Back to the Parisian suburbs, after a long exhausting drive from Ardèche. Moriarty on tour with Christine Salem, Festival Africolor, MC93, Bobigny, 08.12.12.
Snowfall, theatre & casino in the mountains, the staff met years before in Montselgues & Joyeuse. The audience standing up from their seats to dance at the end of the show; Moriarty on tour with Christine Salem: Théâtre Quinconces, Vals-les-Bains (Ardèche) 07.12.12.
Back on the road with Christine Salem & her musicians Harry & David from the Reunion Island. First stop: Théâtre d’Annonay, Ardèche, 06.12.12. A long drive south in the tour-bus, with Tom and Arthur at the wheel. On the way we kidnap a deviant Santa-Claus advertising for an american soda at a gas station. Then we drive by the intimidating monstrous skeleton of Lyon Confluences built...
Moriarty performing a special show in the childrens hospital of Clocheville, walking through the corridors in music and singing songs to the children in the bedrooms.
(thanks to the hospital staff and the association Blouses Notes)
Tours (F), December 12th 2012.
A travel through the damp fog, cold moist stones welcome us at the abbey-cum-penitentiary. And a cat named Booboo is the master in the house. The performance takes place inside the former dormitory where hundreds of nuns used to sleep, fifty meters long and a barrel vault made of wood like the belly of a ship. Christine Salem joins us for a few songs, Sakalav’, Black Betty… We have to...
6 days, 6 musicians in 10 square meters: recording doing undoing structuring destructuring repeating forgetting remembering fixing rolling.
Driving back home after a show in Anjou; 125km/h on the A11 highway; suddenly a tire explosion shakes and rattles the tourbus, Morgan at the wheel keeps steady control over the vehicle but in a few seconds we find ourselves scraping the metal rim on the asphalt. Smell of hot burnt rubber. Cold winds over the hills as cars and trucks speed by… Moriarty on tour, with Wayne Standley: Tribute...
Somewhere in the french countryside, the border between Anjou and Poitou. Golden hills covered with vineyards, families gathered in farmhouses made of white stone, icy chilling cold arctic air and warm sunshine on a landscape that looks like another Big Sky Country, Montana maybe? Guitarist Seb Martel invited us to perform a tribute to Woodie Guthrie. We in turn invited Rosemary’s dad...
« Hope & Love for Japan », a concert raising funds for tsunami victims in the Tohoku region. Minutes after going off stage at the Theatre de la Bastille, we hop on a cab with a few instruments, and rush to the Parc de La Villette. As we arrive, Yoko picks us up, Gush have just finished their show, and without soundcheck we storm the stage, plug in the guitars, and start playing right away...
Théâtre d’Arras: the very last gig of the Missing Room tour in France. 09.10.12. Marie-Jo and her Café Georget, stories of vocal chords & charcoal mines. Rain, drizzle, empty squares. Rosemary & Dom La Nena open the show with Monteverdi’s « Lamento della Ninfa », « Bird on a Wire », « Homo Fugit Velut Umbra », a traditional spanish song called « Duerme Negrito », Tom...