There are ways for a local or be it a newcomer in town to search for what is going on in Paris...One is to go by a metro and grab a free weekly issue of "À Nous Paris" magazine. Be an early bird and pick it up on Monday morning's or else, don't blame me if I didn't warn you. "À Nous" is a good source to find different kinds of events - art & culture, music gigs or what dj's are playing at which clubs. Also, it will spare you some ideas about restaurants and what movies are out in the theaters. Of course all the text is en français but for those who don't speak the language, you will still be able to get by.
Flipped through the pages, I couldn't help but got excited to find one of my very favorite bands advertised to be performing..."Nouvelle Vague at Bus Palladium" June 9,2007, before midnight 10€ and 12€ after. To add on my excitement, getting to see Nouvelle Vague by paying only 10€ or 12€ was beyond my expectation.
The night had arrived and my friends and me were ready to take off to Bus Palladium. Having arrived a little bit after midnight, there was one French guy came straight to us trying to sell the tickets that were supposed to be for his friends, but the friends didn't show up. We were a little skeptical but helped him out anyway. At least we did make one bloke relieved and happy. Went in, ordered a drink, waited for a little bit...one band came out with a singer who looked like she could be one of the female Nouvelle Vague's singers...somehow the other two members were not. And what are these songs...that I had never heard of. OK there were a mix of thoughts - maybe they were an opening band? Or Nouvelle Vague had new songs?
They performed over 5 songs, lost my counts...they were all good but...BUT this is not Nouvelle Vague!?! None of the crowd sang along though some including me moved along...Later found out that it was one of the Nouvelle Vague's singers with her own band "Phoebe Killdeer and the short straws straws". Oh well.
Salute to a little scam...confused people up. Then again it's sort of understandable if they were to advertise anything with the truth, the crowd wouldn't be as many.
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