Fatah (4th annual Noyon Blues Estival 2008)

Noyon Festival 2008

The second night was more eclectic than the first since after the rhythm and blues full swing Bluetones, Chelsea arrived with his cocktail pop / rock / blues / folk.

Chelsea is a sacred personality, a character out of the norm. To look at him, is like watching a guy came from another century, a kind of medieval knight with dread locks who has taken a machine forward (or backward) in time to arrive Saturday, August 2, just to get on the stage of Noyon Blues Estival.

And what a wonderful meeting between Chelsea and Karim Albert Kook, I enjoyed the complementarity acoustic guitar of Chelsea and the Electric Karim.

Like Bluetones earlier in the evening, Chelsea showed us his brand new album (Once Upon A Time... in The Heart) which he played a few songs, then supplementing the set with some of his classics like "Runaway Train" and changing "Sweet Home Alabama" into his own, "Sweet Home Louisiana" or Stones covers.

(ACTUALLY MY OWN "STONES-LIKE" SONGS, chels x).

In this element of pop / rock is Karim Albert Kook, with his guitar and bottleneck that gives it the bluesy side. The concert sequenced into "world music," with the appearance of the charming singer Iness. Karim Albert Kook singing the title track from his latest CD "Barbes City Limit Blues." A wave of enthusiasm, positive energy and life invaded the stage and there lived a great moment of closeness and sharing.

This evening was a huge and popular success, with the crowd estimated at 600 persons, by the organizers.

(Docteur Blues Magazine)

Chelsea (Noyon Festival) 2007