For the next week (and the previous week) I’m spending time in Paris. This turned out to be largely a convenient set of circumstances, since I had an excellent experience when I was here two weeks ago, and I wished I could spend more time here.
I was fortunate enough to be here for two concerts I wanted to attend, namely Morcheeba and Parov Stelar. Both were at the excellent venue L’Olympia. The concert halls were different than I’m used to in the US, being much smaller, serving actual beer in pint sizes, and being a much more stream-lined affair in terms of coat checks, getting in, and getting out. The Morcheeba concert had excellent music (Ross Godfrey can play some mean guitar solos), however the overall experience had a certain quality missing that I cannot put into words.