Van Morrison @ Olympia, Paris Sept 14 2012

Van Morrison @ Olympia, Paris Sept 14 2012

Van The Man !

Once again tickets are ridiculously expensive, up to 220 euros for the best seats. WHAT THE FUCK ?!?
It's quite full tonight but not sold-out with people in their forties and fifties. Hard to afford a gig at such silly prices when you're a student.
Anyway... the opening band is Shana Morrison, I guess it's his daughter or his wife, nice voice but the music she's playing is an easy-listening-country-folk of no interest at all.

Then we have Van The Man standing in the middle of the stage among his musicians -guitar, bass, keys, several brass players & drums- with his trademark black hat & sunglasses.
He has two beautiful guitars just next to him that will be useless as he won't even have a look at them for the whole set.
He's singing , of course, perfectly playing a bit of saxophone from time to time, a bit of harp too, a couple of songs are played on the piano.
The sound is not too loud and as perfect as his voice or the musicianship of his band, fantastic bass sound, warm as I like it.
Lots of very relax and cool songs maybe a bit too many for my taste with some great covers "Fever" "Baby please don't go".
Unfortunately only one song from "Moondance" my favorite record, the title track.
Lots of classics. setlist included: "Moondance", "Brown eyed girl", "baby please don't go, "fever", "Gloria", "whenever god shines", "enlightenment", "here comes the night"...
great set too bad there wasn't any encore at the end.

Led Zeppelin's 2007 Reunion concert @ O2 in London to be released on dvd on Nov 19 2012.

UPDATED Sept 13

"CELEBRATION DAY" Out on Nov 19 2012 on DVD

"Celebration Day" will see a worldwide theatrical release by Omniverse Vision on 1,500 screens in over 40 territories on October 17.

"Celebration Day" track listing:
01. Good Times, Bad Times
02. Ramble On
03. Black Dog
04. In My Time Of Dying
05. For Your Life (live debut)
06. Trampled Underfoot
07. Nobody's Fault But Mine
08. No Quarter
09. Since I've Been Lovin' You
10. Dazed And Confused
11. Stairway To Heaven
12. The Song Remains the Same
13. Misty Mountain Hop
14. Kashmir
15. Whole Lotta Love
16. Rock And Roll

Fanfarlo @ River's King boat for Pepe Jeans, Paris Sept 13 2012

Fanfarlo @ River's King boat for Pepe Jeans, Paris Sept 13 2012

Fanfarlo played a showcase on the River's King boat for the Singular Music Festival presented by Pepe Jeans.
Strangely enough there are not a lot of people maybe just a 100. Luckily lots of our friends have tickets so we almost have the band for us as half of the audience preferred to stay on the upper deck and enjoy the view instead of watching the gig in the basement.
No free drinks or food and it's a pay bar.
Hard to believe Pepe jeans pay for the boat , the band and only have a handful of guests.
I guess they should reconsider their marketing department anyway...
Fanfarlo, that we already saw a few times @ Trabendo and some other places performed a great gig in front of a small audience despite the noise coming from the engines of the boat.
It's the first time I'm attending a gig on a boat that's sailing -on the river Seine from Bercy to the Eiffel Tower and back-.
The last time I took a boat like this in Paris, I was a kid.
We had a great evening even though things should have been handle differently.

Two Door Cinema Club @ Fnac Forum, Paris Sept 13 2012 1:00 PM

Two Door Cinema Club @ Fnac Forum, Paris Sept 13 2012 1:00 PM

Very short 4-song acoustic set
The songs are sounding much better like this than with all the electric gear
Then there was a signing session
Cool !

Two Door Cinema Club + The Aerial @ Studio SFR, Paris Sept 12 2012

Two Door Cinema Club + The Aerial @ Studio SFR, Paris Sept 12 2012

The Aerial

First on stage in this tiny space near La Madeleine is The Aerial, we already saw them opening for Paul Personne for a free show @ the 3rd district Town Hall this July.
Up-tempo electro-pop-rock that all the kids like, not really our stuff but they were OK.

Then we have trendy band Two Door Cinema club.
The first time we heard of them was when they opened for Phoenix @ Olympia on March 22 2010, we were not there but they did a showcase the afternoon at the Fnac Montparnasse store and played a 4-song acoustic set.
They came back later that year for a sold-out show @ La Cigale and @ the Rock en Seine festival on August 28 2010 in front of a huge audience on the second stage.

It's one of those bands that are playing the same kind of music as The falls or Vampire Weekend, lots of up-tempo songs with a disco beat and some African influences, well... it's less obvious than for Vampire Weekend for the African influences.
They have a couple of very catchy tunes but everything seems to sound a bit the same in the end.
Nevertheless they did a powerful & enjoyable show.

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The Rolling Stones exhibition @ Galerie de l'instant, Paris Sept 12 2012

The Rolling Stones exhibition @ Galerie de l'instant, Paris Sept 12 2012

Last day for this Rolling Stones' exhibition @ Galerie de l'Instant in Paris 3rd district, they were already packing away some of this stuff., Pretty close !

Jim Morrison lost in the middle of all this....

They also have some very nice and iconic pictures of Marilyn Monroe & Steve McQueen.

La Galerie de l'Instant 46, rue de Poitou 75003 Paris

Ouverture du mardi au samedi de 11h à 19h et le dimanche de 14h30 à 18h30

Rock concerts in Paris for September 2012

Sept 11
The Pogues @ Olympia (sold out)
Sept 12
The Pogues @ Olympia (sold out)
Two Door Cinema Club @ Studio SFR ( invit' only, sold out)
Sept 13
Two Door Cinema Club @ Fnac Forum 1:00pm (free showcase)
Fanfarlo private gig on a boat for Pepe Jeans
Sept 14
Van Morrison @ Olympia
Patti Smith @ Théatre des Bouffes du Nord ( Acoustic show, sold out)
New Order + BB Brunes @ Fête de L'Humanité
We Love Green Festival @ Bagatelle Gardens with Norah Jones James Blake, Django Django
Sept 15:
Patti Smith, Peter Doherty @ Fête de L'Humanité
We Love Green Fest with Beirut, Klaxons, Camille @ Bagatelle gardens
Sept 16
Calexico @ Trianon
We love Green Fest with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cody Chestnutt, Herman Dune
NB: Charlotte Gainsbourg & Connan Mockasin annulé remplacé par C2C
Sept 17
Jim Jones Revue @ L'Album de la Semaine
Graham Coxon @ Café de la Danse
Sept 18:
The Hives @ Album de la Semaine
Sept 19
The Cult + Gun @ Bataclan
Fu Manchu @ Maroquinerie
Sept 20
Joss Stone @ Trianon

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Paul McCartney's Legion of Honour @ Elysée, Paris Sept 08 2012

Paul McCartney's Legion of Honour @ Elysée, Paris Sept 08 2012

Paul McCartney is a happy man (far right)

(c) Elysée

Much More Pics HERE

Paul McCartney seconds after receiving the Legion of honour as the rank of Officer from the hand of French President François Hollande @ Elysée.

Paul McCartney is the first British musician to be awarded the Legion of Honour.

The XX @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 05 2012

The XX @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 05 2012

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Before their sold out concert @ Cirque d'Hiver on Sept 06 , The XX are playing Canal+ famous tv show, see ya there !
It's sold-out tonight for our first session after the holidays, Eugene McGuinness played last week but we were back to the west-coast for an extra week on the seaside, enjoying the sun & sand.

The XX are getting more and more popular over here, the music is very soft, very ambient and atmospheric with a just some bass , dome very soft guitar and percussion or electro beats.
Most of the songs are very quiet with just a couple of more up-tempo songs.
Not really the kind of things we're used to listen to but it's quite interesting.

We already saw them @ Fnac Forum in 2010

The Rolling Stones' new Greatest Hits album "GRRR!" out on Nov 12 2012

The Rolling Stones' new Greatest Hits album "GRRR!" out on Nov 12 2012

Grrr !

The Rolling Stones, ABKCO Music & Records and Universal Music Group are pleased to announce the release of GRRR! by the Rolling Stones on the 12th November 2012 for the world, excluding North America, and on the 13th November 2012 in North America.

Including:
“Come On”, their first single issued in June 1963, via the thrilling chart-toppers “The Last Time”, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, “Get Off Of My Cloud”, “Jumping Jack Flash”, “Honky Tonk Women” , “Brown Sugar”, “Tumbling Dice”, “Miss You” and “Start Me Up”,
all the way to the present day with the inclusion of “Gloom And Doom” and “One Last Shot”, two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France in August 2012.

GRRR! GREATEST HITS FORMATS:

50 Track 3CD album

3CD / 50 tracks in a digipack with 24 page booklet

50 Track 3CD Deluxe Edition

3CD / 50 tracks in a DVD size box with 36 page hardback book and 5 postcards

Super Deluxe Edition Box Set

4CD / 80 tracks plus Bonus CD, 7″ Vinyl, Hardback book, Poster, 5 postcards in a presentation box

12” Vinyl Box Set

5x 12″ Vinyl / 50 tracks in a casebound LP Box

The Rolling Stones to play a few shows in NYC & London before the end of the Year

The ROLLING STONES are planning to play 2 shows @ Brooklyn's Barclays Center before the end of the year to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

The band is also planning two shows at the O2 Arena in London for November.

The band recorded two songs in Paris at the end of August at Studio Guillaume Tell in Suresnes for a future Best of

The Waterboys + The Dandy Warhols @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud August 26 2012

The Waterboys + The Dandy Warhols @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud August 26 2012

Last day of this 3-day festival in this posh area of St Cloud near Paris, today has the best bill starting with The Waterboys, we saw them a few months ago @ Bataclan and we had an excellent good time with some good ol' rocking and rolling.

As the band is playing at 5 pm it's a short set but they managed to rock the place, they dedicated "The whole of the moon" to Neil Amstrong who died the night before (first man to walk on the moon), it's a sunny day so conditions are perfect, for the last song we have a special guest with French singer Cali playing acoustic guitar and doing vocals.
Great set

SETLIST (from Oliver Peel)
01: Rags
02: Killing My Heart
03: A Girl Called Johnny
04: Glastonbury Song
05: Mad As The Mist And Snow
06: The Pan Within
07: The Whole Of The Moon
08: Fisherman's Blues (with Cali)

The Dandy Warhols are playing on the main stage, they do have a good sound but the band is on auto-pilot, we missed the begginning of the set and we had to leave before the end for the second stage to get a good spot for Grandaddy but their show is very average so I guess that we didn't miss that much.