Phoenix: Goodbye Soleil

A new video by Phoenix, for the track Goodbye Soleil which sees France's favourite feelgood
indie rockers sing in their native tongue as well as English.

It's a classic summer track and continues the retro Euro dance vibe that their previous single J-Boy and the track Ti Amo explored.

These two tracks along with Goodbye Soleil feature on their forthcoming sixth album Ti Amo released next week.

The band's last album was 2013's bankrupt.

Phoenix are playing pretty much every fesival taking place over the summer. They play Glastonbury at the end of this month, and in France they play Les Eurockéennes,  Vieilles Charrues, Musilac and Beauregard in July

Eurockéennes festival in Belfort

Details of another French summer festival have emerged, with some of the acts on the bill of the being confirmed.

 While Blur were already on the list, 18 acts playing at the event have been revealed.

Others headliners are Smashing Pumpkins and Phoenix. There can't be many festivals that Phoenix are not playing this summer. Others include Alt-J, Two Door Cinema Club and Tame Impala, while the ubiquitous -M- is on the bill as is fellow French act Skip The Use.

 More acts will be announces in April. The Eurockéennes festival takes place in Belfort on the fourth to the seventh of July and this year marks the 25th anniversary of the festival, which first took place in 1989.

 More details at the festival's http://www.eurockeennes.fr/ website

 

Festival: Les Eurockéennes

An announcement of some of the first names confirmed for this year's Les Eurockéennes festival in Belfort at the end of June.

While the Cure have been confirmed as a headliner, a line-up that so far includes Justice, Jack White, Cypress Hill, Lana Del Rey, 1995, Mastodon, Refused, Orelsan, The Kooks, Dropkick Murphy, Whiz Khalifa, Charlie Winston, Shaka Ponk and HF Thiéfaine has been revealed.

The event is one of Europe's biggest festivals and has been running since 1989. Last year saw sets by Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age and Arcade Fire at the top of the bill.

Full details of this year's bill will be unveiled on April 17.