{"id":162,"date":"2006-12-10T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T05:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/10\/sarah-bettens-concert-or-six-years-ago-in-france\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T17:01:10","slug":"sarah-bettens-concert-or-six-years-ago-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/10\/sarah-bettens-concert-or-six-years-ago-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Bettens concert, or six years ago in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the fall of 2000, while shopping at FNAC in Toulouse<\/a>, one of the listening stations was playing the new CD, Almost Happy<\/a>, from a band called K’s Choice<\/a>. I’m normally not one for listening stations, but the retro style of the album’s cover caught my eye, and so I put on the headphones and had a listen. The album’s first full track, “Another Year,” immediately grabbed me, and I returned home with a copy. When I told a friend, she said, “Oh yeah, they do that song, ‘Not an Addict,'” which I didn’t confirm for another few months or so. “Another Year” became a personal anthem of sorts for returning to school that fall at l’Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, and it’s aged well. At the time, I imagined that this album could be hugely popular in the United States if it only got a promotional push, but it wouldn’t. And it didn’t.<\/p>\n

The band, which is composed of Sarah Bettens and her brother Gert, played a show in Toulouse while I was living there. It was good, and I remember staying until the end, but it’s the album that has stuck with me through the years, remaining one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

By chance, this morning I discovered the video of a full acoustic show<\/a> from Sarah earlier this month at a place called Paradiso, which, apparently, is in Amsterdam. Her cover of Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars” is especially good, and demands at least ten listens.<\/p>\n

Since listening to this video reminded me of it, I might as well plug the wonderful tea salon Bapz in Toulouse<\/a>, where I used to hang out and my friend Andrea used to work.<\/p>\n

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