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History

Under their original name, the band released two albums, ''Galaxie 500'' (2002) and ''Le Temps au point mort'' (2006), on the C4 Records label. Following the release of ''Le Temps au Point Mort'', Galaxie 500 was nominated for the Group of the Year award in the 10th annual MIMI (Montreal International Music Initiative) awards. The lineup that recorded ''Galaxie 500'' consisted of Olivier Langevin (guitar and vocals), Pierre Girard (guitar), Fred Fortin (guitar and vocals), Simon Gauthier (bass), and Michel Dufour (drums). Several changes in personnel occurred between the recording of the two albums. For ''Le Temps au point mort'', Langevin was joined by returning members Girard (guitar) and Fortin (drums), and by Vincent Peake (bass) of Groovy Aardvark (1986–2005) and François Lafontaine (keyboards) of

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, July 6, 2011.

Members

Current members

* Fred Fortin (2002–present) *Olivier Langevin (2002–present) *Daniel Thouin (2011–present) *Pierre Fortin (2007–present)

Former members

*Pierre Girard (2002–2009) *Vincent Peake (2005–2009) *François Lafontaine (2005-2009) *Michel Dufour (2002-????) *Simon Gauthier (2002-????)

Discography

Albums

*''Galaxie 500'' (2002) *''Le Temps au point mort'' (2006) *''Tigre et diesel'' (2011) *''Zulu'' (2015) *''Super Lynx Deluxe'' (2018)

References

External links

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