This is “Keep Portland Weird” week in Paris; a collection of music and art and discussion events built on the reputation and people and good things of our home town.

So we came several thousand miles to see local artists.

A couple of nights ago there were Lovers and Tender Forever and Vanessa Renwick with Tara Jane O’Neil at the Pompidou Centre.

Last night, Holcombe Waller at the Centre Pompidou ended an exquisite set with a few unamplified songs at the front of the stage. The Thermals were certainly not unamplified at Gaite Lyrique. The folks from Mississippi Records were very proud of the fact that they “sell no digital medium and are barely on the internet”.

That’s weird enough right there.