| SYRFox |
08.08.2009 03:20 PM |
okay, just a quick report I'm doing for y'all, though you probably don't care :D
Festival Les Nuits Secrètes: Le Vendredi 7 Août 2009
--> I almost missed Mahjongg, but using various trick (eheh) I was able to enter Le Jardin right at the beginning of their set, and they rocked my socks. They played almost only new songs - Rise Rice was the only "old" (though it's from an album released in 2008...) song I did recknognize. Anyway I really enjoyed their new songs, involving crazy rhythms as always, but also a lot of vocoder vocals. Really interesting. There's this instrumental, tribal pounding epic song which is awesome. As I said elsewhere their sound engineer or something - which I had already seen at the Icy Demons gig two months ago - sold handmade CD-R with those new songs after the show, so I bought one. Each one has a unique cover, which is great - mine is blue with silver paint on it. It looks great.
--> I had never listened to Mocky before this show, but it was really great. He played with his "orchestra", which consists of four other musicians (on upright piano, viola, flute, percussions, contrabass). Jazzy tunes, very beautiful and poetic, and they were obviously having a lot of fun on stage, they were always laughing and stuff. Great and fun show. He sold CDs at the end of the show too, so I had a bit of chat with him and he's a nice fellow as well. Neat!
--> Puppetmastaz were awesome. As you can guess by the name if you don't know them, it's hip hop with puppets. Their CDs aren't that great because you miss half of the thing, but their live show was awesome; it's super funny to see those puppets rappin' on stage. There was a little story (the revolution of the puppets), it was hilarious. STOP THE HUMAN FARCE. The music itself was good.
--> and finally, Mr Oizo's DJ set was mindblowing as expected - if you happen to like dancefloor techno. 1h30 of pounding set, I danced the whole time. He opened with his tune that says Tue, tue, tue, tout le monde (Kill, kill, kill, everybody) and then it went one with distorded techno / house / electro / etc etc etc. Among the things I've recknognized: Mr Oizo of course (Flat Beat, Positif ...), The Prodigy (Invaders Must Die), Les Petits Pilous (Wake Up), The White Stripes (Blue Orchid), The Kills (Cheap and Cheerful), LFO (Freak), SebastiAn (Dog), Daft Punk (Harder Better Faster Stronger), Death From Above 1979, etc. A nice way to end the night - and to leave my neck broken today :/
Les Nuits Secrètes really is a neat festival. I saw !!!, Radio 4 and The Bellrays in 2006 and HEALTH, No Age, Caribou, Nervous Cabaret and Birdy Nam Nam last year there. It's a little festival in a countryside city so it's not that big of an event, but they always get great bands. And it's 1 hour from where I live, so that's okay to go.
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