{"id":18375,"date":"2018-07-10T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18375"},"modified":"2018-07-10T23:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T22:46:53","slug":"the-fabulous-la-ferme-electrique-festival-tournan-en-brie-france-with-the-monochrome-set-fri-6th-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-fabulous-la-ferme-electrique-festival-tournan-en-brie-france-with-the-monochrome-set-fri-6th-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The fabulous La Ferme Electrique festival, Tournan en Brie, France, with The Monochrome Set, Fri 6th July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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La Ferme Electrique is a fabulously friendly small musical festival in Tournan-en-Brie, some 25 minutes from Paris via train, that runs over two nights in July.<\/p>\n

Small scale, alternative, fiercely DIY and totally non-corporate, my band The Monochrome Set were lucky enough to be invited to play the main stage last weekend.<\/p>\n

Here’s some photos from the Friday night.<\/p>\n

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The festival runs over\u00a0two consecutive nights, and stages around 20 concerts, happenings, music related art exhibitions, join-in musical experiments, rare or unpublished film projections.<\/p>\n

The event takes place in\u00a0old farm buildings that are temporarily converted by volunteers for the festival, and there’s a strong DIY theme throughout.<\/p>\n

I absolutely loved this intimate and super friendly festival, and felt honoured to be invited to perform. Here’s some photos from my short time at the festival:<\/p>\n

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The festival line-up was painted on to this structure by the entrance.<\/p>\n

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The beer was wonderful!<\/p>\n

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Interactive amplified hanging guitar installation,<\/p>\n

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There were two main indoor stages and two smaller outdoor ones.<\/p>\n

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The mighty\u00a0Marcel Duchamp All-Power Orchestra<\/a> on the main ‘La Grange’ stage, which was located in a large barn.<\/p>\n

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Artwork on the site.<\/p>\n

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The main square.<\/p>\n

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Soundchecking on the smaller ‘Hors Scene’\u00a0 stage.<\/p>\n

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Band on the outside stage.<\/p>\n

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Badaboum onstage.<\/p>\n

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My drum kit for the evening!<\/p>\n

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Checking the levels before our show. A hefty delay on Eurostar meant that we missed our soundcheck so we had to do an extra-speedy line check and just get on with it.<\/p>\n

But – hey! – we’re professionals. Well, sort of.<\/p>\n