Black Sessions

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Black sessions are performances of live music broadcast on the French radio station France Inter. They are recorded in front of a live audience, and feature on the C'est Lenoir show.

The first performance was in 1992 and since then many French and international artists have performed Black sessions including:

• The Cure
• Catatonia
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Throwing Muses
• Pulp
• Pavement
• Radiohead
• Belle & Sebastian
• Elbow
• Weezer
• The Rentals
• The Eels
• Yann Tiersen (best known as the composer of the Amélie soundtrack)
• Röyksopp (with a power-out goof at the beginning)
• Feist
• Franz Ferdinand
• Interpol (Interpol released The Black EP which featured a number of tracks from their 2002 Black session)
• Bloc Party
• The National
• Nine Black Alps (the Glitter Gulch EP released by Nine Black Alps contains Coldhearted, the song performed on their Black session.)
• The Divine Comedy
• Klaxons
• Guillemots

[edit] External links

• List of bands who have performed Black Sessions
• C'est Lenoir Official Homepage (in French)