-
The Paris Navigo pass also gives culture discounts
Museums, theatres, gardens, cinemas, monuments…the capital’s transport pass can take you further
-
Your chance to win tickets to Jazz in Marciac in south-west France
Eight pairs of tickets for this summer’s festival are available exclusively to Connexion subscribers
-
Iconic Paris cinema restored to its Art Deco glory
Architects set out to modernise Le Grand Rex while respecting its original design
French music review: Philippe Katerine
Philippe Katerine Confessions

Anyone who witnessed Philippe Katerine’s rivetingly weird performance at this year’s Victoires de la Musique awards ceremony will not forget it in a hurry, given that he sang Stone avec toi dressed in a suit festooned with inflated blue washing-up gloves.
Yet Katerine is at ease with this performance art element of his work – and it is truly welcome in a modern ‘showbiz’ largely devoid of bona fide eccentrics.
He is also a well-regarded comedy actor, which helps somewhat.
But he is very well-regarded as a singer-songwriter too, content to genre-swap and innovate at every turn. In his career, he has veered from a lounge lizard-style crooner, warbling over bossa nova beats, to rocker and even electronica pioneer.
The album from which Stone avec toi is taken, Confessions, is an inventive mish-mash of styles taking in electro-pop, jazz and rap, with plenty of off-the-wall collaborations and lyrical content that addresses everything from Macron (whose voice is sampled) to Kanye West and homophobia.
He is married to Julie Depardieu, whose father Gérard contributes to Blond.
In short, Katerine must be doing something right – he won Best Male Artist.
Watch and listen: