{"id":9405,"date":"2015-03-06T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2015-03-06T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T14:18:14","slug":"mannequins-live-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/03\/mannequins-live-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Mannequins &#8211; Live Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mannequins2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9406\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/03\/mannequins-live-portrait\/mannequins2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mannequins2.jpg?fit=960%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,416\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"mannequins2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mannequins2.jpg?fit=640%2C277&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9406\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mannequins2.jpg?resize=640%2C277&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mannequins2\" width=\"640\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>We interviewed French band <a title=\"Introducing:  Mannequins\" href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/11\/mannequins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mannequins<\/a> last year when they released their debut album, &#8220;Worthless&#8221; &#8211; we loved their style &#8211; not quite punk, not quite Mod&#8230;something in between.\u00a0 Definitely rock.\u00a0 Now they&#8217;re back with a series of four videos they&#8217;ve called, &#8220;Live Portrait&#8221;, which sees the band chatting in the studio to begin with, then launching into four tracks from the above-mentioned &#8220;Worthless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mannequins are slick and sharp, and the videos, shot in what looks like a farmhouse in their native Rouen, give one the feeling of what it&#8217;s like to be a fly on the wall while they&#8217;re recording.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check it out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CiHMNA89ZPs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PL5cXYqNzV-HnAEyZ9VIGoZP-E9KlBmjmX\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1424396460099_20854\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p>Mannequins are Max Dracon, Florent Dubois, Adrian D&#8217;Epinay, Vincent Fevrier, and Robin Plante.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit them online on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mnnkns\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mnnkns.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCESDDZAAW31gj9Z3c8sriCw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mannequins are back with a fly on the wall glimpse of their recording sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,482,530,484,765,764,203,485,685,763],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-album","tag-france","tag-french","tag-mannequins","tag-mod","tag-punk","tag-rock","tag-rouen","tag-videos","tag-worthless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-2rH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7928,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/11\/mannequins\/","url_meta":{"origin":9405,"position":0},"title":"Introducing:  Mannequins","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"24\/11\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"First listen to French band Mannequins and I'm transported back to the 1980s and 1990s when guitars were heavy and hair was high. 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