One Of The First
Bla Bla Bla Performances

In this blog devoted to the album “Vague Souvenir”, we want to bring you into the universe of the album, to give you a new perspective of each and every song, to let you know what we feel from these songs, what they mean to the band, to the crew. This week, I wanted to share with you about the song “The Mightiest Of Guns”, the very first one from the album we performed on the set of the Bla Bla Bla, a moment that we lived all together. Next week, Alex will share with us his perspective on the song, a choice that took us all by surprise, as none of us had ever heard of it…

– Stephanie

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One Of The First Bla Bla Bla Performances

The Mightiest Of Guns is the very first song on Vague Souvenir, as well as the first one performed live on the set of the Bla Bla Bla. It was performed in November, a few days before Alex’s birthday… And he was terribly sick for the first few days before the Bla Bla Bla, as well as on the day itself… On the day before the performance, though we all pressed him to cancel the live performance that early in the morning (even wanted to postpone the whole Bla Bla Bla for him to get some rest), it was totally out of the question for him… He wanted to perform… He wanted to share this moment with the people… He spent a sleepless night rehearsing the song in studio B!

The rehearsal itself was very special, really intense, passionate and as real as it can get… In the intimacy of the studio B, with faint light, the band practiced the song with reduced band members, as not every one would be involved in this acoustic performance…

And on the morning of the show, he told us he would see how he felt, and then would decide if he could sing or not… His own indirect way of telling us that there was no stopping him at this point… lol!

The Bla Bla Blas are always really emotional, really intense, and this one was no exception… The show had been incredible… And the live performance gave another direction to it, adding a soulful touch that had yet never been lived on the Bla Bla Bla so far… A special moment, that is, still today, hard to describe with words… I guess that the return on the set, right after the performance simply shows it… There is a deep feeling of nostalgia attached to it, like an old, foggy, blurry memory suddenly becoming clear… The more I listened to that song after the Bla Bla Bla, the more I thought nostalgia wasn’t what it was all about… It didn’t fit anymore. You know, when there’s something wrong somewhere and you know it but can’t pinpoint what it is exactly? That same kind of feeling. There was a missing piece in the puzzle, that song had become for me… A song about redemption, salvation, freedom… Things that we talked about a lot in the last year… Topics that came back in every discussion that we had… Topics I always understood but never fully grasped until I understood that, what determines tomorrow is not what happened yesterday, but the peace you have towards what happened yesterday. This song reminds me just that… Just how powerful music is…

And somehow, just somehow, this very special moment also became the root of something much bigger that would be able to take place a little later… Vague Souvenir.

– Stephanie