ATOM Live, the student music network, has teamed up with Oui Love, the premier promoter of new French music, to offer two lucky UK student bands the chance to live the rock n roll dream.

Entering their music via the Oui Love MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/ouilovexchange, the winning bands will win the once-in-a-lifetime chance to tour the UK with France’s finest new bands this summer. Hurtling around the country in a super-cool tour bus in support of Europe’s best and brightest, what more could you want?

Hailing from the country that brought us the incomparable Serge Gainsbourg, Daft Punk, Air and Sebastien Tellier, Oui Love will be hosting a tour during May across the length and breadth of England and Scotland. The first tour, covering the Midlands and South, will feature the urban electro of The Shoes (pictured below) and the kaleidoscopic vibes of The Bewitched Hands On Top of Our Heads. The second will take in Scotland and the North, this time showcasing the not inconsiderable talents of the frenetic Curry & Coco and the sophisticated chamber-pop of Revolver.

The competition will be fierce, and has several stages. The first round sees entrants subject to a public vote, with the most popular grduating to a series of auditions at Atom Live events in Manchester, Birmingham and London where a crack panel of music industry experts will whittle the bands down the final two. The deserving winners will each be taken on one leg of the Oui Love tour.

Hopefuls who want to hit the road with France’s finest should head over to http://www.myspace.com/ouilovexchange to show us what they’ve got.

TOUR DATES

Tour 1
The Shoes/Bewitched Hands on the Top of Our Heads
May 10th: Norwich, B2.
May 11th: Lincoln, Mezz Bar.
May 12th: Birmingham, O2 Acacdemy2.
May 13th: Bristol, O2 Academy3.
May 14th: London, French Revolution at The Macbeth.
May 15th: Brighton, The Great Escape.

Tour 2
Revolver/Curry and Coco
May 14th: London, French Revolution at The Macbeth.
May 15th: Brighton, The Great Escape.*
May 17th: Glasgow, O2 ABC2
May 18th: Dundee,venue Tbc
May 19th: Blackburn, 41.
May 20th York, The Duchess.
May 21st: Liverpool, Sound City Festival.*