SATURDAY NIGHT THE TRAMMPS, TEARS FOR FEARS.

The Trammps with The Night The Lights Went Out. Album The Trammps III (1977).





The Trammps more or less invented disco. I was never a huge fan of the genre, but must admit key hits deserve their rightful place in Humanity's Great Pantheon of Music. Earl Young was the key figure throughout, being co-founder, singer and drummer.



Eighties softrock: Change from Tears for Fears. From the album The Hurting (1983).





Tears for Fears, i.e. the duo Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, formed in 1981 in Bath, UK. Despite their rather ghey look, especially Smith, TfF were immensely popular with teen girls in the Low Countries in the early to mid eighties. 'Despite' or perhaps rather 'because of' cause they were not the only band like that for which them females fell in droves (Duran Duran, the inventors of metrosexuality, comes to mind). Anyway, TfF had considerable talent and it's a pity they broke up in 1990. Some of their stuff is perfect and does not deserve the relative obscurity their oeuvre has sunk in.


Goede nacht.


MFBB.

THE JOYS OF MULTICULTURALISM: CONGOLESE RAPPERS SET FIRE TO CONCERT HALL AND GARE DU LYON IN PARIS.

Last week, Congolese rappers gave a concert near the Gare du Lyon in Paris last week. A bunch of other Congolese not pleased with the rapper's fans musical style showed up and there followed a huge brawl between the two parties, resulting in the setting of fire of the concert hall, which then spread to the Gare du Lyon:





When fire crews arrived to fight the flames, they were attacked by the Congolese and couldn't do their job, result:

Ils empêchent les #pompiers d’éteindre les #incendie #GareDeLyon #casseur @Qofficiel pic.twitter.com/BIF4toqWFK

— joel belafa (@jbelafa) February 28, 2020

More scenes of this lovely multicultural event:

gare de lyon qui brûle ou va le monde pic.twitter.com/BC2XpPVgtx

— 𝓜 (@ye4rim) February 28, 2020

Unfortunately, French Police wasn't able to intervene because they were far too busy a coupla blocks away to smash the umpteenth demo of tax paying Gilets Jaunes apart. Macron and Hidalgo know their priorities.


MFBB.