This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2020 season. This season is now over.

Ce Mortel Ennui - The Life and Times of Serge Gainsbourg

Music • Cabaret
South Australia • World Premiere

"Better than I expected".
"The food was good".
"I don't see how the images related to the show".

With heady praise for their 2019 premieres, 'Empty Swing' return to celebrate the artist eulogised in 1991 by Francois Mitterrand as "our Baudelaire...who elevated the song to the level of art" - the terminally bored, fatally flawed, singer, songwriter, composer, director, lover, father and inimitable genius - Serge Gainsbourg.

Wrap your polyglot around dark tender lyricisms and authentic Neapolitan cuisine from Altavilla, as 'Empty Swing' degust Gallic imagery from Gainsbourg's extraordinary four decade career at the zenith of French popular culture and take un petit morceau from his legacy of 550 songs (performed in English and French with subtitles).

Doors open 6.30pm, show at 8pm. Cabaret seating.

Presented by: Empty Swing

Empty Swing is a collective of miserable ageing ideologues in the vanguard of acoustic new wave's distal third phalanx.