The Script, Gavin Friday in Paris tonight

Parisians may not be eating our pork, but tonight they'll have two tasty helpings of our pop.

The Script (right), the latest new U2/Van/Cranberries, are capitalising on the incessant French airplay for 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved'. They're playing at the Pont Ephèmere, a small venue in the north of the city.

The show sold out ages ago; the CLUAS Foreign Correspondent (Paris) has been contacted by people looking for tickets, based on the logic that only a dozen people live in Ireland and we all know each other well enough to have loads of tickets for each others' concerts. Which is true, of course.

The French media is more sophisticated that to reduce The Script to 'the new U2'. No, Paris has pondered and its position is that the band play 'Celtic soul' à la Van the Person. Again, incontestable logic from the land of Descartes.

From the new U2 to the anti-Bono: the mighty Gavin Friday is also in Paris. He's at the Centre Culturel Irlandais (a.k.a. 'the Irish College') as narrator in Ian Wilson's work "The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World".

So, none of his own tunes tonight from the erstwhile Fionan Hanvey. But it's a good opportunity to remind ourselves of the cracking singles he has made with his long-time associate Maurice Seezer: from early '90s RTE music show 'Electric Ballroom' here are stripped-down versions of 'I Want To Live' and 'King Of Trash':

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