| | By aidan onThursday, May 31, 2007 | | | Back in the USSR: Arrogant, glamorous, catchy - that's how we like our music and our pop stars. Here's Pravda, a Paris/Bordeaux punk duo who are all of the above. Watch the video for their single 'Body Addict'. |  | | Comments (2) | More... |
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| | By aidan onThursday, May 31, 2007 | | | From Paris in 1971 (but really from another planet), here's France's greatest ever pop star with a song from his best album. Listen for that unforgettable bass intro. | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onMonday, May 28, 2007 | | | Live French action from the Dublin singer, who has just released a CD of her October 2006 Paris concert. | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onSunday, May 27, 2007 | | | Making a racket: The former French Open tennis champion who's now a smash hit in the charts. | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onFriday, 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. | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onSunday, 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'. | | | Comments (2) | More... |
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| | By aidan onThursday, 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. | | | Comments (2) | More... |
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| | By aidan onWednesday, 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. | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onTuesday, 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. | | | Comments (1) | More... |
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| | By aidan onMonday, 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.
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| | By aidan onSunday, 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. | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onThursday, 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.
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| | By aidan onTuesday, 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… | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onTuesday, May 01, 2007 | | | Sexist boy(s): France's space-age electronic duo and their prehistoric political opinions. Even Playboy magazine were surprised.
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| | By aidan onMonday, 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? | | | Comments (1) | More... |
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| | By aidan onTuesday, April 24, 2007 | | | A bit premature: Paris’s current Irish-band-in-residence are victims of a graveyard timeslot.
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| | By aidan onTuesday, 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...
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| | By aidan onSaturday, 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! | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onFriday, 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... | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onFriday, 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. | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onMonday, 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. | | | Comments (1) | More... |
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| | By aidan onMonday, 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. | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onSunday, 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' | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | By aidan onWednesday, 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. | | | Comments (7) | More... |
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| | By aidan onTuesday, April 03, 2007 | | | This Magic Stuff: Not even sound gremlins can spoil the dreamy new material from Ireland's indie pop queen. | | | Comments (1) | More... |
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