Sound Bites (Free subscription) | yesterday
That's all she wrote. Labor Day weekend is upon us and another summer has sped by at an alarming rate. Where did it go? To close out this little series is... a double album! The idea, in my mind at...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | yesterday
A blonde asked a brunette in a fallafel shop of la Rue des Rosiers in Paris: "Do you want to make music with me?" The brunette smiled and said "yes!" With a small guitare with butterflies on it, a glockenspiel, a melodica, a mac, two voices, four hands, two heads and one room, they did just that. The name, you ask? Because of Brigitte Bardot, Brigitte Lahaye, Brigitte Fontaine, and Brigitte the old...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pierre Fa made this poster to promote the two Filles Fragiles concerts in November. It's also a first look at the cover for the new Filles Fragiles cd, that will be released in October. More on that later. (Click to enlarge)
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just weeks after opening its year-long residency at Wyndham's Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse will take residence at another West End theatre. The 30th anniversary revival of Pam Gems' 1978 bio-play Piaf, starring Argentine actress Elena Roge...
Arjan Writes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eccentric French chantreuse Emilie Simon is coming to America and has a little gift for ArjanWrites readers. Check out her heart-stopping cover of Bowie's 1969 classic "Space Oddity" that you can... (This is a summary of the article only. Visit arjanwrites.com for the full story! )
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | yesterday
in post Review/Open Your Box 22: Carla Bruni & Other French Chanteuses from Different Is Dangerous .
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So anyway, (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Piaf by Pam Gems is a play about the famous rice dish. Oh wait, that's Pilaf 1 . Non, c'est actually un play about Edith Piaf, of "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" fame, and appropriately enough this song comes at the very end, after we've seen all the things she might have had cause to regret. In Jamie Lloyd's very fast-paced production at the Donmar Warehouse, Elena Roger in the title role is more or less...
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Salma Hayek’s very recent ex, billionaire François-Henri Pinault, 46, was seen making out with a new girlfriend on his yacht in Tuscany. Pinault and a topless Virginie Couperie, described as an “equestrian,” were photographed kissing and playfully laying about on the beach and on his boat. They looked very much in love. Pinault is the [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
in post Brigitte Fontaine from Filles Sourires .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
in post Brigitte Fontaine from Filles Sourires .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
in post Brigitte Fontaine from Filles Sourires .
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Guestpost! Natasha on Brigitte Fontaine : The iconic Brigitte Fontaine – singer, songwriter, author, actress, playwright, novelist and poet, now 69 – has been a “sublime pain-in-the-ass” (the French name of her latest show) of the French, world, jazz, pop, electro, underground and God knows what else scene for some 30 odd years and is still going strong. Still going strong in Brigitte’s case doesn’t...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Saving the best for last “I’M SO glad that I’m not young any more,” sang 70-year-old Maurice Chevalier in the film “Gigi”. Quite right, says Maggie Scarf, an American journalist who has written a succession of books on family and marriage. In this one, she turns her attention to couples in their 50s and 60s, and finds older marriage is full of unexpected pleasures. Is it just a sense of the shortening...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
When scanning older posts, I saw a comment that recommended Arolde (sorry, can't seem to find it now, but whoever made that recommendation, merci!). This Belgian chanteuse is, sort of, the older of sister of Yelle. Joyous, electronic, childlike. Her real name is Zoé Jadoul, she used to be in a band called Les Brochettes, and she took her name from the movie Harold & Maud (Harold, Arolde, geddit')....
