Producer, Composer: Victor Le Masne
Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer: Francesco Donadello
Composer, Spokenword, Author: Jarvis Cocker (lyrics in English)
Translator: Albert Cocker (from English to French)
This song is about the Paris terrorist attacks on Friday, November 13, 2015. It is originally written in English and broadcast on Jarvis's BBC Radio 6 Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service. For the English version, please see Friday 13th 2015.
On 13th November 2025, Jarvis performed this track for the ceremony commemorating. The performance can be watched on TF1.
Jarvis
On Thursday I was part of a live event to mark the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan shootings in Paris.
I performed a song called “Vendredi le Treize” - I originally wrote the song in the immediate aftermath of the shootings: I was in Paris at the time & it documents what I saw as I walked around the city with my 12 year-old son the following weekend ...
The way the people of Paris reacted to this event left a big impression on me. As someone said to me that weekend “The strongest form of resistance is to just keep going”. Wise words.