Jesse Frohman for "Kurt Cobain: The Last session" @ Colette, Paris, Nov 08 2014

Jesse Frohman for "Kurt Cobain: The Last session" @ Colette, Paris, Nov 08 2014

 Jesse Frohman is signing his book called "The last Session" @ famous Parisian store Colette, It's saturday afternoon so the store is packed, not sure if people here are coming for this.Probably not the kind of audience that is listening to Nirvana.

Just wondering why they called this book (which is wonderful with session and live pics) "The last Session" as Kurt did a few other photo sessions after this one including the very last one ( the real one) with French Photographer Youri Lenquette (click on link for pics).

Great book for any NIRVANA fans.

Billy Cobham @ New Morning, Paris , Nov 07 2014

Billy Cobham @ New Morning, Paris , Nov 07 2014

One of the best drummers in the world is in Paris @ The tiny New Morning club playing Jazz Rock for an audience of devoted aficionados. Billy is a monster on drums, doesn't mean he's hitting that drum kit like a maniac, lots of subtlety in his playing.
Concert divided over two sets of 60 min+, all instrumental with an amazing drum solo in each set. Billy doesn't "show off" and it's a pleasure to see him play his instrument.
His hit song "Stratus" was played , of course, it remembered us when we saw Prince playing this very same club and playing the very same song.
Great sets and Billy Cobham, who went after the show to the merchandise table to sign cds always with a smile on his face

 Handwritten setlist

Angus Young & Cliff Williams @ Le Grand Journal, Canal+, Paris Nov 05 2014

UPDATED NOV 07:
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd's charge of attempting to procure murder has been withdrawn. 
 "The decision to charge Mr Rudd was made by the New Zealand Police without consultation with the Tauranga Crown solicitor."

UPDATED  N°2:
Official statement from AC/DC:
" We've only become aware of Phil's arrest as the news was breaking. We have no further comment. Phil’s absence will not affect the release of our new album Rock or Bust and upcoming tour next year."

UPDATED NOV 06:
Phil Rudd arrested in New Zealand & charged with attempting to procure a murder, he was also charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of cannabis and threatening to kill.
He was released on bail.
According to New Zealand news outlet The Sun, Rudd was "accused of procuring murder" between September 25th and 26th.

Angus Young & Cliff Williams @ Le Grand Journal, Canal+, Paris Nov 05 2014

 Angus & Brian did some interviews yesterday (Nov 04) @ Four Seasons hotel in London including for some French press, Angus ( & Helen) arrived in Paris that night with Eurostar @ Gare du Nord.

Cliff arrived in Paris in the afternoon from the USA.

 Nov 05:
Angus and Cliff gave a few interviews this morning for magazines , newspapers and radios

This afternoon they went to Canal+ for an interview for "Le Grand Journal" between 4:00pm and 5:00pm:
Angus spoke for most of the time,  with Cliff only saying a few words, of course the interview was crap, they had the cd cover and vinyl cover on the set but there was no cd or vinyl inside. It lasted for 20 min.
Fun to see Angus & Cliff for the promo but for die-hard fans: no interests apart from seeing them in flesh.
2 shows are planned @ Stade de France at the end of May but we all know that all ready.
They do not talked about Phil during the interview but...
From what I've been told by several sources , Phil is definitively playing on the album but not sure for the Tour yet as there are some tensions between him and the band.I won't get into more details.
I guess that the official picture WITHOUT Phil was a good ( or bad) message to him: "If you keep fuckin' things up, you're out of the band".
From what Antoine De Caunes said when he introduced Angus & Cliff  this interview will be broadcasted on the day of the album release so:  Dec 01st or 02nd.
Angus and Cliff left straight after the interview for Germany.

William Klein @ MK2 Bibliothèque for "Mais qui êtes vous Polly Maggoo ?", Paris Nov 04 2014

William Klein @ MK2 Bibliothèque for "Mais qui êtes-vous Polly Maggoo ?", Paris Nov 04 2014

Projection de "Mais qui êtes-vous Polly Maggoo ?" en compagnie de William Klein au MK2

Bibliothèque avec Polka Mag pour la sortie du coffret de 10 dvd des films et documentaires du réalisateur.

Il y a aussi une Exposition de photos jusqu'au 27 Nov (entrée libre)

 Bjorn Borg filmé par William Klein

Cat Power solo @ Gaité Lyrique, Paris Oct 30 2014

Cat Power solo @ Gaité Lyrique, Paris Oct 30 2014

Chan Marshall en pleine crise d'angoisse, elle commence un titre , s'arrête, le reprend, nous raconte un truc en plein milieu, le reprend et s'arrête brusquement. S'excusant toutes les 30 secondes.
Après deux titres à la guitare elle décide que ça ne va pas et s'installe au piano pour presque tout le concert. Nous révèle qu'elle est enceinte et qu'elle commence à avoir des gros seins, qu'elle a arrêté de fumer.Heureusement elle se détend doucement au fur et à mesure du concert, rarement vu une personne avec les doigts aussi crispé jouer sur un piano. Elle discute avec le public , stop immédiatement un titre pour s'enquérir de la santé d'une personne qui s'est évanouie dans le public.
Un concert assez spécial et plein de rebondissements, mais ça passe, le public l'adore. On avait quand même un peu mal pour elle au début. Heureusement le concert se termine sur une note joyeuse: une comptine en Français qu’elle chantait à ses débuts. Ouf, on a eu peur.

Archives:

We Love Green Festival with CAT POWER @ Parc de Bagatelle, Paris May 31

CAT POWER @ Olympia, Paris July 17 2013

Cat Power @ Olympia 2008

Jimmy Page @ Shakespeare & Company, Paris, Oct 30 2014 1:00pm

Jimmy Page @ Shakespeare & Company, Paris, Oct 30 2014 1:00pm

After attending RTL's master class yesterday night for an hour, we're lucky to attend one more Q&A with Jimmy page , this time at the old library fronting Notre dame de Paris: Shakespeare & Company

Staff is nice and friendly, people are queuing outside, not TOO many people, I thought there would be a riot outside, in fact no, I guess it wasn't that much publicized. 

A cab is dropping him and his assistant just in front of the store, he's looking good, shaking people's hands and having a nice word to some of us.

First we have  "questions & Answers" for a bit more than 30 min, the place is tiny so I guess only 60 to 80 people in the store with the first 20 seating down just in front of Jimmy page, he's just a couple of meters in front of us,  while people outside can listen to the PA.

 

 

Of course no pictures or recording but we managed to get some, , we're ROCKERPARIS.

"Stamping" book: a world premiere: What the FUCK ?!!!?
No autograph but Jimmy has a kind word to each one of us and shaking hands , stamping a book, never seen that before. What a joke, a fucking stamp on a book. anyway...
Great afternoon with Jimmy , very rare and wonderful to see him in such good conditions
so thanks to S&Cy for that opportunity.

Après avoir passé la soirée en compagnie de Jimmy la veille à RTL, rebelote en cette fin de matinée avec une rencontre dans la librairie Shakespeare & Company, juste en face de Notre Dame. Pas trop de monde heureusement c'est tout petit. Jimmy arrive à l'heure en taxi , grand sourire, il sert quelques mains. Les personnes arrivées vers 10h du matin commencent à s'installer à l'intérieur, ce n'est pas tout petit, c'est minuscule , pas plus d'une vingtaine de chaises pour les premiers arrivés , les suivants une quarantaine, sont débout, quant aux autres ils restent sur le trottoir mais peuvent écouter l'interview grâce à des haut parleurs disposés devant le magasin. Jimmy est juste devant nous à deux mètres, c'est assez incroyable d'être si près de lui pendant la quarantaine de minutes que dure l'entretien conduite par un journaliste Anglais. L'enregistrement audio devrait sortir sous peu sur torrent, on connait au moins un petit malin qui a tout enregistré.Merci à lui.
Puis c'est au tour de cette nouvelle fumisterie "le temponnage" de livre, parce que Jimmy ne signe pas, en tout cas pas à ses fans. Tout le monde fait sagement la queue après avoir acheter son livre 50 euros et c'est parti, des petits malins essayeront tout pour ce faire signer quelque chose, peine perdue, jimmy est adorable , a toujours un mot gentil, une poignée de main franche, mais pas de signature.
Comme souvent les photos sont interdites, bon, on est ROCKERPARIS ou pas, on a filmé les premières minutes de l'entretien avant que l'assistant de Page nous dise d'arrêter.
Le voir dans ces conditions était assez incroyable, un grand merci à l'équipe de la librairie, très sympa mais putain Jimmy c'est quoi cette fumisterie du Tampon !!!
L’escale parisienne de Jimmy n'aura pas duré deux jours, départ pour Londres par l'Eurostar de 16h.
Ce soir il dort chez lui.


The first few minutes of interview before I'm being "told" to stop recording, LOL: