The French Disconnection is a new festival aiming to right the wrongs in our perception of French music - ie it’s all either
a/ fromage like MC Solaar or
b/ poubelle like Jonny Halliday,

and bring us some merde-chaud bands while they’re at it. It will happen at the Luminaire - Time Out’s Live Music Venue of the Year, don’cha know - and will be the first ever festival to be brought to you in instalments. That is because if we did it all at once it would just be TOO MUCH GOODNESS for two ears to handle, and you would keel over in shock and your head would explode. Comprendez, yo?

Saturday May 27th / 7pm until 2am
SEBASTIEN TELLIER + JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER
GUEST DJ : ANDY VOTEL

The Luminaire (Time Out’s Live Venue of The Year, 2005/2006)
311 High Road - Kilburn - London NW6 7JR
Tickets: £10,50 adv. / £12 on the door

For the premiere fandango, on Saturday May 27th, curated by the godlike ANDY VOTEL, we are immensely proud to be bringing you SEBASTIEN TELLIER and JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER. Andy Votel ’ll be playing a set of Fuzz-ridden ye-ye after the show to a blistering Anglo-French dancefloor.

Andy Votel should need no introduction, but if he does - and why, child, you should be ashamed - he’s a designer, producer, DJ, remixer, filmmaker (butcher, baker, candlestick maker) and head of Manchester’s awesome Twisted Nerve label. There’s not a net in the world big enough to catch all the music Andy loves: this man’s depth of passion and breadth of knowledge will take your breath away.

Now, M. Sebastien Tellier you’ll have heard of, unless you’ve had your head up your derriere - the multitalented Parisian wunderkind (hang on a minute...) who wowed us with his exceptional album ’Politics’ and its deservedly ubiquitous single ’La Ritournelle’. Since then he’s been touring with Royksopp, played a sold out Bush Hall, released second single Broadway and, in France only, an acoustic album called ‘Sessions’.

Jean-Claude Vannier’s phonebook must read like a Who’s Who of French music. What first piqued our interest was his longtime collaboration with none other than Serge Gainsbourg, but the more you find out, the more you want to find out. Entirely self-taught, his skills as arranger, composer, conductor, soundtrack artist and more are in demand around the globe, and we feel tremendously lucky to have him.

THE SUMMER COLLECTION will be brought to you, well, in the summer. We’re keeping the line-up under our chapeaux for now, but it will be unveiled to attendees of the Spring Collection on the night, and to the rest of the world at a later date.