2024-03-27 17:26:37
“Most artists create to be applauded. I create to make people cry”: Tom McRae has just turned 55, still hasn’t changed and it’s so good: he sings pain and sadness in ballads or on the soaring pop of his …
“Most artists create to be applauded. I create to make people cry”: Tom McRae has just turned 55, still hasn’t changed and it’s so good: he sings pain and sadness in ballads or on the soaring pop of his plaintive and high-pitched voice. Depressive perhaps but anything but depressing: the songs of the Englishman that France adopted from his first album (gold record here) warm and unite. A first album and a tour which has created a loyal and intense audience, like his songs which don’t let go after listening.
“The Boy with the bubble gum” is a peak not seen in a quarter of a century. Since 2000, the elegant songwriter has been literary, even in his melodies, his way of presenting a song. Sobriety while being lyrical, power in delicacy. Marianne Faithfull made no mistake, using her talents on her album “Give my love to London”. In 2008, when he had just released his third album “King of Cards”, the Kenzo brand used his song « You cut her hair » to launch a perfume. Rebelote in 2015 with « What a way to win a war ». Butter in the spinach and even greater creative freedom.
From Beaupain to Vanille
Living between Paris and Wiltshire on the other side of the Channel, the songwriter gradually became fond of French-speaking songs. In 2020, he embarked on a duet project with French artists, in a bilingual creation through meetings. He has known Keren Ann for twenty years: she opens with him and with a magnificent “Wild love” before artists he discovered and loved as a listener parade: Chien noir, Clou, Alex Beaupain, Alma Forrer, Rose, Julien Brocal or Helena Noguerra. A sensitive pop areopagus like hers. The whole thing is a joy.
The singer Vanille is in the cast of this “Strange Winter”. The daughter of Julien Clerc and Virginie Coupérie-Eiffel has her quarters in her mother’s estate of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul on the Ambès peninsula and will play “at home” as the opening act for the great Tom. He will be solo in the Barbey club formula. Ideal setting to embrace our neurasthenia.
Thursday March 28 at 9 p.m. in Bordeaux, Rockschool Barbey, Barbey course, 22/27 euros. Part one: Vanilla.
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