Suzanne Vega @ Casino d'Enghien les bains, Oct 19 2012

 Suzanne Vega @ Casino d'Enghien les bains, Oct 19 2012

 Yesterday was MUSE playing to 17000 screaming young fans @ Paris Bercy Arena with a loud sound, lasers and an huge upside down pyramid made of dozens of screens, tonight is the other side of the coin with singer-songwriter playing a cozy small theatre @ Casino d'Enghien les Bains, 10 km on the north of Paris, with just an acoustic guitar and the help of Gerry Leonard on electric guitar.
We wanted to get a drink at the bar before the show, as we bought our tickets at the local box office it provided a free entrance for the casino ( usually they are charging 15 euros just to get in, yes 15 euros to get the right to get rob at gambling machines) but couldn't as those bastards didn't like the way we were dressed up : Vans, designer tee shirt, jeans & leather jacket. Fuck'em they won't get our money.

 Anyway we were there to attend Suzanne Vega's concert, last time we saw her live was at the Théatre Marigny 2 years ago. She's now promoting the Volume 4 of her career spanning Close-Up cd. Made of reworked versions of her songs, mostly acoustic. Gerry Leonard (former David Bowie band) is still playing with her helping out on electric guitar and loops. Unlike Muse, Suzanne doesn't need lasers and screens all over the place to catch the attention of people, simply because she has great songs...and a great sens of humor. The only prop was a topper to look like Marlene Dietrich on some songs. 

No need to tell you that we enjoyed the show a lot, even though we would have like more songs from her "Beauty & Crime" cd.

Great night out.

MUSE @ Paris Bercy, Oct 18 2012

MUSE  @ Paris Bercy Oct 18 2012

Well well well, we saw them a few times a few years ago including one time at the Trabendo club in Paris in front of 600 people.
Now this band has become superstars , filling up stadiums.
Surprisingly they only play one show @ Paris Bercy, it was long sold-out and touts are making a fortune outside.
Muse has always made some efforts to get a great stage with lots of lightning, this time they do have a pyramid and screens EVERYWHERE, I mean literally EVERYWHERE.
Sound is neat and Bellamy seems to enjoy what he's doing unfortunately we don't.
Musically it's getting worse with each album, this band is turning into a Genesis of 2012 and we hate that prog shit.

If the stage wasn't that beautiful we would have get bored all the time, even when the songs suck there's something interesting to see so...
Glad they played the old stuff at the end
They were just above average !

SETLIST:
The 2nd Law: Unsustainable
Supremacy
Map of the Problematique
Supermassive Black Hole
Resistance
Panic Station
Animals
Monty Jam (Drum and Bass Jam)
Explorers
Falling Down (Piano version)
Host (First half)
Time Is Running Out
Liquid State
Madness
Follow Me
Undisclosed Desires
Plug In Baby
Stockholm Syndrome
Encore:
The 2nd Law: Isolated System
Uprising
Knights of Cydonia ( Harmonica intro)
Encore 2:
Starlight
Survival

Check our review of MUSE @ Stade de France in Paris on June 12 2010
Live in Paris Bercy on Nov 17 2009 with Pics backstage & video

Theatre du Chatelet on Set 8 2009 with GREAT Live Pics

Full Show Paris Bercy:

The Rolling Stones' rehearsals in France, setlist Oct 16 2012

From my spy @ The Barn in France, here's the setlist for today's rehearsals Oct 16:

1.  Champagne & Reefer
2. Route 66
3. It's only Rock'n'Roll
4. Live with me
5. When the whip comes down
6. Champagne & Reefer (again)
7. Doom & Gloom
8. Miss You
9. Midnight Rambler
10. Jumping Jack Flash
11. Just my Imagination
12. Going to a gogo
13. Waiting on a friend
14. No expectations
15. Street Fighting Man
16. She's so cold
17. Beast of Burden

 

From what I've been told the band is off to London for a week and won't be back in France before the 25.

See ya !

Oh by the way, it is Darryl Jones on bass and Chuck Leavell on keys, no other players have been seen at the rehearsals yet !

The Rolling Stones' rehearsals in France Part 2 " I wanna be your man" audio

 UPDATED WITH LONDON O2 Arena announcement:

 Sunday 25 Nov & Thursday 29 Nov

Tickets on sale from Oct 19

A couple of days of "holidays" in the cold, rain & mud  for The Rolling Stones but we came back with some nice stuff, I guess everyone enjoyed our little Live version of "Doom & Gloom", the first one ever.

We came back with some more shit to share and the first one will be The Beatles' penned "I wanna be your man", we're holding "One more shot", yeah I know we're tight bastards.

Check our Pics of The Rolling Stones September exhibition in Paris @ Galerie de l'instant.

If ever you're in Paris yon can get The Rolling Stones' "Ladies and gentlemen" numbered limited edition boxset at the Virgin Megastore on the Champs Elysées for a bargain 35 euros (instead of 90).

Enjoy !

The Rolling Stones' rehearsals in France, Oct 2012

Rehearsals  (with Setlist)  of Oct 15 is HERE
Rehearsals (with setlist)  of Oct 16 is HERE
" I wanna be your man" audio from rehearsals is HERE


UPDATED Oct 16 with CORRECTED SETLISTS:

The Rolling Stones have a new Best Of... "GRRR!" out soon with a couple of new tracks recorded in Paris at the end of August.
As the band is getting ready to play a couple of shows at the O2 Arena in London at the end of November and a couple more in NYC at the beginning of December and maybe some more...

We left Paris for the country side for a couple of days to (try to) listen to the rehearsals, nice bet as we heard many songs from their back catalogue and a couple of new ones including "Doom & Gloom" (here on audio) and "One more shot", which was a world exclusive for us, as the song has never been heard anywhere yet.
Rehearsals started at the beginning of the month and will end in a couple of weeks.

-Here's a list of songs that were rehearsed on Oct 11 (not in order & corrected):

Miss you, It's only Rock'n roll, Tumbling dice, You got me rocking, Let it bleed, Sitting on the dock of the bay, respectable, far away eyes, Doom & gloom,One more shot,  paint it Black, I wanna be your man, Not fade away, Brown sugar, If you can't rock me, some girls

-Songs rehearsed on Oct 12 (in order):  CORRECTED on OCT15

Bitch, All down the line, rocks off,Dead flowers, Last time, Honky Tonk women, Going to a gogo, Ladyjane, Down & Gloom, One more shot, shine  a light, can't always get..., happy.Before they make me run, sympathy for the devil

To answer all questions: YES we do have recorded "One more shot", don't know if we'll post this one as we don't want to be in trouble with the Stones or people working with them... maybe later but the song sounds a bit like "doom" , less rock more groovy with a better chorus. It would have been my choice for the first single instead of "Doom"
We may post "I wanna be your man" as we love The Beatles over here.

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Radiohead @ Paris Bercy, Oct 12 2012

Didn't go to this one either but here's the setlist from Radiohead.fr:

1. Lotus Flower/Moon upon a Stick
2. Bloom
3. There There
4. The Daily Mail
5. Myxomatosis
6. Bodysnatchers
7. The Gloaming
8. Separator
9. I Might Be Wrong
10. Videotape
11. You And Whose Army
12. Nude
13. Planet Telex
14. The National Anthem
15. Feral
16. Paranoid Android

Premier rappel :

17. Exit Music (For A Film)
18. Staircase
19. Morning Mr Magpie
20. Weird fishes/arpeggi
21. Reckoner

Deuxième rappel :

22. Give Up The Ghost 
23. Everything In Its Right Place 
24. Idioteque

MUSE @ Olympia, Paris Oct 02 2012

 MUSE @ Olympia, Paris Oct 02 2012

We didn't go as we were @ Balades Sonores for a showcase but here's the SETLIST:
(click for videos)
1- Supremacy ---interlude
2- Hysteria
3- Panic station
4- Resistance
5- SMBH
6- Animals
7- TIRO
8- Save Me

9.Madness
10.Uprising
11.Follow Me
12.Bliss

 13- KOC 

14-Stockholm Syndrom

15-Starlight

16-Survival

Led Zeppelin Press Conference, London Sept 21 2012

Led Zeppelin Press Conference, London Sept 21 2012 

 Led Zeppelin did a press conference @ the Posh Northumberland Avenue Hotel in Charing Cross, London.

Here's the whole video from the event with John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant.

The Rolling Stones' new Greatest Hits album "GRRR!" out on Nov 12 2012

The Rolling Stones' new Greatest Hits album "GRRR!" out on Nov 12 2012

Grrr !

The Rolling Stones, ABKCO Music & Records and Universal Music Group are pleased to announce the release of GRRR! by the Rolling Stones on the 12th November 2012 for the world, excluding North America, and on the 13th November 2012 in North America.

Including:
“Come On”, their first single issued in June 1963, via the thrilling chart-toppers “The Last Time”, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, “Get Off Of My Cloud”, “Jumping Jack Flash”, “Honky Tonk Women” , “Brown Sugar”, “Tumbling Dice”, “Miss You” and “Start Me Up”,
all the way to the present day with the inclusion of “Gloom And Doom” and “One Last Shot”, two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France in August 2012.

GRRR! GREATEST HITS FORMATS:

50 Track 3CD album

3CD / 50 tracks in a digipack with 24 page booklet

50 Track 3CD Deluxe Edition

3CD / 50 tracks in a DVD size box with 36 page hardback book and 5 postcards

Super Deluxe Edition Box Set

4CD / 80 tracks plus Bonus CD, 7″ Vinyl, Hardback book, Poster, 5 postcards in a presentation box

12” Vinyl Box Set

5x 12″ Vinyl / 50 tracks in a casebound LP Box

Madonna @ Olympia, Paris July 26 2012

Madonna @ Olympia, Paris July 26 2012
or THE BIG RIP-OFF

AH AH !!! 276 euros for 45 min ! Madonna fans (right) leaving the Olympia

Madonna Special Club Show At Paris' Olympia To Be Streamed Live Via The Lovelive Youtube Channel This Thursday, July 26th

SETLIST (TBC):
Intro :Turning up the hits
1) Turn up the radio
2) Open your heart
"7 min speech"
3) Masterpiece
Interlude (Justify my love)
4) Vogue
5) Candy shop
6) Human nature
7) Beautiful Killer
8) Je t'aime ... moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg cover) click for video

Glad we didn't go, she started the set @ 22:45, played two songs, started a 7 min speech, played one song then a 3 min interlude with video and 5 more songs , no goodbye.
45 min set (including the speech)... What a fucking joke !
Angry fans asked for refund, calling her a "Bitch" or screaming out "Shame on you". (video here)
This wasn't part of the live broadcast of course.

It seems that this last minute show @ Olympia was just a publicity stunt after the controversy with Marine Lepen but it felt flat as all the press this morning is only talking about angry fans insulting her.
It also looks like her fans are only cash cows to that bitch who's charging 260 euros for a 45 min set, even more awful: in order to get tickets with fan club members before the general public for this show you had to get a membership (20 euros).
Nice !


Angry fans at the end of the very short set:

Reminder:
Madonna @ Bercy 2009
Stadde de France Sept 20 2008 & Sept 21 2008

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside @ Bercy Village, Paris July 23 2012 7:00pm

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside @ Bercy Village, Paris July 23 2012 7:00pm