Ilsar performs with long-time musical collaborators Daniel Pliner (synths) and Josh Ahearn (electric bass) as the Sticks and their debut single, World Maps, is funky and weird, with references to vintage video game music.
Fresnes is of the same vintage as La Santé and boasts a similar roll-call of notorious ex-cons.
It's an unlikely setting for a chef who made his name with Le Chateaubriand, a vintage bistro with a bohemian bent in the 11th arrondissement, famed for its take-it-or-leave-it, daily-changing, market-driven set menus and championing edgy natural wines.
House of Blondie is a vintage concept store, run by Kareena Vinaik, selling jewellery, sunglasses and kitsch blouses under dozens of oversized light bulbs.
Here, however, I could abuse the challenge and buy just as much by visiting upmarket vintage boutiques and filling my boots on eBay.
Floating Market, Regent's Canal, Mile End Park, E3, to 16 Aug, canalrivertrust.org.uk Part of London's much-loved community of barges and narrowboats becomes a vintage, crafts and foodie dream on water.
Related: Charles Kennedy death caused by alcoholism, family says The programme then cut to a vintage clip of Kennedy joking about how the Liberal Democrats were causing a shift in politics and admitting he would have been "very happy" to come second in an election.
A good place to start is the long-running ernienotbert.blogspot.com, which offers remastered gems from a seemingly inexhaustible collection of rare, vintage Christmas vinyl.
Visitors can try on replica uniform coats and vintage helmets, and watch movies about and veterans' videotaped accounts of D-day.
I unashamedly put a lot of effort into what I wear, spending hours on the hunt for, say, a destroyed vintage kimono.
If you like vintage clothes, take a short walk to the famous Portobello Road market (Fridays and Saturdays), or pick up quirky trinkets from The Rise Gift Shop.
