When they play the song at Wilderness, screaming youngsters run in from all corners. Their Spotify streams are fast heading towards the half-billion mark, and last year Caravan Palace became surprise stars on the world’s most downloaded app, the teenage-friendly TikTok, when 1.2 billion watched fan-made videos set to the sax soaked Wonderland. Incredibly, considering their absence of interest in self- promotion, they have since exploded on social media, first on Facebook, then YouTube, where they have more than a million subscribers and have racked up hundreds of millions of views for individual videos, including Lone Digger and Wonderland. Their 2008 debut album, Caravan Palace, spent 68 weeks in the French charts and went gold, while their chaotic, mob-handed stage shows made them festival favourites across Europe. Two days later a nine-second clip of their set, mostly showing the bouncing crowd, appears on Instagram and gets a grand total of two comments.įormed 12 years ago as a trio, Caravan Palace took o as part of a short-lived scene called electro-swing, which mixed house and Hip Hop with Jazz and Swing.

“Don’t worry, we will,” says the singer Zoé Colotis, a high- kicking, Charleston-dancing powerhouse on stage, now so chilled she can’t be bothered to change out of her sweat-soaked PVC trousers and is spraying them with a vodka-based DIY deodorant instead. “Did you at least post some video?” asks the manager, now slumped on the floor of the band’s Portakabin with his head in his hands.

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