Benoit's World News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...