This year, just before the summer time, I was looking to find yet another festival, that I haven't visited until now, with good line up and not in Switzerland (where I live), so that I can combine musical with traveling experience.
And what did I found? Les Eurockéennes de Belfort, festival only few hours away from Zurich. I’ve organized press accreditation, booked a hotel, packed my mic, voice recorder (and comfortable shoes of course) and headed off to Belfort.
Les Eurockéennes de Bel...
This year, just before the summer time, I was looking to find yet another festival, that I haven't visited until now, with good line up and not in Switzerland (where I live), so that I can combine musical with traveling experience.
And what did I found? Les Eurockéennes de Belfort, festival only few hours away from Zurich. I’ve organized press accreditation, booked a hotel, packed my mic, voice recorder (and comfortable shoes of course) and headed off to Belfort.
Les Eurockéennes de Belfort is a festival that is taking place on the peninsula of Malsaucy, near Belfort France. Amazingly enough, even if this festival is happening since 1989, it’s line up seems to be always fresh, but not overwhelming, having just right amount of more and less known artists. Easy to access: if you were staying at the campsite you could take a walk or a shuttle buss and if staying in Belfort, there were free local trains running every half an hour, even during the night. Les Eurockeennes has five stages: Grande Scene (main stage), Loggia, Chapiteau, Plage and Club Deville. All of the stages are surrounded with green and water. One of the stages is even set right on the beach. Adding to the great chilled vibe, that until now, I only truly experienced at French festivals (fabulous Rock En Seine last year), taking a break is easy anytime, finding a quiet place in the nature and recover.
It's impressive line-up, that includes many of my favorite artists from different genre, fortunately for Gimme A Beat listeners, doesn't include male artists and bands only, but fair amount of brilliant female artists from all over the world.
This is the second part of review of Les Eurockéennes. Tonight my focus will be on 2 female artists and one female-male (husband-wife) band:
First to focus on is Selah Sue, young artist from Belgium, also known as a white girl that rhymes as a Jamaican that totally blew me away with great performance down on the Plage stage. It was a perfect setting for her gig, her powerful soulful voice combined with summer sun made everybody dancing in the sand (Plage stage is the one on the beach and next to the water). Also, not only that she exhibited an awesome voice but on top of it, hey, this girl can definitely rhyme. How cool is that!
After the gig, we sat down for an interview and I learned more about this charming lady, her inspirations and her future plans.
I also caught up with über friendly, creatively and personally linked Swedish duo, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, just before their performance on Les Eurockéennes. They had specially organized local choir for their gig on Loggia stage, which made it somehow more organic, kind of layering and very interesting. They looked as relaxed and comfortable when performing together as they were during an interview, showing that mixing business and pleasure is more then possible when done in the right way.
Third artists to be featured in tonight's gimme a beat is
Le Prince Miiaou.This tiny, now platinum blond young French artist (she used to be dark haired), armed with a guitar, loop machine, powerful voice and lots of energy, also gave great performance. Later on, during an interview, she showed another, shy side and she also told me that she was very nervous for performing on such as big festival as Les Eurockéennes but neither I nor I believe the audience noticed that.
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Tonight (15.11.2010) on Gimme A Beat, it's all about sharing my impressions, playing the music and interviews with Selah Sue, Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Le Prince Miiaou
Tune in for 2nd part of ..
Les Eurockéennes De Belfort Festival 2010
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube
Kisses,
Babymonster
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