Numero and 1/2ALIVE hit 3rd Beach

(Meg and Pierre listening to Tatu)

The next day after 1/2ALIVE's Grand Opening we hit the beach with the 1/2ALIVE crew as expected and Numero was in tow too. It was beach blankets a-go-go, with My! Gay! Husband! lying down and fully entranced in the Africa issue of Vanity Fair. I refuse to refer to him by his real name. Earlier that day, before we saw Harry and the Potter's tear up Vancouver's public library, we were enraptured in an issue of In Touch with Nicole's pregnancy on the cover, so of course I asked him he read any low brow stuff of that ilk as he is a magazine connoisseur - seriously - ask him about magazines and he'll give you titles in great detail.
He didn't, but Numero's Pierre did...
And they were the start of a great conversation seeing as the mags were in French and I don't speak French, so the only left was to look at the pictures of stars I knew nothing about and discuss them. We got to this one guy who works the red carpet and gets his photo taken with celebrities and I noted that he reminded me a bit of our own fair Perez.
Turns out Pierre is quite a reader of Perez, but how could anyone not be?
"How many times a day do you check it?"
Pause. No one seems to initially ever want to admit to how many times they visit.
"Like 15 times a day," was his reply.
I'd say I check it more.
So we went on and on and on and on and on about the wonderfulness of his blog. Perez Hilton is how I actually found out about Numero. So when it was announced they'd be playing 1/2ALIVE the night I'd be there I was super thrilled.
How they ended up coming to the attention of Mr. Hilton was that Pierre knew Perez liked Peaches, so when Numero played a gig with her, he took a photo and sent it Hilton's way. And that was how the post originated.
Pierre has been the first commenter on Perez Hilton threads/items twice. I've been number one at least three times. Here's one of 'em.
Here's one. I've pledged to never type "first" because it looks so stupid when someone has commented that and then they turn out not to be first.
I got many a lesson in trashy French Canadian celebrity mags - did you know like all of their celebrities and movies are sponsored? So like in each OK! Magazine like portrait and interview, the celebrity will be wearing a pin or badge of their sponsor. One guy had a McDonald's pin on his shirt in every portrait of him that appeared in the mag. We read one with this single mom on the cover whoring out her son for the first time to get press for French-Canada's only action movie of the summer - Nitro.
While we kept afloat informing about all our favorite celebrities we turned to Pierre's ipod shuffle as a soundtrack and shared headphones between Meg, him, and I - there were many tatu remixes and it was really funny because the opening bars of Thieves Like Us' 'Drugs in My Body' came on and Pierre didn't know where it was from. Um - it's from the same Kitsune comp that Numero are on. So so funny and kinda ironic.
Do you know how great it is to meet people who share a love of Britney Spears' music? It's amazing! Seriously - people DO NOT give In the Zone enough credit. That is the best album of 2003 alongside Outkast's Speakerbox and the Love Below. Honest to god. My thinking is that if people listened to it as an album, and not as a Britney Spears album, they would be blown away. Any electro lovers worth their salt should own it. And people need to get over 'Toxic'. Everyone knows that's an amazing hit, but if you listen to the rest of the album, there's more of that where it came from. The production is mind-blowing.
So we sat back feeding each other lyrics and finishing where the other would stop of 'Showdown' and 'Breathe on Me'.
"I don't really want to be a tease. Will you undo my zipper please?"
"We don't need to touch, just..."

Outside of Numero, Pierre works a full time job that allows him to listen to his i-pod non-stop and he makes beats for other artists. He's very very very excited about a rap artist he's working with right now, that he can barely understand because of the grills in his mouth. It was really really interesting talking to him about production as I can be a total producer geek. He makes a beat, sends it, the rapper puts rhyme to it if it's approved, sends it back, and then Pierre further manipulates and restructures it to better match the rapper's flow and that process is repeated until perfect. We talked our favorite producers which was fun and is always a topic I get into - especially if it involves James Ford, Timbaland, or Paul Epworth ( who has come out of exile!! He did Kate Nash's latest!).
Eventually Numero# want to be known solely as the number symbol - kinda like Prince a bit.

(Advertising fruit)

They want their gig posters around Montreal to simply read the symbol, date, and location - that's how they envision it.
Around us some backgammon was played, the stakes high and tense.

Tony toppled Tyler, only to then be beating by Hana. Then there was some obstruction making to be done with sand.
Tony and I arranged the great song trade - a Calvin Harris track for one of his remix efforts. Once they'd been emailed, I'm happy to announce it was a fair trade.
I had 'Hit Pop' stuck in my head the entire day and couldn't stop singing it to myself. By singing it to myself I mean just repeating the only English words in the song over and over: "Hit Pop. Hit Pop. Du-du-du-du-du-du-du. Hit Pop!" Yeah. I swear one of these days Numero and Yelle are gonna have taught me French.

'Chewing Gum' Numero# MP3

We were gonna head down to catch Transformers and then go to a listening party for the new Justice album, but when you're out in Burnaby, public transport kind of limits your options and by the time we'd got confirmation to the location of the listening party and that we were on the guest list it was too late to get out there so Meg and I did the next best thing - midnight bike ride!!!!

Vancouver was fun, fun, fun!

Comments

[Nick]

This entry doesn't make sense. I'm surprised to see that you missed a fantastic music festival here in Portland.

[Nilina]

Maybe this makes more sense:
http://klaxonklaxoff.blogspot.com/2007/07/joey-electric-ghost-back-in-jupiter.html

[Marisa]

Love it.