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    Artist: Henric de la Cour

    Label: Progress Productions

    In January of 1994 Linda Skugge from Swedish newspaper Expressen watched Yvonne play in Uppsala. “All three guitarists posed like Radiohead, sort of standing bent over their guitars”, she wrote. “Especially singer Henric de la Cour, because he’s so tall. He had his mic by his stomach, and at the end of ‘Serpentine’ he tore at his guitar so hard he hit his head on the mic so it fell to the floor, he trampled all the things on stage, crashed into the others, his cord fell off so he had to hold his guitar, and it seemed like that guy is not well...”

    For the last 17 years Henric de la Cour have made a lasting impression on his audience. With an explosive voice filled with pain and passion - and a gangly body likened to Nosferatu, a reptile and Jack Skellington from “A nightmare before Christmas” - he has spellbound thousands of fans. Front figures in most other rock bands seem unassuming compared to his sinister charisma.

    Yvonne was, along with Broder Daniel, the foremost cult band for the black clad indie kids of the nineties. They released four critically acclaimed albums and reached a big audience when their song “Drifter” was played during the opening titles of “Fucking Åmål”. After their most successful album “Hit That City” - including the hit “Bad Dream” and a magical duet between Henric de la Cour and Karin Dreijer from The Knife - the band split up.

    Henric de la Cour instead started Strip Music, musically as dramatic as Yvonne, but also influenced by epic are...