...and VERY Happy Valentines !!!


AND FINALLY... LIVE IN WINNIPEG OUT ON FEB. 12 !!!







... and Happy New Year ... :)





Happy Christmas everyone... :)

(from the Vinyl Cafe Podcast of Dec. 5, 2009)

Thursday, January 01st 2009 - A new year for a new start...



Wow... New year again... Fifth of this website, and so many things happened lately : the American election, the new FFF video (watch it here or in very high quality on Danny's site), Danny taking control on all his digital catalog and releasing new bonus tracks, the several tours with the Vinyl Cafe, all the shows sold out, and even a weird story about a crystal skull related both to Kitchener and Belize (read the article here for more information :) ) !

Thanks to Danny for all this, and much more (well, he's not the one who found the skull obviously, but he told the story, and closing his site in support to Obama was just one of the things he did to help as much as he could...).

So, let's hope that 2009 will be another year full of wonderful surprises, good music, love, health and all you could desire (including more awareness in the world about the vacuity of war and improvements in Environment preservation...) !

That's what I wish you all.

Happy New Year.

Monday, September 26th 2005 - Opening.


The day I've discovered anglophone Canadians music has been like a revelation to me... And, this music, I've discovered it first through the one of Danny Michel...

Of course, before, I knew Neil Young (Harvest had rocked my whole adolescence), but I didn't even know that he was Canadian... I had even seen Hawksley Workman on stage once, in 2002, but I must admit that I had not been much impressed (did I even hear him ? I was there for Bowie, that night...).

With Danny, it's been another story. The story of a love at first sight - or should I say at first reading ? - which begins by the chance of a topic titled (in french) "Loving The Alien par Danny Michel" in the message board of a francophone website dedicated to Bowie. A Bowie cover album, eh ? Let's see... The first posts said something like : "Who's that guy ? What is he doing ?", but, also, that it was a self production, and by someone really passionate. A link to a website. I, curious, go and have a look (passionate, eh ? I am too ! but someone who dares to compare to Bowie...). And there, stupefaction ! I start reading that Danny Michel interview about this album, and... in three lines I was trapped !!!

"This CD is for me. I made it for fun. That's it. No pressure, no expectations. I'm not focusing on how many are sold or stuff like that. Pure art for no reason."

But there was not only three lines...

So, of course, at that point, I wanted to listen to him. I was ready to buy that album anyhow, but if, besides, that Danny Michel had a bit of talent (and a nice voice), in addition to that state of mind which had staggered me... But, oddly, the first occasion I had to hear him was neither one song of this album, nor even one of his, but his version of "Gloomy Sunday" a friend gave us to listen to.
And, there, totally blown away. Not only arrangements were tasty (oh, the little sax at the end...), but in this voice there was really something that touched me...

It was over for me. I was totalement accro...

Then, I started to buy all his records, to collect on the Web anything I could find about him, to listen to the bands he loved, to those he had been part of, those he had produced...

And today I'm making this website, because I know to which point Danny can touch those who discover him, and because I find so deeply abnormal (and unfair) that he's not universally recognized... and, too, that the ones who love him yet don't have a place for sharing and communicating their passion for this music, and this person so much out of the ordinary...

And, as I'm French, I couldn't talk about a Canadian otherwise than in two languages !

Donc, j'espère que vous prendrez autant que plaisir avec ce site que j'en ai pris à le réaliser ;-)