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We had been playing cat and mouse for months. We attended the same shows in Paris, talked a little, mentioning maybe we could do something together... to then see them leave, become huge, and even more intriguing, elusive. It took eight months for this Take Away Show to happen, for them to be free just one afternoon despite their super busy rock star schedule.
And then, what? Be one hundred percent cliché, but how? Exaggerate the origins of a band that became famous abroad? Or maybe go and film them where they earned their current success? And then we thought about this funny video the band posted on July 14th on their blog, where they play “1901” with an awful iChat wallpaper as a background. Why don’t we do it again, but for real this time?
They were said to be always scared, meticulous, and not really the perfect match for our little adventure in a very, very touristic area in Paris. Nonsense. Oh, yes, sure they didn’t go after people passing by, neither climbed on top of cars, but they played the game and seemed happy to do so. They improvised a show for a shy, almost unsure yet growing audience on the Trocadero square, hijacked a tourists bus replacing the audioguide by “Lisztomania”, and then, they played a last song under a bridge, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
It’s a weird game going on between the band and the place where they play. A mesmerizing Eiffel Tower or Trocadero usually steal the show with their size and more or less spectacular tricks, but here’s a band no one would expect to find there, competing with all those crowd-pullers. Phoenix and a camera meeting hip-hop dancers or junk salesmen. A band seizing the attention of an unprepared audience who then gathers, as if the four guys had always been part of the landscape, shyly asking whether they really are who they think.
Yes, it was Phoenix, in Paris. At the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
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Yeeeh! i would love to be passing by in those moments :)
i hope one day i see you on the streets playing “espontaneamente”.
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I was driving home tonight, feeling the winter blues...thinking to myself, I have a feeling there is going to be something special on la Blogotheque!
Amazingly, my premonition was true! These videos made my evening, and rank as my favourite takeawayshows.
Thank you 1901 times over!
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Yeah, I cant wait for new songs as well
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The first video in this post was unconventional and out of the box. Performing with the Eiffel Tower in the background just looks so picturesque at the same time becoming oblivious to its beauty and just doing their own thing brings a so much cool persona to the video.
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great show ! it is only polite for me to say thanks in french. merci beaucoup!
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The synthesizers which were the distinctive element in the new wave era surely made its way to the French group Phoenix. When the band started, it has that rock and synthesis vibe to its tunes but now they are re-inventing to a more dance and electronic feel.
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I love seeing stuff onsite in Paris - what a beautiful city! Can’t wait to go back some day.
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