Super Mon Amour! Live Music in Paris

Bonjour,
Last night I attended an evening at the current Super Mon Amour! music festival in Paris. It was held at the Gaite Lyrique, a relatively new venue with an extremely modern design in the 3rd arrondissement, right by the Reaumur Sebastopol metro stop on line 3. The band we really wanted to see was Architecture in Helsinki, a band that we assumed to be Swedish but now think they are Australian after hearing them live!

The first thing we noticed was that French people do not dance - sure they will bop along a bit in a cool sort of way, but shaking their stuff like nobody's watching? That's not going to happen. The venue was well laid out, as the main music room could be found in a large box-shaped area, outside of which were bright lights and white walls, and after this modern space there was a deceptively old-looking large room complete with mimics of French art on the ceilings and faux-golden walls. There was a larger bar in this area, serving anything from beer to wine, mixers and cocktails, although at extremely expensive prices of course. Having missed dinner at our host families to get there on time, we opted for the dubiously named "vegetarian sandwich" that the bar offered as food, and we were right to be suspicious (if you've been to France you will know that being vegetarian is not a concept understood or even accepted most of the time), it consisted of grated celery and carrots slapped inbetween two rather dry pieces of rye bread. On the plus side, at least it was a lot more healthy than the cheesy chips we would have indulged in back in good old England.

The band were great live - I haven't been too struck by the club scene in Paris so far, (although I will be heading to a couple in the near future that I will no doubt tell you about), so it was good to hear some live music at a decent venue.

The weather is beautiful at the moment - as far as I can tell the weather here is always pretty similar to England, so you will know what I mean! Temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees celsius are becoming normal, and whilst out on the scooter with the children the other day (haha yes, I said scooter!) I managed to get a little sunburnt. I'm off to enjoy the sunshine now, I hope you are too!

A bientot xxx