Start your day smoothly, take your time, read the paper, put on some music and listen to the chant of birds.
— Belmundo Regal

Bio & Press

The Radio Radio story starts with a first EP entitled Télé Télé, released independently in 2007, and the band starts to perform here and there, spreading their electro tinted rap and warm accents. In 2008, the quartet formed by Jacobus, LX, TX and Timo signs onto Bonsound Records and Cliché Hot, their first album, sees the light of day in May of 2008. The charm of the Maritimes instantly takes over the province of Québec and the expression "cliché hot" becomes common slang within the local indie scene, as the song Jacuzzi becomes a real ode to joy. After months of touring throughout the country with a few dates in the U.S. (FrancoFolies de Montréal, Pop Montreal, Transmission, Canadian Music Week), after two nominations at the ADISQ Gala of 2008 in the Hip Hop Album and Revelation of the Year categories, after the 2008 RIDEAU/ACADIE award, Radio Radio becomes a trio and begins to write the new album with enthusiasm and determination.

Up for nomination at the 2009 ADISQ Gala in the Videoclip of the year category for Jacuzzi, Radio Radio launches their second album Belmundo Regal in a sold-out venue, in March 2010. With a breathtaking album cover, original songs and their unusual quirky texts, Belmundo Regal is an incredible revelation for the press and the public. It's a turning point for the group as Alexandre Arthur Bilodeau, Jacques Alphonse Doucet and Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant witness the musical transition of the band as well as an artistic revolution.

Once again, the shows keep on coming: two sold-out nights at Cabaret Juste pour Rire in Montreal during the FrancoFolies de Montréal and one also sold-out show at L’Imperial in Quebec city for the Festival d’été de Québec in front of a delirious audience. Six shows in Austin, Texas for SXSW, the Festival International de Louisiane, a sold-out Club Soda in Montreal, CMJ in New York City and the memorable St-Jean show in Villeray, where the band played for an endless sea of spectators (10 000 people!).

After being nominated on the short list for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize, Belmundo Regal has recently won many awards: A Miroir Award for best hip hop / urban performance for their Quebec city show at L'Impérial, a Félix Award for Producer of the Year with Sébastien Blais-Montpetit, two GAMIQ Awards for Hip Hop Album of the Year and Video of the Year (Dekshoo), a Nova Scotia Music Award for Francophone Artist/Group Recording of the Year, the Edith Butler Award from the Association des auteurs-compositeurs du Québec and a Éloize Award for Most Successful Acadian Artist Abroad and the band was also hailed Révélations Musique 2010-2011 by Radio-Canada.  

It looks like 2011 will be just as impressive for the group. A third album is in the works and many shows are to be announced in Canada and in Europe. Radio Radio is definitely on the high road to glory!

Crew

Alexandre Arthur Bilodeau
Jacques Alphonse Doucet
Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant

Important Shows

  • Francofolies de Spa (Belgium, 2011)
  • Francofolies de Montréal (2007-2011)
  • Festival Chorus (Paris, 2011)
  • Printemps de Bourges (2011)
  • Woodstock en Beauce (2011)
  • Festivoix de Trois-Rivières (2011)
  • Canada Games (Halifax, 2011)
  • Pop Montreal (2007, 2010) 
  • Vancouver Olympics Winter Games (2010)
  • Canada Day at Trafalgar Square in London (2010)
  • Les Eurockéennes de Belfort in France (2010)
  • The Festival International de Louisiane (2010)
  • SXSW (2010) 
  • Festival d’été de Québec (2010) 
  • CMJ Music Marathon in New York (2010)  
  • Halifax Pop Explosion festival (2010) 
  • Francofolies de Montréal (2007, 2008)
  • Festival Musique et Arts Osheaga (2008)
  • Festival du 400e de la ville Québec (2008)
  • Festival de la chanson de Tadoussac (2008)
  • Musiqu'en nous (2008)
  • Festival Franco-Ontarien (2008)

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A fine antidote: Radio Radio (laradioradio.com), the Great White North's answer to the Beastie Boys, which means they were spry and, above all, melodic. They could also do an irresistible song about Kenny G. (I kid you not).
Ken Richardson, Sound + Vision

Radio Radio's new album, Belmundo Regal, could certainly make a splash with Americans; even though the lyrics are occasionally in French, the music is full of funk, electronic, and pop influences that have an undeniably universal appeal.
http://texasmusicmatters.kut.org/2010/04/30/radio-radio-guess-what

Perhaps the most surprising band of the night, Nova Scotia’s Radio Radio tore apart the stage with their insanely elaborate and energetic French-English rap. Nominated for their album Belmundo Regal, the trio has a presence and uniqueness that transcends the stage with a true Friday night feel.
Sheena Lyonnais, torontomusicscene.ca, September 21st 2010

Radio Radio est plus en forme que jamais.
Marie-Hélène Mello, Longueur d'Ondes, avril 2010

On dit que Belmundo Regal est un album hip-hop. Oui, mais c'est plus que ça. Ce sont des chansons et des musiques jaillies d'un enchevêtrement époustouflant de mots, de sons, de sens, de langues, d'humour, de sensualité enfermées dans un kaléidoscope d'images et de pure joie musicale.Un album truffé d'effets big band, de reflets dance, de beats charnels qui disparaissent aussi vite qu'ils surgissent et qui nous laissent les oreilles sur un qui-vive, comme quand on est en manque. More, more, more.
Rino Morin Rossignol, 31 mars 2010, L'Acadie Nouvelle

Look out and listen up, Radio Radio is, quite simply, the best hip-hop act to come out of Canada in a while.
T'Cha Dunlevy, March 4th 2010, The Gazette

Il suffit d'une écoute de Belmundo Regal pour constater que le trio rap a relevé le défi. Une fois de plus, sa fougue et son sens de la mélodie collent parfaitement à ses rythmes électro-club champ gauche.
Olivier Robillard-Laveaux, 4 mars 2010, Voir

Quiquonque avait pu penser que Radio Radio ne serait qu'un feu de paille peut maintenant se mordre les doigts à l'écoute de Belmundo Regal.
Raphaëlle Gendron-Martin, 4 mars 2010, 7jours.ca

[...] Ils sont solides, mélodiques, sensuels, profonds et drôles tout à la fois. Toutes qualités qu'on retrouve justement sur leur deuxième CD, Belmundo Regal.
Marie-Christine Blais, 27 février 2010, La Presse

J'entends vaguement des références à des valises, à Julie Newmar, aux djembes, aux abeilles et à la nourriture chinoise mais que sais-je... On aura encore besoin de quelques mois pour décoder les textes, minimum. Et c'est très bien ainsi! Chose certaine, le départ de Timo ne se fait pas sentir et ne semble pas avoir laissé de trou.
Olivier Lalande, décembre 2009, Scène locale Voir