La Sécurité Tours Europe/UK Following Recent Album Release, Bingo!

Éliane Viens-Synnott (synths/percussions/vocals) and Félix Bélisle (bass/backup vocals) of the Canadian French band La Sécurité interviewed with SLUG July 10, preceding their upcoming EU/UK tour, Ete Automne — which will be their fifth European tour. 

The band formed in 2021 as a pandemic project, wanting to experiment with sound. “I’d drummed in a couple of punk bands before. I also had experience on stage as a dancer but not as a musician, so I kind of wanted to try it out,” Viens-Synnott says. “And he [Bélisle] is a lead singer in another band in Quebec.” Bélisle and Viens-Synnott have been doing music for 15 years. “It was an organic cause-and-event kind of thing,” Viens-Synnott says.

Their latest album, Bingo!, released June 12, 2026 and features ten tracks. La Sécurité’s impressive sound manipulation sends new listeners through twisting fractals of an alternate music reality and into a prism of colorful expression, otherwise known as dance-punk. Catchy with alternating time signatures, it sounds like the music a kaleidoscope would create were it an instrument, parallel to performance art. To achieve this unique sound, they also have Melissa Di Menna on guitar, synths and vocals and Kenny Smith mostly on drums but who also plays guitar and synths. 

“We’re influenced by a lot of different things like DEVO, E.S.G., Bush Tetras — we’re some kind of punk,” Bélisle says. “We don’t really portray a message to our listeners; we’re a vibe that either you get on the train with or you don’t.”

“We have a naive, childish approach to music that creates space for hard things to be talked about without it being super heavy,” Viens-Synnott says.

Hailing from Montréal, La Sécurité credits parts of their success to their city. “The financial reality is that Montréal is one of the last places in Canada that makes it relatively possible to live as an artist,” Viens-Synnott says. “It’s not as good as it was fifteen years ago, because there’s a housing crisis here, too, and grocery prices are crazy, but it’s still possible to make it work. I think that since this is still kind of part of the lifestyle, it makes it so the artist scene is very alive and well in culture and connection, which is naturally really important here in the city.” Promoting well-being, Montréal has a homies-helping-homies kind of vibe.

Having toured the States three times, they have plans on returning around 2027 once visas are obtained. “It’s never simple for Canadians to come to the States,” Viens-Synnott says, “Compared to Americans coming up here to play. You don’t need a visa to come here. The visas are only valid for a year, and since the Trump administration, they’ve delayed the process by months.” To receive visas in a timely manner, applicants must pay an expedition fee.

Quickly becoming seasoned tour veterans, Viens-Synnott and Bélisle recall some of their favorite tours. “The Rapture Tour was really fun,” Viens-Synnott says. “We were playing in bigger-size venues that we didn’t have to sell tickets for. It definitely helped make us a few fans of our own — even the London show was sold out.” 

Although they are experienced on the road, La Sécurité is grateful to return to the post-tour ritual of isolation. “The moment we get off the plane, we just all go our separate ways,” says Bélisle. “I mean we love each other, but after spending so much time being tired, you miss solitude, and you miss being without these people that you love so that you can keep loving them.”

From a COVID-19 sound experiment to touring Europe, Bélisle gives expert advice to aspiring musicians everywhere: “Make mistakes, EAT WELL and rest. Get some veggies in there.”

Be sure to stay up to date on La Sécurité’s latest shows and music releases via their Instagram at @la_securite_avant_tout

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