Grand Guignol
Diabolique

Grand Guignol Diabolique was born in 2008 from the ashes of a band called Beat Babol , but also collecting the legacy of another band of which Franco was the mind, namely the Bohemien Flambé . From them they inherit the French-speaking name and the desire to shout to the world their desire to live by creating, and not to live vegetating as it now seems practice. The first album is the eponymous " Grand Guignol Diabolique " (2008), available through CDBABY on numerous digital platforms such as iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, etc. The second "II" comes out in 2011, but like all the following productions, it's being released on Bandcamp, because when you are unknown to most people, a free platform, albeit small, is better than a giant where you are just a drop in an ocean. The third CD is an EP released in 2013 and called "Di tutte quelle morti" . In 2015 "Export Diabolique" was released , the first CD to be sung entirely in English. It gets an excellent response, but remains a cult object, not being able to count on promotion and anything else necessary. 5 years later, in which Franco dedicated himself to many other projects and faced life with a brave face, the brand new "LINGUA" (vol. 1) (2020) is released, son of the pandemic, of mourning and boiling blood. On August 20th, 2020 this first part is a CD still available on bandcamp. 6 brand new tracks that will find good company with the other 6, which on November 15th, 2021 sanction the release of "LINGUA" (vol. 2) (2021) always on Bandcamp (and still available too). For a short time both volumes were also distributed separately on Spotify and other streaming platforms, but it was only on March 8, 2022 that the two individual parts were finally reunited in the definitive "LINGUA" (DeLuxe version) (2022), which includes 3 brand new mixes of tracks from volume 2 and further two unreleased tracks. The main reason for the title is because it is an album that speaks several languages. In fact, Franco's Anglophone, Francophone and obviously Italic soul coexist and therefore the songs are sung some in English, some in Italian and one in French, a dutiful homage to one of his projects that had more feedback (Bohemien Flambé), at a time in which there was still a lot of interest in music and people tried to be original, not photocopies of what "works".

Grand Guignol Diabolique is a ONE MAN BAND . Franco plays it all, writes it all and sings it all (with occasional guest stars) and despite some miserably failed attempts to form a real band, there is currently no live activity. But in the future it is not said that he won't try again, even if the times are very sad.