Louie started his musical life in the school days forming his first band First Piece (1987-1991) with some classmates. His father had hoped he would become a plummer, but Louie couldn’t lay down the bass guitar once he first time picked it up. The band started to play gigs in the local and surrounding towns and decided to rent a old farm house once the school days was over to continue playing music, Louie started to write his first songs at this time. The band couldn’t keep together, and ended splitting up, Louie Fontaine & Rick Heart the main persons in the band, later joined the band back together with a new drummer to play a tour in Denmark, they continued playing gigs for some time ,the band never made an album only demos was recorded.
Louie later formed a band with his friend Rick Heart performing as Rick Heart, Louie Fontaine & The Blues Engines 1997-1998).The band only recorded demos mostly with Louie’s stuff, Rick Heart later toured with Louie as a guitar player.
In 1991 Louie went traveling after getting his entire record collection stolen from his apartment, with his pockets loaded of insurance money and a electrical bass guitar, he traveled around Brazil and Bolivia for 6 mount. When he arrived back to Europe he signed up in musical school were he joined forces with Lars Fischer, together they formed The Fischer Fontaine Band (1992-1998) The band started to tour soon after in Denmark, a theatrical style seemed to dominate the bands live performances. The band fast moved up, and had there first record I’m Silver (I’m Here To Save The Band) released in 1993 with support of the Danish Rock Council.
Louie began to write his musical Murder Before Justice in his Norwegian hide out in 1994 and the FFB continued touring constantly till the end .The show got more and more expensive with 12-15 people on the road, the economy was getting bad. Louie and Fischer began the recording process of the musical Murder Before Justice in 1997 and played there last concert at the opening of the venue Vega in Copenhagen 1998. Murder Before Justice was released the same day.
Louie formed a new band The Pink Guitars (1997) for fun, with fellow musicians during the last tours of The Fischer Fontaine Band the band opened up for FFB.
Louie was the song writer in The Fischer Fontaine Band, but his new material wasn’t meant for FFB . Louie had more and more interest in singing his own songs instead of having a vocalist during it, he also wanted to leave the theatrical rock scene. In the following period Louie was writing new stuff and drinking heavy until he finally came up with the sound he was looking for. He then started to manufacture the Beat Machine in his father’s workshop at nighttime, which would become his trademark in years to come. Once finished after more than a year the unlucky Louie had a fire in his newly build studio in Copenhagen in which The Beat Machine was standing, The Machine was damaged, but fast put together again.
Louie Fontaine & The Fabulous Beat Machine (1999-2003) hit the road in 1999 and toured in 15 countries around Europe. In the end of year 2000 Louie moved to New Orleans and shortly after, he got a record deal with Invisible Records in Chicago, his new album Soul Satisfaction On Clean Sheets was released in the US in 2002.
Luck was not on Louie’s side since 9/11 (World Trade Center) and the following wars in Afghanistan & Irak left his already planed tours in ruins. The FBI surrounded Louie’s house in uptown New Orleans, looking for terror suspect Louie Fontaine, because they thought, the newly build model the 1 ton heavy Beat Machine was a bomb.
Louie had enough and went back to live in Europe Latvia, continued playing shows around Europe only to return for performing in New Orleans to play with his American band. In 2002 he got record deal with a Russian record label Cd Maximum,who released Soul Satisfaction in 2003 some tracks from Soul Satisfaction was appeared as soundtracks in 2 international movies Jonny Vang and some in commercials.
Louie started to write new music during 2004 and began to perform as Louie Fontaine & The Living Dead (2004-2006) the band played around 35 shows mostly in Baltic States, Denmark and a 2 trips to the Uk. The show was big and glamorous with actors on stage, a giant coffin, women tied up and whipped on crosses, Louie seemed to gone back to the theatrical world, but changed his mind and skipped the show later on. He also produced 2 albums with New Orleans Soul Man Rockie Charles during 2003 & 2006 and toured with Rockie twice in Northern Europe. In 2006 he started to record his material in Copenhagen and ended up with 40 songs of which he picked 16 tracks for Evil Love and 11 tracks for the far more Rockie cd Don’t Bring The Kids. In 2008 Louie took a break from the music for the first in his life time .The 2 new Cd’s Evil Love & Don’t Bring The Kids. was therefore put on hold and will instead be released in 2010.
