Yann Tiersen @ Nice

My parents were visiting Cagnes-sur-Mer together with Karita (who’s been visiting my parents for the past couple of weeks) and Tutta, so we figured it’d be a good opportunity to invite them over for a coffee. Of course, having a coffee the “Finnish way” also inevitable involves something to eat as well –heh. The fondant au chocolat I made last weekend was rather tasty, and easy to make, so we decided to try that again. Or rather, Mathilde made it while I went voting (parliamentary elections coming up in Finland…). I think the fondant went down quite well with our Finnish guests…

Barely had we said bye to our guests after a pleasant afternoon, that it was time to head off to Nice, where we had a concert to go to. The venue was in L’Ariane, the real banlieue of Nice (you know, those places you read about in the papers where they do horrible stuff like burn cars), at the Lino Ventura Theatre.

The artist was Yann Tiersen – he’s not very well known abroad, perhaps apart from the fact that he’s behind the music in that rather popular French movie Amelie. The guy is, it has to be said, a bit of a genius. He’s incredible versatile, apparently capable of playing just about any instrument you hand to him (during this concert, he played mostly guitar and violin). The music style is quite varied and versatile as well, rock with influences of classical and folk music I suppose you could call it if you really wanted to put it into some kind of category.

We loved it anyway, great gig! Much to our relief, the car was still at the parking, un-burnt ;-)