Le Violon Dingue

Yesterday, being Sunday, is generally a pretty quiet day in Nantes, and France in general. Literally everything is shut. Shops, banks, museums, newsagents. Even a lot of the boulangeries close.

However, in the evening, the bars in the town centre open up. So, I decided to be adventurous and went to a small bar/music venue called 'Le Violon Dingue'. A small band called Rivari'cha were playing there. They describe themselves as Acoustic/Swing/Rock, which seems fairly accurate. There were five of them in total - two guitarists, a bassist, a drummer and a violinist.

They all seemed to be part of the same family and had, as Caitlin (another assistant) put it, the 'family nose'. Not a particularly spectacular proboscis, but they all had it. If, by this point, you're convinced you want to hear Rivari'chi, you can find them at this link.

Here's some pictures from the gig. We were pretty much at the back - there must've been a maximum of 30 people there. The photos are blurred, but it gives a vague sense of what it was like. I think you can click on the second one to make it bigger and all panoramic.