The Phoenix takeaway show on La Blogotheque is way too good to be missed. When this showed up in my RSS reader this morning, the flywheels on my brain's blog post machine started whirring, let me tell ya.

So, in case you hadn't heard, La Blogotheque is a Paris-based music blog that records videos of "Concerts à Emporter": bands playing impromptu live sets in the many, many cheeky public venues offered by the city of lights. Previous highlights have included Caribou (watch how they "fade in" the drums around the 2 minute mark,) Man Man, and Volcano!

UPDATE: I forgot to mention Charles Gunn's excellent piece from April 2008, in which he summoned all the strength of his Franco-Albertan ancestry to interview Blogotheque founder Chryde.

But the Phoenix show... Man! This is outrageous. The sound is just unreal. And it's at the foot of the Eiffel Tower? Could it get any better? If this band ever comes to town, I will have to come up with new superlatives to describe my excitement.

The sound isn't as great on Long Distance Call, but it is from 2006's excellent but vastly underappreciated (read: I knew about it and liked it and now I get to be smug about it while their new album blows up) It's Never Been Like That. So that's what I'm going to embed. BAM:

Phoenix - Long distance call - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.