How was your weekend? Your Paris correspondent, still living under transport-strike conditions, covered a lot of ground on foot this weekend - mainly to reach the rare metro lines that were less affected than our own.

Nonetheless, we managed to catch Nina Hynes (left) in concert at the Flèche d'Or again (she played a gig there last April too). The Barbarella of Irish pop put on a fine show; her recent long-player 'Really Really Do' is a delicious pick n'mix of electro, glam and indie - one of the best Irish albums of 2007.

If you managed to see Nina on her recent Irish tour, you were lucky - she almost didn't make it. Her tour van broke down in Germany en route to Eire, and she had to hire an estate car (in American, a station wagon) to continue her trip. Hynes currently lives in Berlin, where there's a Paris-esque transport strike these days too. And there are no buses in the northside of Dublin either! Hmmm: she seems to be spreading bad transport vibes... next on her tour diary is Italy in December - let's hope those lovely intercity Italian trains survive the experience.

Nina's Paris concert reminded us that she lived her for a while, and her stay here obviously inspired her to write material. Her single 'Monoprix' is named after a well-known French supermarket. Your blogger does his hunting/gathering there, but it doesn't seem so astral or dreamy to us. Perhaps Nina's local Monoprix was cooler than ours...

Anyway, check out Nina Hynes' current material (with her band The Husbands) on her MySpace page. Here's the video for 'Monoprix', not filmed in a French supermarket, we're sorry to say: