Jeans, candy pink, good old rock, a marriage proposal and more jeans, the group Bleu Jeans Bleu was “Top Minou” at Club Soda on Friday night, where they started their new tour “Top Minou” tour.
The jeans troupe around Claude Cobra (Mathieu Lafontaine) wore the “Canadian tuxedo” like Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in 2001 and mainly presented pieces from his fourth work “Top Minou”, in which there are numerous allusions to food. The Club Soda audience on Friday night had the pleasure of commenting on “Bacon en belly,” “I ate too much fries,” and “Molle Twist Vanilla-Vanilla,” which the group opened the night with. .
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Catapulted to the top of the charts with the release of their single “Coton Ouaté” – which he was able to play with Celine Dion in particular during his last visit to Montreal in March 2020 – Bleu jeans bleu give the humorous ritornello a backdrop with catchy music. And it works!
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Both on the floor and on the mezzanines, the people in the room sang and danced, an informed and invested audience, exuberant to all the pieces presented throughout the evening. There was also a festive atmosphere there.
Dressed in a fringed jacket and “R” rolls, singer Claude Cobra was likely having fun with the crowd at this celebratory concert, making them yell “I ate too many fries” into his mic or cracking a few jokes at his whims.
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Beside him, on the very small stage adorned with pink accessories and flower garlands, Wayne Wrangler (François Lessard), the guitarist, offered “fiery” solos, literally igniting pyrotechnic accessories on his electronic guitar on “La pure pure butter 100% pure”. Guitar to Butter” while a giant Pomeranian head sat over Lee Lou (Mathieu Colette), the drummer. Jean Levis (Pierre-David Girard) on bass guitar was good too.
Marriage Proposal and Romance
Halfway through the show, a spectator named Thierry, with the complicity of the group, took the stage to propose to his sweetheart. Bleu jeans bleu, accompanied by a brass quintet (Montreal Hornstars) – who returned on a few occasions – also dressed in jeans, then continuing with the polite ‘Souper fondu’, then ‘J’te gâte all gown’.
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Just before “Coco de cuir”, which opened the last part of the show, the group offered a musical interlude of a potpourri of old rock hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s, to the delight of the audience, who rose to the balcony to applaud. At the end of the show, Claude Cobra also allowed himself the “crooner” for the piece “Phrase fromagee”, in which he distributed a few white flower heads to the people gathered in front of the stage.
The tunes “Do you want to eat my sweet potato?”, “Do you want to go bowling”, “Buy our records” and the radio hit “Coton ouaté” were also reserved for the end of the evening.
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The group will be at the Impérial Bell in Quebec City on Saturday night and will continue touring the province throughout the year. For more information: bleujeansbleu.com
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