Your Favorite Enemies

Your Favorite Enemies is a Montreal rock band that was formed in 2006 by Alex Foster (vocals), Jeff Beaulieu (guitar), Sef (guitar), Ben Lemelin (bass), Miss Isabel (vocals and keyboard) and Charles “Moose” Allicy (drums). When getting together they decided to manage every single aspect of the band’s career based on their community values and their “do it yourself” attitude. Their distinctive blend of dirty and polished melodic textures and their introspective, empowering lyrics are influenced by such bands as; The Cure, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Pearl Jam, The Ramones, Nirvana and U2.
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Alex Foster(主唱），Jeff Beaulieu(吉他），Sef(吉他）,Ben Lemelin(貝司），Miss Isabel(主唱和鍵盤）和Charles Moose Allicy(鼓）
“你最喜歡的敵人們”是一只成立于2006年由人聲Alex Foster ，吉他手Jeff Beaulieu和sef，貝斯手Ben Lemelin，人聲兼鍵盤Isabel，鼓手Allicy 而組成的蒙特利爾搖滾樂(lè)隊(duì)。當(dāng)他們開(kāi)始在一起時(shí)他們決定經(jīng)營(yíng)樂(lè)隊(duì)事業(yè)的每一個(gè)單獨(dú)的方面，這建立在他們的團(tuán)體價(jià)值觀和他們“做你自己”的態(tài)度。
When Alex Foster (vocals), Jeff Beaulieu (guitar), Sef (guitar), Ben Lemelin (bass), Miss Isabel (vocals and keys) and Charles Moose Allicy (drums) got together to form Your Favorite Enemies in 2006, they decided to manage every single aspect of the band's career based on their community values and their "do it yourself" attitude. Already known for their commitment towards human rights, Foster being a fervent spokesperson for Amnesty International and a passionate youth speaker, Your Favorite Enemies' distinctive blend of dirty and polished types of melodic textures and their introspective and empowering lyrics instantaneously attracted musical fanatics from all over the world, who organically and spontaneously turned their passion for the band into an incredible multitude of street teams, communities, fan sites and forums emerging in every major city on the planet.?
Therefore, inspired by such astounding support and inundated by an impressive number of requests to buy Your Favorite Enemies’ nowhere-to-be-found music, the 6 musicians decided to create the label Hopeful Tragedy Records in April 2007 in order to offer the self-produced 5-song EP and fan-exclusive "And If I Was To Die In the Morning… Would I Still Be Sleeping With You"; released on June 1st, for only $10 worldwide, shipping included. However, facing a strong reluctance and a major lack of support from the band's former advisers, who doubted that any potential success would come out of such a daring operation, the musicians kept their vision of honoring their fans' loyalty with a ridiculously low and worldly-standardized cost for anyone wishing to purchase their EP, from Montreal to Tokyo.?
Since many people were expecting a monumental flop and a damaging move for the band's career, the decision to create a record label in order to sell their EP via their own online store turned out to be the determinant turning point for Your Favorite Enemies. The Montreal musicians ended 2007 with more than 30 thousand copies sold of their EP, a first European promotional headlining tour, unbelievable coverage by major international media, the creation of Hopeful Tragedy Records' multimedia branch dedicated to the development of new web initiatives and the production of a weekly podcast show on "YFE-TV"; different elements turning Your Favorite Enemies into one of the most exciting new "Do It Yourself" bands to emerge from the non-traditional music model.?
Needless to say that, if 2007 was a good indication of what the future had in store for Your Favorite Enemies, the following year turned out to be an undoubtedly interesting one for the 6 musicians from Montreal, who have been named as one of the top 5 bands to watch out for in 2008 by the Billboard Magazine; a quote which is hard to deny after the incredible success they had in 2008. Success which included being the first band ever to internationally broadcast a real-time live concert on their MySpace page, obtaining extraordinary success for their first Japanese tour, selling more than 60 thousand copies of their second album “Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye”, released in June 2008 on the band’s label, Hopeful Tragedy Records, and becoming the first band ever to write songs for the legendary video game franchise Final Fantasy.?
Greatly empowered by the amazing support of their faithful fans, Your Favorite Enemies is already in the studio working on new songs for what they described as “a fantastic imaginary voyage” for their third album to be released worldwide in 2009.