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October 2009

Translation of La Caravane by Babylon Circus

October 30, 2009

And, performing in English: Babylon Circus are currently on their European tour and I was blessed to have been able to see them in Camden Town on Monday. They are in Liverpool tonight and then finish their UK dates in Bristol tomorrow. Their other European dates can be found here. So, to mark this, here [...]

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Translation of Mon Pére Etait Tellement De Gauche by Les Fatals Picards

October 28, 2009

“So what is the award for?” “For saving the council money. I happened to mention one day that I’d had the same broom for the last twenty years. They were very impressed and gave me a medal. Twenty years… that’s a long time, Dave.” “Yeah, well it’s two decades.” “Well, I wouldn’t go that far, [...]

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Oh my God, Babylon Circus are really good

October 27, 2009

“Oh my God, they’re really good” were the words spoken by my girlfriend at the end of the second song of Babylon Circus’s appearance last night in Camden Town, home of Madness, who, if you didn’t already know, are one of the greatest bands of all time. My cousin also came with me to this [...]

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The radioactive beets show

October 23, 2009

I mentioned in my last post that I had discovered two new albums while browsing XTrib.com. The first was the monkey album. The second is an album from 2007 called The Radioactive Beets Show by Les Gars Dans L’coin. You can listen to extracts from this album as well as extracts from their 2009 EP [...]

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Performing Monkeys in My Head

October 20, 2009

I discovered a great site today on which I found two albums that sounded as if they may be pretty good. I then found the albums on Amazon for under a fiver each. So I bought them. J’achète is the debut album by Les Singes Savants and was released in May this year. I know [...]

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Translation of La Parade de Gordon Banks by La Ruda

October 16, 2009

The time will come when I decide to write my top ten list of the best French language albums of 2009. You know what it’s like when you make a list like that – you’ve probably got three or four “no-brainers” which are going to be in there no matter what, and then you may [...]

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Babylon Circus at The Jazz Café

October 14, 2009

Fellow Londoners should be interested to know that I have just discovered that Babylon Circus are playing at the Jazz Café, Camden Town on October 26th. Details here. You can find details of other locations on their current tour on their website. Their latest album, the first for five years, La Belle Étoile, was released [...]

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Bony Hide – Sentir que l’on est différent

October 13, 2009

Over at RockNFrance.com, you can find their Top 10 List of French Language Singles. At the top of the list as I write this is Bony Hide’s Sentir que l’on est different “feeling like you’re different” and it’s really good. This is Bony Hide’s first single. You can visit their MySpace page and their Facebook [...]

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Translation of La Ballade Des Gens Heureux

October 13, 2009

As promised, I’m following up my previous post with a translation of the final track on the album Pépé Goes Français. Extracts of all the songs on the album are provided in the previous post. La ballade des gens heureux was originally written and performed by Gérard Lenorman. Pépé’s rock cover is, in my opinion [...]

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Pépé Goes Français

October 11, 2009

I discovered a new blog today on the subject of francophone music written by a guy named Philippe Papineau who is a radio presenter and writer in Canada. I started behaving like a kid in a candy store looking for new bands and albums. I paused briefly to read his post regarding the new album [...]

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