Yann Tiersen cannot be mentioned, perhaps sadly, without his majestic 2001 Amelie soundtrack being talked about. It must be hard moving on from that. It was, in short, one of the all time film soundtrack masterpieces. He is far from a…
Kicking off like a primary school orchestra warming up for a show, ‘A Midsummer Evening’ is a heart-filling summer song with a sting of fire in its tail. The choral chanting, discordant electronic instrumentation and strange imagining of a land…
Yann Tiersen and his band don’t like to make a huge entrance. They shuffle onstage in checked shirts, jeans and Converse, each not quite waving, but motioning, to the audience: completely unaffected by the roaring applause they elicit. Their casualness…