On March 17, 2010, Oh-la-la – Franco à gogo presents Soirée Gainsbourg! at the Bitterzoet club in the heart of Amsterdam. It will be a celebration of Serge's music commemorating the opening of
Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) in theaters across
The Netherlands. Music for the evening will include all sorts of Gainsbourg classics, remixes, mash-ups, covers, and more provided by:
DJ Natashka (Oh-la-la) - aka Natasha Cloutier of Oh La La spins French-language music from the 1950s and 1960s as well as modern pop and dance music on both vinyl and CD. She regularly plays at various Dutch venues and increasingly more in Belgium, as well as having appeared in Germany and her native Québec, Canada. DJ Natashka has been organising unique French music parties in Amsterdam for more than two years. She has been featured in Dutch and English-language magazines and newspapers on the French music scene in the Netherlands and her advice is called upon for music compilations, French-related events and remixes.
"I got into Gainsbourg's music with the albums 'Comic strip' that a friend of mine had and 'Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles' that played often in its entirety at a bar I hung out at when I still lived in Montréal, Québec. I knew more about his scandals than his music, and kind of ignored him along with Brel, both of which I got into much later than everyone else and can't get enough of today. I was so much into industrial music back then that I knew Einstürzende Neubauten's version of 'Je t'aime, moi on plus' before the original."
DJ Guuzborg (Filles Sourires) - 'I was a lucky kid. My parents went on vacation to France every year, where I could hear the exotic, yet strangely familiair French pop music on the radio. As a teen, I had a female French teacher who helped understand that French is in fact the language of love (had to do with raging hormones too),and as an adult I had the pleasure of talking to several great artists who gave me tips on great French music - the guys in Air for instance insisted I'd buy the soundtrack to Cannabis. This was proof that Serge Gainsbourg made a lot more than the world's most famous sextrack. After Cannabis came Melody Nelson and the rest of his oeuvre, plus a search for beautiful French girls, making me sigh. The blog FillesSourires.com was a natural step, as were the compilation-cds Filles Fragiles and Gentils Garçons, to show the world that French music still has a lot to offer. But the opus magnum was Gainsnord, a tribute to great man himself by Dutch and Belgian bands. On cd and on stage. And there's more to come.'
Live performances by:
- La Secte Citron (theatre and music)
Soirée Gainsbourg
Bitterzoet
2 Spuistraat
1012 TS Amsterdam
020 - 42 123 18
Entry: €10
Additional Info:
On Oh-la-la
On Bitterzoet
On Filles Sourires
On Facebook
