J'ai faim

Selah Surprise

That poisoned gift

Christmas gig for Antwerp neighbours

Spoonful : complete

The song that changed everything

There are some days, some moments that are some kind of magical.
Some moments where you can't explain what is just happening.
That you live something exceptional and only yourself realize.
That you could smile or seem happier and that people around you may see your face changes, but whatever.
So much the better for everyone.

Where yesterday, in front of my tabs booklet, I didn't know "what song to work on".
When my music teacher asked me, Destiny let me turn sheets of one by one.
And I fell on Raggamuffin (Sanne Putseys, 2010).
OK. To play this song, you must "be rhythmed" yourself and enjoy doing bar chords.
It is sure: it wasn't me when I asked him to study Raggamuffin.

"Oh yes, I know that song !", he said, and started to hum the song.
Then I started to do the first notes, and he did the following after he saw the right chords on my score.

"This is a song you even play it funky !".
OK, right. Play it funky. Do you know me, really ?
And he showed me.

It's a story of "ups and downs", of "ternary" thing, of doing it "5 times...
Of trying and doing it successfully, and glimpse things more than more in grey.

It was like Raggamuffin became one of my friends.
The chords didn't sound so perfectly but I did bars like I never did before.
It let enter inexplicable energy into my arms, body and mind, so much that I would have been ready to play like the whole Selah songbook !

Other artists songs came also and all these songs semt to come so well that I made a wish at this moment.
The wish that later I could be able to play like I did during this incredible discovery moment:
Raggamuffin still a bit seems to be one of my friends.

Thank you Thomas, thank you Selah (once more), and Merry Christmas to everyone who read this blog...

PS: After the lesson, Raggamuffin helped me also to become a perfect xylophonist for a jam session.

Frustration, chapter I

Next time, feel free to send me an invitation and I will try to do so.

© Selah Sue @ Gucci Paris Masters 2013

Amazing.

It's been just 2 years ago that this moment happened for the first time, and it just came in my mind while, randomly, I was just recalling this moment to a friend.

Rijsel. Concert done. We are three to wait near to the german bus. A girl, her mother maybe and me. My belgian car is not so far so that I have time to take things, ready to be signed. It is cold. Really colder than today, exactly 2 years later. Anyway I know that I won't wait in vain.
Some tens of minutes after the show, first people come from the opposite street with sound equipments to store into the bus. Some L'Aéronef people, some backliners. I friendly ask one of them, a little mustach man, if they waited for someone, as the bus doesn't start after a long time. This guy answers me that "anyway the bus will go directly there" so that I wouldn't have to expect anything... as he saw me waiting for almost 2 hours.

"No waste of time man! Et ouais", he says.

That night, this mustach man couldn't stop the progression of my Selah fan story yet.
Always that calm nighty ambiance... Some talking weirdo walking near to the bus. Même pas peur.

I know I don't have to leave this front of bus, while everyone else could gently go back to their car and home.

And suddenly, I see 2 or 3 people and a big-haired girl walking on the footbridge.
The concert is done since 2 hours and a half. She's walking very quietly to us, with a little bunch of people I don't know.
She's ready to enter the bus but "quickly", she takes the time to take pictures, signs and has a laugh with some flemish speaking buddies before getting on the bus.
Positive vibes that annihilate every negative one I could have found in front of this bus before.

I already was a fan of Selah Sue; that morning I kinda became a fan of Sanne Putseys too.

I used pixelahsition because I don't know if concerned people
would like that their picture to be broadcasted on the internet this way.

I miss Selah Sue.

Selah Sue official new movie !

D'oh.

Back to live: Selah Sue in Romania, by Gabriela

This hundredth post will make us remind that, not so long time ago, Selah Sue used to do concerts all over the world. Not so far from France.

Gabriela from Romania gently offers her thoughts and pictures from this September 22nd evening in Bucharest.
One more thank you to Gabriela. :)
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Selah Sue este un maestru al muzicii... care transmite publicului calea spre iluminare... prin exemplul ei.

Selah Sue is a master of the music... that conveys to the public the path to enlightenment... through her example.

© Gabriela V., September 2013

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PS: November 2012 has been very special in terms of intensity. November 2013 could also be singular. Stay tuned!

How to explain / Peut-on m'expliquer ?

How (the f***) to explain that a page that supports 5 french people who walked a llama in a tram can unite more people (in just 3 days) than talented artist Selah Sue does...

Peut-on, s'il vous plait, m'expliquer comment une page qui donne son soutien à 5 Bordelais, promeneurs d'un lama dans le tramway, puisse réunir plus de personnes que Selah Sue ?

THE ONLY SOLUTION.

LA SEULE SOLUTION.

Pic-of-the-Day: She used to tell she likes to...

...cook. Fortunately, she does music better.

© Wim Thijs (AKS)

Choose your Direction

Make the right choice

WTF-Pic-of-the-Day !

Why french singer Zaz does have a time on BBC while Selah Sue is invisible there ?
(The Andrew Marr show, October 6th 2013)

Song-of-the-Day: Jailhouse rap

Lauryn Hill - Consumerism (2013)

Ceci n'est pas the [full video of the] last show of the tour

Hungarian pearl

Selahoutai

Tonight, Selah Sue gave a concert in Budapest, Hungary.
She told this afternoon that it was "(their) very last show".
OK.

But I can't believe this.
I can't believe that this show is dead.


I can't believe that this typical setlist [2010-2013] could die tonight.

And how long until I could take new pictures with the combo flower/hat/glasses on again ?

Will the second (real) batch of concerts give the same talented people on stage ?

Is it planned that the three bandeaux will be thrown to the fire ?

Will the fan be powered on again one day ?

If in 2013, Selah Sue has done new countries, done again lot of other ones, namely Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and U.S.A., look attentively at this list of countries again.
I did it again and again. You'll realize like me that...

France doesn't take part of this list.

Aucun concert en France en 2013.
Je n'ai assisté à aucun live de Selah Sue en 2013.
Question: est-ce qu'une année tout entière sans Selah Sue est envisageable ?
Réponse: je crains bien que non. Mentalement impossible.
C'est bien trop dur et frustrant de voir passer les dates, sans qu'aucune ne concerne la France.
Et même si un concert était prévu à Paris ce 10 août dernier, ce n'était que la retransmission d'un ancien concert sur écran géant... Fausse joie.


Et parce qu'en cherchant aussi un concert de Selah Sue à Paris, on tombera très vite sur la vérité.

OK, the next album is coming, the demos to be recorded and to become your new babies.
But come on Sally.
Let me ask you "Selahoutai".

Then you would give me the answer that you decided to give a final 2013 gig in Rijsel, which would be a very nice choice.
A final meeting together for 2013.
Some acoustic, some oldies - some electronic, some new sounds.
The perfect transition...

Just before adulthood will take place for good.

Great news for Polska ?!

Seen the date of the article, it's likely that Selah will meet lucky Polacy again this year. - ©seattleweekly.com

Pic-of-What-I-just-missed-live-from-Brazil

Because it's likely for the show to have been broadcasted live on the internet...

Goooooooool da Selah Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue !

Hmmm, she actually won't play football but stay into music. And that's a good thing.

Video-of-the-Day: Inspiration

Why didn't you come over, Amy ?

Pic-of-the-Day: Selah, Saleh, Sellah ?

Hard to be a Selah in Liban !

Is that why we can talk together that easy ?

With Selah, make love, not war.

How I survived a 14-day no-Selah Sue diet

It actually results from a period called "holidays", which takes you from home to another pleasant location which is supposed to change your mind, spend good times and let you take pretty pictures of what you live, camera helping to remember. It's supposed to and it did.

What about this diet ?
Because yes, you did read well: I did not listen to any Selah Sue song during 14 days... -I wish it doesn't sound like a Bill Clinton quote-.
While I introduce myself being someone that couldn't live without listening that music for two days in a row (I didn't quote myself because it's being big-head)...

Well. To try to start with an explication, I would say first that Selah Sue music is not really my partner's cup of tea: one of the hardest points to struggle with in my everyday life !
I try to find some tricks sometimes, with let sounding some covers (that she never heard before) where Selah's voice is less recognizable, or put some Adele song (that she likes) and then play a Selah one for that she could have a thought like "I finally don't dislike her voice so much".
Tries.
Again.
But it doesn't upset me. ;-)
So I couldn't stay hooked at my Selah Sue mp3 folder like I usually do.

He says "No Selah Sue", OMG

During these hours to drive and kilometers to do, I've decided to put radios.
Just because it changes habits, gives another ambiance, a summer one. French radios do it really good, with games, reports or other broadcasts. Good point for no Selah Sue in vakanties.
OMG, I said "no Selah Sue".

Of course, good habits are very difficult to lose and it was with great difficulties that I listened to Dutch or Flemish Belgian (worse still) people in camping talk to each other. At every moment I expected to hear Sanne Putseys voice to join the conversation (and start a song then)... but it was really undreamt of !
At the same time, this was reassuring me and made ​​me think that somehow, it would come again. Someday.

I actually slightly lied. Because this great pain calmed itself down when on a corner in Quimper, the owner of a vintage shop became my dealer and came to give me my dose.

It happened at the middle of my stay. To choose, the best moment given to be able to hold out.
Visiting this -kitsch and tasty- retro shop, I was concerned with old LPs that became ashtrays, original vintage packagings from 60's to 70's, still fit old toys or some Paris Match copies with coronation of Queen Elisabeth pictures.

The unexpected happened.

A vintage soundscape as well. Rock'n'roll oldies, disco hits, among other things.
It happened when I was just about to leave that shop, that shop of a man who became my 1-minute dealer. I was hit by 5 bass vibrations in G. Then 4 other bass notes. E♭.

A reminiscence.
A liberation.

What comes next is only happiness coming through my veins.
A voice, a rhythm; obviously familiar.
My distress came to an end as my rescuer's playlist was injecting me This World...
Life could go on normally.


What else to say.

If I was about to forget Selah Sue -OMG he said "forget Selah Sue"-, randomness helped me being set again on the Straight Path.
Never, I say, never, I would forget that man with such fantastic music tastes who gave that energy to go on with believing.

When you think everything is against you, think about the power of life and above all, keep on believing in Others and Yourself...
It works as this is how I survived a 14-day no-Selah Sue diet.

Soon on this channel, "Meanwhile..."

Pic-of-the-Beauregard-Birthday-Day

Summertime souvenir.
Happy Birthday Selah Sue in Beauregard.

The King is going to abdicate but...

Be prepared to welcome the new belgian Queen !

Some people already know... but this world is about to know who rules for real !

Thank you Freddy for the crown.
Thanks Abaca for the picture.

東京でセラ·スー！

On august 10th, Selah Sue (along with her musicians, I'm wishing them) will touch the East Asia ground for the first time !

She'll take part of the SummerSonic 2013 in Tokyo (Japan) which welcomes... more than 100 bands (!) on 7 stages. The festival stands also in Osaka but Selah Sue hasn't been invited to play twice.

Worldwide big names and japanese bands/singers are invited: Metallica, Muse, Stereophonics, Pet Shop Boys... Even M.I.A. (who had some impact on Selah's music) is being present the same day on Sonic Stage while Selah Sue will perform on Garden Stage.

Her introduction on the official festival website says that "[she] was an ordinary girl that had dreamed of becoming a ballerina in the future": I don't know where they found that she chose this early destiny, but they did!

But I think the main thing to know about this first trip to Asia is that Japanese are going to experience the magic of セラ·スー ...

(Very-first) Pic-of-the-(concert)-Day

Ce n'est sans doute pas la plus belle, mais c'est ma toute première.

Selah Sue at Stade de France !

Fake or not ?

Flyer-of-the-Day

Philly goodie !

Remember Philly

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE FIRST GIG IN PHILLY

** Date: August 17th, 2012
** Place: World Cafe Live, Philadelphia (PA)
** Broadcasted on WXPN 88.5, Philadelphia
** This is the first session of Selah Sue in this place. Double-header with Band of Horses.
"Her first radio performances [in U.S.A.]" during in her very first journey in U.S.A. as her album released there.
Alone on stage, she decides to give with her guitar the titles Break, Raggamuffin and Fyah fyah.

On june 18th, 2013, she is back in the same place for a full-band show.
Joachim, Yannick, Erik and Jordi, welcome in Philly !

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Câlicement belle cette affiche !

Pic-of-the-Rhythm-of-the-Night

Dit-is-de-grote-klasse.

Pic-of-the-Back-to-America-Day !

What looks like a soldout-tavern filled with a belgian band inside? Please show me!

Pic-of-the-Night

 

Miss it.

GIF-of-the-sunny-Day

 

Troubles in Sakifo

Pic-of-the-Day-before

Miss Belgium is back to festivals

"What you need" is...

... SELAH SUE on stage again !
A chance for a few hundreds of Réunionnais to attend a new Selah Sue show ! But...

Sakifo, it is "What you need", in "créole réunionnais", french patois of La Réunion.
Sakifo, it is about 25°-27° with some kind of hot rain (when it does).
Sakifo, it is -21.338, +55.457.
Sakifo, it is a boules pitch, a beach soccer pitch and tennis courts located just near to the main stages.
Sakifo, it is Cody Chesnutt friend and belgian BRNS band.
Sakifo, it is France, of course.
Sakifo, it is a festival like Solidays, Francofolies or Werchter.
Sakifo, it is an official website.
Sakifo, it is beginning today !
Sakifo, it is Selah Sue with the band "far far away" for the first time !
Sakifo, it is the first gig in 170 days (ouf!) for Selah Sue.
Sakifo, it is the beginning of a new tour for Sanne Putseys and friends, and this is definitively exciting.
Sakifo, it is for Selah Sue on 8 of june, year 2013.

Sakifo, I daresay it is where a Selah Sue v2.0 will be born, along with her new sounds for children to be born also... waiting to get out and be adopted by fans.
Matter of days.

Fan stuff: Back to CZ !

Digital ticket to Roxy Praha

Pic-of-the-Day: Scary time

Preparation of second album is so stressful !

Sitting, waiting, wishing

Selah wait

So you got it. Are you fan of Selah Sue ? So you have to be patient. That's the deal.
After she must have made of "dormir" her very first job in 2013, on february 22nd, Sanne told her Facebook fans that "Album 2 (was) gonna be it" ! Like she knew which direction she wanted to give it.

Then we had the Hä.-D. ad released, that was our first gift of 2013.
Sorry. She met Walk Off the Earth in USA last november, they covered that beautiful love song and we got the result on january 15th. Very first gift.
So, two songs released in almost 5 monthes of a year.
Are you happy with that ?

I think I can wait some more weeks myself for more new songs.
Even monthes.
The longer we have to wait, the best new songs will be.
How could it be otherwise ? ("I'll make all of ur waiting worth while")
But major condition: getting some scheduled concerts until the end of 2013.
The best area would be around Rijsel, of course.
Paris or Brussels may suit.

If you "can't wait to play some for u(s), start touring again.. the band, crew, u(s)", then what you're waiting for ? Let's plan a (small) meet-ups here and there ! I know that somewhere in Poland or Belgium, that kind of gifts would be appreciated too.

Oh yes, I forgot that a far-far-away tour will soon start with concerts in La Réunion, USA or Canada...
But after that, I see lots of free spaces in summer for meet-ups we've just talked about. Hehe.

PS: I tried to find what looked like "pinkie[, (?)] kiss(es)" but I only came across this.

One, two, tree !

How many "r" you put in a tree ?

How I became fan of Selah Sue, by Lou

"Alors. Tout a commencé aux alentours de mars 2012. J'étais en week-end chez ma grand mère. Je traînais sur l'ordinateur avec mon cousin, on regardait des vidéos sur Youtube, et puis à un moment, dans les suggestions, sur le côté, il y avait le clip de Raggamuffin. Moi, je ne connaissais pas, mais mon cousin l'avait vu à la télé un peu avant, et il voulait qu'on le regarde, parce qu'il n'avait pas noté le titre, et le nom de la chanteuse. Donc j'ai cliqué, et j'ai reconnu, je l'avais déjà entendu à la radio, j'avais cru que c'était une noire. Ça m'avait époustouflée, cette blonde aux yeux bleu, avec cette voix si... Puissante. Donc voilà, nous sommes en mars 2012, j'ai douze ans, et je découvre raggamuffin. J'appréciais, mais ça s'arrêtait là.

Puis, c'est à ce moment-là que les One Direction ont envahi mon collège, et toutes mes amies avec. J'ai essayé de m'y intéresser, mais je n'arrivais pas. Et puis, j'étais jalouse, de toutes ces filles qui avaient des idoles, des sujets de conversation passionnés, les yeux pétillants, et tout le reste. Alors là, j'ai fait un truc extrêmement idiot, je me suis dit que moi aussi, il fallait que je sois fan de quelqu'un. Quelqu'un que mes amies ne connaissaient pas trop. Je n'ai pas cherché longtemps. Selah Sue devint ma proie. Je me qualifiais donc de fan, alors qu'en fait, je ne connaissais rien de Sanne Putseys. Je [...] l'accorde, c'était carrément débile. Bref. Voyant que j'étais si "fan", un jour, ma maman, comme ça, me dit "Lou, ça te dirait que je t'emmène voir Selah Sue cet été?".
J'ai accepté, évidemment, parce que bien que je n'étais pas vraiment fan, j'aimais beaucoup sa musique.

Le temps passe, arrive le 24 juillet 2012. J'ai treize ans. Et maintenant, quand on me demande quel a été le plus beau jour de ma vie, c'est cette date que je cite.
Que je l'ai vue arriver, c'est comme si le temps venait de s'arrêter, et pourtant, il [passait] énormément vite, pendant la durée du concert. Beaucoup trop vite. C'est là que je suis devenue réellement fan.
Depuis ma naissance, j'ai vu au moins 50 stars en concert. Et Selah Sue, ce fut la seule qui réussit à me transporter au fil de ses notes, de ses chansons, à m'attraper durant son vol, m'emmener avec elle dans ses paroles, son vécu, le temps d'une chanson. A chaque dernière note de chaque morceau, j'avais l'impression de revenir sur Terre. J'ai eu les yeux qui pétillaient pendant une soirée, j'ai souri à en avoir des courbatures, j'ai senti mon coeur battre au rythme de sa guitare, j'ai même pleuré, pendant le refrain de Mommy, tellement c'était déchirant.

Nous sommes le 24 juillet 2012, et je suis fan de Selah Sue.

La nuit suivante, je n'ai pas dormi. J'étais comme obsédée par elle. Puis j'ai commencé à regarder tous les lives qui existent sur Youtube, à taper "Selah Sue" sur Google Image, à chercher tous les interviews existants sur le net, à m'impatienter tout le temps, à checker son Facebook plusieurs fois par jour, avec l'espoir qu'elle ait posté quelque chose de nouveau. J'ai commencé à connaître mieux, et à m'attacher à Sanne Putseys, à plonger dans le bleu de ses yeux si profonds, à analyser ses textes, ses mélodies, à ressentir des sensations inexplicables en l'écoutant, j'ai même passé des journées entières à regarder des interviews en néerlandais, sans rien comprendre, juste pour la regarder parler, sourire, toute la journée.

Nous sommes en août 2012, et je suis fan de Sanne Putseys. J'en suis toujours à ce stade là. Fan de Selah Sue, fan de Sanne Putseys. Je lui envoie régulièrement des messages sur Facebook pour lui déverser tout ce que j'aimerais lui dire, sans même avoir l'espoir qu'elle me lise un jour, je le sais mais ça m'est égal, l'important c'est que je lui dise. En fait, je ne sais même pas expliquer ce que je ressens. (...) Enfin, je ne vais pas m'éterniser. Pas tout lister parce que ce serait beaucoup trop long."

© Lou, 14 ans, mai 2013
Merci à Lou pour sa participation! :)

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Y'a Putseys.




Sorry, il est tard.

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