We are young

Ousseynou Cisse performing at Yugongyishan. [Photo by Ruan Fan/For chinadaily.com.cn]

Do you have musicians that you like, who that influenced you?

Guillaume Dupon: Daft Punk, I love them so much. Get Lucky, don't you know this one? And Phoenix, you have to listen to this one. We literally grew up with Daft Punk, the first record was out when I was 12 or 13.

JS Le Gouic: Nirvana. We listen to their tapes. It's so much energy, it's like, yeah, that's what we wanna do. Play guitar, and make noise, really loud. Then we switched up to punk.

Now you're going international, what is it like being international?

JS Le Gouic: We sing and write in English. We don't sing in French, it's not that we don't like French, but using it as an instrument to sing is really complicated.

What is the strangest food that you've ever tasted in Beijing?

JS Le Gouic: Last year in Beijing, we had the liver and jelly, the jelly was like, snot. There's lots of old people eating with us.

If you go:

Clarens and Juveniles will be giving performances at the Strawberry Music Festival in Shanghai on May 2, at the Alliance Francaise de Jinan in Jinan on May 2, at the Xi’an Strawberry Festival in Xi'an on May 16 and at the Sino-Ocean Taikooli in Chengdu on May 17th.