‪The Passenger - Iggy Pop and The Stooges 70's‬‏

Battles Une musique au cordeau, moderne, anguleuse. Un salon Rococo, solennel, énorme. Et un Concert à emporter atypique, loin très loin de nos dogmes. Nous avions pendant des jours cherché des hangars, de l’industriel, des lignes, des espaces vides, du perpendiculaire. Dès lors, autant jouer le choc à fond : monter tous les machines possibles, faire glisser des caisses énormes, courir des câbles par dizaines sur ce parquet ancien et bruyant. On ne saurait bien dire à qui nous tordions le plus le cou : au futurisme net et anguleux de Battles, ou aux chantillys accumulées sur les murs du salon Bertrand de l’Hôtel de Ville. - Tu sais, on ne joue jamais live sans public, comme ça. L’accessoire était trouvé. Puis la machine fut lancée. Nous sommes restés plus de quatre heures dans le salon Bertrand.

Battles - la Blogotheque-Mozilla Firefox For days we were searching for hangars, warehouses and big empty loft spaces. We got the opposite along with the immoderate enthusiasm of Agnes, who works with the city’s cinematography association and wanted to see “what it would be like, a Blogothèque concert at the city hall”. It was incongruous, it was bloody exciting. We were going to shoot Battles in a rococo style lounge in The Hotel de Ville, the magnificent city hall and mayor’s office in the centre of Paris. We decided to go all out and take as much equipment possible, dragging huge boxes, running dozens of cables across the ancient and noisy wooden floor. We couldn’t say what was further from their comfort zone – the angular futurism of Battles, or the heavily detailed painted walls of the ‘Bertrand Salon’. - You know, we never play live without an audience like this. - Beer, here? - Ha why not. The accessories were found. Next, the machine was launched. The result: We stayed some four hours in the salon Bertrand.