News featuring Serge Gainsbourg
The following news stories mention Serge Gainsbourg. Stories are compiled from a hand-picked selection of popular music news sites based in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Updated within the last hour.
’13 Feb 27 Wed
Wednesday 27th February
“New music: April March and Aquaserge - Des Tics Et Des Tocs”
American singer teams up with a rag tag band of psychedelic misfits to indulge her French flight of fancy
"French culture was something my mother presented to me as a greener pasture when I was a little girl," explains New Jersey native Elinor Blake, aka April March, of her obsession with all things French. "The message was that even our French frying pan held something more magical than what we had in the States." It's for this reason that March – who previously recorded the song Chick Habit on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse folly, Death Proof – and the various members of Aquaserge (including Tame Impala drummer Julien Barbagallo, Melody's Echo Chamber collaborator Benjamin Glibert and Julien Gasc, formerly of fellow Francophiles, Stereolab) have made an album of featherlight, psychedelic-tinged French pop.
Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk
’13 Jan 30 Wed
Wednesday 30th January
“Jane Birkin – review”
The Arches, Glasgow
This performance comes with a preface, the UK premiere of Un film de Jane Birkin. Souvenirs of Serge is a 40-minute montage of her 1970s family holidays with France's most notorious unironed libertine. From Venice to the Isle of Wight, Gainsbourg chainsmokes Gitanes, babysits and pulls rubbery faces for the camera. The gorgeous Super 8 footage is soundtracked by soft, slightly daffy narration from Birkin herself. So by the time the 66-year-old takes to the stage with her Japanese jazz quartet – originally recruited for a 2011 tsunami benefit gig – it feels like the resumption of an intimate conversation, albeit one sung entirely in French.
Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk
’13 Jan 28 Mon
Monday 28th January
“Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Grizzly Bear to Curate ATP I'll Be Your Mirror in London”
ATP has announced the curators and a handful of bands for their London "I'll Be Your Mirror" events. Yeah Yeah Yeahs will headline and curate on May 4, and Grizzly Bear on May 5. Both events will take place at Alexandra Palace.
35 bands will play across the two days, with the full line-ups to be announced over the coming months. For now, Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be joined by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Black Lips, Anika, the Field, Dirty Beaches, King Khan and the Shrines, and the Bad Seeds' Mick Harvey, whose set will pay tribute to Serge Gainsbourg.
Read the complete article at pitchfork.com
’13 Jan 26 Sat
Saturday 26th January
“This week's new live music”
Ian Skelly | Indians | Thurston Moore & Michael Chapman | ICP Orchestra | Walter Smith III | La Clemenza di Tito
Ian Skelly, Sheffield
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’13 Jan 25 Fri
Friday 25th January
“Rock star shrines: from the Bolan tree to the Burning Love Suite”
As Johnny Cash's hometown prepares its tribute, we look at where rock fans can head to get in touch with other dead heroes
Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
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’13 Jan 18 Fri
Friday 18th January
“Jane Birkin: My family values”
The singer and actor talks about her family
My mother was courage itself. She was always looking after my father, who was very ill. When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady – and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out. I took her with me on my tours and we had great fun.
Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk
’12 Dec 2 Sun
Sunday 2nd December
“Pete Doherty on heroin and life in Paris”
After enjoying four years as a cult hero in France, the former Libertine is still battling with addiction and unable – or unwilling – to escape his notorious past
In a Paris attic apartment decorated like a 19th-century dandy's den, a rottweiler snores on a velvet couch and dozens of candles give out a half-light. Pete Doherty kicks an apple core round the living room rug and chats in broken French to a friend on his cracked iPhone. Balzac novels are stacked high on the window ledge.
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“Winter arts calendar 2012-2013”
The Observer's critics pick the season's highlights, from the Misanthrope to Johnny Marr, Lulu to Lichtenstein, H7steria to Hitchcock. What are you most looking forward to? Add your comments below and download a pdf of the calendar here
December | January | February December
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’12 Nov 27 Tue
Tuesday 27th November
“Up Close: Lucien Gainsbourg’s Debut Album Is a Salute to His Father”
With his first album, Lucien Gainsbourg pays tribute to his father, Serge Gainsbourg.
Read the complete article at www.nytimes.com
’12 Oct 10 Wed
Wednesday 10th October
“Johnny Hallyday, king of the uncool | Jessica Reed”
No one can do tacky like the French Elvis, and that's why expats like me will be filling the Albert Hall for his comeback next week
Here's a list of things my home country, France, can't do particularly well. Hamburgers. Speaking any foreign language without an accent. Peanut butter. Motels. Customer service of any kind. Genuinely funny comedies (French humour tends to gravitate towards slapstick). Beer. Punk rock. And most importantly, there's one thing the French just don't do, but which the British excel at: being cool.
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