A protest was held today at Centre Pompidou, in Paris, with famous French stars and students declaring to 'defend the republic' against Jean-Marie Le Pen, referring to the forthcoming second round of the French Presidental Election this Sunday. Since the result of the first round of the election on Sunday 21st April, the effect of the high vote that Le Pen received has been felt worldwide, and .... [MORE]

Some new features are now online at Revolution on the Web. The main new feature is the introduction of our news forum, in which you can now give your feedback on any news item which is online at Revolution on the Web. Simply read our news articles as normal, and at the bottom of the pop-up you will see two new options, read comments and write comments. Please note that to write comments, you ne .... [MORE]

One week after the performance by Jean Michel Jarre at Le Printemps de Bourges, we are delighted to have online a gallery of pictures taken during the concert. The review of the concert will follow during the weekend, but it is the pictures you want to see... :-) To view the gallery, then simply click here and enjoy. A brief resume of the show can be found here, with a full report, to reitera .... [MORE]

The French male singer Christophe, for who Jean Michel Jarre wrote and produced the two albums Les Paradis Perdus and Les Mots Bleus, performed his comeback on the stage of L'Olympia in Paris, after an absence of 28 years of performing live, his last show being the legendary shows directed by Jean Michel Jarre and Dominique Webb (from the Hypnose single) in 1974. After a private concert for jou .... [MORE]

Jean Michel Jarre performed at Le Printemps de Bourges last Friday, in what he described as his smallest concert ever (click here to see article from Friday). Just over 100 people witnessed the four track, 45 minute show at the Palais Jacques Coeur, in which Jean Michel performed tracks relating to the shows theme of the history of electronic music and musique concrete. The four tracks feature .... [MORE]

The web site of Le Parisien features an interview with Jean Michel Jarre about his "smallest concert ever", to be held in a few hours in Bourges. Jean Michel Jarre announces he will play Metamorphose, the song originally planned for the album and later used for the La Beauté exhibition in Avignon, and Bleu, an excerpt of AOR, the Opera he wrote in 1971 for the Paris Opera, plus two more unrelea .... [MORE]

The Audio Brunch with Jean Michel Jarre at Le Printemps de Bourges is only a few days away now, and thanks to both jarre.net and some good fortune, some of the team will be present at the event on Friday. After the huge success of our live SMS report last year at the Akropolis shows, we are repeating it again on Friday from Bourges. The event itself can not be compared to a real Jean Michel Ja .... [MORE]

As reported back in February, Jean Michel Jarre is to perform at the annual festival Le Printemps de Bourges in France in April. Jean Michel's participation at the event would be to be participate in an Audio Brunch on Friday 12th April and would include a mini performance (refer to the previous news item for more information). The organisation of the festival originally stated that free ticke .... [MORE]

The new issue of the French magazine Gala features a small photo of David Jarre and Charlotte Rampling at a party in Paris (N°460, 3-10 avril) [MORE]

Jean Michel Jarre will be featured on French satellite/cable TV channel Match TV this week, on a special concerning his native city of Lyon. The broadcast, J'y Étais, will be shown several times during the week, with other famous 'Lyonnais' also featured such as Franck Dubosc and Paul Bocuse on their own shows. The weekend will have a 'Best Of' show featuring the highlights from the respective s .... [MORE]