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⛾ EN Event Benjamin Biolay en concert a l'Union Chapel le 27 juin

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    2 for the Road Productions Proudly presents ...

    Benjamin Biolay + Special Guests
    Live at the Union Chapel – Thursday 27th June 2013

    French Chanteur makes his UK debuts celebrating the release of his new album 'Vengeances' featuring guest appearances from Carl Barat, Vanessa Paradis & Oxmo Puccino.

    Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Legrand, Jean Claude Vannier, Cerrone, Air, Jacques Dutronic, Johnny Hallyday, Francoise Hardy, Daft Punk, Piaf, Camille… the French have always had talent in abundance when it comes to creating and indeed reinventing popular music. Champions of melody, arrangement and Gallic flair, these great names stand tall in French music history. On their coat tails now sits one Benjamin Biolay, artist, producer, arranger, film star and sometime model. A hugely talented artist who releases an eclectic new album – his sixth solo recording and the second to be released in the UK – ‘Vengeance’ on May 6th.

    He is too modest to make the claim himself, but Biolay is arguably the most naturally-gifted musician working in France today. His previous album, the dazzling concept cycle ‘La Superbe’, won two Victoires De La Musique – for Best Male and Album Of The Year – in 2010, and bucked the downward spiral of the French music market with sales of 100,000 copies within weeks of its release.

    A household name in his native France, where the release of ‘Vengeance’ saw him grace the covers of influential magazines Les Inrockuptibles and Télérama, Biolay has inevitably been compared to the late Serge Gainsbourg, as much for his spellbinding half-spoken delivery, gorgeous orchestrations and unexpected lyrical twists, as for his ability to draw the best out of the many people he has collaborated with, particularly women. Over the last fifteen years, they have included baroque-folk chanteuse Keren Ann, whose first two albums he co-wrote and produced, Carla Bruni, Bambou and Lulu Gainsbourg – Serge’s last partner and child – as well as Vanessa Paradis who guests on ‘Vengeance’.

    The atmospheric tour de force title track features Carl Barât, formerly of The Libertines, who has become a good friend, a dandy soulmate you might say, of Biolay’s.

    Adv tickets: £15 + booking fee via
    **WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/215269

    **Seetickets: http://www.seetickets.com/event/benjamin-biolay-live-at-the-union-chapel/union-chapel/702202

    **Music Glue: http://store.unionchapel.org.uk/eventdetails/27-jun-13-benjamin-biolay-union-chapel/
     

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