PARCOURS

Starting out as the singer/guitarist for Noisy Pop band Garlic Frog Diet (2 albums, released on FNAC/Semetary Records, a major french label), Thierry Holweck (Severin 24), based in Lyon, France, then decided to develop his own musical ideas. During the many hours spent in the van, touring, his soundman used to listen to a lot of techno, Thierry loved this new music, more rebellious and underground than rock. He decided to buy some old synthesizers and learn how to use them. His goal was not to imitate the other electro artists but to create his own material keeping his signature energy and using his stage experience from his many years of performing. S24's live set are not limited to turning knobs, it's a show†!

In 2002, he commenced recording. He used the voice of Josie, the 5 year old daughter of a friend in Minneapolis, to compose one of the songs. it was recorded and completed in an hour, and sent to Josie as a christmas present.

A drumming friend(PLP) of Thierry's heard this song, called Free Chicken, and said who-ah†!, let's go to the recording studio, I want to play on it, and then you should put it on your CD. So Free Chicken became the second track of his first record, "Teepee". Thierry at that time, was in love with a girl in Minneapolis, so he decided to send the CD to all the radio stations in the area, because he wanted to suprise her by having her hear his song on the radio, it was his way of declaring his feelings for her. But the real surprise came when Free Chicken became the most requested song, and a top ten hit for months on Radio K, the core of Minneapolis college radio.

That was the beginning of S24 carrer in the States.

2003 the CD "Underworld" produced by the record label DJConsortium(Florida) was out and promoted thru US college radios with a substancial success(...a hit in Rhodes Island's States and some airplay thru the country)