Music: Vive La France!

French themed music festival set to celebrate our continental cousins

Brighton will once again will be welcoming our French cousins for a three-day festival and celebration of French music and culture brought to you by Melting Vinyl. Four venues will be hosting an exciting and eclectic mix of electro-pop, Chanson, performances from local French artists under the ‘French Connection’ banner as well as a dose of French-infused World Music, Urban, and Cinema.

Highlights include buzz band Francois & the Atlas Mountains, who will be releasing their new album this week, the palindromic E Volo Love – it’s sung in both French and English – and walks the line between warmly uplifting rhythms and wistful melancholy.

Number one French music and culture magazine Les Inrocks will once again be hosting a night of new music, with sets from Polarsets, College, Air Bag One and a DJ set from Les Rocks Brighton-based editor JD Beauvallet. Members of Francois & the Atlas Mountains will then take to the decks for an after-party at Plateau.

Brighton is also home to many French-born artists, and they will be performing under the French Connection banner throughout the three days; including the dance band Transformer who will this time be deejaying at Green Door Store on 27 January in support of Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws, Justine Taton and Sing Sing My Darling. Later that evening both Melanie Pain and Phoebe Killdeer will be deejaying at Plateau.

Saturday 28 January will see an open discussion on the French music industry at Green Door Store, plus a late night screening of Amelie at the Duke of Yorks, which features a live performance from Nouvelle Vague’s Melanie Pain, followed by an afterparty at Plateau.

Vive La France, 26–28 January.