The selection of concerts and festivals of the week

In concert near you this week:Bernard Lavilliers / Joan Baez / Zazie / Yael Naim / Julien Dore / Miossec / Standing on the Zinc / only three / Pink Martini / The Specials / Peter Doherty / DeathIn Vegas / Booba / Xzibit / Black Joe Lewis / Barrence Withfield / Trombone Shorty / Teophilius London / The A, B, C, D of Boogie Woogie / ...Infoconcert supports:> Festi'Val of the Marne, which starts next weekend, turns 25. Unfortunately this will begin with a tribute concert to Allain Leprest that was programmed but has recently disappeared. It will still kick off 15 days of concerts in a score of 94 communes.
> Assembled by independent Les Ogres de Barback, Irfan [label] turns 10 with a concert bringing together several groups including the Sons of home Teuhpu, Monofocus and Ogres themselves in light formula. Infoconcert you kept invitations.

The artist of the week:Free Electron hexagonal rap, Booba shows once again that he did not need the system to move forward. After his recent boycott Victoires de la Musique, the rapper went from Skyrock to promote her concert at Bercy, choosing other independent FM radio generic competitor. Paris successful rapper Booba was the first French solo to complete Bercy.
The festival this week:If the festival's history is somewhat eventful Marsatac, the Marseille festival has established itself to the son for years to forge an identity artisits unconventional at the intersection of all modern music. To go live it will go to Marseille.
The selection of concerts this week:
- Monday 26/09:By going to a concert Barrence Whitfield & The Seatsniffers you go to the sources of rock'n'roll and funk. The character sets fire to all the scenes (tonight at Toulouse) emabarquant crowd that his audience in a communicative hysteria. Let off steam!
- Tuesday 27/09:Ska pioneer of 'Made in England' The Specials hit the road in 2010 more than 30 years after the release of their debut single "Gangsters" (1979) which launched their legendary album "Specials" always good to listen now . The 'rude boys' are passing tonight in Paris.
- Wednesday 28/09:Enfant terrible of rock, Peter Doherty, now freed of his judicial duties, does a new round hexagonal. Always solo, without his Babyshambles is tonight in concert at the Bikini in Toulouse for the third time.
- Thursday 29/09:Trombone Shorty trumpeter is one of the locomotives of the new wave jazz-funk currently sweeping New Orleans. His forays into rock (Lenny Kravitz, Green Day, etc.). Led him to do the show on stage. Highly anticipated, it fills tonight Maroquinerie he presents his latest album "For True".
- Friday 30/09:If his album "Bichon" worked less well than his first ("Ersatz"), Julien Doré nevertheless an artist apart. Between variety and pop, this dandy dares shifted its production and is needed as a performer on stage. He's back on tour tonight at Angouleme and until early December.
- Saturday 1 / 10:Since 2007, the evenings Open quotes of the Café de la Danse offers young talents of the song (Babx, Bertrand Belin, Jeanne Cherhal, Albin, etc.). Moments of special meetings in solo, duo or trio . Open the quotes from the road and take three of its members: Renan Luce Alexis HK and Benoit Doremus. From tonight in Conflans Ste Honorine, they will almost thirty concerts throughout France, including a series at the Café de la Danse.
- Sunday 2 / 10Seven years after the lethargic "Satan's Circus" duo Death In Vegas, aka Richard Fearless and Stephen Heller, is back with a new album: "Trans-Love Energies". Appearing in the mid-90 they have helped to bring rock and electro. Today what remains of it? After Marsatac last night in Toulouse answer tonight and tomorrow in Lyon.

POP Montreal Live: Arcade Fire, Karkwa and Kid Koala on the Festival Plaza

By Julie Ledoux.
To celebrate 10 years of music in Montreal, Pop Montreal team hit a home run with the arrival of the darlings of the city, Arcade Fire, for a free show, open to all.
The evening began in force while the Montreal DJ Kid Koala got the ball, dressed in koala ...! In fine style, he has warmed the huge crowd that waited in front of him Arcadi Fire. Electro-jazzy rhythms and samples of songs best known (White Stripes, Outkast, etc..) Kid Koala make one of the most respected DJ in Canada, with good reason.
Karkwa then stormed the stage at Place des Festivals, the second part of providing free outdoor entertainment. The five boys, who seemed rather exhausted, have chained the success of their two most recent albums - Volume du Vent and Les Chemins de Verre - which escape the fate, Marie you cry, The Paths of glass, Tinnitus, The Frost to finish in style with the pretty room not Forget. Despite a very low number of decibels (due to laws), Karkwa provided an excellent service, at the level of talent of the group, making a perfect bridge between the performance of Kid Koala and the Arcade Fire, all waiting for.
While a marquee movie told us the last few minutes that "Coming Soon: Arcade Fire", a trailer was passing, presenting film clips and music video of The Suburbs. Finally, the group - eight tentacles for the evening of September 22 - was brought, all smiles on stage. Rarely had they seen the singer and guitarist Win Butler as happy or at least smile.
With the room Ready to Start the crowd was conquered from the beginning of the performance of Arcade Fire. Then the group all wanted to see a string of successes of his three albums, Funeral, Neon Bible, The Suburbs, three masterpieces of indie-rock of Quebec. The spectators (100 000 according to POP Montreal) were eligible for Keep the Car Running, No Cars Go Haiti and the tragic, sung by Régine Chassagne, which itself has origins in Haiti. It should also mention that the show was punctuated by calls for solidarity with Haiti in Montreal. Arcade Fire Kanpai supports the body since its inception, he is helping the Haitian people. They also presented Dr. Paul Farmer, a strong presence in Haiti, whose story is told in the book Raise the mountains and Regine Chassagne which wrote the foreword.
The group has already won a Grammy for his album The Suburbs, which has just won the Polaris Prize, continued its momentum with the Modern Man, Rococo, and even the new song Speaking in Tongues. The public, who continued to drink parts of Montreal group, also had the right to intervention, the album Neon Bible, and Wake Up Neighborhood # 2 (Laika), from their first album, Funeral, and The Suburbs and Empty Room, from the album The Suburbs. And it was not all! Members of Arcade Fire have been very generous, offering more 1:30 show, complete with video projections, which, in period films were grafted images of the show.
The group no end to stuff his music fans as they have chained the Neighborhood # 1 (Tunnels), We Used to Wait and Neighborhood # 3 (Power Out). Far from over, the show concluded with a reminder of two parts inflamed or Rebellion (Lies) taken from Funeral and Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), sung by Régine Chassagne, who had changed red suit with long fringes. Flamboyant. It is clear that the group that ended his world tour in Montreal had much to celebrate! Prices accumulate, humanitarian projects too, and love is still in the public meeting. Impossible to lose this love, if the group continues on this path, offering blistering performance as that to which we got last night on the Place des Festivals.

Arcade Fire: a magical evening Festival Plaza

Arcade Fire has won over the crowd that filled the Festival Plaza Thursday night for a free show

The journalist can sometimes be very frustrating. It made the experience Thursday, while forcing off time, we had to extricate himself from pain and misery of the truly magical atmosphere that reigned on the Festival Plaza before the end of the performance of Arcade? Fire. We then remembered all the success that had not yet heard, listening to catch bits when we headed for the office.
You guessed it: as usual, the excellent training led by Win Butler did not disappoint the 75,000 people gathered to attend the free concert, on the contrary. Even the warm weather seemed to put the game to make the evening perfect.
From the first notes of a very timely Ready to Start - because "ready to go", the group was, no doubt - the ground began to vibrate under foot tapements public conquered .
This was followed by a series of hits - Keep the Car Running, No Cars Go, Haiti, Modern Man, to name a few - without interruption: one could not help but rave every time the one of them began singing in chorus with the rest of the crowd.
And there was a real spirit of communion in the church: we must say that the Montreal is second to none to compose hymns to the melodies that everyone can sing with them. As is the case in most of their shows is when Wake Up started the fellowship came to a head.
During the show, Regine? Chassagne and Win Butler made several references to Haiti - the country of origin of the singer - highlighting how Montreal was "connected" to the pearl of the Antilles and helped greatly in the reconstruction of the it.
Speaking of Montreal, Butler has also launched: "We had an English-speaking group, a French group, and a DJ ... I feel really at home is a perfect night! "We could not be better said, and they would have listened all night.

Kid Koala & Karkwa: treats inputQuestion "Part I", the public has been especially spoiled Thursday: first, the DJ? Canadian Kid Koala - wearing the costume of that animal - a service offered playful and absolutely délicieu is in line with our expectations. Thirty minutes electrifying who warmed up the crowd in time to say it.
In great shape, guys Karkwa for their part played eight of their great songs, very much in the tone of the evening. Louis-Jean Cormier and his band - which provided "the French speaking part of the evening" - gave a performance so good you could almost leave sated after those 45 minutes ...

first free festival of Cambrai: the program, urban culture and street art

| FACES OF THE NEWS |The city of Cambrai promises its residents a beautiful festival this Saturday against the Garage Café, the festival "The street belongs to Cambrai" dedicated to urban culture and street art. ...
Music Promotion Association (MPA), chaired by Arnaud Rosendo, is already working with the help of its volunteers for concerts and events of the day."We wanted to organize a festival in September, said the official, to fight against the gloom of this month mean school! This festival is also an opportunity to extend the holidays always too short! "One way therefore to the APM to close the festival season. A free festival, why? "For one simple reason: we want a maximum number of people having fun and participating in the festival without the brake of the cost. Participate, are the only fun slogans! "A delicious and varied musical programA popular event of quality but with what program? "Many activities await spectators, interspersed with concerts including the arrival of the group Ace Out, a native of Lille, which has also just finished a tour in the United States. The group members have such presence and such energy on stage! "A rock-tinged funk and some electronic elements. They will be preceded by three other groups. At first the sounds and rhythms of the Sharks Junkie as well as the Division Nada, both of Cambrai. Then Eclectek "a group Lille electro-influenced burlesque," as described by Arnaud Rosendo.And animations of street artDemonstrations of stilts, exhibition, magic, simulated glider, hip-hop, prevention ... will be offered. Youth indéBD fest will also be present with their fanzine. "A play is also planned and will be played in the Garage Café in the afternoon, said Rosendo Arnaud, and a second stage devoted to electro Vijing. Note also the involvement of SEJC, service the Voluntary and the library of Cambrai. "This festival is a challenge that members of the association has opted for APM: Cambrai show as a young and dynamic city ... So you bet? •

Nearly 100 000 people for Arcade Fire

MONTREAL - For the last concert of their world tour that lasted a year, members of Arcade Fire could not ask for better than this human tide of almost 100,000 people flooded on Thursday night, Festival Plaza, the center- Montreal.
The organizers of the event, headed by the POP Montrealfestival, expected to attract 75,000 people, and finally, it is between 75,000 and 100,000 fans who came.Impressive, the crowd overflowed the St. Catherine Street and extends towards the Place des Arts and the surrounding streets.TITLE ENCARTLe show in picturesGiant screens were also placed at strategic locations to accommodate people attending without a doubt one of the biggest concerts in the history of arts and entertainment district, produced under a mild sky, to boot.Just before the concert, which cost about $ 1 million to produce in the artistic director of Pop Montreal, Dan Seligman, the security officials reported no major problem, despite the number of spectators gathered on the outskirts of the gigantic stage erected at the intersection of Boulevard de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance.

A show that warms the heartAfter offering a sold-out performance Wednesday night at Metropolis, the cast of Win Butler has rewarded the loyalty of his Montreal audience with a performance free and memorable. The singer has repeatedly stated how it was good to come home to sing with his family. "Our heart is full," said Butler, smiling.
As for his sidekick Régine Chassagne, she added: "Even after having toured the world, Montreal is really cool. "
It is important to remember Arcadi Fire has been very rewarding one year, winning a host of honors for his album The Suburbs, now considered a classic in the world of rock. These include the Grammys, the Juno and the Brit in the album of the year, not to mention the prestigious Polaris Music, the award for best Canadian album.
The stars were aligned for this celebration so large. Thousands of fans, who did not want to miss this event for anything, have even presented early in the afternoon.
After the first song Ready To Start, catchy, Arcade Fire continued with a Keep The Car Running and No Cars Go, delivered with an energetic final coated violins, electric guitars and drums. The group, in great shape, played a couple of songs from his three albums (one must add the disks Funeral, released in 2004, and Neon Bible, launched in 2007), keeping in mind certain works from The Suburbs.

A myriad of successThe repertoire chosen by Arcade Fire for the evening like in large part to that offered at other shows of the tour: Haiti, Empty Room, Intervention, Rococo, The Suburbs, Month of May (rendering electrifying and dancing), We Used to Wait, Neighborhood # 3, Modern Man were among the pieces offered. We even had a new play Speaking in Tongues.
In return, the charismatic singer was first sent Rebellion (Lies). At that time, all group members have the package. In conclusion, it Régine Chassagne who played Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), wearing a pink dress eccentric. In the crowd, the balloons change color from blue to red in the air strikes in the audience.
Won in advance, the public took advantage of every moment of the show. Virtually throughout the concert, the audience sang, clapped hands and feet, hopped, applauded, whistled, screamed ... On occasion, you could hear a roar well aware that repeated the words of Win Butler said during Performance: POP Montreal, we love you.
Between 19 am and 21 pm, Kid Koala and Karkwa ensured the first two parts brilliantly. The band of Jean-Louis Cormier gave a solid performance, with its definitely more rock than usual. The proof of the electrifying final Forget it.
The show was broadcast live on radio SiriusXM.

Toronto Film Festival: praise of the minor

Toronto has emerged in recent years as one of the biggest international festivals, with the size of its market, as well as its selection bloated and uncompetitive. Among the more than 300 selected, there were any, often cheered by an audience well-behaved: prestige movies en route to the Oscars, raw red carpet, film international authors looking for a niche U.S. ...
But the most beautiful films were to be found in another category, a category could not be described by borrowing a term to music in a minor key. Is quietly brilliant films, free from the usual expectations of the international festival eager to punch, made by filmmakers rather old, having nothing to prove but still to play. Films for fun, then.
The most impressive of all, you are talked about, it Twixt Francis Ford Coppola, Film Jokes and humorous child, as well as a poignant elegy to the memory of his son died, Giancarlo. The inverse of a masterpiece, just a great film.
The crude portraits "20 Cigarettes"
To be more difficult then freed the American James Benning (experimental film giant, still little known in France until his retrospective at the Jeu de Paume last year) who signs a film with 20 Cigarettes on one of the few landscapes he had not yet explored: the face. The device is, as often at home, elementary twenty of his friends, leaning against a wall, smoking a cigarette, still shot, close, twenty portraits no frills, referring to Warhol's famous Screen Tests, and twenty times the incomparable joy to experience the beauty of the world picked up on a meditative face, as if the entire history of cinema fell back on those 99 minutes fag in mouth.
Also to find joy, thirteen years after The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman of New York at the helm of a new film, his fourth: Damsels in Distress. This "Woody Allen's gay" - or "Rohmer New York", it depends - and somewhat forgotten in France, signed a campus movie hilarious dialogues chiseled, brushed, with tender irony, the portrait of the gilded youth east coast.

The "BIFF" a rich and variegated eleventh edition

Conference The 11th International Film Festival begins in Beirut on October 5 with "The Tree of Life" by Terrence Malick (Golden Palm, Cannes) and ends Oct. 13 with "Melancholia" by Danish director Lars von Trier.

It was during a press conference held in the auditorium Bernard Fattal Colette Naufal, president of the BIFF, unveiled the program of the festival. "It was a very rich film year, she said, and I managed to bring international festivals of works of high quality. "Thus, divided into seven different categories including three competitions: feature film (7) Short Film (16) and literature of the Middle East (8) and the non-competitive sections as panorama, short film, films culinary and children's works are projected to number 67 from 29 different countries. The festival will be marked by the presence of Iranian cinema, "a younger generation to a very promising talent," says Naufal. In addition, the festivals in the Gulf region and support the production, therefore, the right to preview the Middle East. "We are not interested in merely to project previews, she said again, our goal is to ensure their visibility at the hearing Lebanon. Therefore, for the edition of 2012, we delay the dates of the event so that the film festivals in the Middle East and Gulf are projected thereafter during our festival.The jury of the International Film Festival in Beirut was chaired by the Italian director Luca Guadagnino who was present last year in Lebanon with his film I Am Love. It will be surrounded by the film critic journalist Cristina Piccino (Manifesto), the directors and Maysoon Pachachi Karin Albou, and the author of Saudi Girls of Riyadh Rajaa al-Sanea.

"The opening and closing will not take place as usual at the Unesco Palace, as the theater is undergoing maintenance, said Colette Naufal. They will be held at the theater Caracalla (center Ivoire, Horch Tabet) and regular screenings will be held at Empire Theatre, Sodeco Square. "
ProgramPanoramaThe "panorama" includes 25 films including 22 planned for the first time in the Middle East. Besides the opening film The Tree of Life and the closing film Melancholia of Danish director Lars von Trier, the Lebanese will have the opportunity to see among other works Restless Gus Van Sant, Michael of Austria's Markus Schleinzer, Pina de Wim Wenders, John Turturro and Passione Manuale d'amore Giovanni Veronesi and Inconscio Guadagnino in italiano. While the film by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar La Piel Habito that will be screened in the gala circuit Planet.
Feature film in the Middle EastThe films competing for the prize Aleph best feature are, among others, the Black Venus Tunisian Abdellatif Kechiche, Cairo Exit the Egyptian Hesham Issawi and Ibrahim al-Hawi Batout.
Competition Documentary FilmEight films are in this competition, including Beirut aal foam Lebanese director Zeina Sfeir, Hady Zaccak of Beirut Taxi, This Is My picture When I Was Dead of Jordanian Mahmoud al-Massad, and Under the Bridge Nora Niasari.
Short Film CompetitionIt includes 16 films, including six Lebanese. To name a few as Troubled Waters of the Lebanese director Carine Khalaf, Blue Line from Lebanese Alain Sauma, Us, the Moon & the Neighbors of the Lebanese Mohammad Rifai, Dirty Laundry Tunisian director Malik Amara, Love ... Older directed by award-winning Jordanian Zaid Abu Hamdan, and short life of Moroccan director Adil al-Fadil, who won several awards. Hana Makhmalbaf will be present in this competition with A Dog's Life.The film section includes culinary eight films, but the children's section is in the spotlight this year.Chaired by the Lebanese actress Mirna Maakaron this target section of the films produced in five countries: France, Germany, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands.All works will be simultaneously translated into Arabic through headphones so that children can not read to understand the film.On the sidelines of the festival, Greenpeace will organize activities and games to Sodeco Square on 8 and 9 October on the Sea of ​​Lebanon.Finally, Colette Naufal concludes, "the BIFF has developed and acquired a reputation regionally and internationally. None of this would have been possible without the unwavering support and generosity of our partners such as banking and Edde Sands SGBL which were added this year, France 24, RFI, Future News, TV5Monde and other sponsors. "Tickets are on sale from September 26.Tickets: regular screenings 4500 LL children's films 1000 LL 000 LL gala15 projections.For more information, contact (10h-22h) on 70-141843Empire Sodeco Square (15h-22h) 01-616706/7info@beirutfilmfoundation.org,www.beirutfilmfoundation.org