Emily Jane White - Live @ La Maroquinerie

Six months after her first visit to Paris last April during the LFSM Festival, Emily Jane White came back to the City of Light to promote her debut album Dark Undercoat. Before saying a few words about yesterday’s show, I would like to confirm that Dark Undercoat is still a great record after repeated listening and that I am almost convinced it will be amongst my 10 best albums of 2008.
Once more, a great evening at La Maroquinerie last Friday evening: Jonquil from Oxford, UK, opened with a very tonic set, Emily Jane White followed for an hour or so and (Swell) brought us to almost midnight for a very much expected show (a review will follow on LS).
Let’s talk first about Emily Jane White. Between April and now, she really improved her show. She looks more confident now in front of the audience backed by two more strings musicians on her right that set her much more secure in the middle of the stage. She played most of the best tunes from Dark Undercoat and offered to a very quiet audience few of her new songs like Victorian who makes me think that she will surprise us again with her new CD. Like I said, the audience was so concentrate on every note played by the young lady of San Francisco and her friends that the band was almost scared and wondering were where the usual distracting noises and so on… Emily Jane, the rule in Paris is: listen very very carefully, analyse, and then after – only after – create a “buzz” or not. I guess in your case, if they very carefully listened to you, it means that it was positive.

Web: emilyjanewhite.com
MySpace: myspace.com/emilyjanewhite
Label: Double Negative Records
Read on Leaky Sparrow: Dear Emily Jane White and Emily Jane White - live @ Paris (LFSM Festival)

Emily Jane White - Hole In The Middle .mp3
Emily Jane White - Wild Tigers I Have Known .mp3
Diamond Star Halos - They Were Close To Me - To The Sea.mp3

Extra – Jonquil: myspace.com/jonquiluk

Jonquil - Whistle Low .mp3
Jonquil - Sudden Sun .mp3 via Anyone’s Guess

Photo: Leaky Sparrow - Emily Jane White - La Maroquinerie, Paris - October 17, 2008 (more pictures on flickr.com)