Something New

So the fine folks over at Les pères populaires have opened a new concert bar in Paris called l'International. I got to play the opening night on Friday and, well, it was a rousing success. I'll be mixing there again on Wednesday with a concert by some friends who are regulars at Le bistrot des artists. Saturday I'll be doing a set at Les pères populaires, which will probably be my last thing in Paris for several months, see do come down. Otherwise, I'll see you Stateside or back in Sweden.

10/09/08 20h - 2h
l'International
5/7 rue Moret 75011
Métro: Ménilmontant

13/09/08 21h30 - 1h30
les Pères populaires
46 rue Buzenval 75020
Métro: Buzenval

Dueling Banjos

After a few months of rather successful nights at Les pères populaires and at the request of various unnamed individuals, I've decided to attempt a somewhat thematic night there. So far the "theme" (or perhaps genre) has been "populaire." Some idea of a people's music, a little outside a strict (or perhaps crass) commercial environment, but always in an upbeat dancey way. I've been able to mix chanson, the Balkins, psychedelia, old rock n roll, salsa, 60s soul, Svenska pop and dozens of other styles all in the name of "populaire".

So for the next two soirées I'm going to focus (though not exculsively!) on a specific instrument. To wit, the first of the Instrument populaire series: Dueling Banjos.

Samedi 15 mar 21h05 à 1h30
aux pères populaires
46 rue Buzenval
75020 Paris; métro: Buzenval
ambiance: du populaire (avec des banjos)

Flight Plan

Well, this is actually being entered after the fact, mostly for historical purposes. It was a really nice soirée.

Parimutuel on Fun

In French a trifecta would be a tierce -- don't ask me the gender of the word, I can never find a decent French dictionary online. For a language with fewer users, it's much easier to find Swedish translations online.

But enough of my griping over my unhappiness with Paris. Better things are on the horizon and I'm hitting up my three favorite bars in town and laying down the fun.

After the quiet of the Paris holiday season fades, DJ Whistle Punk returns with a vengence: not one, not two, but three gigs in three different bars in one week. Triple your chances to get down with the funky sounds in a winning trifecta.

Mercredi 16 jan 21h à 1h
au Bistrot des artistes
6 rue des Anglais
75005 Paris; métro: Cluny/La Sorbonne
ambiance: du funk et de la soul
Spoken Word downstairs

Samedi 19 jan 21h30 à 1h30
aux pères populaires
46 rue Buzenval
75020 Paris; métro: Buzenval
ambiance: du populaire

Dimanche 20 jan Minuit à 2h
au Pop-In
105 rue Amelot
75011 Paris; métro: Filles du Calvaire
ambiance: 60s/70s pour shaker ton booty

all the kids love...

After several months of silence on the BLoG front (though luckily not silence in les salles) M. Whistle Punk returns. This weekend he takes on two of his favorite venues Les pères populaires and Le bistrot des artistes. (Although the former's info me is as out of date as my BLoG. Currently I'm alternating every other Wednesday and Sunday night. This week, obviously I'll be there on Sunday. Then 3 days later on Wednesday. Certainly just to mess with your mind.)

dj whistlepunk
aux pères populaires
46 rue buzenval
75020 paris; metro: buzenval
samedi 15 dec 21h30 à 2h

a soirée of old rock n roll, soul
country, chanson, calypso, reggae,
psychedelia from Cambodia and other
things to make you fall in love again

dj whistlepunk
au Bistrot des artistes
6 rue des anglais
75005 paris; metro: cluny/la sorbonne
dimanche 16 dec 21h à 1h

le funk et la soul à volonté
+ la soirée jam session en bas

Thanks to Diana Arens for the photo.

Beginning of a Long Weekend

The weekend will start on Wednesday for me. I've got four gigs. Wednesday at the Bistrot (can you find the tiny photo of me on their site?), as every Wednesday. But never quite the same in the ever evolving exploration of funk and soul.

Thursday, it's uptown to the Mange Disque to launch a new series in my continued set of series there: Funky Islands. Getting off the large land masses to see the intimate worlds (will they all disappear with global warming?) and the magical music made there. First stop: Jamaica. Folks have been asking me to do a reggae night for awhile now and this will include as much as I can cover (and there's a lot; Prince Buster produced over 600 singles in an 8 year period during the 60s). We'll start as early as the mento period and space out on some 80s dub.

Friday's a private gig. If you know about, well then you know about it.

Saturday's a semi-private thing for one M. Honnorat. If you don't know about it, ask me, and I'll invite you.

Bisous,

DJ Whistle Punk

Wednesday Feb 28th 21h to 2h
Le bistrot des artistes
6 rue des Anglais
Metro: Cluny/La sorbonne or Maubert-Mutualité

Thursday March 1st 21h30 to 2h
Mange Disque
58 rue de la fontaine au roi
Metro: Goncourt
free entry, wine and cheese and deli plates (à la Francais, bien sûr!) available at good prices

Born at the Wrong Time II: Jump et la naissance du rock n roll

After last week's delightful Another Country soirée, DJ Whistle Punk makes a quick return to Mange Disque with a completely different theme, but one guaranteed to keep the kids jumping.

When Elvis Aron Presley walked into Sun Studios in 1953 to record a single for his mother's birthday, blues was already 15 years gestating into rock n roll. Jump blues, with its up-tempo, driving rhythms and shouted, syncopated (often bawdy) vocals, was rock n roll before there was rock n roll. (And oddly, one of the few blues forms that regulates the guitar to the rhythm section.) Its purveyors gave swing a kick, rode the politics of racial segragation and helped birth the dominate musical form of the US for the past 50 years (until folks starting scratching records and rapping over them).

In his second installment of Born at the Wrong Time, DJ Whistle Punk lets you live the magic moment of that day in Memphis and moreso, the heady musical stew that led up to it. Come taste rock n roll history. Your mother will be proud of you.

Co-sponsored by Take On Paris.

Friday Dec 1th 21h30 to 2h
Mange Disque
58 rue de la fontaine au roi
Metro: Goncourt
free entry, wine and cheese and deli plates (à la Francais, bien sûr!) available at good prices

Another Country