Camille at Billboard
Another day another gig at Billboard (god I’m starting to dislike this venue). Camille (Offical Site, wiki), for those who do not know, is a french singer who is quite creative in how she creates her music. My first introduction to her was from her album “Le Fil”, directly translated means “the thread”, and that was represented throughout the album with the constant tone, a “B”, starting at the very beginning to the end. Initially you would suppose that this would be quite limiting, in that all the songs need to be at the same chord, or or annoying but it works. It has been compared to Bjork’s Medulla. This was visible at the gig as the only instruments were a keyboard and a bongo drum I saw used once. Instead she has a group of 5 backup singers and two beat boxers proving the “instrumentation” for each song.
Unfortunately I arrived a little late and was stuck behind a very large crowd so I could not take any good photos, I have some videos however. The first one she is performing “Au Port” and it gets quite funny when she tries to get the mainly English speaking audience to take part, check it out. Hilarious!
See my youtube.com channel to see all the other videos
When she came out for the encore Camille was wearing a black dress with black elbow-length gloves. There was a surprise when she turned around though. Now I have heard of back-less dresses but I have never envisioned a back-less dress with crack showing.
The best thing about the show was the energy of Camille and the back-up singers and I can’t wait for her to visit us down under again.
Here are some photos of the gig by from Flickr (copyright owned by the respective photographers)
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