Issue #9 - July 2024 Benoit's World News Good day, Terrifying tales they are, but I also have fantastic news about fantastic music... more about this later. Many things have happened since I wrote last so I'll keep the introduction short and sweet... Weather forecast We've had a nice summer with 3 days of sunshine in June. I'm now looking forward to next summer. Economy Experts agree that my personal deficit is showing the biggest growth adjusted for inflation since UK records began in 1998....
8 days ago • 6 min read
Issue #8 - May 2024 Benoit's World News Good day, It's been a while. I always promise not to spam my followers when they join the mailing list, but the truth is that I am struggling to find the time to write this newsletter. Not that I am busy being rich and famous, far from it: I have to constantly extinguish fires everywhere trying to make a living playing music despite all odds. But there it is, although little behind schedule. Weather forecast Dreadful. Economy Worse. 51, call it wisdom?...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
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...
4 months ago • 5 min read
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...
7 months ago • 7 min read
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...
9 months ago • 5 min read
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...
10 months ago • 3 min read
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...
about 1 year ago • 5 min read
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...
about 1 year ago • 4 min read
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...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read