Calling everyone in Strasbourg!

Tomorrow we will be playing 9:30pm at La Laiterie
Hope to see you all there xx

Why is Keira Knightley eating a bottle of Chanel perfume, and how is this meant to
convince us that Coco Mademoiselle is a luxury Item that we really should buy??

Why?

This is the question that springs to mind the first time you see this image-
gorgeous, skinny, famous, intelligent and talented girl gnawing on the lid of a
glass perfume bottle. Seriously, what is it that these advertising folk are trying
to say?

If you buy this perfume you will never feel the need to eat chocolate again?

Or perhaps....

If you buy this perfume you will never need a man again because your romantic life
will be near complete now that you have coco in your hands??

Or even....

If you buy this perfume and stick it to your mouth, you will instantly give up your
lifelong addiction to x?

Or.....

if you buy this perfume you too can be sexually appealing even whilst doing
downright stupid things such as eating glass?

This is no slight against Keira. Of course, Keira looks dead sexy doing pretty much
anything, even chewing on a glass lid for no intelligible reason at all, but why
ruin the fantasy of her being a highly sophisticated young lady by making her eat
perfume? What were they thinking? C'mon team Chanel, think! Even a fantasy girl's
imaginary high IQ goes down at least 40 points when you see them eating a perfume
bottle, no matter how pretty she is or how much she got paid to do it.
Somehow it just doesn't make sense.

It reminds me of a girl I went to school with who thought it was sexy to walk around
with her pinky finger resting at the corner of her mouth. It wasn't sexy, in fact it
was a little silly. Which brings us indeed to the next question.....

How?

How many people actually said, yes to this campaign photo?

Of all the photos that were taken, of all the many concepts that were discussed,
after many millions got spent and after all that could have been brainstormed had
been brainstormed, how on earth or otherwise, could this have been the best choice?
How?
Lets look at the facts here- in order to approve any one photo, there are a hell of
alot of people it has to go through- the photographer and his manager/ agent, the
model and her manager/ agent, the artistic director, the advertising company, the
product manager, the image consultant from Chanel, the marketing team, tetc etc et
the list goes on...... All of these people were involved in choosing the "money
shot" and this was the best they could come up with???

Really??

Please, someone enlighten me, as this poster graces the billboards at nearly every
Parisian bus stop I pass (fashion capital of the world may I remind you), and each
time i ride by, I look at this completely nonsensical campaign and think.. why?
Which leads me to the question.....

Who?

Who on earth will buy this product as a result of seeing such a ridiculous photo?
Sadly, alot of rich people who think they have nothing better to do with their money
(I say think because apart from financing nuclear bombings or investing in
endangered species killings, I don't see there being many more tragic ways of
spending money than on this).. Thank baby Jesus we have seen the light and don't
have to buy it.
Consequently we will NOT be consigned to a lifelong habit of munching on perfume
instead of real food and of making love to lids as opposed to members of our
preferred sex.

AMEN xxxx

PS- for those of you who wear this perfume, please don't take this personally, I
have never even smelled coco mademoiselle... I am sure it is lovely. Nonetheless,
you should throw it away now on principle.

Pigtailed girl gets kicked out of the U.K after a decade of British living.
Moves to Paris since they seem to love immigrants there.
She gets a job taking coats and telephone calls in posh Parisian Cafe.
Learns how to play the role of« Hostess »
While being the worst hostess in the world (loses coats, gets bookings wrong, cant understand French) the pigtailed girl basically spend her time spacing out and writing song lyrics on scruffy menu pads.

Then, One fine sunny day. she sees a pony tailed man with lots of tattoos sitting and reading a newspaper outside the cafe.
She finds him rather intriguing but cannot say why.
The next time he comes back to the cafe, they exchange numbers and arrange to meet up for a coffee.

So they meet up.
Drink tea instead of coffee
She finds out that he is an orchestra conductor, contemporary composer and piano virtuoso who has studied with eveyone and anyone in the world of classical music
He finds out that she is actually a self taught singer- songwriter and had been an alternative rocker for years
A unlikely musical combination indeed..

Until one day.
She quits the cafe.
Joins a band called Nouvelle Vague and tours all over the world for a bit..
Then on another day very similar to that one day, she writes out a load of song titles.
And then writes a load of songs to go with the songs titles
Looks for someone to record it.
Someone not too poppy, not to Whoops Shiny Lady !
And after much pondering and debate she chooses to record with none other than that orchestra conductor, Nicola Tescari.
They record using very expensive pianos played in very posh rooms, generoulsly donated by the Katia Labeque Foundation of love and pretty sounds.
They get some friends to come play with them in these very posh rooms with very posh pianos and, using very posh microphones, which are dotted around the place by master soundsmith Mr David Chalmin, they record the load of songs.
Very soon they have an album.
She called Venus Gets Even.
If you like what you hear here then you will probably also like what you dont hear here.
In that case, you should get youself to a gig at your ealriest convenience.