Here you are, the entire London 10/10/10 concert held on the O2 last sunday by Jean Michel Jarre. Although the tracklist remained the same like every another concert of the tour, this is a very interesting new point of view of a JMJ gig:
London 10/10/10: Three Days Before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHz1adXDkok&feature=player_embedded
London 10/10/10: Five Days Before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36w2gubu1Ws&feature=player_embedded
London 10/10/10: Something Will Happen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dT4bJzfMBc&feature=player_embedded
As Jean Michel Jarre is saying in this video, something strange will happen during his London gig next sunday, so… stay tunned!
Rafael Revert Interview: The Spanish Journalist present in Beijing 81 Concerts
Spanish music radio would not exist as we know it today without the work done by RAFAEL REVERT. Journalist and broadcaster of vocation but heart and soul music lover, this Madrid borned of indeterminable age (due to “read Dracula” as advocated by JEAN-MICHEL JARRE) music lover of Elvis (he was in his burial) and LITTLE RICHARD and creator in the 60s of Los 40 Principales-first as a radio program, then as a group of stations, and Cadena 100 radio station in the 90, has seen some of the most important musical events of the last half century. Continue reading “Rafael Revert Interview: The Spanish Journalist present in Beijing 81 Concerts”
XIII Rendez-Vous: Alicante
The XIII edition of the Rendez-Vous (annual convention of Jean Michel Jarre fans organized by Farilight Jarre) will take place in Alicante on September 10, 11 & 12, 2010. As every year, some musicians of Fairlight Jarre forum will perform in a concert playing their own songs and Jean Michel Jarre’s covers aswell.
Chronicle of a Memorable Evening
Once in Santiago de Compostela, and after a few anxious moments when, because of my proverbial dumbness, misplaced my boarding pass, my brother Punch, our beloved Maestro Raúl Gonzalo and I settled in our brand new hostel apartment Casa Felisa, later known as the “HomoFlat” and after calling Juan to tell him that there were already in Compostela, we were all in the Plaza del Obradoiro. There, like so many times, I felt the thrill of seeing my dear comrades, one of the most special encounters, I think it was mutual, was that of Juan and me: they are many things that he and I have lived, many emails, many projects, and, above all, a great desire to meet again in person was ours, an embrace of the most touching and exciting.
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Santiago Concert Facts
– The estimated starting time is 22.30 but the JMJ has already indicated that he has the last word about it, to ensure that the lighting situation is appropriate. Some delay would be possible because it is getting dark so early, so do not be surprising to see the start of the concert from 23.00h.
– The capacity of the venue is 8,000 people.
– Plaza de la Quintana, just behind the Cathedral of Santiago, have installed a giant screen for the event to follow it also in that place. This square fit 5,000 people. The screen is 7 × 13 m.
– The TVG / Galicia TV will broadcast the event. In principle, it is a false direct from 23.30.
– The project on Saturday has been designed by JMJ and his team. Already made a visit to Santiago for weeks now, and the team is working since Thursday morning to prepare everything.
– The stage will be placed in the same cathedral, particularly in the upper reaches of the entrance stairs of the main facade. It is not usual for artists to play there, because the scenarios are often placed in other areas of the square.
– The public controls to access into Plaza del Obradoiro will begin officially at 20.30.
– The platform on which the stage will be built occupy about 100 square meters.
– 500.000 W will be used for the concert lighting.
Santiago Concert Live TV Broadcast
The concert that Jean Michel Jarre will offer on Saturday July 31 at Plaza del Obradoiro, Santiago de Compostela, will be broadcasted live by the Galician regional television, TVG.
Jarre’s show is expected to start at about 22:30.
Jean Michel Jarre will combine “tradition and high technology” and an “architecture of light” in the Obradoiro
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, June 30 (Europa Press)
The musician and composer Jean Michel Jarre is going to combine “tradition and high technology” and will stage an “authentic architecture of light” in the show by 31 July in Plaza del Obradoiro, Santiago de Compostela.
This is what the artist said today at a press conference, after visiting the Obradoiro, in which he explained that he will paly his old hits and other new songs in the concert. In this way, he said he hoped to have some new tracks that he will be “composing on the road” in the context of his world tour which includes Santiago as its only stop in Spain.
Jarre said that the action will involve a mix of “past and future” and stressed that “Santiago and Galicia combine this sense of being outside of time, whether you are Catholic or not, the message is universal, what drives so many pilgrims to come to Santiago. ”
Also connected to the Galician capital is the heritage of Unesco, an organization of which he is goodwill ambassadorl, and stressed that its objective “is to protect not only old stones, but to celebrate a sense of identity from the artistic and historic point of view . ” “These stones convey this sense of being outside of time, is something unique in this region of Europe,” he said.
At the same time, asked to integrate architecture and project it “as one of the achievements of mankind”, in addition to holding the environment in the event, which is to him the relationship of man with nature and urban settings.
He also noted that it will be a “special concert” because, besides the environment, he will use instruments that are part of the “mythology of electronic music, which are more difficult to play in a live situation. So, stressed that the pieces are played live, what, nuance, “will a real challenge” and that will make “more interesting.”
Photo: Efe
As for the set will feature a combination of video, lights and new type of laser, which will provide an “authentic architecture of light”, which will create a 3-D effect but will not be necessary to use 3-D glasses.
VIDEO
Regarding the video, said to be “very special” because they include animation and images shot with several cameras, one located in his glasses “to have a subjective point of view of everything that happens on stage.”
Finally, he said that the concert meant to imply also an “event in the city” with “significant cooperation” with Spanish technicians and specialists in light and sound.
Thus, he said that he will go to Santiago to establish a “genuine cooperation” with these specialists and to integrate the architecture in the event because “it will be one of the stars” in a performance that will be broadcast on television and recorded in some parts on 3D.
CONNECTION “CITY, MUSIC AND ART”
The Regional Minister of Culture, Roberto Varela, stressed that the appointment of Jean Michel Jarre in the Obradoiro will have a “live performance by one of the best artists in the music scene in the last 35 years.”
The quotation is included in the ‘Path of Music’ on the programming of Xacobeo 2010 and, as highlighted Varela, the event, free entry, will become “a magnificent spectacle which fully integrate music with the latest technology in sound, lights and visual effects “.
After noting the success of the artist in his last concert in Santiago in 1993 at Monte do Gozo, location initially intended for the appointment of 31 July but that was changed by the type of event wanted to offer by the artist, Varela noted that seeks to achieve “a unique connection between city, music and art” in Obradoiro.