In December I once again traveled to the Trans Musicales Festival in Rennes, France.

This year I was shooting for Noisey, taking portraits of some of the bands performing at the festival. Not all of the portraits made the article, so I’ll share them here, and a few more from the bands that did make it in. As well as a few live shots. - Click here for the post on Noisey.

Above: Sauropod - Oslo, Norway

To step away from some of the band portraits, on the Saturday of the festival in Rennes, I once again went to the second largest market in France - Marche des Lices.

You can get oysters shucked for you on site, there are meats, and cheeses, and wine…so much you don’t know where to look.

Here are a few shots from the afternoon (and one from the view from my hotel of the cinema across the way).

The entire reason I went to France was for the Trans Musicales Festival that took place in Rennes over several days.

The only band I knew going in when I was invited was Vancouver’s own Dralms, but other than them, I had a lot of digging to do.

I found a ton of great new artists and had a quite a time going from stage to stage to photograph as many as I could.

You can find the full recap of Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 of the festival on 3am Revelations (the music blog I collaborate with), and see the entire set of photos from the festival on the Facebook page by clicking HERE.

First post of my #CmacSeesLondonCmacSeesFrance tour is from Rennes. Aside from the Trans Musicales festival, I got to do a little bit of wandering around this beautiful city, and the festival was gracious enough to put together a walking tour in English.

Things I learned:
- A LOT of Rennes burned down in a fire, and it was due, ironically, to a drunken carpenter
- Their market on the Saturday is amazing. You can buy practically anything, including oysters that they’ll shuck for you on the spot.
- You can eat and drink said oysters in public and it’s the greatest.
- There is a place called “Poutine Bros” that is decked out in Canadian stuff, and has menu items named after Rob Ford and Carey Price to name a few.