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November 2009

Translation of Coeur De Bombe by Diam’s

November 30, 2009

A couple of weeks ago I bought Diam’s latest album S.O.S., released on November 13th this year. I have only one other Diam’s album, the 2006 Dans ma bulle and essentially S.O.S. is pretty much more of the same, that’s to say, very solid hip hop with the occasional track that stands out. In fairness, [...]

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Translation of Ton Histoire by Isabelle Boulay

November 23, 2009

I recently heard a song by Isabelle Boulay on a French radio station. I was suprised how grabbed I was by her voice given that her music is not generally of the genre that immediately catches my attention. As I do in these circumstances, I went in search of the samples that accompany MP3 downloads [...]

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What makes a great live performance, Part I

November 10, 2009

Babylon Circus, Bristol UK, Halloween 2009 I took the picture to the left at a Babylon Circus gig this Halloween just gone. I’d seen them in London a few days previously and absolutely had to see them again before they left the UK to continue their tour in France where they were, incidentally, supported by [...]

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Translation of Déjà Loin by Marie-Mai

November 8, 2009

I can’t tell you how much this guy reminds me of myself about twenty years ago. He’s even using the same Gibson guitar I was grinding at the time and would’ve used to record almost exactly that video had YouTube been around in 1989. Thankfully it was not. The song he is attacking is the [...]

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What a petite terre

November 3, 2009

Two weeks ago I was searching for something fresh. I was really looking for some new French singing rock band. I didn’t find much – I came across one track by Bony Hide which, although pretty good and indeed like gold when compared with some of the horrors I’d been listening to that day, didn’t [...]

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Babylon Circus Opening the Prix Europa

November 1, 2009

I’ve just come across this YouTube video. It’s Babylon Circus opening the Prix Europa 2009 with Perdu from their album La Belle Étoile. I was glad to see this as they had opened with this song in London on the 26th October and it was an absolute stormer which set the tone for the whole [...]

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Babylon Circus in Bristol

November 1, 2009

I’m not really focused enough to write much but I wanted to write something while I was still deaf. It’s 5am here in London and I’ve just driven back from Bristol after seeing Babylon Circus on the final night of the UK leg of their European tour. They were brilliant again as they had been [...]

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