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Video: Beirut busking in Paris

Sep 26

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007  RssIcon

Zach Condon of BeirutHere's another gem from the Take Away Shows/Concerts A Emporter, the Paris outdoor-session series by Vincent Moon on French music blog La Blogotheque which we featured recently.

Named after a city not exactly conducive to street performance, it's Beirut performing (almost appropriately - right country, wrong town) 'Nantes', from their new album 'The Flying Club Cup'.

Our trendier Paris readers will recognise the mural wall as the gable end of Café Charbon on rue Oberkampf, one of the city's hippest bohemian café-bars.

You can also watch Beirut playing 'The Penalty' (also from the new album)in a bar further down the rue Oberkampf (we recognised the Hotel Luna Park), and read about the background to this session.

Make sure you check out the full archive of performances in the Take Away Show series, each accompanied by a short article in English or French. And if your French is good enough, La Blogotheque is quite good too.

Anyway, as we were saying, voici 'Nantes' by Beirut live on a street in Paris:

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4 comment(s) so far...


Re: Video: Beirut busking in Paris

Hah, this is right beside my apartment! How annoying. When was it filmed, do you know?

By redking on   Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Re: Video: Beirut busking in Paris

Filmed start of September, I gather (but I could be wrong) - it went live on the website on the 11th. Are you a bobo? :D

By aidan on   Thursday, September 27, 2007

Re: Video: Beirut busking in Paris

Hah, I haven't the time to affect enough effortlessness unfortunately

By redking on   Thursday, September 27, 2007

Re: Video: Beirut busking in Paris

That performance archive is an awesome find Aidan, well done :)

By Binokular on   Saturday, September 29, 2007

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