All day on Saturday and Sunday I had this song going round and round inside my head - an Easter earworm , if you will. Good job it brings a great big Chesire Cat smile to my face whenever I hear it! I just looked up the lyrics , which seem to be depict a clutch of absurdist anthropomorphic situations: a shrimp finds itself in trouble served up on a plate and just to make his day even worse he has toothache; [...]
(On account of a forthcoming release of her full recorded output, designed by me and due sometime in 2012 on Paris based Born Bad records, here's a reissue of an exclusive interview with cult Swingin' Mademoiselle chanteuse : Clothilde... !) (Clothilde on the banks of the river Seine, Paris ca. '67/68; photo courtesy Élisabeth Beauvais.) Born Élisabeth Beauvais (nicknamed "Babette" by her friends...) on February 22/ 1948, Clothilde had a short but noteworthy career sprawling barely over the year 1967 with only two classic EPs and [...]
The Swingin' Mademoiselles facebook crew have just posted a rare interview with the ultra-mysterious Clothilde - it's a very insightful read, and great to get an insider's view of the French 60s yé-yé scene, particularly as, for once, it's not through rose-tinted John Lennon specs. You can read the Clothilde interview at the Swingin' Mademoiselles facebook page .
Do a quick retail scan and you'll notice there are a number of compilations on the market claiming to round up forgotten French sixties pop nuggets (specifically girl groups). Some of these are fairly good, some decent and some abhorrent. So it goes. As I noted several weeks ago, many of my favorite genre compilations [...]
La toute première «Minute yéyé» publiée sur Infrasons avait décerné à Dani le titre de « championne du monde des yéyés » à égalité avec Clothilde. Beaucoup parmi vous ont dû se demander qui était cette concurrente car, il faut bien le dire, c'est une fille un peu oubliée. Avant de vous conter l'histoire de cette Clothilde, je me permets de remarquer que, dans les années 1960, une loi interdisait certainement aux chanteuses françaises d'avoir l'usage d'un nom de famille (il suffit de regarder les chanteuses yéyé publiée sur ce [...]
San Francisco used to have an on-going club night called Bardot A Go Go that ripped and turned me onto a heap French pop from the 60's. I love the way the French mixed these recordings, leaning heavier on the bass and percussion, unlike the guitar-centric records coming out of the U.S. and U.K. at the time. From an awesome series of LP comps of French Ye Ye girls I came across 19 year old Clothilde, who recorded only a handful of songs (nine maybe?) for two E.P.s, but all of which were solid and eventually collected for [...]
Electro pop. Koko Von Napoo are an attractive Parisian indie band. Chateau Marmont (presumably named after the famous Hollywood hotel) turn their vintage equipment on to remix the track Polly. Creating an insatiable electro-pop delight. Drum machines and bouncy synth hooks burrow their way in to your head while the irresistible French accent makes you go all fuzzy (we discussed this at length the other day, male or female the French accent is considered enchanting by 7 out of 10 Britishes) Anyway, check out Chateau Marmont for some more dreamy space [...]
I've been getting really into old baroque pop and ye-ye stuff lately and yesterday I stumbled upon the amazingly great Clothilde . Information on her turned out to be harder to find than a needle in a hay stack. The only thing I managed to find, over and over again was this small blurb: "Clothilde used to say that she was more into painting than music. A protege of renowned producer Germinal Tenas (an alias for Christian Fechner). Germinal worked with punk Antoine et les Problemes, Christine Delroche and he later formed his own band, Chorus [...]
Clothilde "La chanson bete et mechante"
Clothilde "Je t'ai voulu et je t'ai bien eu"
L'Amour Electronique
Bedazzled!
An Aquarium Drunkard
Infrasons
Unpiano
Keytars & Violins
S K A T T E R B R A I N
Lessons From Things
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