We Love Paris

Julie from Parisian promoters We Love Art just sent me a selection of photos from the special We Love Border Community soiree they organised for us in Paris a couple of weekends ago. The combination of the perfect location, an electric atmosphere and an all-Border Community line-up made for a wonderful evening for everyone involved: James Holden reckoned it was the highlight of his current mini-tour with Ricardo Tobar, and I reckon it was also coincidentally the gig where little Ricky got the most wasted, so it was probably one of his highlights too…

Anyway, on to those photos: the venue was a monumental seventies wooden building set in the Bois de Vincennes park right on the edge of Paris. Inside was your normal sweaty dancefloor with some hardcore lazer action:

Outside was a chance to cool off without missing any of the music in the wooded garden decorated with our ubiquitous clouds hanging from the trees:

A photo of Petter, who managed to open proceedings with a DJ set, in spite of Air France’s best efforts to lose his record bag “somewhere in Charles De Gaulle”:

When a particularly wasted stage invader took to grinding behind our little Chilean cutie Ricardo Tobar during his set, James’ paternal instinct immediately kicked in and we began to make our way back towards the stage to relieve poor Ricky. But when said stage invader took to swinging James’ DJ bag around by the handle before falling over into the lighting rig at the back of the stage, James’ walk soon turned into a run, and the fuck-up was forcibly manhandled from the stage by our little stick-like and confrontation-shy James himself: I have never seen anything like it! But if you ask me, it was his desire to protect the precious record bag that motivated him, rather than his concerns for poor Ricky as the much more charitable Rosana (my only corroborative witness that this actually happened!) was inclined to believe. Ricardo meanwhile carried on regardless, and didn’t seem phased at all:

Lapin lunatique Nathan Fake meanwhile was as unstoppable as ever:

A Nathan Fake live show really is a bit of an extreme sport, and the bizarre shapes that the techno contortionist throws during the course of a set always brings a smile to my face. I think these two photos rather ably illustrate my point – someone should turn them into one of those animated gif things, enabling a Nathan Fake live show simulation in the comfort of your own home:

Finally, James Holden handled the graveyard shift to round things off while the others got wasted, as is usual at these type of events:

Only for some reason tonight he decided to take his shoes and socks off to DJ, much to the entertainment of Petter and myself (and seemingly also the other photographer in this shot):

So there we have it: thanks to the We Love Art crew for everything, and thanks also to everyone who came along and embraced the full head-to-toe Border Community experience. We Love Paris too!