Live Au Château ‘06

On 14 October it’s time for the 2nd Live Au Chàteau, a music festival with 9 local bands (I’m myself the lead singer in “C Nos Vis”).

The poster is made by my girlfriend Jeannette, and got very nice comments.

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Fête de la Musique – Genève

Three days of free outdoor music and dance. Wow.
Among this year's concerts that I visited:

Alenko (Alex, the vocals teacher at EPI, performs well. He refers to the concert as a journey, where the songs make up a whole)
Silecie (Charlotte Nordin sings and moves very well, and has a song in Swedish, "Svek")
Tango de Sueño
Malavida (a local [...]

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Song writing

We are about to take a step forward in the band, with starting to compose our own songs.
So now I am asked to come up with the lyrics for the first song.
Ah, how to do that?
I think I will start by looking in my journals that I've kept since 20 years. The problem is that there's [...]

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Fête de l’Espoir

Saturday 27 May, the 8th Fête de l'Espoir took place at Stade de Bout du Monde.
Some good photos are available at http://photosite.pl/events/espoir06/
It was my third year and this time I chilled out to these groups:

SebMacGallay
Everstrong
Daytona
Stevans
Chris Aldah
Matmatah

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Garden Party 2006

The fourth Garden Party took place in Parc de Bastion during the weekend 4-5 May.
Among the bands I listened to were:

Air Sonic
Mango Gadzi
Haunted Candy Shop
Recall

I will write a summary for each concert shortly.

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Drumming

We  are practising a song by the French group Téléphone, Un Autre Monde, and I have taken the drummer's role.
What an experience that is. Being the heart of the band really, there's not a lot of room for mistakes. On vocals or as a bassist, the other instruments quietly continue to play their accords when [...]

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Live Au Château 2006

Last night we had the first organizing meeting for the 2006 music festival "Live Au Château." Important questions at this stage are: which groups should be allowed to participate? Here the criterias are not only that they should be good musicians but foremost that they can take part in a festival where timing is an [...]

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Live Au Château 2005

On October 1, 2005 we organized the festival “Live Au Château” just next to the Arare castle, where we also have our studio for repetition.
The bands of the festival were (in order of appearance): Flower Spirit, Ghost Track, Saul, C Nos Vis, Hat Trick, Anguisouroc, Adults Only, Girls Only, Ephemère, Dockers, Lagoye.
The article that appeared in Tribune de [...]

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Concert at EPI 2004

At the annual EPI end-of-the-school-year concert on 12 June 2004, we performed our first concert ever. We had only two songs ready: “You My Love” by Chris Rea and “Smoke on the water” by Deep Purple (that we played again as the requested encore).
Some photos:

Brigitte (keyboard)
Pascal (guitar), Michel (bass) and Marco (drums)

Part of the audience
Me [...]

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C Nos Vis – qu’est-ce que c’est?

Our band, C Nos Vis, started out as a beginners workshop for parents of kids that learned music at EPI (Espace de Pratique Instrumentale at Ecole du Val-d’Arve in Carouge) during summer of 2003. Having no children of my own, I got invited as “special guest.”

Kiet, our teacher, is doing a great job teaching us [...]

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