#62 Menomena

Little kids like music. These little kids dance to a disjointed pop and turn it inside out. These little kids work their magic.
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You really can’t emphasize enough the huge role that little kids play in the magic of Take-Away Shows. Little kids are standouts, still pretty unusual. Little kids like music, especially when it just appears where they don’t expect it; they react as if they were somehow not surprised. Little kids stop, watch, listen. Little kids dance.

This became one of our preoccupations: to signal to Vincent Moon, always behind his camera, to pay attention to the children hidden behind him. We were in a courtyard in Charonne, and he had already noticed the baby held by his mother at the window, while Menomena played “Wet and Rusting”. But behind him, there were these two little ones, who, within two seconds, completely got it: understood that this dislocated pop, both chaotic and extremely structured, was made for booty-shakin’. At that point, the band didn’t have much to show—though they had so much for us hear—and these kids stole the scene.

CAE - #62.1 - Menomena - WET & RUSTING
Watch : On Stage 6 | On YouTube
Download QT | DivX

When they’re 15, they’ll smoke cigarettes and make out in dark corners—just like this gang that we ran across in the abandoned railway, who nonchalantly scattered when we began to set up. We might have scared them. They were, after all, just kids.

From Guillaume and Mathieu from the record label and Lucas our film editor, who had agreed to play the battery-carriers in the dark tunnel, to Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors, who scaled the smaller wall during the session, to me, smiling like an idiot because I got to play with a tambourine at the end of the session—Horray for little kids, indeed.

CAE - #62.2 - Menomena - ROTTEN HELL
Watch : On Stage 6 | On YouTube
Download QT | DivX

Translated by Caitlin Caven

le 7 September 2007 par Chryde
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Menomena

C’est vrai, c’est frais. Superbe! Merci!

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8 September 2007, by Antoine

Menomena

Wonderful! "Wet and Rusting" gave me chills.

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12 October 2007, by Street(US)

Menomena

I Bought the album. I think the "Wet and Rustling" is better on here.

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7 November 2007, by H@m

Menomena

thanks alot, the album is great and I loved those kids :D any chance of this being available for download? the links just give me 404 errors, thanks again.

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12 November 2007, by un courageux anonyme

RE : Menomena

wow! das ist der oberhammer! hautnah!

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15 November 2007, by der achim

Menomena

Great video. Very nice treat. Love the song as well

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2 December 2007, by un courageux anonyme

Menomena

one of my most favorite ones!

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20 December 2007, by wes

Menomena

Please fix the links to the downloads!

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5 February 2008, by un courageux anonyme

Menomena

amazing video. and the dancing children were perfection.. absolute perfection.

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23 February 2008, by un courageux anonyme

Menomena

"are these used condoms?" haha. AWESOME.

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21 April 2009, by lovelit

Menomena

God I wish there were more of these, I love Menomena

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2 September 2009, by a non e-mouse

download links

download links for wet & rusting not working. would love to get an MP3 of that.

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21 October 2009, by un courageux anonyme

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