Top of the (French) Pops 3
It's time for a Monday night playlist from DJ Nico (librarian at the Institut français). If you missed episode 2, catch up on Culturethèque iPlayer...which doesn't exist, so try this link.
I think DJ Nico has been eating too many galettes at Le Bistrot (which continues this week peeps!), because he's gone all Celtic on us...for folk-sake!
Before you grab your gladrags and get down to the Breton beat, let's have a stretch and sign up to Culturethèque right here.
All done? So let us continue with Alain Stivell's 'ar bleizi mor'. Now you might think that I've had a bit too much cidre, but I swear on Pete Doherty's life that those three words are real.
In at number five, it's the '40eme Festival Interceltique de Lorient' - slicing up moody vocals in a 3/4 time signature.
Number four will have you riverdancing up the walls as we jet off to NYC for 'Unplugged New York City'. Hits include: Princess of Lorient (part one AND part two), Kroas hent (again these are real words, I'm not drunk), and Christmas 1914 (don't laugh).
Number three is mash up time. Picture this: Pet Shop Boys wearing kilts in a lift. What do you get? 'Le grand encrier' by Alain Genty. Top track is most certainly: La douche du pouldu - anyone who can make a song about a shower is definitely a winner in my eyes.
Just missing out on the top spot, like Oxford United, are Matmatah who like to crank up the amps but still keep it accordion-ly real. Their first release was Les Moutons in 1992...
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And now, what you've all been waiting for: Tri Yann's 'Chansons de marins'. This music reminds me of that Mighty Boosh episode, so don your marine stripe top and wellies With a Bing Tow-Row-Row...
Bonus points if you can spot the sting ray just chilling.
Here at Culturethèque, we always stick to traditions. DJ Nico is a particular fan (if I may speak on his behalf) of Techno Chicken, where the video was coincidentally made by Olivier Le Petit Breton!