* Martina Topley-Bird and Rox at Les Eurockeennes De Belfort Festival 2010 *

This year, just before the summer time, I was looking to find yet another festival, that I haven't visited until now, with good line up and not in Switzerland (where I live), so that I can combine musical with traveling experience. And what did I found? Les Eurockéennes de Belfort, festival only few hours away from Zurich. I’ve organized press accreditation, booked a hotel, packed my mic, voice recorder (and comfortable shoes of course) and headed off to Belfort. Les Eurockéennes de Belfort is a festival that is taking place on the peninsula of Malsaucy, near Belfort France. Amazingly enough, even if this festival is happening since 1989, it’s line up seems to be always fresh, but not overwhelming, having just right amount of more and less known artists. Easy to access: if you were staying at the campsite you could take a walk or a shuttle buss and if staying in Belfort, there were free local trains running every half an hour, even during the night. Les Eurockeennes has five stages: Grande Scene (main stage), Loggia, Chapiteau, Plage and Club Deville. All of the stages are surrounded with green and water. One of the stages is even set right on the beach. Adding to the great chilled vibe, that until now, I only truly experienced at French festivals ( fabulous Rock En Seine last year), taking a break is easy anytime, finding a quiet place in the nature and recover. It's impressive line-up, that includes many of my favorite artists from different genre, fortunately for Gimme A Beat listeners, doesn't include male artists and bands only, but fair amount of brilliant female artists from all over the world. Tonight my focus will be on two female artists: Martina Topley-Bird, British female artists who gain fame at early age through her professional collaboration, as well as personal, with trip hop pioneer Tricky. I loved both of her solo albums, especially 2nd one, the Blue God, so I was curious to hear and see her live. Her performance was a great moment. She looked beautiful and dreamy, like a princess in her red strapless dress and around eye make-up mask, that for the moment, I felt like I was mesmerized into another world. The world of Martina Topley-Bird. Excellent and stunning performance, followed up with another one, closing gig of the festival, where she performed together with Massive Attack. Wearing mermaid look-alike gold/black strapless dress, again, she added a touch of her dreamy world to their performance as well. During an interview, backstage in the car to avoid noise of the concert that was happening at that moment,  she was very approachable and easy going and I felt like I am chatting with somebody that I know for ages, about personal, intimate, deep subjects like love and music and life experiences in general. Another artist that I had a pleasure to have an interview with was Rox, young British soul artist, that was for a very good reason tipped for the next big thing of the 2010. Her gig was loads of fun, with her showing off not only her vocal capabilities and her powerful soulful voice but also dancing skills, when she went down while bogle dancing during the "Rock Steady" performance. The whole moment was even more authentic since her concert was on Plage stage, that as the name suggests, is the (only) stage on the beach. Everybody were dancing and clapping, all smiles, hooked on an infectious vibe of Roxanne Tataei. She was bubbly and funny when I meet her in the press area during the press conference. However, even if she is only 21, she gave me an impression of the person that knows exactly what she wants career wise and that is without any doubt standing 100% behind her music. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonight (16.08.2010) on Gimme A Beat, it's all about sharing my impressions, playing the music and interviews with Martina Topley-Bird and Rox Tune in for.. Les Eurockeennes De Belfort Festival 2010 from 21:00 - 23:00 (time changed due to the studio being closed after 23:00 tonight) on: webradio lora featuring: gimme a beat, 16th of august, on radio lora Kisses, Babymonster -------------------------------------------------------------------------- for the info about old shows please go to:
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