The amphitheater felt like a great curved wall made of people. Then the Villagers from Dublin, Ireland and finally Beirut took on the stage… Moriarty’s Missing Room tour, Lyon, July 18th, 2011.
The perfect theatre. Moriarty’s Missing Room tour, Lyon, july 18th 2011
Chauffer dans la noirceur = conduire dans la nuit. (Bastille day under a full moon and next to the Normandy shore, far away from the national military parades). Moriarty’s Missing Room tour, July 14th, 2011.
Moriarty on the road: festival Chauffer dans la noirceur, 07.2011
We came in on a bright afternoon and the sun bounced off the surface of the Leman. In the distance Switzerland glimmered in the haze. They took us backstage to a big castle overlooking the site and everybody gasped in awe but in the end we found the dressing rooms behind the building, in the usual overheated prefab box. During the gig we felt the presence of the endless waters behind us…...
Somewhere between Switzerland and France, on the road to a festival in Thonon, at the edge of the Leman.
Summer festivals with a little bit of rain…
Moriarty on tour: Eurockéennes de Belfort, July 3rd 2011.
Woke up at 4a.m. for a sunrise concert, live on radio France Culture.
Sometimes you wake up in a hotel room that makes no sense.
Heat.
Moriarty on tour in Berlin, June 2011: after playing for the Fête de la Musique in Paris we tried to catch an hour of sleep, drove to the airport and hopped on a tiny airplane around 5am and took off for Berlin as the sun rose… We fell into a deep ten-thousand feet-high sleep and woke up as the wheels hit the runway at Schönefeld, and a sweet beige berliner cab took us to the Michelberger...
High heels on a horsetrack: Solidays 2011
The Lido, Kreuzberg.
Riding down the river with music
Fête de la Musique 2011: Moriarty will be playing on a riverboat tonight, 7:30pm, floating down the river (broadcast: Radio France Bleu 107.1fm in Paris)
Caught at a frontier station, somewhere between two borderlines
Switzerland here we come ! (you can hear Moriarty live in Geneva & Lausanne on radio Couleur 3 at 5pm and on RSR at 7pm tonight)
you forgot all that you left behind.
Just finished shooting the video for Isabella, smoothly directed by Fred Poulet and his super 16mm camera crew, with the help of about forty volunteering extras and three actresses… Fueled by ginger beer, almonds and cherries. Thanks everybody for patience and dedication!