AGENDA

18 > 27/10/2012

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sun21

• film 14h00
• Debate 15h00
• film 16h00
• film 17h30
• concert 18h30
• Debate 19h00
• film 19h30
• Debate 21h00
• film 21h15

A platform that lends itself to complicit listening, shared poetry, dropped defences and murmurings of revolt. A new stage for the savouring of songs, ranging from the intimate to the critical, the biting to the gentle, the satirical to the voluptuous, and the concerned to the light-hearted:

Playful wordsmith Daniel Hélin generously spouts his incessant stream of poetry, tragicomic fables and chaotic improvisations. Clown, storyteller, slam artist and actor, his songs resolutely address the miseries of the world or the self, but are infused with a tenderness for the human beings that we are in the face of widespread fakery.  Self-deprecation guaranteed and possible trialling of a few bits from his next album.
www.danielhelin.be

A diehard and anarchic libertine, lover of popular poetry and pretty boys, Nicolas Bacchus, with his provocative cheek and intelligent songs that can be touching or wicked, focuses on public morality, prevailing hypocrisy and society’s stupidity. Irreverent and vulnerable, humble and enraged, equally adept at politicising as at spoonerisms, he knows how to take it and dish it out. Mothers-in-law and moguls, prudes and bigots, keep away!
www.nicolas-bacchus.com

The result of a meeting while taking a shortcut, the Ioanes Trio crazily but unpretentiously blend a round and dancing acoustic bass, a tender or strident turbulent accordion and a rhythmic and melodic gypsy guitar with tender and profound vocals as stony as a pain in the back of a sore throat. With no controlled origin, their romantic songs mix rebel poetry with street entertainer culture, protest singing and the blues. A dance. A shout. A beer. A barricade. Music!
http://ioanes.free.fr/

The dark, sometimes mind-blowing and resolutely rocky world of Melanie Isaac is home to allusion-clad lyrics that play with the senses, sounds and ambiguities. Ingénue or melancholic, disabused or revanchist, spoilt or spiritual, Melanie Isaac evokes ambiguous loves that are disappointed or unrequited, complicit or complicated, physical or fallacious, valetudinarian or solitary. A decadent piano, jangling guitars, a languid voice and poetry.
www.melanieisaac.com