woensdag 14 november 2007

Biolay Live


Live-reviews are more than welcome - FS-friend Jan Hiddink wrote a great piece on the concert by Benjamin Biolay, in the Brussels Botanique.

So there he is. Benjamin Biolay. Benjamin is behind the grand piano, his band is aside to him. Drums, keyboards / electronics, guitar, bass, and a separate microphone waiting. Four men and a girl, surrounded by cardboard figures of American basketball players. We have no clue why these cardboard figures are there. And we don’t know who the musicians are, as we are supposed to. There can be no doubt about who we are here for. All of the stagelightning and setup is designed for one man only: Benjamin Biolay. His initials B.B.
B.B. might be the centre of the world, here in the Orangerie of the beautiful Botanique in Brussels, yet the first thing that comes to mind is that B.B. does not look too good –if not worrying bad. As with Gainsbourg, nicotine and alcohol come with the appearance of the singer.

READ MORE HERE

Benjamin Biolay - Tant de Belle Choses (live)

3 opmerkingen:

  1. Pretty cool review, Jan. I'm getting visions of slightly dirty and smokey bars way after midnight in The Marais, while reading it. And though reality was a bit different it made me wish I would have been there too.

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  2. (By the way: the mp3-link doesn't work Guuz...)

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  3. ahem, I think I forgot to upload it (*blushes*) will do tonite

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