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"

Miles Kane @ Maroquinerie, Paris May 22 2013

Miles Kane @ Maroquinerie, Paris May 22 2013

We're getting into the tiny Maroquinerie as the opening band is playing its last song, of course it's packed as the show is long sold-out.
it's 9:00pm sharp when Miles Kane & friends are making their way onto the stage, Miles is here to introduce us to his new solo album out next week but all the young girls down the front know all the lyrics already.
A few weeks ago on April 22 @ Canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine we were lucky to see him performing some of the new songs, that sounding great and really rocking even though conditions at a tv show are more clinical.

Tonight in front of a "real" audience things are more organic, Miles is Rockin' like never before and always... with a smile to the girls from the first row.

See setlist (underneath) for details, first song of the Encore  "Colour of the trap" is performed alone by Miles on acoustic guitar.
Last song "Don't forget who you are" is also the tee shirt sold at the merchandise table tonight that was wearing all the roadies
The whole show was professionally video recorded by several cameras.

Great gig !

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Miles Kane 

@ Album de la Semaine, Paris April 22 2013 (TV show for new album)

@ Main Square Fest with PEARL JAM  June 30 2012

@ Inrocks festival in Nov 2011 @ Cigale,
@ Rock en Seine , august 2011
@ Album de la Semaine March 2011

Check our reviews of Arctic Monkeys @ Rock en Seine 2011, @ Cigale on June 16, @ L'Album de la Semaine on June 15 2011 & @ Zénith in 2009

Check also Check our reviews of The Last Shadow Puppets @ Olympia on August 26 2008 & @ Album de la Semaine for Canal+ the day after.

With The Rascals :
@ Maroquinerie Dec 01 2008
@ Fleche d'Or  Sept 05 2008

Miles Kane @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+ Paris April 22 2013

 Miles Kane @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+ Paris April 22 2013

Miles Kane is back with a second solo album " Don't forget who you are" and before his European Tour starting next month...and a show @ Maroquinerie on May 22nd (probably already sold-out), he's doing some promo. Tonight he's playing Canal+ studios in front of a young audience of 100+ people.

 I Remember that last time he played "L'album de la Semaine" to promote his first album we thought it was a bit too pop compare to The Rascals. We saw him many times afterwards and each time it was near perfection.
Now we're fully satisfied, it's ROCKING & KICKING ASS.
New songs are much more heavier and as good as the first album (we haven't listen to any of them yet).
There is an extra keyboard player to add extra flavor with piano or weird Psyche noises.
Miles is , as usual, smartly dressed with a black costume.
The set ended with a nice rendition of The Rolling Stones' "Doom & Gloom" that is rocking.
The came back once to re-play "get up" as they were not satisfied with the sound.
Once again Great gig ( around 40 min)

MILES KANE covering The Rolling Stones' "Doom & Gloom"
Afetr the show I've asked him why playing that song, he answered "just because I Like it"

Album de la semaine - Miles Kane "Doom and Gloom", le live

Miles Kane 

@ Main Square Fest with PEARL JAM  June 30 2012

@ Inrocks festival in Nov 2011 @ Cigale,
@ Rock en Seine , august 2011
@ Album de la Semaine March 2011
Check our reviews of Arctic Monkeys @ Rock en Seine 2011, @ Cigale on June 16, @ L'Album de la Semaine on June 15 2011 & @ Zénith in 2009

Check also Check our reviews of The Last Shadow Puppets @ Olympia on August 26 2008 & @ Album de la Semaine for Canal+ the day after.

Miles @ Main Square Fest last year.

ROCKERPARIS Top Concerts for 2012- The best, the New, the Old and the worst of 2012

ROCKERPARIS "TOP 10" ROCK CONCERTS

The best shows, The nice surprises and the crap...of 2012

We've been to 150 rock concerts this year and we stayed in Paris for (almost) all of them excluding two shows in Lyon and Strasbourg for Guns N Roses and the Arras Main square Fest with Pearl Jam.

1- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & The E Street Band.

@ Paris Bercy July 4 & July 5 2012

Without a doubt BRUCE is the BOSS of 2012

2 Fantastic shows @ Paris Bercy Arena, both shows Sold-out with 18000 people screaming like one man. each show lasted more than 3h40 min.

First Tour without the Big Man.

The second show being the best and each time we had a terrific "seat" in da pit down the front.

the video below speaks for itself:

2- The ROLLING STONES

@ Trabendo club, Théatre Mogador and rehearsals

 The celebration for the 50th anniversary were nowhere to be seen and suddenly the Rolling Stones were everywhere, it started with the recording of two songs at the end of August in Suresnes then the band started rehearsing just outside Paris on Oct 1st for more than a month.
They've played one club show @ Trabendo on Oct 25 which was a dream come true: seeing the Stones in a 500 capacity club, Then it was a private show for bankers @ 1500 capacity Theatre Mogador on Oct 29.
The best was yet to come when they invited us at their penultimate rehearsals on Nov 08 another dream come true seeing The Rolling Stones at work for more than 50 min. A "mini-Trabendo" as Mick Jagger called it.

3- JACK WHITE

@ L'Album de la Semaine for canal+ April 20, @  Cigale April 22 & RTL radio show on July 03rd

 Not only he had one of the best album of 2012 with "Blunderbuss" but the man is going on Tour with two different bands ( one male band and one female band). We were lucky to get both bands at the Canal+ tv show in front of just 150 people. The Cigale show was terrific, Ice on the cake was a private 30 min showcase for a 100 people at RTL radio in the afternoon of July 03rd.
I'm still wondering why we didn't attend both his shows @ Olympia Hall on July 03 & 04.

4- GUNS N ROSES @ Paris Bercy June 05 , Halle Tony Garnier June10, Zénith Strasbourg June 11

 No matter what the critics are saying, this "Guns N Roses" or Axl Rose's band IS terrific on stage more than 2h30 min on stage lots of great songs including the one from "Chinese Democracy" and AXL on top form.

5- BLUE OYSTER CULT @ Montereau June 09

A classic band , Classic songs even though there are only two original members

Lou Reed opened and was horrible

Then in no particular order:

GRANDADDY @ Rock en Seine

The band was back together & it was our first time for us

METALLICA + The Kills @ Stade de France May 12

Maybe not their best show ( Sonisphere was fantastic with the big Four in 2011) but we were in the pit down the front once again so the view was top. The Kills were booed off stage

IGGY & THE STOOGES @ Casino de Paris

Private show for a beer brand, not really THE Stooges as there is only Iggy from the original line-up but still kicking ass and we went ON stage for this one, our second time as we already went on stage with The Stooges @ Fete de l'Humanité in front of 50 000 people a few years ago.

MILES KANE @ Cigale April 20, @ Arras in June, @ Casino de Paris Jan 30 opening for Arctic Monkeys.

Once again Miles played several shows in Paris promoting his first solo album, each time with class

WORST SHOWS:
The Musical Box @ Olympia
Genesis cover band : worst piece of shit I have even seen, nothing to with the band but the music ...
James Iha @ Maroquinerie was a joke

We also had a good time with:

 Chris Cornell solo @ Cigale June 22

Nick Lowe @ New Morning Feb 12

America @ Bataclan March 17

Leon Russell @ New Morning March 19

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers @ Grand Rex June 27

Noel Gallagher @ Grand Rex March 06 & casino de Paris

Imelda may @ Olympia May 11

Pearl Jam @ Arras June 30

ZZ TOP @ Olympia July 27

Steve Miller band @ Olympia Nov 02

Suzanne Vega @ Casino d' Enghien Oct 19

Rich Robinson @ Fargo & Silencio Dec 12

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