Archive of the 'French Letter' blog
French Letter is the CLUAS blog penned by CLUAS writer Aidan Curran (more info about Aidan) which has been covering the indie music scene in France, with a keen Irish eye, since 2006. Below are all the blog entries Aidan posted in 2008 (check out as well French Letter's 2007 archive and the archive of French Letter articles published between January 2006 and March 2007). For the most recent French Letter blog postings check out the blog's home page.
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French Letter blog entries posted in 2008
- Best French Music of 2008
- MGMT, Foals top French polls
- How France invented disco
- Diamonds and polls...
- Emily Loizeau: new album, single
- French music: not for Christmas
- Carly Sings, Paris swoons
- Watch the Birdy Nam Nam
- The Script, Gavin Friday in Paris tonight
- Underground Railroad
- Loud, please: music libraries
- Papier Tigre roar into Ireland
- The Ballad of John & Jehn
- France's album prize: and the winner is...
- Tahiti 80: big in Japan (and France)
- French idol's post-jailhouse rock
- The Swell Season, Bloc Party and Paris buskers
- Quidam
- Pere Lachaise: the world's favourite graveyard
- Indie becomes trendy in Paris
- M83, Laurent Garnier at DEAF
- Apple Jelly: wibbly wobbly wonders
- France's album prize: the shortlist
- Minitel Rose and the first Internet
- Herman Dune: new album (quite like the old one)
- PSG: sing when you're losing
- Pirates of the Seine (R.I.P.)
- Paris by jazz: Saint Germain
- Pussydelic: rock n'soul French women
- French Friday: now on Sunday
- Sigur Ros save French festival!
- Carly Sings
- St Augustine and France's new rock capital
- French festival faces financial ruin
- Your next big airplay hit?
- Back in the E.I.R.E.
- Loud music makes you drink more
- Phoenix: new track
- Sarko hits Dublin...
- Bastille Day: your French party playlist!
- French football and feminist disco
- Mrs Sarkozy: new album
- Solidays review (2): The Ting Tings, Foals, The Gossip...
- Solidays review (1): Vampire Weekend, Vitalic
- Coldplay, Pogues raid the Louvre
- Martin Solveig: decent single!
- Da Brasilians: Lo and behold!
- Dublin's French music festival
- France sunk in Le Port d'Amsterdam
- Do the Barth, man!
- Worst football song ever?
- Jape escape to Paris
- Eurovision: no French revolution
- French girls rock Dublin!
- Paul Muldoon: poet and rocker
- Kim: wild!
- The Walls: Paris show
- Justice 'violent' video angers France
- Jonathan Richman
- Keren Ann: Dublin gig in June
- Camille: in a 'Hole'...
- D'you know Junah?
- Solidays, Paris, 4-6 July
- Paris by pop: Eiffel Tower
- Eurockeennes: all loud on the western front
- Main Square Festival: Arras an uachtarain!
- M83: new album, Dublin show
- Serge at 80
- Radiohead 'brown energy' festival gig
- Bell X1: French gigs
- Swearing! Nudity! Violence!
- Patti Smith: Paris photo show
- Springtime in Paris: Poney Express
- Fancy a Jarre tonight?
- French SXSW-ing in the USA
- Music awards: Daft Punk in gimp masks
- Declan de Barra: Paris show
- Sebastien Tellier enters Eurovision!
- Michel Gondry's Irish videos
- Air's 'Moon Safari' ten years on
- 'Parisienne Walkways'
- Paris-London band swap
- Vitalic for Trinity Ball
- Rarely Seen Above Ground...
- Camille: new tracks
- Les Bien: good stuff
- A century of copyright?
- Cocosuma: Nick Drake meets 'Swan Lake'
- Valentine's Day in Paris
- La Marseillaise: France's call
- Thrills soundtrack French TV ad
- Emily Loizeau: album Irish release
- Syd Matters
- Divine Comedy's French 'Alfie'
- MIDEM: remember her Naim
- My Bloody Valentine: Paris gig in July
- A wave in the soul
- Hangin' with Hector Zazou
- The Dodoz: alive and well
- Piaf: La vie en Gold
- Eurosonic 2008
- Sarkozy's son produces anti-Sarko rapper
- Roken Is Dodelijk are deadly
- Paris gigs & bars now smoke-free