Rokia Traoré + Concrete Knives @ Hotel de Ville, Paris , July 20 2013

Rokia Traoré + Concrete Knives @ Hotel de Ville, Paris , July 20 2013

Back at Hotel de Ville for this Free festival, We already saw Rokia Traoré @ UNESCO for the Evening of Solidarity with Mali in February  where she was invited to perform with other Afrivcan artists , at the time she only played a couple of songs. We have a bit more tonight 25-30 min set.

Pop-Rock with African rhythms, nice. Better when she's singing in English than in French. 

Then we have Concrete Knives, a french indie-pop band with, once again , African Rhythms, The kind of music to dance to.

Not really our stuff but very enjoyable and a singer very "French Chic" with the attitude of Jeunes Gens modernes.

Miles Kane + Palma Violets + Villagers @ Hotel de Ville de Paris , Fnac Live, July 18 2013

Miles Kane + Palma Violets + Villagers @ Hotel de Ville de Paris , Fnac Live, July 18 2013

 The nice & clean VILLAGERS (above)

Free festival organized by FNAC stores on the Parvis de l'Hotel de Ville. It started yesterday with at least 6 bands playing every night from 5:00pm to 11:00pm.
Tonight IS the night with Miles Kane but we decided to come earlier to check Villagers & Palma Violets, we already saw both bands this year @ L'Album de la Semaine tv show ( Jan 09 2013 for Villagers) & Jan 15 2013 for Palma Violets)

Villagers for some chamber pop-folk, not really the best place to listen to that kind of music, in day light with people talking and drinking wine... they did OK.

 Garage rock with PALMA VIOLETS (above)

Different kind of music, now we're talking ! The guys are having fun with some kick ass garage rock, it's a family audience from teenagers to people over 60 and some of those bastards are complaining when youngsters are pogoing down the front.

That's what I like to see, people enjoying themselves. It was rockin' !!!

 Palma Violets setlist (far right)

 MILES KANE Rockin' with Class (as usual)

Nothing that much to say about Miles Kane, we saw him already dozens of times and it was " encore un sans faute", The guy is Rockin' with Class, lots of catchy songs. All the girls are down the front for him, headbanging like mad. see setlist below for details
Great set !!!

One question though: WHERE THE FUCK DID HE GET THAT COSTUME ?

We left the premises to go home, Oxmo Puccimo and Olivia Ruiz were next, How can we stay for that crap ?

 "Come Closer"

Mina Tindle + La Grande Sophie @ Hotel de Ville for Paris Plage, Paris july 20 2012 6:30pm

Mina Tindle + La Grand Sophie @ Hotel de Ville for Paris Plage, Paris july 20 2012 6:30pm

Short set (25 min) by Mina Tindle & friends
Indie Pop tunes with a bit of electronica, nice even though there's no real hit single , it's more "ambiant".

La Grande Sophie

We only stayed for the first 3 songs, nice pop-rock but nothing special

Charlie Winston @ Hotel de Ville for Paris Plage, July 19 2012

Charlie Winston @ Hotel de Ville for Paris Plage, July 19 2012 9:30pm

Free gig at the Hotel de Ville for the Paris Plage festivities, it's packed with a few thousands people, lots of late teenage girls, most of them smoking & drinking alcool in a friendly atmosphere.
There were a few artist before, we only came came for Charlie Winston.
He's playing acoustic & electric guitar, a couple of songs on piano and one on bass.
He gave out a few of his (trademark) hats to the audience and had them clapping and singing to his hits.
The music he's playing is not Top but hes' a good showman and the show was enjoyable.

Paul McCartney @ Stella McCartney AW 2013 collection @ Hotel de Ville, Paris March 05 2012

Paul McCartney @ Stella McCartney AW 2013 collection @ Hotel de Ville, Paris march 05 2012

Some pics from our friend Hervé M. @ Hotel de Ville this morning for the Stella McCartney fashion show.

Paul with Alicia Keys