FESTIVAL Viens Dans Mon Île

It was intense, it was glorious, it was well-received. We played the entirety of GRAVITY and two other songs from Super 8 in front of a wonderful audience. The Café de la Danse is superb and they gave us a very kind welcome. Merci Paris and thank you to everyone who helped make GRAVITY fly….

A photo from our recent gig in Paris at the Bus Palladium where we were thrilled to be back on stage, under the lights, watching the audience sway. It was loud – cathartic really. Next up a showcase on 2 December at Walrus record shop and café where those who prefer the quieter side of…

Every so often, it is nice to remember the reasons why one wants to play music and it always comes back to one word – pleasure. Recently Sylvain was asked to do a little one-man show at Drouot to showcase the top lots of a guitar sale organized by Castor-Hara – it was an offer…

  It seems that with every opening of the daily news comes this sensation of being completely powerless to change the course of the dark tide that’s rolling in. “Did You Hear They’re Talking About the End of the World Again” is a song we wrote some years back. But now, with suffering all around,…

LUX is a new name for a project that began in 2009 when Sylvain Laforge found his way into my orbit in Paris. The songs came forth like water and still do and we began gigging in Paris a few months after our meeting. Perhaps we were so entranced by the writing and composing that…

When it came time to bring out the second single, we realized that we needed to find the appropriate follow-up to “A Son of Sam”. It was winter and the idea of one of the slower and darker songs – our first consideration – suddenly seemed less like a good idea. “The Ballad of John”…