L'Amour Electronique

[Verity @ L'Amour Electronique photographed by Sarah Booker]

Têtes up! Our next soirée is this weekend
Saturday 26 March
9pm - 3am
at The West Hill, 67 Buckingham Place, Brighton, BN1 3PQ

We will be spinning synthesized music, electro pop, French girls in the garage, French boys on acid, soft and hard electronica, arpeggiated disko, yé-yé, sounds from the Radiophonic Workshop, and so much more...

Entry is FREE/GRATIS/£0

Come join le FUN!
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Last month we were pick of the week in the Guardian Guide, don't you know

setlist from 22 January 2011

Here's the setlist from L'Amour Electronique, 22nd January 2011
Dominic

Japan – Quiet Life

Stereo Total – Relax Baby Be Cool

H.& G. Rapid Learning Systems: FRENCH – General Expressions: Salutations /

Add N To (X) – On The Wires of Our Nerves

Marie Laforêt (avec Gérard Klein) - Le Vin De L’été

Serge Gainsbourg – Ballade De Melody Nelson

Les Bel-Air – Ils Parlaient Dans Mon Dos

Nicoletta – Ça Devait Arriver

Jacqueline Taïeb – Bienvenue Au Pays

Broadcast – Message From Home

Galatasaray Lisesi – Zazie

Sarah

Les Roche Martin – C'est Toi Qui A Gache Notre Vie

Philippe Clay – Dis Ma Femme

Sylvie Vartan – Ballade Pour Une Fugue

Franc Gall – Les Sucettes

Brigitte Bardot – Le Madrague

Grace Jones – La Vie En Rose

Stereo Total – Miss Rébellion Des Hormones

Electronicat – Frisco Bay

Sebastien Tellier – Sexual Sportswear

Verity

Yazoo – Nobody’s Diary

Jacques Dutronc – Ma Poule N’a Plus Que 29 Poulets

Michel Polnareff – Time Will Tell

Nino Ferrer – Les Hommes à Tout Faire

Stereolab – French Disko

Add N To (X) – Revenge of The Black Regent

Les Lolitas – Les Cactus

Françoise Hardy – Pourtant Tu M’aimes

Dominic

Les Princesses – Oh! Dis Moi

Joe Gracy et Michel Paje – Les Danseuses à Go-Go

Les Problèmes – Dodecaphonie

Ronnie Bird – Elle M’attend

Anna Karina – Rollergirl

Dave Rogers – Theme from Cybernoid (ZX Spectrum 128k)

Herman’s Rocket – Space Woman

Leonie – Lilith

Air – Ghost Song

Coralie Clément – Vis à Vis

Deux – Game + Performance

Sarah

Black Box Recorder – Andrew Ridgley

The Doll – Cinderella With a Husky Voice

Sparks – Get In The Swing

Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene (pt.4)

Future Bible Heroes – I’m A Vampire

The Associates – Those First Impressions (extended version)

Japan – Life In Tokyo

Verity

Andy Clark/KPM Music – Progress (Synthesis 2 LP)

Lio – Banana Split

Hot Butter – Popcorn

The Human League – The Things That Dreams Are Made Of

Cerrone – Supernature

Serge Gainsbourg – Ford Mustang

France Gall – N’Ecoutez Pas Les Idoles

Divine Comedy – Europop

M – Pop Muzik

Stereo Total – Supergirl

Dominic

Jany L. – Le Restaurant Chinois

Trost – Sans Ta Scie

Phil Lynott & Midge Ure – Yellow Pearl

Add N To (X) – Hit For Cheese

Sparks – Beat The Clock

Virginie Rodin – Commando Spatial

Jerry Goldsmith - Love shop (Logan’s Run OST) /

Les Envahisseurs - 3é Génération

Brigitte Bardot – Harley Davidson

Corynne Charby – Pas Vu Pas Pris

Sarah

Devo – S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)

Giorgio Moroder – From Here To Eternity

Soft Cell – Chips On My Shoulder

Jacques Dutronc – Les Cactus

Les Georges Leningrad – Supa Doopa

Air – Radio No.1

Eurythmics – Love Is A Stranger

Quintron & Miss Pussycat – French-Quarter Faggot/God Of Thunder

Verity

France Gall – Cet Air La

Etienne Daho – Rendez-Vous à Vedra

Men Without Hats – Safety Dance

Françoise Hardy – Je Veux Qu’il Revienne

Jacques Dutronc – On Nous Cache Tout, On Nous Dit Rien

Nino Ferrer – Le Téléfon

Depeche Mode – Everything Counts

Ladytron – Black Plastic

Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Dominic

Françoise Cactus – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory

Pierre Henry et Michel Legrand – Psyché Rock

Danyel Gérard – Sexologie

Katty Line – Un Petit Peu D’Amour

Jenny Rock – Mal

Brezel Göring (feat. Christiane. F) – Ich Bin So Süchtig

Ronnie Bird – Chante

Sarah

OMD – Enola Gay

Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie & Clyde

Sue Wilkinson – You’ve Got To Be A Hustler

Dandi Wind – Balloon Factory

Luke Haines – Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop

Bis – Action + Drama

The Human League – Rock ‘n’ Roll

Verity

Brigitte Bardot – Ça Pourrait Changer

Stereolab – Miss Modular

Sandie Shaw – Pourvu Que Ça Dure

Future Bible Heroes – Don’t You Want Me?

Jacques Dutronc – Le Responsable

Serge Gainsbourg – Shu Ba Du Ba Lu Ba

Dominique Walter – Les Petits Boudins

Dominic

Tienou – Tu N'Peux Pas T'Empecher De Rire

Fabienne Delsol – Ce Jour La

Jocy – Les Dix Premieres

Sarah

Ria Bartok – J’y Pense Tout Bas

Marc Almond – The House is Haunted

Orlane Paquin – Le Train de 10h03

Verity

Baby Birkin – Mélo Mélo

OMD – Electricity

Depeche Mode – New Life

Dominic

Broadcast – The Book Lovers

Liberty, Fraternity, Anarchy: Le Punk Français

Broadcast at the very un-punk time of 11.30am tomorrow morning (Thu 3 Mar), on the even less-punk Radio 4, Liberty, Fraternity, Anarchy: Le Punk Français is a 30 minute documentary uncovering the French contribution to the punk movement.

Synopsis from the Radio 4 website:

The recorded histories of punk concentrate on two places - the USA and England - and while it's true that much of the scene's most important activity took place there, one other key territory has been largely written out of the story - France. Andrew Hussey argues that without the French, punk would simply have been pub rock with shorter hair.

Many of the ideas, he shows, and much of the look of punk came from the French: Malcolm McLaren and Tony Wilson were hugely influenced by the Situationist movement in particular, and deliberately and explicitly trawled it for images and lyrics that were to become iconic punk expressions (the Sex Pistols record covers, lyrics such as 'Cheap holidays in other people's misery'...); the first festival of punk music took place at Mont de Marsan in 1976; the first Rough Trade release was from the Parisian band 'Metal Urbain'; the punk 'look' first embodied by Richard Hell was drawn straight from fin de siecle French poets, and the graffiti strewn clothing of The Clash comes straight from the 50s group les Lettrists.

As Hussey will show, not only did the French influence the international scene, it also contributed bands such as Stinky Toys, Marie et les Garcons and Starshooter, bands that often explored the potential of electronic music within the punk sound (an avenue unexplored by their US and UK equivalents) - anticipating the popularity of electronics over the course of the following years.

Hussey speaks with some of the key players in the French scene in the streets le punk francais took place to bring this forgotten moment in Gallic culture vividly to life.

There is also a preview of the programme on The Guardian website.

Liberty, Fraternity, Anarchy: Le Punk Français airs at 11.30am, Thursday 3rd March on BBC Radio 4
It will be available to listen again for one week after this on the iPlayer.

Gainsbourg remembered

20 years ago today Monsieur Gainsbourg stubbed his very last Gitane...



Serge we salute you.

Je travaille

Sorry for the lack of posts of late, I thought I was on a bit of a roll since the start of the year, but the last couple of weeks I've been too busy with an exhibition which starts this week.

My contribution is an archival artwork of approximately 1,966 individual post-it note "artworks" created whilst in boring desk-jobs over a 6-year period.  This is what it looks like.

More info about the exhibition: http://workworkexhibition.tumblr.com/