Having recently played in Manchester and Brighton Laurent Garnier's L.B.S tour heads towards Germany with gigs at Robert Johnson and Panorama Bar this weekend.
L.B.S - which he cites as standing for ‘Laurent + Ben + Stephane’, ‘Live Booth Sessions’ and ‘Loud Bass & Samples’ - is a DJ/live musician fusion that builds on his summer of festivals.
"After eighteen months on tour with my musicians, I began to realize that I could get as much pleasure from playing live in a festival as I could from DJing in clubs," says the man himself. "We developed a very open style of playing: interacting, improvising, and expressing ourselves freely, something that I thought I could only achieve through my DJ sets."
Check the results and the rest of the tour dates, including London on December 3rd, below.
LBS Dates 2011
Thursday 18.11 = / Offenbach / Robert Johnson / GERMANY
Friday 19.11 = / Berlin / Panoramabar / GERMANY
Saturday 20.11 = / Leipzig / Distillery / GERMANY
Thursday 02.12 = / Porto / Industria / Portugal
Friday 03.12 = / London / Village Underground / UK
Saturday 04.12 = Pays Bas / Amsterdam / Time Warp / NETHERLANDS
Friday 17.12 = / Rennes / Espace / France
Saturday 18.12 = / Brussels / Fuse / BELGIUM
Sunday 19.12 = Naples / Italy
More dates to come in 2011
Full L.B.S tour dates available at www.laurentgarnier.com
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