PHOTOS: Yellow Radio @ La Dame De Canton

The Paris-based band played La Dame De Canton Thursday, January 31st. And they'll be around the French city this month, don't forget to check them out.

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And here's their first video for their single Cooking The World

PHOTOS: Somerset @ La Dame de Canton

Here is the photo set of Somerset taken last Saturday at La Dame De Canton. Imagine a boat on the Seine organizing rock concerts in what is becoming the trendy area of Paris. Take a good Britrock band. There you are.

BLOG: Anecdotes of the 1990s

If you're 30 years old (plus), you surely have anecdotes about the intermingling of your life with the music of the days, be it meeting one of the Britpop stars or living the gig of your life or even writing an essay about your love for one of these bands.

Whatever it is, we'd love to hear about it.
So what was it like for you to live the 1990s?
Send us an email on highandloud.blog@gmail.com and we'll publish you!

SONG OF THE WEEK: Ruen Brothers - Aces

This first month of 2013 seems to bring good music once again back on the main stage with Miles Kane releasing his best single so far with Give Up. And if we're careful enough and keep on believing in the virtues of rock and soul, the decade could turn out to be the Swinging Tennies.

That's why this week's song is for us the Ruen Brothers' Aces. Coming from London, the duo made of Rupert and Henry Stansall recently uploaded  the video for their very vintage single. As well as having an amazing vocalist who owes a lot to Eric Burdon and, yes, let's admit it, to Brendon Urie , the two guys also have an inner sense of what mod-inspired music has to be : upbeat, melodic, individualistic enough not to be classified in a genre but  rallying enough to appeal to a new generation of unconventional people.

The Ruen Brothers epitomize the longing of post-teenage kids for old-fashioned fame and music and manage to release the second best single of this new year. Remember, the Mods are not back because they never really went away. And the tide might well come in again in 2013.

REVIEW: Bigmoneymakers @La Féline

Saturday night promised to be a great night of indie rock n' roll in what is becoming a favourite haunt for concert-goers and the arty people of Paris. And it kept its promise: the organiser turned DJ put some sleek records, the five lads of Bigmoneymakers performed an awesome show in front of a packed venue and the Russian-ite atmosphere provided by the rule "if you wear a chapka, you get free vodka" was enough to sanctify the evening.

At High And Loud, we now know that you have to come early to be able to enjoy a BMM gig from inside the venue- which is better in these freezing days. Which is what we did, enjoying a pint of traditional northern ale called the Goudale (yeah, coming from the Englih "good ale") till at 9pm, the band took the stage. The front row was made of twenty-something girls who were not there by chance and seemed to be as much in love with the songs as with the band.

Performing what is now an ideal setlist, the band blasted the little street of Ménilmontant with their tunes Rolls Royce, Not That Hotand New Song , and of course their hit single Tired To Get Fired.

After fifity minutes of sweat and furor; the band left the stage, allowing the DJ to show his talent and his good taste in matters of mod, rock and indie. We stayed there a bit longer, catching the last underground train with what turned out to be one of the worst hangovers we've ever had.  If Paris was London, the Bigmoneymakers would at least be fronting the NME. So what is France waiting for?