About the band

There are three members in the band:

• Jérôme Coudane — guitar, vocals
• Richard Magnac — bass
• Julien Bonnet — drums

The trio mainly composes songs in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, though it has written several in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 as well. Personal topics dominate.

The group's first album, Parmi eux, was released in 2004 and sold about 60,000 copies. The second one, eponymously titled but with an unaccented E

E

E is the fifth letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish languages.-History:...

 instead of É

É

is a letter of the Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Luxembourgish, Slovak, and Catalan, Danish, English, French, Galician, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “e”...

, came out in 2007.

There is no word déportivo in French; the name of the band most likely comes from the Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 deportivo (a reference to the same-named football club

Deportivo de La Coruña

Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña is a professional football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia; founded in 1906 and currently playing in Segunda División...

is possible).

Parmi eux, 2004

1. 1000 moi-même
2. Parmi eux
3. Queen of universe
4. Sur le moment
5. Mémoire
6. L’immobilité
7. Alambiqué
8. La salade
9. Wait a little while
10. A l’avance
11. Roma
12. Paratonnerre

Deportivo, 2007

1. Exorde baratté
2. Ne le dis à personne et personne ne le saura
3. Clásico (Share your love)
4. Les bières aujourd’hui s’ouvrent manuellement
5. I might be late
6. En ouvrant la porte
7. La brise
8. Blue lights
9. La colline
10. Suicide Sunday (Part II)

Other releases

• Parmi eux (édition limitée)
• Parmi eux (réédition)
• La salade (maxi)
• First
• Parmi eux (promo)
• 1000 moi-même (promo)
• Roma (promo)
• Deportivo (CD + DVD)
• La brise (promo)

External links

• Déportivo official site
• Dans mon monde — unofficial site