Du tout neuf en acoustique ?

Comme vous le savez, Selah Sue débute ce 31 mars à Leuven une tournée acoustique qui va durer... très longtemps, je le souhaite et je pense qu'il n'y ait pas que moi.
Il semblerait que rien n'ait encore filtré. Alors qu'y aura-t-il de nouveau dans ce nouveau spectacle ? Y'aura-t-il des similitudes avec la grosse tournée de concerts qui a duré de (allez) 2011 à 2016 ?
Faisons les paris !


En % de chances que cela se produise.


Les musiciens

Joachim Saerens jouera aux côtés de Sanne Putseys... 99,99 % #verylikely
S'il est présent, Joachim jouera du clavier... 100 % #mymanjoachim
Joachim jouera aussi de la basse et de la batterie... 0,1 % #toomuchwork
Il n'y aura uniquement que Sanne Putseys et Joachim Saerens sur scène... 49 % #whynotbut
Il y aura sur scène les 4 musiciens de la tournée précédente... 10% #coulditbe
Il y aura au moins une nouvelle personne sur scène... 50 % #letsbet
Il y aura des cuivres... 15% #hmmm
Un certain Seth jouera sur scène... 0,1% #notexperiencedyet

Le contenu

Selah Sue jouera sur scène des morceaux de ses 2 albums... 99 % #heureusement
Selah Sue jouera sur scène de la guitare... 100 % #logique
Selah Sue chantera, au moins en partie, assise... 90 % #enmodemémère
Sanne Putseys se laissera parler, improvisera encore plus sur scène entre les titres... 75% #yesyoucan
Un ou plusieurs titres jamais chantés feront leur apparition... 98% #inédit
Selah nous fera découvrir au moins une nouvelle création... 95% #newselah

On pourra découvrir au moins un nouveau cover... 90 %
Selah Sue chantera du Disney... 80 %
Selah Sue chantera Libérée, délivrée (Let it go / Laat het los)... 0,001 %
Elle chantera son titre Reason... 99 % #onkeys
Elle chantera son titre Raggamuffin... 95 % #onguitar
Elle chantera son titre Explanations... 90% #period
Elle chantera son titre I truly loved ya... 0 % #fautpasrêver
Yannick Werther fera un DJ set en outro... 0 % #crazy
 

Aux alentours

Selah Sue changera de coiffure... 50 % #whynot
Selah Sue sortira un CD ou un live acoustique... 70 % #letsgo
"Dankjewel Kurt !" 98% #copaiiin
Les fans français seront les meilleurs lors de cette tournée... 99,999 % #youcanttest xD


Up to you to give your % !

Bye bye Eddy !

Eddy Wally was a flemish crooner. He died yesterday at the age of 83.



In this video recorded at Q-music studios, he sings one of his biggest hits "Chérie".

In this video of 2010, you can notice both major flemish singers together in love.

Sanne city

Hey chauffeur, si t'es champion, fais passer ton bus par Sanna !

"So damn depressed"

Word "depression" is used in most of Selah Sue interviews in 2015.

March...

Is just going to be crazy !


Have a nice end of weekend. :)

Enter Sanne Putseys's ears...

It has been actually the most interesting interview about Selah Sue I've listened to in a while.
Not only she gives titles of tunes or names of bands... but it also goes from childhood to today, which is quiet incredible. And so complete.
Dank U Radio Nova ! ♥

For free

And also free is de playlist !

Sint-Niklaas is leuk

...for Selah's band !

Give Fans a Voice : Special day for Kiara @ AB

Tout a commencé lorsque j’ai vu une vidéo par hasard sur Youtube en 2010 : elle chantait Raggamuffin en outdoor session durant le festival de Dour et depuis je n’ai fait que la suivre de près en allant à ses concerts dès que c’était possible mais jamais j’ai eu la chance de la rencontrer jusqu’à ce vendredi 7 novembre 2014 !
J’ai fait la connaissance de Stéphane et a suivi une longue discussion sur le monde de Selah Sue.
Il m’a conseillé d’écrire ma chanson préférée (c’est-à-dire Break) sur un bout de papier et de lui montrer lorsqu’elle demanderait la chanson qu’on veut qu’elle chante...

Cela a marché !!!

Elle l’a chantée et m’a regardée comme pour me dire qu’elle était spécialement pour moi...
Cette chanson même si je l’ai écouté plus d’1 million de fois, jamais je n’ai ressenti autant d’émotions que cette fois-ci et lorsqu’elle m’a regardé avec ce regard que je n’oublierai jamais, je me suis vraiment rendue compte que je n’étais pas la seule à avoir ressenti ce mal-être, tel décrit dans Break.

Ensuite nous avons décidé d’attendre dehors, là où se situe la sortie artiste mais en vain. On a fini par nous dire qu’elle était déjà partie...
Désespérés d’avoir attendu dans le froid pour rien, nous avons fait le tour de l’Ancienne Belgique sans vraiment la chercher et j’ai fini par l’apercevoir alors qu'elle entrait dans un bar.
Dégoûtée de ne pouvoir y entrer, j’ai perdu espoir, même quand elle nous a fait de grands signes par la fenêtre.
Contre toute attente, elle est ressortie quelques minutes après avec sa bande et nous avons eu droit à un merveilleux moment avec elle.

Je lui ai demandé de signer ce fameux papier et quand elle l’a vue, elle était vraiment contente et m’a dit : "C’est toi qui a proposé Break ! Je suis contente car c’est vraiment celle-là que je voulais chanter, merci !"
Je lui ai rétorqué alors que c’était vraiment une chanson particulière car elle m’a beaucoup aidé et je l’ai remercié pour ça.
Elle a fini en répondant d’un sourire avec un regard profond et sincère que c’était elle qui me remerciait.

Ainsi par quelques paroles, j’ai découvert une personne sincère, simple et d’une gentillesse inégalable qui en plus de ça est une artiste incroyable, qui mérite tout le bonheur et la reconnaissance du monde.

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 © Photos et textes - Kiara G. - Merci à Kiara de Belgique pour sa simplicité et sa gentillesse. :)

Wanna listen to some flemish again ?

Hier is het.

Puzzlement

I just would like to know why we do have to STAND BACK for any REASON TOGETHER, DADDY.
ALWAYS HOME do we stay and I WON'T GO FOR MORE !
I'm full of SADNESS.
All I need from you is that you can LET ME FEEL that with TIME, when grown and ALONE, I want to FEAR NOTHING of this world.
Please, I want you to stop FALLING OUT with Mommy.

S.

No, it's not too late !

As the 25th birthday is very special (yes, it is), this is my gift from me to you Sanne.
Who could have expected her return.
That's why I think that you could attend this concert (with me and some other fans).
Tell me please how I can send you the ticket.
I will be waiting for some mail of you or your team. Really.

Meanwhile, I wish that you could see this fantastic work that have been made with love and devotion by some great fans you can have all over the world.
Alstublieft, enjoy this, and let our ears get your music for 25 years more, at least.

Happy birthday to you Sanne !

Number-of-the-Day : 78

78 days to go !

#LesArdentes #CactusFestival #RockEnSeine

Sanne, Yannick, Jordi, Erik, Joachim

Be ready guys,

I'll be there !

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.

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.

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

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

© Wim Thijs (AKS)

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.

Goooooooool da Selah Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue !

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

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-Day: Scary time

Preparation of second album is so stressful !