It’s been a while since I’ve NOW WHAT you guys—

I’m happy to right you back with my favourite sixties french actress, Mylène Demongeot.

I mean. This girl!
Her most famous role is probably ‘Hélène’ in the FANTOMAS trilogy (Fafi’s favourite sunday night movie).

Although always compared to Brigitte Bardot, she didn’t really have the same career.
Couple of Italian movies, a few adventures in Germany also,
but never had THAT big Hollywood break.

My favourite appearance of her remains OSS117 (1965).
She’s absolutely gorgeous in it, and simply makes the whole movie watchable.

Her later career is easy to overlook, and I kinda lost track of her, to be honest.

Mylène, wherever you are, the Cool Cats salute you—

Wishing you all a great Halloween weekend,

M.

Feels like holidays in my mind.
Sending love to my crew is my fav sunday night activity.
One for the Fafster—

Two for the British Smithsonian.

Three for the most stylish sleeper in the TGV.

Four, the young Kevin (he’s 13 years old!).

And last but not least, (high) five for this gentleman:
His name is Nicolas Nerrant, he’s kind of a mascot here at Coolcats.
I want to congratulate him on his new job,

A LA TIENNE MON VIEUX—

Peace.

Mehdi.

Shamelessly reposting these from Questlove’s twitter, but DAMN how good are they!??

PARLIAMENT is possibly the best black music act of all time (of ALL TIME!), it’s about time they get a proper Cool Cats coverage.

Soon, soon, soon—

M.

L’équipe,

RITON et moi serons à La Plateforme à Lyon ce soir, et au Cabaret Aléatoire à Marseille samedi.

On s’voit là-bas??

Mehdi.

Oh my,

As tempted as I am to yell “CARTE BLANCHE IS BACK!”, let’s face it, CARTE BLANCHE never really left.

Fresh off our inaugural Spring 2010 tour, Sir Riton and I first remixed UFFIE’s ‘ADD SUV’, rocked the FIELD DAY festival in London and RECLAIM THE DANCEFLOOR in Ibiza, and then spent the rest of the summer working on CHROMEO’s Late Night Mix of ‘Don’t Turn The Lights On’, and more recently SCISSOR SISTERS ‘Any Which Way’ remix.

And yet, and yet: here we are again with not only a new release soon on Ed Banger, but also another tour-de-force to support it.

THE NEW RELEASE:
BLACK BILLIONAIRES: THE REMIXES-

LAIDBACK LUKE destroys ‘DO DO DO!’, our main inspiration GREEN VELVET works his Chicago magic touch on ‘GARE DU NORD’, plus (don’t ask me how) Riton and I did find the time for a whole new song. And if this wasn’t enough, we’ve got something cooking in the video department, something of ‘dream-come-true’ proportions, something to make my mama proud.

Actually, I’m so happy that the legendary Green Velvet re-did ‘Gare Du Nord’ that I might leak it later this week. #justsaying #staytuned

THE NEW TOUR:
THE FUN NEVER STOPS-

OCT-9    CAEN (FR) Nordik Impakt Festival

OCT-15  LYON (FR) La Plateforme

OCT-16  MARSEILLE (FR) Le Cabaret Aléatoire

OCT-23  LIEGE (BE) Forma-T

OCT-28  EDINBURGH (UK) Scream!

OCT-29  GLASGOW (UK) Sub Club

NOV-5    NOTTINGHAM (UK) Stealth

NOV-6    BRIGHTON (UK) Coalition

NOV-13  TOULOUSE (FR) Le Bikini

NOV-19  ATHENS (GR) Bios

NOV-20  BARCELONA (ES) Nitsa

NOV-26  ABERDEEN (UK) Let It Bleed

NOV-27  MANCHESTER (UK) Warehouse Project

DEC-4    DUBLIN (IR) Button Factory

DEC-15  PARIS (FR) Rex Club TBC

It is what it is: more France, more UK, plus Liege, Athens, and ever-beautiful Barcelona. Men of the people, yes we are.

Sincerely yours, Mehdi + Riton = CARTE BLANCHE, again.