Jane Birkin @ Théatre du Chatelet, Paris Dec 09 2013
We had a very busy day but we could secure some time off to see Jane Birkin playing a one-off concert @ the beautiful Théatre du Chatelet.
Not sold-out so we have a great seat on the left, French actress Isabelle Huppert is not too far from us.
Not sold-out so we have a great seat on the left, French actress Isabelle Huppert is not too far from us.
The show started very slowly with Jane, all dressed in black, singing a few songs with just a piano player, then the musicians came in for a 90 min set of mainly re-orchestrated Serge Gainsbourg songs. As she's playing the "Arabesques" show we have the Arabic musical arrangements to go with.
She left the stage one moment, the band played an instrumental, to come back with this beautiful red dress.
Music was good but between songs there were too much talking: she explained us how the "Arabesques" shows came out (ok) but she took several minutes to introduce the musicians which is a good thing but who cares about knowing who is the manager, the lightman, the soundman and so on...also had a bit of a chat about Amnesty International for a petition... would have prefer less talking and two more songs...Anyway ...
We had songs from "Melody Nelson" and songs Serge Gainsbourg wrote for her or some other singers. the set ended with "la Javanaise".
Overall good show. Could have been better.
She left the stage one moment, the band played an instrumental, to come back with this beautiful red dress.
Music was good but between songs there were too much talking: she explained us how the "Arabesques" shows came out (ok) but she took several minutes to introduce the musicians which is a good thing but who cares about knowing who is the manager, the lightman, the soundman and so on...also had a bit of a chat about Amnesty International for a petition... would have prefer less talking and two more songs...Anyway ...
We had songs from "Melody Nelson" and songs Serge Gainsbourg wrote for her or some other singers. the set ended with "la Javanaise".
Overall good show. Could have been better.
