I wouldn't have been to this concert if not for Catherine who insisted in going to see this French band covering late 70s and early 80s punk and new wave classics in an easy listening style. The cover drawing of their first album (which I bought) featuring a classy very French looking woman on a blue background has this fitting self-made appeal. Somehow it looks like a pirate copy which it is in a way.

The Mousonturm in Frankfurt-Bornheim was amazingly packed. Apparently they have hit a nerve. Something they didn't expect themselves. Me neither. They are touring the world and have released a second album.

The concert began with A Forest and Ever Fallen in Love. And I thought immediately that this bossanova transformation doesn't work in a live setting. I craved for the originals. But then it got better. And more varied. Especially the blues rock stuff like e.g. Human Fly was great. The Creole guitarist Gerald Toto was the star of the evening. What a pure voice he has. When he was humming it reminded me of Qawwali (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) somehow, there was this spiritual flow in the air, for a minute I thought I was in a church. I could see why Marina Celeste had been chosen for the tour out of the six or so female singers of Nouvelle Vague. Definitely not for her voice which was rather unremarkable. But with her high-heeled shoes she was able to dance in a very sensual unconventional way, later on she threw them away to go bananas on bare feet to the Dead Kennedys Too Drunk to Fuck which they played twice. I also liked their live version of Love Will Tear Us Apart. Unexpectedly it turned into an uptempo jazzy improvisation.