Placebo + Sigur Ros + Bloc Party + The Shins + Get Well Soon + Citizens + Grimes
@
Rock en Seine, St Cloud , August 24 2012
Grimessetlist (from
Oliver Peel):
01: Vanessa02: Oblivion03: Be A Body04: Genesis05: Phone SexBack in the french capital after some well deserved holidays, it was sunny & hot, we're back and ready to Rock & Roll for a long week-end @
Rock en Seine in St Cloud, just outside Paris.
The line-up on this friday is very poor with no big names or any bands worth waking up for.
Saturday will be a bit better and sunday will be fun with more real rock bands.
Grimes is the first"band" we're seeing as we're making our way to the main site, she's playing on the small stage, we saw her
@ Colette store a few months ago, that was fun in a bar but in front of a few thousands people in open air it's less interesting. There's a guy with long air on stage dancing next to her, don't know what this dick is doing here it's ridiculous.
We didn't stay long and went to the second stage to see...
Citizens!: Nice English pop, very 80's sound but enjoyable.
Citizens !
Get Well Soon
setlist (from
oliver peel)
01: I sold my hands for food so please feed me
02: Seneca's silence
03: A voice in the Louvre
04: 5 steps/7 swords
05: Roland, I feel you
06: Werner Herzog gets shot
07: The last days of Rome
08: Listen! Those lost at sea sing a song on christmas day
09: A burial at sea
10: Angry young man
11: You cannot cast out the demons (You might as well dance)
Next on the second stage was German band
Get Well Soon with a Symphonic Orchestra, great songs and cool attitude it reminded me of
Divine Comedy (
Regeneration era) &
Radiohead (first era when they were not playing some electro shit).
First time we were seeing them and we thought they were simply great.
Festival site from the TOP !
Didn't care about French rock band Dionysos playing the main stage so we had a walk in the park and went to the Big Wheel, nice view over the festival site and the neighborhood. (Pics above)
The Shins
01: Caring Is Creepy02: Australia03: Simple Song (viel Orgel)04: Bait And Switch05: Phantom Limb06: Rifle07: Saint Simon08: It's Only Life (new single)09: So Says I10: Kissing The Lippless11: No Way Down12: Port Of Morrow
We were having dinner at one of the many restaurants with food coming from France or different part of the world ( Caribbean, Senegalese, Ethiopian, Thai, Tex Mex, Italian, Japanese, Irish...) -not the kind of thing you see at Rock festivals.-We chose a sandwich from Senegal.
so we missed the beginning of the Shins' set on the second stage. Nice discovery: this band has great melodies and songs, cool 60's influenced pop-rock. We're gonna check their albums to see if they sound as good on cd as on a stage.
Bloc Party
SETLIST:
01: Octopus02: Hunting For Witches03: Positive Tension04: Kettling05: Song For Clay06: Bnquet07: Team A08: One more Chance09: Truth10: This Modern Love11: Ares12: Flux13: Helicopter
We're not great fans of
Bloc Party so we catch the last part of their set on the main stage. The last time we saw them was here @
Rock en Seine a couple of years ago when they announced that OASIS had split and that their show was cancelled. They enjoyed it as the Gallaghers told some naughty things about them, Watch the video
HERE. The singer called them "Imbred Twins" That was fun.
The main stage is packed for them.
Sigur Ros
setlist:(from
Oliver peel)
01: i Gaer02: Varúð3: Saeglópur04: Festival05: Hoppípolla06: Með Blóðnasir07: Hafsól08: Popplagið Sigur Ros from Iceland with a singer with a high and very distinctive voice and he's singing in his native tongue not English with ads a litle something to their set.
Very ambient with some heavy part. Can't remember the last time we saw them... Yes, they were opening for Radiohead in 2000. 12 years ago.
Placebo
Placebo is headlining on the main stage, they are still very popular over here in France, we used to like them at the beginning of their career, after the 3rd album we stopped as the records were less and less good and
Brian Molko is such a dickhead.
Funny to see them after all these years: nice set, better than expected, they've played a new song:"B3".
Even though the line-up was very poor -no big names- we had a very pleasant day, saturday should be (even) better... see ya there.