Treize ans après le séisme du 12 janvier 2010, le pays est loin de s’être remis debout. Peut-être est-ce parce qu’il a à peine vu la couleur des dons promis ? L’enquête du site américain CounterPunch a déjà détaillé dans quelles poches sont tombées les sommes versées par Washington et les autres. Cependant les noms … Read more
The sound and hits of a cult band Dire Straits Experience a hit in France! Since its first full Olympia in November 2018, more than 15,000 people have attended the show which immerses you in the world of Dire Straits, down to the last note. More than a tribute, more than twenty years after the … Read more
“Sultans of Swing, Telegraph Road, Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, So Far Away, Down to the Waterline, Money from Nothing… hits and what hits. Fans will tell you: when Dire Straits announced their retirement from the music scene in 1995, it felt like the end of the world for many of them. Twenty five … Read more
Beginnings on the hats of wheels At the end of the 1970s, Mark and David Knopfler created the group Dire Straits with two musician friends: Pick Withers and John Illsley. Far from struggling at their beginnings, the four artists benefit on the contrary from a fairly immediate success. Their talent was first noticed by one … Read more
80’s rock resists at the Zénith The youth of the 80s will be able to take a nostalgia cure this season at the Zénith de Toulouse. The Cure will move in particular in flesh and blood in the pink city. As well as Chris White, saxophonist of Dire Straits, back in The Dire Straits Experience. … Read more
A l’occasion de la sortie de What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?, le nouvel album de Public Enemy, nous avons pu nous entretenir quelques minutes avec la légende Chuck D. Nous sommes en 1989. Cette année-là, le groupe mythique Public Enemy provoque un véritable séisme sur la planète hip-hop. Le poing levé … Read more
Born in 1968 in Bourges, Franck Gilbert has always lived here, apart from studying computer science in Nevers. He worked for twenty-five years in social housing between Opac, Oph, Jacques-Coeur Habitat and Val de Berry before taking to their heels in 2019. Already, in 1995, he started breeding Paint Horses, American horses, of course. At … Read more
The Cafe Racers, the first name of the group Some singers or groups have had instant success, thanks to a first title that propels them to the forefront of the artistic and media scene. This is all the more true in our time when the web offers increased visibility, and allows to “create the buzz”. … Read more
The Dire Straits Experience is an opportunity to immerse yourself in a fascinating repertoire. Like what the “Tribute Band” fashion is good for. Let’s go back in history… “It all started at a charity concert,” explains Chris White, ex-saxophonist of Dire Straits, contacted to reform the famous London group that disappeared in 1995. Mark Knopfler, … Read more
The latest newcomer, “Lescure insolite”, is particularly interested in the amazing stories that also contribute to making the place… The latest newcomer, “Lescure insolite”, is more particularly interested in the amazing stories that also contribute to making the place an enclosure not quite like the others. Throughout the pages, colored with numerous photographs by Dominique … Read more