Exposition "Astérix à la BnF", Paris jusqu'au 26 Janvier 2014

Exposition "Astérix à la BnF", Paris jusqu'au 26 Janvier 2014

Exposition AB-SO-LU-MENT- SU-PER-BE !!!

De quoi vous occupez pendant plus de 3 heures

Plein de planches, de scenarii originaux d' UDERZO & GOSCINNY

A voir AB-SO-LU-MENT pour tout fan de BD.

Plus que quelques jours jusqu' au 26 Janvier

 Rockerparis a laissé sa "marque".

WARPAINT @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+ Paris Jan 21 2014

WARPAINT @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+ Paris Jan 21 2014

WARPAINT played a sold-out show yesterday night @ Trabendo club in Paris, from what friends told me , the sound wasn't that good and the band wasn't very tight, can't blame them it was the first show on the Tour.

Tonight they're playing famous Canal+ TV show, They do have a lot of press over here so I guess I should check these media darlings. I have to say I've never heard anything , I don't even know what kind of music they're playing. So no preconceived mind about this all girl band.

First song is starting with a long instrumental intro that is sounding a bit like the early The Cure, then we have ambient songs. All the girls are singing lead vocals (apart from the drummer) and doing backing vocals with lots of effects on their voices.
Can't tell that they do have a hit single out there as all their songs are very "ambient" with atmospheric voices and guitars
It's sounding like a English Post New Wave band from the 80's.
Hard to believe that some of the press is calling this "a Rock band", its NOT.
Not bad but not really the stuff that we like, we're more into Rock and wild guitars.
Good show.

 

Les Revelations des Victoires de la Musique 2014 @ Studio 105, Maison de la Radio, France Inter, Jan 18 2014

Les Revelations des Victoires de la Musique 2014 @ Studio 105, 

Maison de la Radio, France Inter, Jan 18 2014

To be broadcasted on Jan 20 9:00pm on France Inter

Feat. HollySiz, La Femme, Christine & The Queens, Albin de la Simone, Cats on Trees...

 Hollysiz

 Albin de la Simone

We arrived a bit late on this saturday evening so we've missed La Femme playing which was a good thing as we couldn't stand that crap, we've already saw them @ Olympia for Pression live a few months ago.

Each band is playing two songs and then there is a short interview with host Valli so that technicians can change the set for the next band.
First band for us was HollySiz with actress Cécile Cassel singing, electro pop band, not our thing but enjoyable.
Albin de la Simone, that's his 4th or 5th record so he joked a bit about this industry "discovering" him and considering him as an "revelation". French Pop-rock: OK

 Cats on Trees

Cats on Trees were the best band of the show: very nice pop rock with a girl on piano and vocals and a drummer.
We also had a Rap band , I Can't remember their name , crap but they were good in their field.
Christine & The Queens: don't know if it's a novelty band, in fact she's on her own on vocals with pre-recorded tapes, fun but the music sucks badly.

 Christine & The Queens

Even though most of the bands were not our drug of choice it was an interesting show, funny to hear most of them singing in English and using lots of technology to support them  with loops, samples and pre-recorded sounds and music.It's the 21st Century baby !!!

There's a long way to reach England or the US level of up and coming bands.

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Elliott Murphy @ Mairie du 13e Paris, Jan 14 2014

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Elliott Murphy @ Mairie du 13e Paris, Jan 14 2014

1st show of the year 2014 for Elliott Murphy & for ROCKERPARIS, it's an acoustic show with Elliott's band , The Normandy All Stars. Free show in this huge hall within the town hall of the 13th district of Paris. On each sides of the hall there are guge posters with some of the pics of the exhibition Bowie&Friends that is taking place in the next door rooms.Beautiful place to attend a show as you can see on the pic above.

It's it quite full with the die-hard fans down the front .

Elliott Murphy is playing a selection of the best songs from his 40 years+ career, acoustic, it is tonight, or electric, there's no difference when you have good songs.

Nice to start year 2014 with such an artist, we have some extras tonight as Elliott is performing Lou Reed's "Walk on the wild side" and David Bowie's "Heroes".

Original setlist

Lou Reed's "Walk on the wild side": (cut before the end, sorry)

Here's a link to the BOWIE & FRIENDS exhibition @ Mairie du 13e in Paris
free entrance

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"David Bowie & friends" exhibition @ Mairie Paris 13 from Jan 07 2014

"David Bowie & friends" exhibition @ Mairie Paris 13 

from Jan 07 2014 FREE entrance

 Some of the Pics of this exhibition, there is much more...

Exposition de la collection photographique de Philippe Auliac réunissant pour la première fois 75 photographies parisiennes des plus grandes stars de l’histoire de la Pop Music. David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Franck Zappa, Pink Floyd, Serge Gainsbourg …

All informations are HERE

We'll go to this exhibition on Wednesday so stay tuned to ROCKERPARIS for the pics tomorrow night. 

Bruce Springsteen's "High Hopes" listening Party @ Deezer France HQ, Paris Jan 07 2014

Bruce Springsteen's "High Hopes" listening Party @ Deezer France HQ, Paris Jan 07 2014 7:00pm

Just back from the listening party @ DEEZER HQ in Paris. Maybe 100+ people from the press and Deezer business partners. Everyone is quietly sitting down in a room in front of a screen that will play the lyrics to Bruce Springsteen's new album "High Hopes" as the audience is listening to it.

I was expecting Bruce to turn up unexpectedly as a friend of mine told me he was in Paris this saturday. No way.

Different atmospheres, different sounds. Tom Morello 's presence can seem ode on some songs, it is ; it's working good on others. It's the strangest album in Bruce discography. 

Hard to consider this as a REAL new album it's more a compilation of unreleased and pre-released tracks re-worked. Overall good album.

You can now stream the album in France on Télérama ,  in England via The guardian , in the USA via CBS.

ARCHIVES:
 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN @ Stade de France June 29
2 shows @ Paris Bercy on July 04th (Part 2) and July 5th (Part 2) [click for review with lots of Pics & videos]