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]

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]

Jean Michel Jarre will perform a special concert at the famous French festival, Le Printemps de Bourges. Each day, the festival organises a debate and show case between two artists, a pioneer and a new artist, entitled ‘audio brunch’. On Friday 12 April, Jean Michel Jarre will be the guest of moderators Jean-Yves Leloup and Ariel Kyrou (author of the book Rebel Techno, a century of electronic .... [MORE]

Jean Michel Jarre is currently in Denmark in order to 'sell' his idea of the Windmill Concert (click link to see archived news items) in Aalborg, Denmark. A meeting of potential sponsors will be held tomorrow in Aalborg, in the presence of Jean Michel. We will let you know the outcome of the meeting. Despite the original deadline of having sponsorship being secured by mid-November, things hav .... [MORE]

Three very interesting articles relating to the wind energy concert due to be held in Denmark next year are featured in Nordjyske Stiftstidende; article 1, article 2, article 3. Here is a brief summary of what the three articles state (for those of you who are not fluent Danish speakers) :-) The main article (article 1) is an interview with Jean Michel conducted by Nordjyske Stiftstidende a .... [MORE]

After talking to several of the Jarre team at the recent Bang & Olufsen launch party in Paris, it seems that the planned concert in Denmark is now very likely to go ahead. The project sounds very interesting and exciting according to Francis Rimbert, and will probably present the premiere of a new studio album. An article from Billboard concerning the concert can be found here. Below is som .... [MORE]

Jean Michel Jarre is currently planning a concert for Aalborg, Denmark, scheduled for Friday 30th August 2002. The venue is a windmill park, with the concept being based on energy and for Jarre to perform in front of the windmills. A number of reports are online in Danish and with some translations already available online here: Berlingske Tidende - Original Danish article - English transla .... [MORE]

Kathimerini have posted another concert report on their site. The report is very good, and gives a good insight into the famous people who attended the concert. The report can be viewed by clicking here. [MORE]

Here are a few more pictures from the warm-up show (general rehearsal) on Monday 18th June, enjoy! More pictures and in-depth coverage to follow from the shows in due course. Many thanks to Stratos Koufos for the first and third pictures which appear on this page. [MORE]

The full archive of the Athens Live SMS Reports is now available for all visitors of the site to view. I would like to say on here a big thank you to kidda, miltex, leouna, colly, signe and fede for all being SMS reporters out in Athens, as well a big thank you to little for making all of this possible in the first place. The system worked perfectly with no outage and from the number of emails .... [MORE]