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“The godlike genius of Johnny Halliday” is not a phrase that is likely to be heard too often in these parts. Putting to one side the noodlings of Gong, whilst savouring the Breton phrasings of Alan Stivell, it has to be said that with the exception of the occasional chanteuse, France’s contribution to alternative music 
Beneath this curmudgeonly exterior beats the heart of an unrepentant if slightly ancient, romantic, with a penchant for the kind of grandiloquent nonsense so beloved of our old friends Echo & the Bunnymen. Indeed it was only days ago, that trudging along the Brighton promenade in the relentless drizzle I was torn between roundly cursing 
