Xmas Blues v3

In which we continue to abuse the principle of noise-making as therapy.
Xmas Blues v3

Café Society - The Gones' Lights

Once a year Lyon becomes the City of Lights, for the length of a weekend, as the city becomes bathed in lights and the streets are flooded with the normally staid good burghers (as well as a few thousand Italian tourists.) The clip above was also a good excuse to mangle a Höfner Beatle Bass à la Stranglers.

Farewell to Stadium Rock - Titi Robin

We were privileged this week to see Titi Robin - the real gypsy king - in concert with his band at les Folies Bergères, better known for Musichall shows. Once again we were delighted, with not very pricey tickets, to be seated no more than 10 metres from the action. Titi plays guitar, luth, arab luth and almost anything with strings that can be picked. His band includes three classical musicians (two violins and one cello) and it's perhaps the first time that I see and hear classical instruments used to their potential by a popular composer.
Sadly, the iPhone showed again that's it's not a very good camera.

The Café Society - Part 19 - 'tis the Season

In a disin-genuous attempt to lift the neighbour-hood's prevailing doom and gloom (mind you, this may suit the customers of the four Goth shops around the corner) I have once again switched on my office Xmas lights, which reside year-round on a ficcus tree (that I have yet to manage to liquidate, despite one office move, one office fire, and many droughts.) Now, that was a long sentence...The LEDs consume a total of 5 Watts.