#celinegoingtoconcertsinparis

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Last concert of the year: Adé at La Cigale.

Hubby had a business dinner so I bought the ticket last minute. It would have been maybe wise to listen to her last album as it was quite different to her first album after her former band broke up*. However it was great nevertheless.

* i went to see her former band’s mate Zaoui… it was also my last concert of the year in 2024!!!

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Last concert of the year… and best concert.

The beauty of actually knowing and enjoying the act.

I don’t follow and actually know a lot about French music scene. Part of it is because when I left France, almost 3 decades ago the first time, it was harder to keep being informed about French culture (music, movie, literature…) as it’s harder to find abroad and I also wasn’t surrounded by a lot of French people. But little by little I find little gems here and there.

I actually found out about Therapy Taxi (Zaoui first band) because of a Dua Lipa song (she took some sample from one of their song) but unfortunately the band broke off just before I came back from Singapore and I couldn’t go to their good-bye concert. The two singers now have a solo career and I enjoy both of them. Tonight was Zaoui and Ade is playing in April.

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Sometimes you decide to go to a concert not because of the band but because you want to see the venue since you’ve heard about it so much when you were young and not living in the Capital.

This was definitely the case for this concert.

I don’t think I understood one word of the lyrics (but at least he knew his own lyrics even if mumbled them unlike our last concert where the performer had monitors at every corner of the stage to help!). I also wouldn’t be able to recognize any members of the band (well the lead singer is the only original member anyway) because of the lighting, they were all silhouette. And to top it all off I had a porcupine haircut in front of me so I had to lean way too much into my right side neighbor (FYI hubby was on my left).

On a side note I only “liked” (and I use like in a very loose way) the encore songs (but that’s not the first time this happened).

It’s all about the journey not the destination anyway.

Located in the Pigalle district, the café-concert hall was built in 1887. With a capacity of around 1,000, it immediately specialized in revues. It was enlarged in 1894 by architect Henri Grandpierre, with a ceiling painted by Adolphe Léon Willette. After the First World War, operettas, vaudevilles and Jean Cocteau's futuristic evenings were performed here.

In the 1940s, La Cigale became a cinema, first specializing in exploitation films (B-movies, sexy movies, kung fu), then in X-rated films.

In 1987, La Cigale reopened with Les Rita Mitsouko, thanks to Jacques Renault and Fabrice Coat, two former second-hand goods dealers and co-founders of the "Les Bains Douches" nightclub. The venue, transformed into a multi-purpose concert hall, is modernized and decorated by Philippe Starck.

The vestibule and hall of the former café-concert have been listed as historic monuments since 1981.

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So not only we are concert goers now, but we are getting closer and closer to the stage that next time we might be part of the act.

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Monday night I spent 170 minutes with Robert. J. made me do it.

I guess we are concert goers now because that’s the 2nd in 2 months

It was probably the best ROI as concert goes. 2 hours and 50 mn of songs (plus the first pre-show band) 😳.

Technically I could have only gone to the second Encore and I would have been nonetheless pleased. J call it the poser part, since they played: Lullaby, The Walk Friday I'm in Love, Close to Me, In Between Days, Just Like Heaven& Boys Don't Cry; so basically all the (and the only) songs I know 😂