I found 5 demos by In the Bus, a 1990s French band, on Bandcamp.
The information about them is little. Ovvk Archives, which is run by Jimmy Arfosea from Les Autres, has rescued these 5 songs and we should be thankful for that.
There’s a little bio that is terribly helpful:
Between the winter of 1992-1993 and the fall of 1993, Olivier, singer of the french Noise Pop band Les Autres and Yann, designer of the fanzine Tea Time (well known for having released a split flexi featuring rare demos of Stereolab) teamed up and recorded a series of superb pieces of naïve and playful Twee Pop giving pride of place to jangly guitars, a Casio toy organ and that would not have gone wrong on Sarah Records.
We know too that the songs were recorded between the winter of 1992 and the spring of 1993. They were recorded in Rennes, France.
As mentioned there are five demos, “Ugly Little World”, “Sunday Song”, “Virginie”, “Orange Flower” and “In a Different World”. Some of them got released in the 90s.
The song “Ugly Little Girl” appeared on the compilation tape “Summer Hits 93” released by Lo Label from France. This tape came with a 32 page mini booklet. How I wish I would see a copy of this.
“Sunday Song” and “Orange Flower” were included on “Breeze 4” compilation tape released by Alphyen Viwit (004) from Germany in 1994. This tape also came with a large zine.
Also there was another song by In the Bus, “Radio-Active-Coffee”. This song is not among the demos on Bandcamp. But we know this track was released on the compilation 7″ Box set released by Aliénor Records in 1994 titled “The Onion Most Dangerous Game”. This boxset came alongside the French fanzine “Onion’s Soup” and was limited to 500 copies.
All of the songs recorded by this band were written and recorded by Olivier Doreille and Yann Brien, with the exception of “Virginie” which Olivier wrote on his own.
The last detail we know about the band is what instruments each of them played. Olivier Doreille played electric guitar, bass, vocals, casio keyboards, drums programming, flute and noises. Yann Brien, on the other hand, was on electric guitar, casio keyboards, vocals, drums programming and noises.
Now the question is, are there more recordings? Did they play live? Would love to know!
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