15 March 2006 : Couple of news ! The album recording is finished, and the mixing process has started. The sound is really good, and Pierre has done a incredible job on the drums ! Just for you to know, Hi-jack, the title track of the album should appear on the CD sampler of the next Guitar Part issue (french paper mag).

On another note, PLUG-IN will play a few shows in the next few weeks... Here we go !

31 March 2006 :
PLUG-IN + DARK HARVEST + SAPIENT PEARWOOD
BUK BUK (Heiloo (NL))

01 April 2006 :
PLUG-IN + DARK HARVEST + 7FOR4 + JoOP WOLTERS + MARCEL COENEN + ART METAL TRIO (Jonas Hellborg, Mattias Eklundh and Zoltan Csörsz)
HEADWAY FESTIVAL - P60 (Amstelveen (NL))

30 April 2006 :
PLUG-IN
ROCK AU VILLAGE FESTIVAL (St Armou (FR 64))

This website is a nightmare to maintain, this is why a new version is in the works. In the meantime, for more up to date news (in french), visit www.fanalo.com

03 October 2005 : Gigs coming up ! Nancy gig cancelled (well, Bumblefoot is still playing but not us ;-).

12 October 2005 :
PLUG-IN+ ORION SIA...
LE CIAM (Bordeaux (33))

14 October 2005 :
PLUG-IN + PARALLAXE + FANTASTIC(s) 3
AREMA Rock et Chanson (Talence (33))

20 October 2005 :
PLUG-IN + FREAK KITCHEN
THEATRE BARBEY (Bordeaux (33))

05 November 2005 :
PLUG-IN + SPUD GUN
L'ESTRAN (St MEDARD EN JALLES (33))

13 November 2005 :
PLUG-IN + BUMBLEFOOT
LA MAROQUINERIE (Paris (75))

12 August 2005 : I can't believe it myself, but we are almost done. The biggest part of the recording is now finished (the lead guitar parts). There is still a lot of work to do, but this time Fanalo and I don't have to wait for each other to be available... We are gonna record the drum tracks with Pierre Belleville (Lofofora) in the next few months and voila ! Then I'll have to record the bass, mix the tracks, and master the whole thing... Piece of cake !

Wanna hear what the new Plug-In sounds like ? Rush to our myspace page : www.myspace.com/pluginband. There's a full track from the new album. This is only a demo (now real mixing, half programmed drum machine, half played bass track, you get the idea...). Feel free to let us know if you like it !

Oh, and maybe you haven't noticed, but you can now reach this website at www.plugin-band.com ;-)

16 February 2005 : Gigs with Bumblefoot coming up ! Bumblefoot is doing a mini-tour in Europe in March with Freak Kitchen and Metal Kartoon !

Guitars + vocals : Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
Guitars : Fanalo
Bass : Elmobo
Drums : Dennis Leeflang

Dates :
10 March 2005
BUMBLEFOOT + FREAK KITCHEN
P60 (Stadsplein 100a, Postbus 111 - 1180 AC AMSTELVEEN, Holland, Amsterdam suburb)

11 March 2005
BUMBLEFOOT + METAL KARTOON (featuring Christophe Godin)
Maroquinerie (23 rue Boyer - 75020 PARIS, France)

12 March 2005
BUMBLEFOOT + FREAK KITCHEN
Hotel de Ville de Romont (ROMONT, Switzerland, Festival Mars Attack)

13 March 2005
BUMBLEFOOT + FREAK KITCHEN + MY POLLUX
l'Austrasique (34 bd Austrasie - 54000 NANCY, France)

9 December 2004 : :'-(

28 September 2004 : ok, but progressing nonetheless... :P). We are recording at Elmobo's studio (Conkrete Studio) when both Elmobo and Fanalo are available at the same time (about 3 hours a week). We hope to have everything recorded and mixed by the beginning of 2005 (seriously :P).

14 July 2004 : Julio is not Plug-In's drummer anymore. No hard feelings, and we wish Julio good luck in his band Jüggernaut. We are now looking for a new drummer. We'll keep you informed...

25 March 2004 : Gig coming up ! See below...
We have a new interview online (in french) at Guitar-Heroes.com. Do not take it too seriously :)

Next gig :
03 Avril 2004 - with Fantastic(s) 3 - Forum Music, Cadaujac (33)

30 December 2003 : Oooops, forgot to wish you all a Merry Axemas !! We have a few presents for you :) First, there are a few videos of Fanalo at www.guitar-heroes.com. Click the Interviews section for an interview with Jean Fontanille and Fanalo, in french. And there is a video of Fanalo explaining his guitar playing, a sunday at 10 in the morning... haha ! (click the Videos section for that !)

Another Christmas present : our first 5 tracks EP is now available for download at Vitaminic !! For collectors who want the real thing, it seems there are a few copies left at Synsoniq in Germany !

13 November 2003 : We have made our choice... Click here to find out who won the world famous Plug-in contest !

06 November 2003 : Please be patient :) It's very hard for us to decide who's gonna be the winner. There are so many good solos... We have pretty much found the top 5. We now need to choose one of the 5 names...
To help you to wait, here are a few stats.

We got people from all over the world :
- 29 from France
- 21 from the USA
- 6 from Canada
- 4 from the UK
- 3 from Finland
- 2 from Turkey
- 2 from Australia
- 1 from Belgium
- 1 from Brasil
- 1 from Germany
- 1 from Greece
- 1 from New Zealand
- 1 from Sweden
- 1 from the Netherlands

Some people sent up to 3 solos (do you really think that's gonna help us ??? ;-)

The first solo we got arrived the day after we launched the contest.

The last one arrived... 2 days after the deadline... :)


01 November 2003 : CONTEST is OVER ! We received 79 submissions. You guys are great !! We now have to pick a winner, which is going to be very hard... Leave us a few days for that :P

29 October 2003 : Forgot to mention that our very good friends from Sun Caged released their new album last week ! Check it out !! (Quick reminder : Sun Caged is Dennis Leeflang's band. Dennis is the drummer that toured with Bumblefoot and us last year :)

We have received Sylvain Coudret's (Scarve) solo. It's a blast (what else could we expect anyway...). By the way, get ready for Scarve's new mindblasting album, to be released January 26th 2004 (argh can't wait...)

You have 3 days left to send your entries for the contest !
We have received a bit more than 50 solos as of now, from all over the world (France, UK, US, Canada, Sweden, Finland...) Some incredible shit, we're gonna have a hard time choosing a single winner...

09 October 2003 : Quick update for some fresh news ! We now have a Guestbook !! (click on the icon above).

- Jean decided to leave the band. He's got too much work and personal musical projects to keep on playing with us. Please visit his website and support him !! Good luck Jean !

- Drumroll.... So please welcome our new 2nd guitarist : Mr Denis Cornardeau who succesfully passed his first Plug-in rehearsal yesterday evening...

- Deadline for the contest fixed : you've got 22 more days to send your solos... Deadline is the 31st of October !

30 September 2003 : Shawn Lane died last week. Fanalo used to be one of his students back in the days he was at the CMCN (now MAI). Good bye Shawn, rest in peace...

19 September 2003 : The contest (scroll down if you've missed the announcement...) has been officialy announced in the latest issue of Guitar & Bass (Thanks to Christophe Andreck). We have already received a bunch of very cool solos... Keep'em coming, this is very exciting for us to discover what our music can inspire to other people...




New guest confirmed :

Sylvain Coudret from the band Scarve (one of elmobo's favorite band) will be playing a solo on a yet untitled track. If you've heard Scarve before, you know it's gonna kick some ass :)

04 September 2003 : Incredible... 2 updates in less than a month. So what do we have now ? Here we go for some cool news and a cool contest (see a few lines below...)

Fanalo appears on Thomas Bressel new project, along with Chris Godin, Laurent Fleury, Youri de Groote and quite a few other great guitarists. He's guesting on a couple of tracks (Capitaine Flam and Goldorak. Yes, this is a cartoon themes cover album... ;).

How about some powerful Metal ? Elmobo just mixed two EPs in the past few weeks. First one is from the Indus-Metal band JeNX, and the other one from the Power-Nu-Metal band Sunken. Pay those bands websites a visit, they rock !! Elmobo will also mix and produce JeNX LP in 2004. This is going to be a fuckin' great album, believe me !!!
We think it's time to publish a sort of official Guest Lists, just for you to know who the fuck is gonna play on our CD. So here we go.

-Ron Thal (Bumblefoot)
-Mattias IA Eklundh (Freak Kitchen)
-Christophe Godin (Gno)
-Patrick Rondat
-Andy Timmons
-Cyril Achard
-YOU
... Yes, we have little contest !

Wanna play on our CD along with Ron Thal, Mattias IA Eklundh, Christophe Godin, Andy Timmons, Patrick Rondat, Cyril Achard... ?
We have a little contest for you... Download our mp3, record a solo on it (just a after the fade in) for 16 bars, and send a mp3 mix to me. Use as many tracks as you need...

Keep your solo as an isolated .wav file somewhere on you hard disk, because we are going to choose the solo we like most to actually put it on our CD, so we'll need this .wav file...

No deadline yet, you'll know when there will be one...

En français pour nos amis guitaristes francophones...
Nous organisons donc un petit concours relayé par nos amis de Guitarheroes.com et Guitar & Bass afin de permettre à l'un d'entre vous de jouer sur notre album aux côtés de Ron Thal, Mattias IA Eklundh, Andy Timmons, Christophe Godin, Patrick Rondat, Cyril Achard. Comment faire ? Télécharge le mp3 ici (bouton droit, enregistrer la cible sous...)

Enregistre un solo de toute beauté juste après le fade in sur 16 mesures. Envoye-nous le tout mixé, au format mp3, mais garde ton solo isolé au format .wav quelque part sur ton disque dur. En effet, nous choisirons le solo qui nous plait le plus pour l'intégrer au morceau complet qui figurera sur l'album, donc on en aura besoin si on te choisit. Tu peux utiliser autant de pistes que tu veux, lache-toi !

Pas de date limite pour l'instant, mais des que y en aura une, ça se saura...

13 August 2003 : What ???? 8 months without an update ??? Hell yeah... We've been busy. But we're back with some good news... Be ready for the longest update ever... :P

First we got Mr Andy Timmons' solo for "Texas Instruments" a few months ago. Needless to say it rocks and fits the tune perfectly... A true gem...


Stupid me totally forgot to mention we've been interviewed by the very good folks at Noiseweb, one of the best metal website I've seen. They also did a very nice (p)review of the 3 first titles we made for the forthcoming album. Noiseweb is all in french but it's worth a visit anyway...
Fanalo just did another jam on GuitarHeroes.com. Click here to go directly to the mp3 page... Jean did another one as well...

We had a ball playing with Freak Kitchen in Bordeaux the 28th of February. Mattias, Bjorn and Christer kicked ass, as always. This was a very exciting evening indeed, as Mr Michael Manring who happened to be there that night, came to jam with us on "Ultimate Groove". He and elmobo did an extremely stupid bass duel ;-).

Later, Fanalo got on stage to play
with Freak Kitchen on "See you in Pittsburg" and "When Sam played it again". Another good surprise for the fans, Mr Mike Keneally (Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, Beer for Dolphins...) who happened to be there that night, got on stage to play a few tracks with the swedish trio as well... Incredible evening... By the way there has been a very nice report in Rock Hard Magazine (Thanks to Stephane Auzilleau !!!) about this show...

And the day after, guess who we were opening for ? Mike Keneally, Michael Manring and Evan Schiller. I had the chance to play this gig on the best bass I've ever touched : a Basslab STD IV (see photo). (Thanks Alex, now I'm addicted... :-P ). Later on, Fanalo and Jean jammed with the trio on "My Guitar wants to kill your Mama".

The 4th of April, we flew to Amsterdam for the Headway Festival. Well not exactly all of us... I had some sort of problem with my passport which was somehow not valid anymore... So I couldn't get on the plane... Panic took me, cos' we had to be in Amsterdam the day after to play with Ron Thal. So Fanalo took the plane, and I (elmobo) had to take my car to drive from Bordeaux (France) to Amsterdam. By chance, my beloved Sab came with me, so the 15 hours drive seemed a bit less painful :P We arrived in Amstelveen at 3:30 am...

Missed Freak Kitchen who were playing that night for the first time in Holland. And we played with Mr Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal around 6:00 pm. I could barely stand up, my legs and my back were killing me, and I my eyes were moving and closing as if they had a life of their own... Had to concentrate a lot to be able to play those bumbletunes... Mattias from Freak Kitchen came to jam with us on a couple of tunes. Being on stage with Mattias AND Ron at the same time... That's something I won't forget :) This Festival was really nice. We met a lot of cool bands. (Suncaged, Prototype (you guys rule !!), Loch Vostok...) And the audience was just perfect ! Holland we love you and hope to be back soon !!

Ok it's late now... I'm off to bed... More news in a few days...

22 January 2003 : We are going to play with Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal again ! The 5th of April 2003, we are are flying to the Headway music festival in Amsterdam (Holland). We'll be playing with cool bands like Freak Kitchen and Suncaged ! Click on the logo for more info !!

Bumblefoot line-up for this gig :

Ron - Guitar
Fanalo (Plug-In) - Guitar
Elmobo (Plug-In) - Bass
Dennis Leeflang (Sun-Caged) - Drums

15 January 2003 : We are back ! (well, we never really left... ;-) Some cool stuff in the news !! First we have a very cool 2 pages interview in the latest issue (january 2003) of Guitar&Bass (french magazine). Very nice interview regarding the Bumblefoot tour and our next CD... Many thanks to Christophe Andreck for this cool article !!

Yes, the tour with Bumblefoot is over... This has been quite an experience !! We met shitloads of very nice people (Hi Kooma, Gnô, Nefesh, Laurent Fleury, Dennis and Marcel from Suncaged...), played in some very cool places, had some very good time !!! If you people reading this have some photos, audio or video recordings from any of the gigs, please, contact us !! I'll upload photos from the tour soon !

We also have a new drummer. Welcome Julio !! We're working hard so that we can be ready for our next gigs in february (27/02, opening for Freak Kitchen, 01/03 opening for Mike Keneally)

26 September 2002 : New mp3 online, including a bit of Mattias Eklundh's solo :-) ! Go to the music page !
We have the definitive Bumblefoot french tour dates ! Here we go !

Catch us with Bumblefoot live :

16/11 : Bordeaux - (Arema)+ Gnô
18/11 : Toulouse - (Le Havana Café) + Veda
19/11 : Perpignan - (Le Crockmore) + Veda
20/11 : Marseille - (Le Moulin)+ Gnô
21/11 : Nice - (Le Cedac de Cimiez)
23/11 : Besançon - (Le Cylindre)+ Nefesh
24/11 : Lyon - (Le Rail Théatre) + Guest
25/11 : Strasbourg - (la Laiterie) + Gnô
26/11 : Nancy - (Terminal Export)+ Gnô + Kooma
28/11 : Les Lillas - (Le Triton)
29/11 : Paris - (le Gibus)+ Kooma
30/11 : Paris - (le Gibus)+ Kooma + Laurent FLEURY

Catch Plug-in live :

08/11/2002 : Bordeaux - (Théatre Barbey) + Stephan Tyll
28/02/2003 : Bordeaux - (Arema) + Freak Kitchen (to be confirmed)
01/03/2003 : Festival de Guitare de St Médard en Jalles + Michael Manring and Mike Keneally

We hope to see you somewhere !!

13 July 2002 : New Website, courtesy of Elglobo. Pay him a visit at Smilingdemon.com...
The tour with Bumblefoot has been postponed to mid november. We'll post the dates here asap !
We have finished the recording of "Sevilla", featuring Mr Patrick Rondat. I'm now going to mix it (this one's a bitch, I can tell you...)
L8r

26 April 2002 : We're still working on that album. We're waiting for another guest's solo : Mr Andy Timmons will be playing a solo on our track called "Texas Instruments"... Can't wait to listen to that. Might post a few extracts from our new tracks soon to let you guys know where we're heading...
Many people are asking about the french tour with Bumblefoot... It should take place in mid-september. Nothing official yet thought...

14 April 2002 : Bloody hell... 4 months without an update... Gno came to play in our city. We had a great time with these crazy fucks. Pictures from the show and more coming soon, featuring fanalo jamming with Gno :-) !

14 December 2001 : Just back from an incredible show... We saw Mr Michael Manring in a solo bass performance tonight. It was amazing... Photos from the gig in the gallery (scroll down the page)!! I've got more and more people wanting to buy our first CD directly from us instead of ordering it on CD Baby. Well, that's possible for french people only at the time being by sending me an email. Hurry up, we're nearly out of stock...

01 December 2001 : That's now kind of official. This has been one of Plug In's history best kept secret... Mr Ron FumbleBoot Thal told in the latest issue of Guitarist Magazine (French edition), that Plug-In would be his band when touring in France...

To make this day even more memorable, we received IA and Chris Godin's solos nearly at the same time (yesterday for IA, today for Chris (thanks for the nice drawing ;-)...) ! "Danthägl" is gonna kick some ass !

27 November 2001 : New photos with our friends Cyril Achard, Ivan Rougny and Mike Terrana in the Gallery !!

20 November 2001 : Woohoo... Today we received a preview of IA's solo for "Danthägl". Needless to say it rocks !!

13 November 2001 : Received "911" this morning, the new album by Bumblefoot, the artist formerly known as Ron Thal... It's a must buy, not only because Ron is donating all the money he'll get from this CD to American Red Cross, but also because it's a f£$*µ% good album !! Go and buy it here or here !! Featuring guest solos from Mattias IA Eklundh and Dweezil Zappa...

07 November 2001 : Shame on me... The photos of Freak Kitchen live in Bordeaux are finally online here ! And there's a nice report on Freak Kitchen's official Website which you can read here !

03 November 2001 : Christophe Godin (Gno) is currently working on his solo for "Danthägl". This is gonna rock. Can't wait to hear that !! Yup, Fanalo's solo on "Danthägl" will be stuck between mister Godin's and Mr Eklundh's :-)

14 october 2001 : We just spent the day with Patrick Rondat... He played a few solos for one of our track. We have plenty of material to toy with now :-) Looking forward to meeting you again Mr Patrick !

Patrick Rondat recording his solo at Elmobo Studio.

28 September 2001 : What a great day ! Today, we met Mr Mattias Eklundh and his team mates Bjorn and Christer, just before their gig in Bordeaux. Lovely guys really ! Check the photos in the Gallery !! And what a great show!!!

27 September 2001 : Just finished pre-mastering "Danthägl", the first track from our next CD... The least we can say is that it sounds great :-) Can't wait for tomorrow, as we're gonna meet up with Mattias Eklundh and submit him this tune as his guest appearence track !