AS SOME OF YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED, WE HAVE BEEN CHILLIN’ OUT MAXIN’ N RELAXIN’. OUR NEW RECORDINGS ARE ALMOST DONE! JUST A FEW MEASILY WHINEY VOCAL TRACKS, BUT ASSURE YOU ME THAT THESE SONGS ARE RAW BOSS DOG.

WE ARE ALSO GIFTED WITH THE AWESOMENESS OF THIS 4-WAY SPLIT 7” PUT OUT BY THE AWESOME ENJOYMENT RECORDS, THE SPLIT FEATURES INVALIDS / NAI HARVEST / RENO DAKOTA / BONJOUR, I THINK ITLL BE OUT BY JUNE, CHECK IT OUT YO!

otherwise, KEEP AN EYE/EAR out for THE HOLY DEATH (peter and evans other band) IF YOU LIKE BONJOUR YOUD PROBABLY LIKE THE HOLY DEATH

6:14 pm  •  28 April 2012  •  2 notes

“If you can get beyond the ridiculous title of the EP, you’ll find a handful of fun emo songs that don’t sound like a bunch of kids in a basement that can’t play their instruments. I think I found these guys on snowing’s wall, and actually, if you dig snowing, there’s a good chance you’ll warm up to Bonjour. According to Facebook no one knows them. So get in at the ground-level? Whatever, it’s music perfect for this time of year. If they ever play through your town, drink beer with them in your basement.”

— http://carriedouttosea.blogspot.com/

4:50 pm  •  1 November 2011  •  1 note

WE HAVE SHOW THAT ARE ON THE COME UP IN SOON DAY. COME HAVE AN ENJOY AND ATTEND PLEASE. RESPECT THE SPACE(s) MADNESS(s)

NOV. 6    2011 @ THE FIRE (PHILADELPHIA, PA)
NOV. 19  2011 @ SECRET ART SPACE (BETHLEHEM, PA)
DEC.  4    2011 @ THE BANANA STAND (PHILADELPHIA, PA) 

ALSO DONT FORGET TO LISTEN TO/DOWNLOAD/DONATE OR PURCHASE OUR  MOTIVATIONAL SUICIDE ep! CASSETTE VERSION SOON RELEASED ON RANCH RECORDS. SELF RELEASED CDr’s and TAPES STILL AVAILABLE FROM THE BAND. LTD. LEFT (4).

4:48 pm  •  1 November 2011  •  20 notes

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EP Review: Bonjour - Motivational Suicide

Fans of Johnny Foreigner rejoice. Bonjour are a band from Philadeplia that sound a little bit like our Brummie heroes, with a little bit of those other pop scamps Mazes thrown in for good measure. What’s not to like? Their downloadable EP Motivational Sucicide is available now, and an excellent demonstration of how ‘fight-pop’ has translated rather well over to the other side of the pond.

‘I Tried It I Liked It’ may open with a brief moment of Arcade Fire like epic, but this is merely misinformation as guitars and straining vocals come a-crashing in. The song itself is a crashing of guitars and drums that could instrumentally pass for JoFo’s more straightforward earlier moments. There’s multiple vocal parts that overlap and threaten to confuse each other and the general air of a band that are at once tight and threatening to fall apart.

All of which are things that I’m pretty sure I’ve said about JoFo before. And I’m sorry to keep making the same comparisons, but take a listen to the above embed and tell me I’m wrong. It’d be easy to read JoFo as an influence on these guys, as would it to draw links to Hot Club de Paris (see the zinging guitar lines that spiral all over each other on ‘Football Hero’) and The Blood Brothers (the yelped vocals over the more aggressively punk ‘Trenton Makes The World Baked’), but in all likelihood it’s that we’re living in a realm of ever decreasing circles where lots of bands are drawing from fairly similar influences. Either way, Motivational Suicide is certainly worth your time if any of the above comparisons take your fancy.

After all, the EP is barely over 10 minutes long and in that time traverses all of the above as well as the slacker punk of ‘Many Things Are Destroying Me’. With more of a jangle and a looser grip on the reigns it’s bit freer in itself and with the emo leaning vocal the potential to bring in a different audience - all the while packing a kick.

Keep Pop Loud

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— http://www.keeppoploud.co.uk/

1:42 am  •  12 October 2011

“» Another great recommendation came from Johnny Foreigner, who posted this Bandcamp link to a new release by Philadelphia-based emo luminaries Bonjour. The two bands shared a bill during a rare American appearance by Johnny Foreigner, which apparently made quite an impression on the Johnny Foreigner kids. And now Bonjour has finally released some music in the form of its new Motivational Suicide EP. The collection of high-energy guitar pop is available at the aforementioned Bandcamp on a paywhutchalike basis, and the four songs are “I Tried It, I Liked It,” “Trenton Makes The World Baked” (which closes with an appropriated bit of chorus from Modern English’s “Melt With You” that is somehow even more catchy than the original), “Many Things Are Destroying Me” and “Football Hero.” Sinewy guitar leads, shouty sing-along vocals, and bashing percussion means there’s a lot to like here. According to this mysterious-seeming tumblr, Bonjour features (former? we don’t know!) members of Dangerous Ponies, Airports, Storm The Bastille, Boy Problems, Pirouette, The Sniffles and Harrison Bergeron, none of whom we’ve heard, but we’re certainly a bit interested too now. As with BDRM Eyes above, we look forward to seeing and hearing more from these guys. Hottt with three t’s, as we think you’ll agree when you stream “I Tried It, I Liked It” and the rest below.”

— http://jbreitling.blogspot.com/

1:41 am  •  12 October 2011

this happen yes in days of few time. come out you should yes. fun will be had with you and friend or friend you make with us yes in NYC

10:28 pm  •  10 October 2011

HELLO PEOPLE! OUR MOTIVATIONAL SUICIDE EP IS FINISHED AND AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING/DOWNLOADING/ENJOYING/EAR PURPOSES! ON BANDCAMP! FOR FREE OR DONATION! HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! 

WE ARE ALSO NOW APPEARING LIVE FOR ALL YOUR VISUALLY PLEASURED NEEDS!!!!!!!!!

Saturday October 8 @ The Cracker Factory * RELEASE DRUNK PARTY * (Philadelphia)

Friday October 14 @ Warren American Legion  (Warren NJ)

Sunday November 6 @ The Fire (Philadelphia)

Saturday November 19 @ TBA (Bethlehem)

stay kool peoples <3

5:03 pm  •  22 September 2011  •  3 notes

we are band name bonjour in philadelphia city. to play song on guitar and instrument we make band and like rock.

12:03 pm  •  21 September 2011