Posts Tagged ‘festival’
Skunk Anansie and Cypress Hill at Rock en Seine
Rock en Seine poster
With a line-up to die for, Paris’ Rock en Seine festival this weekend gives French fans a last chance to party before the hordes return to the capital. Californian hip hop bad boys Cypress Hill told RFI about collaborating with Blink 182’s drummer, while British rockers Skunk Anansie talk about thievery, preaching to the converted and their new album Wonderlustre.
Radio Feature: Focus on France
Andre Manoukian talks jazz and philosophy
Talking at the Paris Saint Germain Des Pres jazz festival
Andre Manoukian is the closest the French have to Simon Cowell. The composer and philosopher, who is a judge on the equivalent to Pop Idol, talked about music, life and why he likes Gilles Deleuze, at the Paris Saint-German-Des-Pres jazz festival, which kicked off last week.
Radio Feature: Culture in France
La fête de l’Humanité – A weekend of politics and rock’n’roll
A political debate taking place
Communist, socialist and left-wing organisations gathered in the working class suburb of Le Bourget this weekend for La fête de l’Humanité. Although political debate dominated the agenda – a programme of music, art and theatre pleased the crowds at one of France’s biggest cultural festivals.
Radio Report: Focus on France
Rock en Seine 2009 – Preview: Last chance to party before the Rentrée
Main stage at Rock en Seine in 2008
As the sleepy French capital wakes its head from the quiet, humid days of summer, and Parisians return to the city for the so-called rentrée, when French wardrobes miraculously turn from summer to autumn overnight, and the free newspapers return to newsstands at the metro station, there is one last chance to party: the 7th Rock en Seine festival, just outside of Paris in Saint Cloud!
Glastonbury festival 2009 – more than just music
The ‘Other’ stage at the Glastonbury festival 2009
The Glastonbury festival has a hippy past stretching back to the 1970s when Michael Eavis decided to turn his farm in Pilton, Somerset into an enormous party. In 2009 it attracted some of the music industry’s hottest acts, but it is more than just music. Besides the anything goes ethos, there’s an agenda for change which embodies the philosophy of one of the world’s largest greenfield festivals.
