Wednesday, 29 November 2006

Live and in concert

This weekend sort of spilled over into the week, since we went to a rock concert on Monday night, and visited Céline in Cambrai last night. (We slept in Wavrin Monday though and I actually got more sleep than usual, so it wasn't too tiring.)

On Saturday we had Céline and José over for lunch and a walk around Valenciennes. Sunday we relaxed and played Carcassonne and video games on the DS. Emilie also rented a chick flick but I don't remember the name—I think it was a French movie. I got a little personal programming in too, but with Netbeans 5.5, the Visual Web designer, and Sun Application Server all running simultaneously my iBook G4 gets very slow, so I quickly moved on to Mario 64 instead.

The concert we saw on Monday was Garou, the gravelly-voiced French Canadian singer, who is probably Emilie's second-favourite artist after Céline Dion. So I sort of felt like it was the French equivalent of being dragged to a Michael Bolton concert. But they did put on a big show, with the full gamut of lasers and fancy lighting and giant screens. You can't tell much more from the photo than that it is a rock concert, though!

The opening act was a French Canadian metal band with a female lead. I suppose they were pretty good, but I just can't get used to certain styles of music being played in other languages. Hard rock and the blues in particular are just too American—it seems too out of place for me.

Posted by jon at 7:04 PM in France 
 
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