Phoenix's music, along with the French music site La Blogotheque pretty much got me through last week's hell. The Eiffel tower, the back of an open-aired bus, the echoes under a bridge... Paris is where everyone wants to be.
La Blogotheque hosts The Takeaway Show, a simple concept which entails following indie English acts such as the Kooks or Bloc Party, far flung American-based bands such as Vampire Weekend and home bred (and internationally well-known) groups like Phoenix, for as long as a whole day. And this doesn't only happen in Paris; The Takeaway Show brings it's thousands of subscribers to San Francisco CA for a day to catch Lykke Li belt out 'Somebody's baby' with El Perro Del Mar, or as far as Bamako (Mali) to see Sidi Touré walk through the streets of Western Africa with his acoustic guitar. Postmark-international, indeed.
It's a simple yet beautiful idea, which showcases artistes in the most ordinary of places, capturing them in all their spontaneous glory. Acoustic sets, percussion on elevator walls combined with beautiful Parisian scenery is hard to beat. Especially when it's Phoenix :)
You can watch part 1 and part 2 of Phoenix's Paris Sojourn here.
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