Hastings Mon Amour

This is what I've been coaxed out of DJ retirement for...

FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER - 7-11pm / £5 entry
HASTINGS MON AMOUR // FILM SCREENING: Jules et Jim
+ L'Amour Electronique DJ set
The Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Road, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 1DT

I'm excited to have been asked to play some French records at the inaugural Hastings Mon Amour night. Top billing will be a screening of Truffaut’s sublime ménage à trois Jules et Jim, with my questionable DJ skills before and after.

There is a Facebook event page

Bonjour Tristesse

Sam requested something darker and more melancholy, which goes completely against my current mood, but I do always try to oblige reader's requests (within reason!).

This is a dark and epic François de Roubaix instrumental from the 1968 Robert Enrico film Tante Zita. A film with death as its central theme - ah French films, never afraid to tackle the BIG themes!

I used to play this quite a lot at our sister night Tonight We Fly. It is so terribly melancholy, but in a beautifully fragile and uplifting way.

François de Roubaix - Tante Zita: Loin (version instrumentale)
[you can buy this re-issued on the monumental Disques Motors 3-disc boxset]


I have to say, based on all I've read about the film, I wasn't expecting the trailer to be quite so upbeat...

François Truffaut 80

And finally... Today would have been François Truffaut's 80th birthday.

There's a nice tribute on the Guardian site in salute to the great Nouvelle Vague film-maker.

The one and only fitting song I could think of to post was this curio discovered via the blowupdoll mixtape exchange last year...  

"Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel..."

Elisa Point - Paris Ressemblait À Un Film De F. Truffaut

[buy Elisa Point from fnac | amazon.fr]
[Elisa Point informations: myspace | facebook | wikipedia]