12 July 2010
That’s me on television aka Nuit Brooklyn @ Les Nuits de Fourvière 2010
The National, Dirty Projectors, Sharon Jones & St. Vincent all shared a stage earlier tonight (Central European Summer Time) at Les Nuits de Fourvière, a two-month long, multidisciplinary arts festival that happens every year in Lyon, France, about four hours Southeast of Paris by car.
This summer one of the festival’s artistic directors, Marc Cardonnel — his official title is Conseiller Artistique (tres chic!) — visited my neighborhood to get some more background on a night he’d booked dedicated to the musical life of our borough. Point being his crew filmed my interpretive waxations on the subject, wherein I trace the distinctions between Dirty Projectors (representing younger Brooklyn), The National (representing bourgie Brooklyn — pronounced boo-zhee and not really French), and Sharon Jones (i.e. real Brooklyn as in, like, she lived in Rockaway for awhile which is, to be frank, actually in Queens).
St. Vincent is nice and all but she’s more or less from Texas.
Also they made my hair look terrible:
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Posted by Alec Hanley Bemis
Tags: Alec Hanley Bemis, Brooklyn, Bryce Dessner, Dirty Projectors, France, Lyon, Sharon Jones, Smooth Jazz, The Dap-Kings, The National, Things French People Like, Tuck & Patti, Windham Hill