Pony Pony Run Run are a French

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band from

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...

formed in

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

in 2003. The band line-up consists of three members named simply "G" (Gaëtan Réchin Lê Ky-Huong,

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), "A" (Amaël Réchin Lê Ky-Huong,

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) and "T" (Antonin Pierre, keyboards). Two original members of the group have left the band; "S" (guitar/backing vocals) who left the band in 2008, and "F" (

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) who departed in 2009. To date, the group have released one

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and two

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. Their début album, ''

You Need Pony Pony Run Run ''You Need Pony Pony Run Run'' is the first studio album by the Nantes-based power pop band Pony Pony Run Run. It was released on 8 June 2009 as a download, and one week later in compact disc and long play formats. It entered the French albums cha ...

'' was released on 8 June 2009 and entered the French albums chart at #104, reaching a peak position of #78 on 12 September 2009. The first song to be taken from the album, " Hey You" was released in September of the same year and reached #8 in Belgium, as well as achieving a position of #19 in the French singles chart.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links

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