Tag: "Jane Birkin"

Charlotte Gainsbourg : Stage Whisper
0 Comments. 930 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2012 @ 6:11am.
  At age 15 Charlotte Gainsbourg was the unwitting subject of controversy when she song with her notorious father Serge on the typically scandalous Gainsbourg production Lemon Incest. 25 years later, and Charlotte Gainsbourg has largely eschewed her father’s fascination for scandal, carving out a cinematic and musical career of considerable quality.    While it’s relatively rare... Read More
Jane Birkin To Serenade Melbourne Audiences
0 Comments. 2,715 Views. Posted 9 Nov 2011 @ 11:31am.
After being snapped up for next year's Adelaide Festival, Jane Birkin has announced a Melbourne date. Birkin, one of the most celebrate and iconic women in musical history, will be coming to Australia shores to sing the songs of the legendary French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.    Together they produced six albums and continued to collaborate professionally long after their... Read More
So Frenchy, So Chic: Unofficial Soundtrack to the 2011 Alliance Française Film Festival
0 Comments. 3,578 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2011 @ 9:07am.
Popular culture, for all its pretensions to universal attraction, is a localised beast, defined and constructed by the subjective cultural whims of the instant demographic. In that context, French popular music can be a hit or miss affair when exposed to English-speaking ears. Most of us have endured a shower of Europop shite raining wantonly throughout a French retail store; equally, many... Read More
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