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La vie en rock - the best French music, how Irish acts are getting on in France, and other Parisian pop/rock reports from CLUAS.com's lad in Seine.
By aidan on Monday, May 28, 2007
Live French action from the Dublin singer, who has just released a CD of her October 2006 Paris concert.
By aidan on Sunday, May 27, 2007
Making a racket: The former French Open tennis champion who's now a smash hit in the charts.
By aidan on Friday, May 25, 2007

Wave of mutilation: A concert at Tripod in Dublin tomorrow night by the Parisians and their jazz-lounge covers of classic English-language punk and indie tunes.

By aidan on Sunday, May 20, 2007
Cannes you dig it: Watch the band play 'Vertigo' and 'Where The Streets Have No Name' outside the premiere of 'U2-3D'.
By aidan on Thursday, May 17, 2007
Lights, camera, achtung (baby): This year's Cannes film festival features a new concert film of U2 - in 3-D. Watch the trailer here.
By aidan on Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Au revoir: Watch the recently-split Irish band in one of their last ever concerts - live at the Maroquinerie in Paris on 19 April.
By aidan on Tuesday, May 15, 2007

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomber: As Jacques Chirac steps (arthritically) aside, we recall a memorable moment in Franco-Irish diplomatic relations.

By aidan on Monday, May 14, 2007
Basket case: for all you rap- and basketball-loving CLUAS readers, here's French-born NBA star Tony Parker, number one in the French charts with a little help from his celebrity girlfriend.
By aidan on Sunday, May 13, 2007
From Paris with love: In the first of our regular feature on essential new French acts, some cinema-referencing widescreen guitar pop.
By aidan on Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Man Who Would Be King: a triumphant and enthralling music-hall show in the French capital from Belfast's eminent Victorian and (can there be any doubt by now?) Ireland's best pop songwriter.

By aidan on Tuesday, May 08, 2007
French Festival no. 2: a summer weekend in rural Brittany with a fine line-up (Arcade Fire, Peter Gabriel, LCD Soundsystem, Sinead O’Connor, Herman Dune and more), cheap tickets, free camping and excellent transport. And you wonder why we live here…
By aidan on Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Sexist boy(s): France's space-age electronic duo and their prehistoric political opinions. Even Playboy magazine were surprised.

By aidan on Monday, April 30, 2007
Electorate Picnic: A huge free one-day music festival in Paris in support of socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal. Could something similar happen for Ireland's general election?
By aidan on Tuesday, April 24, 2007
A bit premature: Paris’s current Irish-band-in-residence are victims of a graveyard timeslot.
By aidan on Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Give rainy Irish "summer" festivals a miss and set off for a rock n'roll adventure in France this summer, with the first of our features on this season's music festivals in France. First up, Muse, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and many more huge names on the highly impressive bill of this south-west of France festival...
By aidan on Saturday, April 21, 2007
On the double: after playing to a difficult crowd there recently, the Choice Prize nominees made a more successful return to La Maroquinerie on 19 April. Watch them perform 'A Ghost In This House' live at this gig!
By aidan on Friday, April 13, 2007

Great tunes, big name interviews, comedy French accent - 'Rapido' was essential TV for music fans in the late '80s and early '90s. Watch presenter Antoine de Caunes and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, both almost unintelligible but from opposite ends of the speedometer...

By aidan on Friday, April 13, 2007

Chasing cars: take a test drive through beautiful old 1970's Paris at dawn, courtesy of the latest video from an Irish band you wouldn't normally associate with speed or glamour.

By aidan on Monday, April 09, 2007

Train In Vain: the true story of how the hippest rock star of his day disappeared – and ran in the Paris marathon.

By aidan on Monday, April 09, 2007
...because for many people this is the only French pop song they know - and it's actually really good! Listen (and watch the young Vanessa Paradis, more wholesome than you'll remember) for yourself.
By aidan on Sunday, April 08, 2007
A single Irish concert this weekend from one of France's many electro-pop duos. Check out the video for their cracking 2006 single 'Toop Toop'
By aidan on Wednesday, April 04, 2007
You thought my punning title was excruciating and unconvincing? You should have been to The Shins concert in Paris last Sunday - the least seediest and most boring time a guy can have in Pigalle.
By aidan on Tuesday, April 03, 2007

This Magic Stuff: Not even sound gremlins can spoil the dreamy new material from Ireland's indie pop queen.

By aidan on Saturday, March 31, 2007
Far from the Moulin Rouge and the Pigalle bars, La Flèche d'Or is the best place to see the young bands of Paris.
By aidan on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Tour de force: the Belfast lad with the great tunes and distinctive hair charms French viewers with one of his many wonderful songs.
  

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