Riviera

Riviera F was an electropop band created in London, England. The band consisted of Russian singer Alexa Marlen and Dutch guitarist Kairo Sin. Other members included Taylor Sloane, Nikki Paris, Logan Sky, Yves Cecil and Etienne LeBeau (AKA LA shoe designer Jerome Chouinard-Rousseau). They were known as Riviera up until 2003, then changed the name to Riviera F. To date they have had two releases. In 2004 the International Lover EP, (a 5 track EP of which the title track was produced by Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes) was released on Pop Cult and Tape Modern (Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy's label) which had previously released Dark Circles by The Devils. 2004 also saw the release of their US single "Now We've Got Europe" on Kinetik Media. Riviera F's debut album Another City Another Plan was released in 2010 on their own record label Germ Free.
==Links to Peel==
The band sent a demo to Peel in 2001 and played some of it on his radio shows. Impressed by their material, he invited the group to do a session for his show in which they performed four tracks. However, after their session, the group never released any material until they released a self released CD, 'Dance To The Beat' in 2003, which never got any airplay on Peel's show. In 2004, the band were signed to Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy's label, but by that time their music was either neglected by Peel or did not get played because of his death in October of that year.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 2001-03-11. First Broadcast: 28 March 2001
*Pick Up Star / International Lover / Kiss No 38 / Dance Alone
==Other Shows Played==
;2001
*08 February 2001: Pick Up Star (CD - Riviera) (demo)
*14 February 2001: International Lover (CD - Pick-Up Star) (demo)
*08 March 2001: Pick Up Star (demo)
*27 March 2001: Pick-Up Star (demo)
*March 2001 (FSK): Pick Up Star (Demo)
*05 April 2001 (Radio Eins): Pick Up Star (Demo)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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