BB:75

Bon Anniversaire Brigitte Bardot: 75 today.

28 September 1934: God created Bardot



























Serge penned this tribute to BB at the height of their steamy affair:

SETLIST from 22 August 2009

It seems we've gone over our bandwidth allowance again this month - apologies for that -everything should resume as normal on 1st October (If it happens again, I'll looking into an alternative space for hosting the mp3 files).

Last month's setlist is below, including one mp3 selected by each DJ for your listening pleasure.

See you Saturday...

Dominic
Amadou & Mariam – Sabali
Jiji – La Fusée
Michel Polnareff – Voyages
Marie Laforêt (avec Gérard Klein) – Le Vin de L’été
Human League – Gordon’s Gin
Serge Gainsbourg – L’Hotel Particulier
Walter Carlos - Title music from A Clockwork Orange
Katsen – Let’s Build A City
Ladytron – Olivetti Jerk
Françoise Hardy – Et Même
Verity
Jacques Dutronc – Fais Pas Çi, Fais Pas Ça
Silver Apples – Oscillations
Depeche Mode – Shake The Disease
Human League – The Touchables
Eurythmics – Tous Le Garçons et Les Filles
Chris & Cosey - October Love Song
Kraftwerk – The Model
France Gall – Laisse Tomber les Filles
Françoise Hardy - Que Mal y a t’il à ça?
Serge Gainsbourg – Bonnie & Clyde
Sarah
Monster Bobby – Heaven Hides Nothing
Smartypants – Knee Sox Girl
Blue Minkies – Pick Your Records Up
Peepholes – Trouble in Heartbreak High
George Pringle – LCD I Love You But You’re Breaking My Heart
Katsen – Play For Today
Stereo Total – Tas De Tôle
Chantal Goya – Oh Raconte Moi
Brigitte Bardot – Ciel de Lit
Christie Laume – Agathe Ou Christie
Françoise – Hum! Hum!
Serge Gainsbourg – Sous le Soleil Exactement
Dominic
Karo – Un Garçon en Mini-Jupe
Virginie – Commando Spatial (Space Patrol)
Kraftwerk – Numbers
Stereo Total – Furore
Michèle et Ses Wouaps – Dam Dam
Stereolab - Freestyle Dumping
Telex – Ça Plane Pour Moi
Françoise Hardy – Pourtant Tu M’aimes
Clothilde – Le Chanson Bête et Méchant
Verity
C++ - Les Hasards
Michel Polnareff – Oiseau de Nuit
Divine Comedy – Europop
OMD – Messages
Magnetic Fields – I Can’t Touch You Anymore
Desireless – Voyage Voyage
Etienne Daho – Tombe Pour la France
Heavenly – Nous ne Sommes Pas des Anges
Stereolab – John Cage Bubblegum
The Clicks - Seconds
Sarah
Add N to (X) – Brothel Charge
T.Raumschmiere ft. Miss Kittin – The Game Is Not Over
Dandi Wind – Balloon Factory
The Associates – Helicopter Helicopter
Devo – Working in a Coal Mine
Soft Cell – Chips on My Shoulder
Ria Bartok – Ecoute Mon Couer
Chantal Goya – Si Tu Gagnes Au Flipper
France Gall – Pense a Moi
Sylvie Vartan – Ballade Pour Une Fugue
Dominic
Chantal Goya – Laisse Moi
Les Bel-Air – Ils Parlaient Dans Mon Dos
Normand Frechette et Les Hou-Lops – J’Etudie Mon Grec
Michel Polnareff – Dans La Maison Vide
Madeleine Pascal – Dieu N’est Pas Vieux
Jacques Brel – Les Filles et Les Chiens
Stereo Total – Johnny (for Les Paul RIP)
Jacques Dutronc – Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous
Bazooka – Dada Dodo (instrumental version)
Space – Magic Fly
Verity
The Knife – Heartbeats
Françoise Hardy – Comment Te Dire Adieu
Mareva Galanter – L’Hotesse de l’Air
Sandie Shaw – Pourvu que ça dure (Long live love)
C++ - Comme Dans Les Films
The Normal – Warm Leatherette
Mick Harvey – The Barrel of My 45
Jane Birkin – Raccrochez, C’est Une Horreur
Simon Bookish – Handsome Girls
Depeche Mode – The Meaning of Love
Serge Gainsbourg – Torrey Canyon
Sarah
France Gall – Ne Sois Pas Si Bête
Sophie Makhno et Colin Verdier – Obsessions 68
Françoise Hardy – Le Temps de L’Amour
Serge Gainsbourg – La Javanaise
Chantal Goya – Il Court Les Filles
Bunty – Achana
Stereo Total – Miss Rebellion des Hormones
M – Pop Muzik
Human League – Only After Dark
Roxy Music – In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Dominic
The Chap – Now Woel
Isabelle – Amstramgram
Chantal Goya – Tu M’as Trop Menti
Brezel Göring – Ich Bin So Süchtig
Emanuelle – Le Reel Facile
Divine – Native Love (Step By Step)
Verity
OMD – Electricity
Vanessa Paradis – Joe Le Taxi
Serge Gainsbourg – 69 Année Erotique
Jacques Dutronc – Les Cactus
Patrick Wolf – Vulture
Nick Kershaw – Dancing Girls
Sarah
Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rapping Hood (12” mix)
Toni Basil – Be Stiff
Bat For Lashes – Pearl’sDream
Clor – Love + Pain
Dauerfisch – So Gut
Dominic
John et Jehn – 20L07
Brigitte Bardot – Contact
Claude François – Eloise
Verity
Pet Shop Boys – Left To My Own Devices
Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
Sarah
Sparks – Get In The Swing
Pulp – This Is Hardcore

mp3 selections

Verity

C++ - Comme Dans Le Films

[buy C++: iTunes | Amazon.fr]

Sarah

Bunty - Achana

[buy Bunty direct from her myspace]

Dominic

Chantal Goya – Tu M’as Trop Menti

[buy Chantal Goya: Amazon.uk]

L'Amour Electronique - this Saturday

Salut! Sorry the number of posts has fallen a bit on the wayside of late. Things are a little hectic and fraught and there's too much going on to sit down and do the necessary.

There is, however, another L'Amour Electronique to keep things swinging.

This Saturday 26 September
9pm - 3am
at The West Hill pub, 67 Buckingham Place, Brighton, BN1 3PQ

6 hours of the finest and strangest of synthesized sounds, electronic music and French pop.

Sarah and I will be joined by our good friend Nick 'ills, who is amassing a fine collection of ye-ye seven-inches as we speak.

It is FREE ENTRY and drinks and snacks will be available to buy from the genial bar-staff.

There will also be Eiffel Towers and Tricolore decor, comme ca:


see you there
Domx

ps. August setlist should be up by the end of the week

a post about Les Beatles

There’s been a big hoo-har this week about the new Beatles box-set – They’ve cleaned up all the albums and taken out all the extraneous sounds and pops and clicks and bum notes (i.e. everything that gave the songs character and charm). The back catalogue is now sterilised and polished and made far too shiny and new for the digital generation. In about 10 years time they will probably add noise and vinyl hiss to all the master tapes so that they can re-package them again and sell them to everyone who already has them, claiming that they now have all the analogue warmth of the original reel-to-reel tapes just as they were first heard in Abbey Road studio 1.

[image from Sun boiled Onions by Vic Reeves]

Did you know that back in the times of Les Beatle-mania, Liz Brady entertained The Fab Four? She flirted with them and they played along, she taught them some cute chat-up lines en Français and they dutifully bleated them back: a quartet of mop-topped Mersey-beat parrots. Ringo thumped out a beat on the table and a Pastis-fuelled sing-along was recorded. The boys had picked up a few tips to woo all those sweet mademoiselles they would meet as they toured around the French provinces. And Liz had a baudy little call-and-response number for her next single. They bid her adieu and trooped off in their Beatle-boots. She never saw them again.

In the cold light of day, it would appear Mlle Brady was duped by a gang of faux-Scouse chancers. Those comical accents are more Marx Brothers than Mersey Beat, and the hooky John Lennon just had to get the last word in “Soww Lanng Leeeez!”

Liz Brady – Un Garçon Dit a Une Fille
[this was re-released on Girls In The Garage Volume 10 - Groovy Gallic Gals!]


Pssst! Don’t tell Paul, but Françoise Cactus loves Ringo, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It’s understandable, Françoise plays the drums. Ringo plays the drums too. Françoise thinks they could connect over rhythm methods. Just don’t tell Paul, he says Ringo’s not even the best drummer in The Beatles.

Stereo Total – Ringo, I Love You

Pssssssst! Definitely don’t tell Paul, Françoise loves Yoko too.

Stereo Total – I Love You, Ono
[buy Stereo Total: iTunes | Risi-Bisi Popshop]

Jupiter, King of the Planets

Look to the south-east, somewhere in the twilight sky, and you will see Jupiter, the brightest star in the night sky. Jupiter: king of the planets, a vast and violent world of swirling hydrogen and helium gases. Jupiter: home of Fred, "the marvellous Kosmonaut".

Gazing through my telescope late last night, I thought I saw a small object breaking free from Jupiter's torrid, stormy atmosphere...

It was 1981 when Fred first visited our planet Earth. A gang of kinder-popettes saw him land and welcomed him. He couldn’t understand their Deutscher Kauderwelsch, but he sensed their enthusiasm and felt like an outer-space rockundroll star as they chanted his name "Fred vom Jupiter, Fred vom Jupiter" and confessed to how he made them go all weak-at-the-knees.

Sadly he couldn’t stay for long, but when he got home it was as if his life was lonely void, he longed for the attention and the worship he received on Earth as he gazed around at the gaseous emptiness of his home planet.


Die Marinas, those schulmädchen who welcomed him all those years ago have never forgotten him either. They are all in their forties now, but they keep him always in their hearts. Maybe they too have been stargazing, with their teenage daughters, looking up expectantly at the king of the planets. Did they see a tiny speck of light jettisoned from the brightest star in the night sky? They begin a playground chant, and their daughters soon catch the tune and join in...

Die Dorau & Die Marinas – Fred Vom Jupiter
[buy Die Dorau & Die Marinas: iTunes | Amazon.uk]

SETLIST from 25 July 2009

It seems so long ago now, but here’s what we played last month (can you spot the space-themed songs?) – one abiding memory: a guy came up and requested Sarah play a Miss Pain song. Presumably he new…

The next L’Amour Electronique is this Saturday, so come and treat your ears to a late night cocktail of French Bubblegum Pop, Synthesized Sounds and Electronic Music: from Serge Gainsbourg to Stereo Total, The Human League to The Knife, via yé-yé girls, early-electronic pioneers and glacial synth-pop classics.
[see info in the right column, or the flyer at the end of this post]

Verity
John Foxx – Underpass
Françoise Hardy – Ce Petit Coeur
Stereolab – Wow & Flutter
Serge Gainsbourg – La Decadanse
The Knife – Pass This On
Depeche Mode – See You
Add N to (X) – Barry 7’s Contraption
Dominic
Jean et Janet – Je T’aime Normal
Liz Brady – Palladium
Zizi Jean-Maire – Mon Truc En Plumes
Nicole Paquin – Mon Mari C’est Frankenstein
Fabienne Delsoll – I’m Gonna Catch Me A Rat
Stereolab – Space Moth
Brezel Göring – Bad News From The Stars
Jacques Dutronc - Les Metamorphoses
OMD – Messages
Sarah
Farah – Dancing Girls
Ladyhawke – Paris S’Enflamme
Katsen – All Nighter
Data Panik – The Radical
Smarty Pants – Where Is Your Rhythm?
Trouble Vs Glue – No No More
Dan Deacon –The Crystal Cat
Husbands – Hidden Hands
Stereo Total –Miss Rebellion Des Hormones
France Gall – Dis à ton Capitaine
Verity
Ladytron – The Way That I Found You
St Etienne – Like A Motorway
C++ - Dérock‘n’rollisation
Brigitte Bardot – L’Appareil à Sous
Mareva Galanter – C’est Bon
Francis Lai - Samba Savarah (Un Homme et Une Femme OST)
OMD – Souvenir
TGV – Partie 1
Magnetic Fields – If You
Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder – Together In Electric Dreams
Neon Neon – I Told Her on Alderaan
Dominic
Michel Polnareff – La Mouche
Cats In Paris – Foxes
Michèle et Ses Wouaps – Wouap-Wouap
Annie Philippe – Pour La Gloire
Christine et Ses Copains – Mon Mini-Croulant
Virginie Rodin – Commando Spatial
Les Bel-Air – Ils Parlaient Dans Mon Dos
France Gall – Laisse Tomber Les Filles
Toss – Da Da Da (est-ce qu'on s'cherche ou est ce qu'on triche?)
Jacqueline Taïeb – 7 Heures Du Matin
Sarah
Ria Bartok – J'y Pense Tout Bas
Sylvie Vartan – De Bonheur
France Gall – Zoï Zoï
Michele Arnaud avec Serge Gainsbourg – Les Papillons Noirs
Momus – Amongst Women Only
The Chap – Fun and Interesting
The Associates – Love Hangover
Miss Pain – Shelf-Location ROM
Blue Minkies – Kevin
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
Verity
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
Serge Gainsbourg – Requiem Pour Un Con
Jocelyne – Nitty Gritty
Françoise Hardy – Et Même
Christophe – Les Marionettes
John Foxx – Europe After The Rain
Jacques Dutronc – Il Est Cinq Heures, Paris S’éveille
Pulp – Styloroc (Nights of Suburbia)
OMD – Red Frame/White Light
M – Pop Muzik
Dominic
Bazooka – Dada Dodo (instrumental version)
Isabelle – Amstramgram
Sebastien Tellier – Sexual Sportswear /
French language disque (time, numbers, colours)
Add N to (X) – Total All Out Water
April March – La Fille Sur Ta Moto
Ladytron – Olivetti Jerk
Claire Dixon – Fleurs, Vent
Françoise Hardy – Non Ce N’est Pas Un Rêve
Stereo Total – Je Rêve Encore De Toi
Michel Polnareff – Beatnik
Sarah
Serge Gainsbourg – Dr Jeckyll et Mr Hyde
Les Roche Martin – Les Mains Dans Les Poches
Barcelona – Mirror Man
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand
Depeche Mode – New Life
Devo – Whip It
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene pt.4
Verity
Stereolab – Ping Pong
Mareva Galanter – Les Cornichons
C++ - Comme Dans Les Films
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Simon Bookish – Terry Riley Disco
OMD – Enola Gay
Stereo Total – Villaines Filles, Mauvais Garçons
Dominic
Jacques Brel – Les Filles et Les Chiens
Michel Legrand – Digue Ding Ding
Jacques Dutronc – Sur Une Nappe De Restaurant
Emmanuelle – Le Reel Facile
Kap Bambino – Hey!
Claude François – Eloise
Sarah
Glass Candy – Candy Castle
The B-52s – Planet Claire
Serge et Charlotte Gainsbourg – Lemon Incest
Fat Truckers – Teenage Daughter
Stereo Total – Plastic
Dominic
Liz Brady – Bas Les Pattes
Eileen – Ces Bottes Sont Faites Pour Marcher
Die Dorau & Die Marinas – Fred Vom Jupiter
Sarah
Datarock – Computer Camp Love
Quintron & Miss Pussycat – Swamp Buggy Badass
Dominic
Trost – Sans Ta Scie
We Are Enfant Terrible – Snap Dragon
Stereo Total – Cosmonaute
Sarah
Orlane Paquin – Le Train de 10h03
Alice Dona – A Trop Repeter Bien

here are our mp3 picks of the night...
Sarah
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
[buy Fever Ray: iTunes | Amazon.uk]
Verity

Christophe - Les Marionettes
[buy Christophe: iTunes | Amazon.fr]
Domnic
We Are Enfant Terrible – Snap Dragon
[buy We Are Enfant Terrible direct from We Are Enfant Terrible]

Houston, we have a problem...

Our apologies, it seems we've been ultra-popular this month and have exceeded the bandwidth our webhosts allow us for mp3 storage.

This means if you click on any of the mp3 links you will get an ERROR BANDWIDTH EXCEEDED message, instead of some sweet musique.

Please bear with us, and hopefully everything will be back to normal in the next couple of days.

love and electronics
xxx