Avec pas d'casque is a

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, Canada, composed of members Stéphane Lafleur, Joël Vaudreuil, Nicolas Moussette, and Mathieu Charbonneau. The band's

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name literally means "with no helmet" and derives from an expression referring to hockey players who don't wear helmets, popularized by Jean Dion, a Québécois sports journalist for '' Le Devoir''.

History

Avec pas d'casque began as a duo, made up of Lafleur and Vaudreuil, who recorded a self-produced album in 2004, which they sold at their concerts. The group's first official album, ''Trois chaudières de sang'', was released on

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on May 9, 2006. In 2008, after gaining a third member in Nicolas Moussette, the band released their second album, ''Dans la nature jusqu'au cou'', on

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, the French division of Dare to Care. After adding a fourth member, Mathieu Charbonneau, Avec pas d'casque released their third album, ''Astronomie'', on March 20, 2012. It was subsequently long-listed for the

2012 Polaris Music Prize The 2012 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 24, 2012 Juno Award The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...

nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2013. Lafleur is also a film director and screenwriter, whose films have included '' Continental, a Film Without Guns'' and ''

You're Sleeping Nicole ''You're Sleeping Nicole'' (french: Tu dors Nicole) is a 2014 Canadian drama film directed by Stéphane Lafleur. It was selected to be screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film had a limited ...

(Tu dors Nicole)'', while Vaudreuil is an animator whose short film '' The River's Lazy Flow (Le courant faible de la rivière)'' won the

Jutra Award The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.Best Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1 ...

at the

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in 2014. Charbonneau has also worked in film as a score composer, including the films ''

A Colony ''A Colony'' (french: Une colonie) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles and released in 2018. The film centres on Mylia (Émilie Bierre), a young girl starting high school who is torn between her new friends ...

(Une colonie)'', '' Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu)'' and ''

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''.

Members

* Stéphane Lafleur: voice, guitar, ukulele, kazoo, flute, synthesizer * Nicolas Moussette: bass,

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* Mathieu Charbonneau: baryton, synthesizer * Joël Vaudreuil: drums,

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, kazoo

Discography

* ''Avec pas d'casque'' (2004), Independent * ''Trois Chaudières de Sang'' (2006), Dare to Care Records * ''Dans La Nature Jusqu'Au Cou'' (2008), Grosse Boîte * ''Astronomie'' (2012), Grosse Boîte * ''Dommage Que Tu Sois Pris'' (2013), Grosse Boîte * ''Effets Spéciaux'' (2016), Grosse Boîte

References

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