 In 2003 Sean McLusky started taking new UK bands over to Paris to play the clubs Batofar and Nouveau Casino, convinced that there must be a local scene lurking under the surface in Paris and with the help of local rocker & DJ Jean Baptiste Juillot, he started to dig about in the Paris underground, bands were found and booked in as supports on his Paris bills.Soon McLusky was being stalked by a stream of local talent, bands came out of the woodwork that never got to play their home town, word got round that there were people in town with new ideas that were nothing to do with the obstructive French music industry.As momentum built, a deal was struck with V2 France to produce a compilation album named by McLusky ‘Le Nouveau Rock'n'Roll Français’.