Smokey Joe & The Kid

A Bordeaux beatmaker duo formed in 2009 by Matthieu Perrein and Hugo Sanchez, Smokey Joe & The Kid blend hip-hop, bass music and samples of early 20th-century American music in highly visual live shows.

Winners of the SFR Jeunes Talents award at the Printemps de Bourges in 2013, they released Nasty Tricks (2013), Running to the Moon (2016), Rogue Monsters (2019) and War Is Over (2021), and played Glastonbury, Montreal’s Igloofest and Garorock. They worked with C2C, Chinese Man, Deluxe, Fred Wesley and Gift of Gab, before announcing farewell shows in 2023 after more than 300 dates.

They played stage A on the Saturday of Les Mouillotins 2016.