They are young, they have great on-stage presence and they know how to rock in English....but they are French,  niçois even, the first act Bloodshed, a brutal death metal band that seemed a bit out of place on the bill. Pop duo Lilly Wood & The Prick and charismatic Yodelice are part of this new generation of gallic performers that has already produced bands such as Dø, Cocoon or Rinôçérôse, and last Thursday, they set the Jardin de Verdure on fire during the Crazy week festival in Nice.

With their mixture of pop, folk, rock and electro, Lilly Wood & The Prick gave it all to the crowd. Accompanied on stage by a bass player, a guitarist and a drummer, 24-year old Nili Hadida and Ben Cotto played songs from their first album, the inventive Invincible Friends, from hippy-sounding folk ballads such as 'This is a Love Song' or 'Little Johnny' to more catchy tunes such as 'Hey, it's ok', 'Down the drain' and 'My Best'.

Even if they were definitely more rock than pop that night, the duo let their feelings and emotions take over their songs. Hadida has a beautiful, soulful voice and seemed at ease on stage - she jumped around a lot, joked with the audience and played various music instruments - while her companion preferred to remain in the background.

The group won a Victoire de la Musique, the French equivalent of the Grammy awards, earlier this year, in the category "revelation of the public", and for most of the people in attendance last Thursday, they were indeed a very pleasant surprise.

The highly theatrical singer, Yodelice aka Maxim Nucci, meanwhile, did not need an introduction. With already two hit albums and a "Victoire" under his belt, he was the main draw of the night and did not disappoint. Navigating in a universe inspired by Tim Burton and Jim Jaramusch, his music is influenced by the likes of Tom Waits, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Radiohead or David Bowie. Yodelice's melodies are airy, his rhythms are catchy and his voice is...well, terribly sexy. He and his band definitely seemed to have been having a great time and so was the audience.

When at the end of the evening, the 31 year old artist performed alone on the guitar, Talk to Me, the song he wrote for his good friend Guillaume Canet's movie Les Petits Mouchoirs, he was in total communion with the public and you could feel some magic in the air.

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