Listed below are record companies, suppliers, musicians & bands, fan sites and some quirky little extras ...

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Record Companies/Suppliers

Siesta Records
Tricatel
Radio Khartoum
Disques Du Crepuscule
CD Banzai

Trattoria Records
2-14-6 Ebisu-Minami,
Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo 150,
Japan
Tel: 81-(03)-5721 3213
Fax: 81-(03)-5721 3253

Trattoria, a subdivision of Polystar Records, has been Louis' home from home since 1991, when he and Dean Brodrick contributed a track (the 9-minute Sleep) to the Fab Gear compilation (PSCR 1016), of which Louis was also executive producer. 6 albums have followed, Rainfall (PSCR 1028), Jean Renoir (PSCR 1054), Delta Kiss (PSCR 5052), Sunshine (PSCR 5338), Jackie Girl (PSCR 5464), Azure (PSCR 5745) plus a "Best Of" (1984-1996) entitled I Still Believe In You (PSCR 5465)
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Cherry Red Records
Bishop's Park House,
25-29 Fulham High Street,
London SW6,
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-(0171)-371 5844
Fax: 44-(0171)-384 1854

There are still copies of Ivory Tower (acme 15cd), Appointment With Venus (acme 5cd) and Yuri Gagarin (acme 23cd) in the Cherry Red vaults, both on CD and Vinyl! Cherry Red repackaged much of the él catalogue on its Richmond subsidiary, including a 20-track "Best Of Louis Philippe" which they released under the title Claret (monde 4cd). Re-releases of mid-price double-CD's have followed: Sunshine/Delta Kiss and, Rainfall/Jean Renoir. And yes, they do operate a mail-order service.
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XIIIbis Records
XIIIbis Records is a Paris-based company with which Louis was associated in the late 90's, offering French releases of Azure, A Kiss in the Funhouse (different version from the US record) and Nusch, which are all available through the label's website. Louis also contributed a number of tracks to various XIIIbis compilations, like So Danco Samba (with Sean O'Hagan) on Tribute to Jobim, Le Bal des Laze and L'Oiseau de Nuit on Tribute to Polnareff ...
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Exotica Records
49 Belvoir Road,
East Dulwich
London SE22 0QY,
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-(0181)-299 2342
Fax: 44-(0181)-693 9006

Jim Phelan's specialist label and mail-order service, a must for all those who are seriously into football - and the Beatles. He helped design many of Louis' sleeves and has used several of Louis' songs on his compilations...Exotica is now on the Net - yes!.
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Le Grand Magistery
PO Box 611,
Bloomfield Hills,
Mi, 48303-0611
USA
Fax: 01-(810)-332 0150

Classy record company founded by the Hon. Matthew Jacobson, now relocated in Detroit. Matt has released Momus and Mr. Wright material in the past and is preparing a monster double-album of él covers (Instant Coffee). More importantly for us, he became the first American to put out a Louis Philippe album in the US with the superb compilation A Kiss In The Funhouse. Matt is also an accomplished prestidigitarian.
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Siesta Records
The best-dressed Spanish label has released Louis' Jackie Girl (Siesta 56) and is also the home to an international stable of pop acts including Basque quintet La Buena Vida and Swedish combo Red Sleeping Beauty. You may access the site in Spanish and/or English...
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Tricatel
Home page of the Tricatel label, founded and run by Bertrand Burgalat, a
long-time friend of Louis who also produced Sunshine - the album...A
few LP tracks appear on various Tricatel compilations, as well as vocal
idents and jingles (Au soleil de Tricatel) specifically recorded for
the label. Louis also played guitar and sang backing vocals on the
Valerie Lemercier Chante album (by, who else, French actress Valerie
Lemercier), as well as on April March's Superbanyair CD. Tricatel will
release 9th & 13th, an album of Jonathan Coe/Louis Philippe/Danny
Manners collaborations in January 2002.
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Radio Khartoum
The brainchild of Alexander "Sasha" Bailey, who runs one of the most eccentric labels on the West Coast. Will release some previously unavailable Louis material very soon...
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Disques Du Crepuscule
A Dutch enthusiast named Frank Brinkhuis is behind this very thorough history of the legendary Belgian label, on which Louis made his debut as The Border Boys (Tribute EP, 1985).
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CD Banzai
A California-based CD mail-order company which has an impressive number of Louis Philippe albums on its catalogue (Japanese releases included).
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Musicians & Bands

Danny Manners
Louis' long-time accomplice has designed his own site to keep his friends and fans informed of his comings and goings on the jazz scene and other projects.
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Martin Newell
Poet and Songwriter and English pop genius, Martin Newell - Louis produced his 1995 album - The Off-White Album and the two have performed live together a number of times over the years.
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Cathal Coughlan
Ex Microdisney and Fatima Mansions and more recently has released albums under his own name.
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Dave Gregory
Quirky and comprehensive site run by a fan Dave Gregory, former XTC guitarist who has played on Jackie Girl, Azure and My Favourite Part of You;
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Jean-Francois Champollion
Site of Louis' old lead guitarist Border Boys team-mate
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HaLo
Homepage of HaLo, a young Japanese singer and photographer who has worked
with Louis on a number of occasions, including her first two albums, Blue
and Yellow, which should be followed by...Green, in 2002.
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The High Llamas
...are, of course, the band responsible for marvellous songs such as Checking In, Checking Out, all of them written by former Microdisney guitarist/songwriter Sean O'Hagan. This site is maintained by top anorak Mike Wheeler in the States, where the Llamas are on the verge of becoming very big...
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Momus
A beautifully-designed and most popular site set up by an old accomplice from days gone by, and an Internet freak to match. Some lovely pictures, too. All you ever wanted to know about one of the most oblique of lyricists working today. And more.
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The Monochrome Set
A link set up by Swedish enthusiast Henrik Engstroem. Discography, lyrics, etc.
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Everything else ...

Chickfactor
Scandanavian Indie Pop
Indie List Digest
Michael Hauben's Web Music Listing
Howard Greenberg's Hompepage
Planet Claire
Instrument Jokes

Chickfactor
The seminal New York popzine run by Gail O'Hara, former music editor of Time Out New York, and one of él's all-time greatest and most loyal fans.

Scandanavian Indie Pop
The property of Swedish popkid Erik Soderstrom, based in Linkoping. You can mail him if you wish, or have a chat with hundreds of similarly-minded fans throughout Scandinavia...Loads of info too, mostly about totally unknown and probably wonderful Scandinavian pop bands...
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Indie List Digest
Absolutely awesome list - formerly known as the Tony Wicks Indie Label List - fed by contributions from enthusiasts the world over. An indispensable bookmark.
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Michael Hauben's Web Music Listing
Another impressive effort...tons of links to band sites, plus reviews and directories of Paris and New York's best shops/clubs, etc. ..The site was created by Michael Hauben (of course), whom we believe might be a student/researcher at Columbia University. then again, he might not.
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Howard Greenberg's Homepage
American aesthete, big Trattoria fan.
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Planet Claire
Of interest to French pop fans...a site maintained by Denis Prevot (Radio-Aligre FM), one of a handful of that country's DJ's to play decent music.
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And Finally ...

Instrument Jokes
Light relief for musicians. Some of the jokes are excruciating, others are very funny indeed. This link was brought to Sunshine's attention by Daniel Manners, double-bass player and netsurfer extraordinaire.

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