Katuwapitiya

I have a lot on my plate, so the blog hasn’t seen many updates lately. For that, I apologize. Tonight, I had a night to unwind. For the past 3 months, I’ve been looking forward to seeing Yann Tiersen, the composer of my favourite movie soundtrack of all time, Amelie. La Valse D’Amelie and Comptine D’un Autre Ete are two of my favourite songs, period. 

Unfortunately, Yann decided to take it in a different direction. Instead of beautiful, soulful piano/accordian/violin, we got a bunch of loud unexpected “rock”. I’ve never been more disappointed during a concert. One song from the Amelie soundtrack during a 15 song set. What’s worse is that, being close to the stage, we were able to see the set list and saw that “Amelie” was written as a second encore.  What Yann didn’t realize (as he didn’t bother wth a second encore) is that it’s hard to get a crowd into a show/excited enough to cheer for a second encore when all you do is stretch out long guitar notes in the middle of wtf-inducing songs. I can’t be the only one who expected a laid-back parisian type of night. Instead, we got loud j-pop mixed with My Bloody Valentine in “Asobi Seksu” (who weren’t bad, but definitely didn’t fit in with the Yann Tiersen vibe we were expecting, also, annoying vocals) and Yann rocking out with a guitar, another guitar, and a violin. “Sur la fil” was the obvious highlight as it was the only song he played from the aforementioned soundtrack. 

I know that artists (re: Smashing Pumpkins) look back on their successful songs with disdain. They want people to hear their new shit, they’ve written new shit and the people should know about it. They don’t want to live in the past, they feel that they’re better than before. 

We don’t care. Play the shit we want, the shit we know and love. The shit we paid to hear/see.

For the record, here’s what would have gotten the crowd into it: