Laetitia's St.Petersburg show review

So, it started with me, tired after 8 hours of train trip, having breakfast and reading St.Petersburg Times when I came across the article about the forthcoming show,I made photos,so please enjoy, it's quite interesting, sorry if the pix are too small:

part I

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Part II

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The show was amazing, but kinda short. Some songs (the new ones) were played with Seva Gakkel, Laetitia's local friend, playing on a cello. The guitar she was given was kinda broken, but it was fixed in the middle of the show with a piece of sticky tape. Laetita was sweet, often joking in russian, which she spoke quite well)
The venue was small, about 50 people came, so it was quite intimate. So I had a chance to speak to Laetitia. She was gentle and polite as always, signed some 7" for me. We spoke about 10 minutes, mostly about life things. But I asked some stuff about The Groop and the new Laetitia's album. Not much info there. Stereolab seems to be ok, still rocking..and hiatus is just hiatus. Tim is at studio now, working on the soundtrack. The new album will be quite the same as Monade. That's it

Also, the guy who arranged the show, the representative of British Council, noticed my Broadcast t-shirt and we spoke a bit, he gave me the setlist:

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He said they recorded the whole show and it will be avaliable soon on monade's myspace

I videotaped about 6-7 songs in a great quality, just need time to upload them, so stay tuned


^_^

"Natural Child" video

here is the first video, the worst one actually, because my hands tired to hold the camera at that moment

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HFLLCPTU

Re: Laetitia's St.Petersburg show review

thanks so much! this is great!

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oh, that's good! Lucky you, sounds like a worthwhile trip. Can't wait to see the vids and the article was interesting with some nice pics. I wonder what that ceramic thing is that she's holding?

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It's a polar bear)

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Nice. Thanks!

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thank you so much!!
i wish i could be there.

Re: Laetitia's St.Petersburg show review

Hey, so I'm not the representative of British Council...

You can find the interview from the St Petersburg Times here:
http://sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=30878

Enjoy!

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Poor russia :(

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Wow this is fantastic to read, thanks booklover! So she wouldn't say anything about CC2 eh?

I hadn't really listened to Momotte, so I am now on myspace. Maybe with Julian Gasc it does remind me of Stereolab and Monade. The vocalist even sounds a little like Laetitia. But why on their myspace is another band playing by default, and all Momotte songs but one are unavailable? Weird. And their website link doesn't work.