Serge Gainsbourg's L'Homme à tête de chou is the underrated masterpiece in his catalogue, lesser known then 'Melody Nelson' but certainly not a lesser album. Just before he died, Alain Bashung worked on a ballet about the man with the cauliflower head. The videos for the ballet look interesting, the album was a bit of a letdown to be honest. Yet this is a great video for Bashung's version of Variations sur Marilou . What I didn't know, is that Serge-soundalike Rodolphe Burger recorded a live tribute of 'Tête de chou' in 2006. With help from Mick [...]
the one and only Jane Birkin will play at the A38 boat (Budapest) on January 22 she will play a Serge Gainsbourg tribute do not miss this!!
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Jane Birkin aveva ventidue anni ed era a Parigi, sul set del film "Slogan", chiamata a recitare dopo il successo dell'apparizione in "Blow Up" di Michelangelo Antonioni. Serge Gainsbourg la vide e se ne innamorò perdutamente (come avrebbe potuto fare altrimenti?). Poco meno di un anno dopo registravano la canzone che li avrebbe resi una delle coppie più famose del mondo e della Storia della Musica tutta. "Je t'aime... moi non plus" era una delle tante, geniali idee di Gainsbourg : un brano la cui linea melodica sensuale, ostinata e perversa era poco [...]
++Photo Gallery: Jane Birkin Tribute to Serge Gainsbourg @ The Luckman Fine Arts Complex++ Live on December 10, 2011 Photos by Chris Molina for The Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Jane Birkin finishes a short North American tour at Town Hall in NYC tonight (12/11) . The great NYC entertainer Joey Arias opens the show and tickets are still on sale . Jane will be performing the work of her late husband Serge Gainsbourg backed by a group of Japanese performers. As a recent review reads : A Japanese-originating quartet of piano, drums, trumpet and violin (originally assembled, she told us, to play post-tsunami benefit shows in Tokyo which has since coaxed out on tour) executed [...]
Jane Birkin has graced us over the years with talent ranging in both music and film. Her musical beauty has struck a chord with audiences throughout the last four decades from all over the world. Although Jane Birkin was born and bred in London, she would go on to audition for a French film in 1968. It was from that point Jane Birkin's musical French roots would be paved. For many years she had remained geared toward a French audience, until about six years ago in 2006, when she [...]
► KCRW's "Are Friends Eclectic?" holkiday benefit at the Orpheum Theatre features Jimmy Cliff, Iron & Wine, Brett Dennen, Other Lives, Mia Doi Todd, White Denim, the Belle Brigade, the Secret Sisters, Zee Avi and others. ► Jane Birkin makes her first Los Angeles appearance in seven years at Cal State L.A.'s Luckman Fine Arts Center. The Serge Gainsbourgh muse, who will be backed by a Japanese band, will present a program titled "Serge Gainsborugh & Jane Via Japan." ► With Noel Gallagher recently having stormed L.A. for two successful shows, brother Liam brings his band [...]
One time collaborator and muse of Serge Gainsbourg, musical icon Jane Birkin, will be performing live this weekend in Los Angeles! You can see the legendary Jane Birkin live at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this Saturday, Dec. 3. We're...
An Evening with Jane Birkin Presenting "Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Via Japan" Saturday, December 3, 8 pm (Dublab DJs outdoors at 7 pm) The Luckman Fine Arts Complex Tickets & Info [ ENTER TO WIN TICKETS ]
Earlier this year Tom Waits in person gave multi-instrumentalist David Coulter his permission to reinterpret his masterpiece Rain Dogs from 1985. Coulter, who worked with Waits on The Black Rider (1993) formed an outstanding band with singers such as Arthur H. , Camille O'Sullivan , Stef Kamil Carlens , The Tiger Lillies , Erika Stucky and special guest Jane Birkin . Quiet some reasons to go and see this extraordinary gig in Eindhoven yesterday. And after all, there's simply no reason to not go and see Jane B. whenever she's around. Unfortunately the [...]
The list of coverversions from Histoire de Melody Nelson-songs is long, and the interpretations vary. Jazzy, rockin', pastoral, in various languages - it's all here. If you know of more versions, please let me know. More on the superb reissue here , more on the use of samples from albumtracks here . On Youtube: Joseph Gordon-Levitt covers Melody here Charlotte Gainsbourg covers Hôtel Particulier here Dr Brazuk & Mt Crab cover La ballade de Melody Nelson here Jean-Louis Murat [...]
The Melody Nelson 40th Anniversary box-set *DROOLS* Yep, Finders Keepers have got me salivating again. This limited edition box-set will be available from 21st November for the princely sum of seventy-five pounds and forty-seven pence, and includes: The original album on CD A CD of alternative versions of the tracks The original vinyl album A vinyl album of bonus sessions from the time of recording An exclusive 30-minute DVD [...]
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Altsounds London's Summer Camp are clearly believers in the long game. Since emerging in the Fall of 2009 with their identities shrouded in mystery - they were originally thought to be a Swedish collective - they've gradually revealed more and more about themselves while keeping up a steady stream of '80s-worshipping, in both sound and theme, infectious electro-pop. Now, almost two years since first causing a fuss, the duo of Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey are ready to release their full-length debut which they've christened Welcome To Condale and set for [...]
Jane Birkin is a legendary figure in more than one way. Having first found fame as an actress in Antonioni's sixties masterpiece 'Blow Up', she married composer and arranger John Barry at a very young age. A few years later she was cast for a role in a French movie and met Serge Gainsbourg when she sang the film's theme which he had written. Here began a love affair that was outlasted by a long and fruitful musical relationship. Finding scandalous fame and notoriety with the erotic pop song 'Je Taime.. Moi Non Plus', Birkin also was featured on the [...]
Using Serge & Jane's Je t'aime... moi non plus as a backdrop for your own song - Scottish rockers Texas did it (for Guitar song, see here ) but until last week I wasn't aware Transvision Vamp did it too, and ten years earlier. Who or what a 'twangy wigout' exactly is, I dont know. I guess that's not the point of the song, that focusses on singer Wendy James adding as much air to her breathy vocals as possible. Which is nice. The song is on the third and last TV-album 'Little [...]
Keren Ann w/ Chris Garneau Saturday, June 25 | The Luckman Tickets & Info [ ENTER TO WIN TICKETS ] 2011 -12 Luckman Season Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet - July 16 Macadâmes - Sept 17 LJO: Tribute to Horace Silver - Sept 24 Esma Redžepova - Oct 1 World Arts Day - Oct 8 India.Arie + Idan Raichel - Oct 13 Émilie Simon + Iva Bittová - [...]
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