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Monthly newsletter - By benoit Viellefon

Please sign up to my monthly newsletter. I hear it's fun and people enjoy reading it. I write it once a month and pay attention to the finest details thanks to the gigantic glasses I wear on the job. I do my best to bust the typos, but I'm French you know... Besides you will hear about about great album releases, concerts, freebies, the weather and many other essential subject you kneed to know about. Enjoy the read and recommend it to your friends.

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Benoit's World News - Issue # 7 - March 2024

Issue #7 - March 2024 Benoit's World News Hello, I just came back from France. Because tragedy struck, I had to spend most of February and March over there, not that I dislike it, but I would have rather played some good music for good people. In any case, after you read a bit further, you will most likely forgive me for being absent for the first half of this year. Orbituaries: Luc Viellefon 1951-2024 You have never heard of Luc Viellefon, who for me was the most influencial soparano...

21 days ago • 5 min read
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Issue #6 - January 2024 Benoit's World News Hello, 2023 is gone, happy new year 2024. I hope it will be good one. I have spent the festivities under the weather. I am sorry not to have sent the newsletter in time, but as you could see in the video I could not move! I still want to wish you all a belated Xmas and a happy new year 2024! I hope you don't mind. New album out now! Please don't go out it's cold and you won't find it outside, it was just a figure of speech.Here is my new album...

3 months ago • 7 min read
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Issue #5 - November 2023 Benoit's World News Hello, I just came back from Japan. So the first thing I did when I got home after a 36h trip from the other side of the world via Tokyo and Shangai was not to have a shower, nor to feed the plants, read my mail or go vehicle hunting try to remember in which street I parked my car but you guessed it, to write the latest issue of my newsletter just in time. For you! Stormy weather You can imagine the trauma when I landed in Gatwick, just look at...

5 months ago • 5 min read
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Issue #4 - October 2023 Benoit's World News Hello folks. I only have a couple of hours left before I fly to Japan so I’ll try to keep it short, and hopefully free of typos and French humour. I have not written anything since june, which is a big issue (pun omitted) and I am therefore riddled with guilt. But I had a some very good excuses: I have perform a lot, and in between gigs have finally excavated the corpses from my garden and dug out about 20 tons of clay, hardcore and rubble with a...

6 months ago • 3 min read
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Issue #3 - June 2023 Benoit's World News All Disasters come in batch of three, so the saying goes. So I am proud to deliver the third issue of my newsletter, in time and hopefully without typos. Quite a few people wrote to me to express their satisfaction and enthusiasm, I hope you will like it too. Weather Forecast Presented by Paul McCartney: Hey June, don't make it badTake a grey sky, and make it betterThe minute you let it rain on my lawnThen you just start to make it wetter And any time...

11 months ago • 5 min read
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Issue #2 - May 2023 Benoit's World News Benoit Viellefon Hot Club Good morning ladies and Gentlemen, I have just writen the second issue of my monthly newsletter. In a world where we have time for nothing and for nobody if it doesn’t pay, I feel proud of my achievement. I hope you will enjoy the read. Please don’t hesitate to email me to correct my grammar. Weather Forecast May: (Etymology: Saxon word, month of the year describing the British spring: It may rain, may snow, may get hale, may...

11 months ago • 4 min read
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Issue #1 - April 2023 Benoit's World News Good Morning ladies and Gentleman, I am here making a real effort to please people. It's been half a year since I have sent anything, and I took some good resolutions in january, one of which is to send a newsletter monthly as promised. Here is the first one. Current Affairs Currently I don't have any affairs. Quite boring I know, hardly rock star news material; but here is the stuff: for some inconvenient reasons I did not release any music for years...

about 1 year ago • 3 min read
Benoit Viellefon

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen. This is a just a quick email to show the world I still exist. I hope you don't mind.I'm am really sorry about the fact that I have not bombarded your mailbox since 2021, but as a matter of fact I have been very busy. Like everybody else I have been seriously ill over the winter, but got back on my feet around April.I have played much less in the last year than I used to during the 10 years before the pandemic, but these gigs have generally been fantastic and...

over 1 year ago • 2 min read

Hello Ladies and Gentleman... Back to Ronnie Scotts upstairs... this sunday! Benoit Viellefon Hot Club is returning to Ronnie Scotts upstairs with a full capacity, and a full band full of enthusiastm. We hope it will be full. I will host this event bimonthly as i used to do before the pandemic, and hopefully Ronnie Scotts will be open during the winter. If you came before, you know what will happen. If you never came you should definitely try, and don't forget to get some cool clothes and...

over 2 years ago • 1 min read
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