Budapest airport shuttle; a woman came and put her hands underneath rosemary’s back and muttered some secret words to heal it and heat came from her hands. The streets of Budapest, too, radiated blinding sunlight. We reached the A38 ship, an ex-stone carrier cargo moored on the Danube river. The engine room became a backstage for the musicians. In the audience, hungarian, french, spanish...
Moriarty on tour: Budapest-Ljubljana. 6.5.2012.
Palermo, Sicilia, April 15th 2012. Teatro Garibaldi, after having been abandoned for years, is opened and occupied by a collective of 60 artists, protesting against misuse of public funds and deep malfunction of cultural policies in Italy. At midnight, just minutes before they’re supposed to hand over the theater to the authorities, stage director Emma Dante appears in front of the hundreds...
Moriarty on tour, La Rochelle, Théâtre de la Coursive. A walk through the botanical Gardens and the Natural history museum, in the company of Zarafa the Giraffe.
Moriarty on tour in Belgium: Tournai, March 2012. Tall towers of the cathedral, industrial modernism of the Maison de la Culture, reminiscent of londonian architect Goldfinger. « Too much and the white Nots » drove all the way from Brussels to open the show. As we were standing in the middle of a street, shooting a picture of Notre -Dame de Tournai, a black alfa-romeo turned around the corner and...
Somewhere in Paris or in Rome, March 21st 2012. (photo by Zim)
Moriarty playing low-noise concerts for five to ten-year old children…It’s a gray and rainy Sunday, the magic mirror spiegeltent is dwarfed by the titanic void of the Grande Arche. Inside, the little kids are pretty quiet but on the final song they stand up and rush to the edge of the stage and start jumping and dancing like in a moshpit.
Moriarty’s Paris World Tour: final acoustic concert at the Maison du Brésil (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris), March 15th 2012. The rough concrete building by Le Corbusier & Lucio Costa resonates like a shell and builds up a tropical heat within minutes. Red green yellow black surfaces are dripping with condensed sweat from a hundred and fifty people. Japanese band Ego...
One busy day, acoustic session on the french radio, acoustic concert at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, together with fellow band Ego Wrappin’ from Japan. In front of the Théâtre de la Coupole, four travellers are waiting at the door with their huge backpacks… they came from Prague hitchiking for two days to see the show.
Moriarty’s international Paris tour: Maison du Japon, March 13th 2011. An acoustic show for 150 people, featuring special guests Ego Wrappin’ from Tokyo (they’ll cover Rita Mitsouko songs tonight). Grey velvety curtains, goldfoil-gilded frescoes, open spaces in a 1927 building made by a french architect in a japanese manner. Where is the « ma »?