PLASTISCINES

New group I have been listening too lately called Plastiscines.

Plastiscines are Katty Besnard (singer/guitar), Marine Neuilly (guitar), Louise Basilien (bass), Anaïs (drums) and former drummers Caroline and Zazie Tavitian. They formed in 2004 after Besnard, Neuilly, and Tavitian, all of whom were at school together, met Basilien, originally a harpist, at a concert by the English band, the Libertines.Their talent was recognised early on by Maxime Schmitt, producer of the German band Kraftwerk, and they were signed by EMI for the Virgin France label in October 2006.

In addition to the Libertines, the band's influences include the White Stripes, the Strokes and, from an earlier generation, the Kinks and Blondie.Their name derives from the phrase, "plasticine porters with looking glass ties" in the Beatles' song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", on the 1967 album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Plastiscines have been critical of French retailing of rock music. Louise Basilien has remarked that she learnt about rock 'n' roll through her parents, the Internet and by reading books: "the generation before us could not learn about rock 'n' roll because the stores here were rubbish".In consequence, the French rock scene in 2006-7 was seen by many as fresh and exciting, even though the requirement that forty per cent of songs broadcast on radio in France should be in French continued to militate against bands who wished to perform in English (which, because of its American origins and British dominance in the 1960s, has always been the prime language of rock 'n' roll).

Here is the video of thier song Barcelona that i really dig......enjoy......

My Little Lisa Loeb

Ok, as I have written before I have this thing for Lisa Loeb. Not sure what it is, maybe her voice, her personality, her cuteness, maybe even the glasses, but there is something about her that is really hot. Also readers will know that at the salon where my stylist Joanna makes me look good, there is another stylist who has a bit of a lisa loeb thing going on or maybe it is that lisa loeb has a bit of a envy stylist thing going on. Either way, it is all for nothing, as she is married, although I hear perhaps there is trouble there.

Anyway, I was off today and coloring my hair, which got me thinking about the salon, and some shampoo I have to pick up after work friday and that of course ade me think of that hot little stylist and that made me think of lisa loeb and this this blog.

Here are a couple of her early videos, and before you say, wow brad likes them young.......the truth s, these are old video's and in reality, lisa is a couple of years older then me...........so enjoy the tunes