Black Sessions
Black Sessions are performances of live music broadcast on the French radio station France Inter. They are recorded in front of a live audience and feature on the C'est Lenoir show. The name is a pun based on the name of their creator, Bernard Lenoir, translated literally as "Bernard the black"
The first performance was in 1992 and since then many French and international artists have performed Black sessions including:
- Arctic Monkeys
- Band of Horses
- Beirut
- Belle & Sebastian
- Belly
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
- Andrew Bird
- Bloc Party
- The Boo Radleys
- Broadcast
- Calexico
- Nick Cave
- The Cardigans
- Catatonia
- Chumbawamba
- Clap [Your Hands Say Yeah]
- CocoRosie
- Cocteau Twins
- The Cure
- Death in Vegas
- The [Divine Comedy |The Divine Comedy]
- Drugstore
- Echobelly
- Editors
- Eels
- Elbow
- Emilie Simon
- Field Music
- Feist
- Franz Ferdinand
- Goldfrapp
- Grandaddy
- Guillemots
- Gumball
- Gemma Hayes
- The [House of Love]
- Interpol
- Klaxons
- Lloyd Cole
- Los Campesinos!
- Lush
- Madrugada
- Mazzy Star
- Mojave 3
- Morphine
- The National
- Nine Black Alps
- Pavement
- Placebo
- The Posies
- Pulp
- Radiohead
- The Raveonettes
- Ride
- The Rentals
- Röyksopp
- Sleeper
- The Shins
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Smoke City
- Sparklehorse
- Suede
- The Sundays
- Teenage Fanclub
- Yann Tiersen
- Throwing Muses
- These New Puritans
- The Verve
- Rufus Wainwright
- The Wedding Present
- Paul Weller
- Weezer
- Wire - released as the album The Black Session: [Paris, 10 May 2011]
- The Wombats