigel

Similar Artists Jacques, Nigel

Artist History Jacques Renault Sinclair (born 1968; L'Exaggeratique, France) and Nigel Blackenbridge (born 1969; Birmingham, U.K.) began collaborating after a series of bizarre run-ins during adolescence, where Jacques moonlighted between studies as a folk troubadour, and Nigel amused himself as a street thug with an "artistic" bent. The two have released a handful of obscure solo LPs, as well as an infamous series of avant-harde albums that have placed their names on the world's music map.

Group Members Jacques Renault Sinclair; Nigel Blackenbridge

Albums naTiON sHOck!; Our Tender Audible Conshunsez; " " (untitled); Music For Your Plants To Make Sure They Don't Eat Each Other; Backflip To A Serenade: Sounds Like Sand (EP)

Press Reviews "Jacques and Nigel are untamable ranch hands soaring over a sonic landscape of musical genius and thunderous epiphany. A generally...record." -Stuart Maconie, Q Magazine, Sept. 97 ** "An entangled novella of aural despair, 'naTiON sHOck' is merely a reflection of what Jacques & Nigel see fit to transpose onto our collective dependence." -David Browne, Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 97 ** "Jacques and Nigel are willfully perverse, playfully adventurous, and sincerity-crippled. *** 1/2." -Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, Oct. 97 ** "The WorldShock is a bilateral conceptualized, furthering by genuflection, yeah." -Esquire (translated from French edition), June 1997 **

Location Brixton, London - United Kingdom

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