Take an elastic beanpole body, like a puppet emerging from a Tex Avery cartoon. Add a disjointed body, an outrageously grimacing and surgically insane individual. Shake all these ingredients energetically and serve chilled! Now just enjoy - without moderation - Patrik Cottet Moine, one of the zaniest figures to be found on stage. Clown, foley artist and mime all at once, this tall, lanky individual breaks the locks of normality and opens his doors wide to a host of offbeat, hilarious characters. His universe, in the purest Buster Keaton tradition, is as contagious as laughter, takes the audience outside of time, far from daily routine, and presents a perfect mixture of the comical and the poetic. While his feet travel across the stage his head touches the clouds, making the absurd believable. You might never want to come back to earth. Extravagantly exhilarating!

During the 80 minutes of the show, without audio tapes, sampling or effect processors, Patrik explores the clownish side of life. The disillusioned, blundering character we meet in his home turns into a cartoon-like American Indian hunting turtledoves, into a Romeo ready to conquer the heart of his sweet Bernadette, into a slightly facetious chef, into an old-fashioned doting father, and then finally into a hilarious praying mantis... And all of this, without any words. Alone on stage, the foley artist manages to materialize an imaginary world so well that you can almost see the escaping bird, the attacking dog or the burning cake. With humor and finesse, this universe is as touching as it is extravagant, never falling into the trap of easy caricature. Through the use of imagination and evoking the part of childhood that is in each of us, Patrik transports us joyfully beyond time and space....

In this third show Patrik sings and bellows but his body is always omnipresent, and seems to protest just like some of the songs during the show. From the lament of The Blunderer (The Adhesive Tape) to dad's mishap with his above-ground pool, from the diction exercise for singing Boby Lapointe’s songs correctly, to the militant song for saving the Burgundy snails, you will discover in the original compositions of this poetic-humoristic singing tour all the subjects that have not yet been covered in French music. Moreover, the words are accompanied by the notes of an exceptional musician, Patrik Gondolf, who borders on perfection when he plays the solo of The Ride in the Old 4L on his accordion. “On the platform” is an unexpected parenthesis that makes us hope that the train will never arrive.

The ZABLOKS work with finesse and elegance by delivering music developed and composed by its excellent musicians. Their style?...All styles! (funk, rock, musette, classical, salsa, reggae, rap…) to serve the voice and lyrics (in French) of Patrik Cottet-Moine. ZABLOKS are part of a true tradition of French pop knowing how to rave intelligently for pleasure of all audiences. An energetic shock quartet, in the repertoire particularly effective because spectacular, abundant and surprising. Since 94, they have been scouring the stages, armed with a solid reserve of compounds, light or spicy, but always under the signs swinging words. With each song, we change visual universe, outfits and facetious staging drawing the audience into a new story. It’s a great explosive spectacle to wake up our ears, the heart and zygomatics!
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