ELIE SAAB "fashion week" Paris Oct 4th 2008

ELIE SAAB Spring /Summer 2009 Oct 4th 2008 Caroussel du Louvre Paris
Pictures Patrice Guino

Dita Von Teese ( left ) Milla Jovovic was there too as a guest and was ... very late .

Martha High @ Jamel Comedy club Paris Oct 3rd 2008

Martha High & the Shaolin Temple Defenders live @ "Jamel Comedy club".

The STD without Martha + Setlist

Private event for the first show of her French October tour . This is a late show as the band went on stage at 11:30 pm .
When i get into this trendy club I just couldn't fuckin' believe my eyes , the place is so small , there's a stage in the back and a small room with tables and chairs , it's simple nice and cosy .
Couldn't believe that i missed the Stevie Wonder aftershow party here, yes mates he played here in front of a hundred people , felt like i wanted to hung myself as we knew about it and didn't go thinking he would never played . AAAAaaaggghhhh !!!

Anyway The Shaolin Temple Defenders started to do a few numbers before Martha High joined them . Nice start with " Think" .
I've seen Martha a few times and it 's allways very good , she's got the voice and the attitude.
Remember folks, she played with Mr james Brown for many years and later with Maceo Parker.
Well , you know what more can i say ? When it's good , it's good.
So don't miss her on her tour :
http://www.myspace.com/missmarthahigh
She was on stage for only an hour with one song as an encore but hey ! that was a free gig and it ended at 1 am , perfect for me as i needed a bit of sleep as i' waking up tomorrow morning very early for the Fashion Week .
Review, Picture & Video © Guino Patrice (NDA : is it really a review ? )

See an other review here :
http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2008/06/martha-high-parc-floral-vincennes-june.html

You have the setlist above and a nice video here , what more can you ask for ?


PS : Thanks to Sophie ;-)

CHANEL @ Grand Palais Fashion Week Paris Oct 2008

It's Rock 'n Roll in its own way so here it is :

CHANEL street

It's always a pleasure to attend CHANEL Fashion show @ Le Grand Palais in Paris, the place is huge , the setting is fantastic for each collection, lots of beautiful girls too ...
A bit disappointed this time no Marianne Faithfull , no Courtney Love, no Chan Marshall ;-(

Emma Watson from Harry Potter ( left ) Nora Arnezeder : she's hot ( right )

Virginie Ledoyen & Laura Smet ( left )
Virginie & Elodie Bouchez ( right )

Clémence Poesy ( left ) Laura Smet & Dany ( right )

First rows ( left ) YEEEAAHHH I've spotted a guitar !!!

The Master himself ( left ) Milla Jovovic & friend ( right )

Claudia Schiffer

Nice architecture

" L' envers du decors" + Mirage III Place de la Concorde

Paul McCartney @ Stella McCartney Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2009 Paris Carreau du Temple Oct 2nd 2008

Before show with Ludivine (left ) and Sharleen
+ Peter Blake ( far right with the glasses)

Hi There

Just back from Stella McCartney 's Spring/Summer collection .
A couple of celebrities including french actresses Zoé felix , a heavily pregnant Ludivine Sagnier ( more beautiful than ever ) , 60's supermodel Twiggy , Meg Matthews (former wife of a Gallagher Bros from Oasis ),Zoé Kravitz ( daughter of Lenny and Lisa Bonet ) L'wren Scott ( Mick Jagger ' s girlfriend ) Sharleen Spiteri from Texas , former top model Stéphanie Seymour ,Sir Peter Blake ( he designed the cover of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper ) and of course .... Sir Paul McCartney with his son James
+ Paul girlfriend's Nancy Shevell who's keeping a low profile, funny she's not on the guestlist and not on the seating plan , so she probably watch the show from backstage.
We get there around 9:30 had a nice breakfast ( it's early in the morning ) with guests including Zoé and Ludivine . Then the show started , late as usual . Paul arrived with his two bodyguards ( plus french security ) just before the lights went out .
Fashion show was good , then we went backstage for a cup of champagne and canapés .
We met Sharleen ( as cool as usual and sexy ... ) , sir Peter Blake and Paul who stayed for more than an hour , he was nice to everyone and very chatty , playing with stella's kids ( he played a bit of harmonica for them )and so on ...
Patrice took a few pictures here they are :

After show : Paul with Stella and Peter Blake

Paul and a couple of blokes + Stella & Peter

Program signed by Peter and a gift ( left )
All Access pass + guest list ( with Paul & James' names ) + record signed by Paul ( right )

What more can we ask ? Nice start for today , tomorrow it's CHANEL ( if we get up ) .
Thanks again to Patrice Guino for all the pictures, and thanks for putting us on the guest list for this show ... YOU ARE THE MAN !!!

Here's a link to a very good french beatles' site with our pictures in the News section :
http://www.yellow-sub.net/breve.php3?id_breve=12227

Video of the end of the show with "Maybe i'm amazed" in the PA :


Stella McCartney is supporting Obama for the american elections , here's a detail of Stella 's Spring/summer program 09 :

Seating plan ( right )

James Blunt Paris Bercy Oct 1st 2008

BREAKINGS NEWS : DIRTY PRETTY THINGS are no more , they have split up , the English tour will go ahead in October , nothing has been said about other shows in Europe including their concert in Paris in november @the Bataclan.

Ahhh !!! James Blunt, " Le bourreau des coeurs " for all the ladies ...

That's true : lots of girls in the audience tonight ( 70 % ) most of 'em in their twenties .
Quite surprising too , Bercy is full ( but not Sold-out ) for this all seated concert .

Teddy Thompson opened the show with a mixture of slow blues pop songs he has a good voice but it's a bit too slow for me .

James Blunt , the girls love him dearly , so many songs talking about love , well in fact all the songs are talking about love, and when you're singing about love you're not playing Heavy Metal.

So guest what ? a few mid- tempo songs ( at the beginning ) and then lots of slow songs ... way tooooooo slooowww for me . He's playing acoustic guitar, even tough it's hard to hear what he'splaying ( is it plugged ? ) and he's also on the piano .
Every time he's going to one side or another girls are going crazy but not too much, they know how to behave , this is not Tokyo Hotel ...

The high point of the show is when he's leaving the main stage and jumped into the pit to run throught the screaming girls to a second stage at the back of the venue to play a couple of songs on the piano and then run back to the main stage on his own and without security .
Good show but faster songs wouldn't do any harm ...

Here's a video , James playing piano on the small center stage :

TV on the Radio @ "L' Album de la semaine" Canal+ Sept 29th 2008

Next Shows :
Martha High will play the Jamel Comedy Club on Oct 3rd ( invit only, sorry )
Metronomy @ Colette Regine's on Oct 4th
Patti Smith @ Eglise St Germain on Oct 4th ( several shows all night long )
Razorlight @ Maroquinerie ( club show, Sold-out ) on Oct 6th
Metronomy @ Club SFR on Oct 9th

Just back from TV show L' album de la semaine . A band is playing live for 150 people .
Tv on the radio tonight to promote their 2nd cd .
Their music is quite strange and hard to describe but interesting as they sound like no one else . unfortunalety there are too much keyboards for me and not enough guitars so it's not really my cup of tea . Nevertheless when the guitars are out they're good but it's not very often. The bass player when he's playing bass (because he's also playing guitars and doing the lead vocals ) has a very heavy-groovy sound.
they were just OK to me .
Setlist ( see picture ) + "golden age" and "love dog" ( twice in that order at the end of the show )

I would like to thank all the Stevie Wonder fans who visited this page you're reading now and for watching all my videos on youtube ...

Angelo Misterioso

contact : irockinparis@yahoo.fr

LED ZEPPELIN won't tour next year ...

A couple of days ago there were rumours of a Zep tour in the summer of 2009 , these rumours have been denied by Robert Plant
Here's what the NME is saying about it : http://www.nme.com/news

Robert Plant has denied rumours that Led Zeppelin are set to tour next year, releasing a statement stating that the he will not be touring or recording with the band.
In the statement the singer said that following his current tour with Alison Krauss he will not be touring with any band or project for at least two years.
Last week (September 26) it was claimed that Plant had agreed to a Led Zeppelin tour.
However, the singer's statement read: "It's both frustrating and ridiculous for this story to continue to rear its head when all the musicians that surround the story are keen to get on with their individual projects and move forward.

"I wish Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham nothing but success with any future projects."

Stevie Wonder @ Paris Bercy Sept 28th 2008

Stevie Wonder @ Paris Bercy Sept 28th 2008

Patrice Guino , our photographer took those from the Stalls so the quality is not as good as usual, Forgive him please ...

Concert SOLD-OUT ages ago even tough, once again , prices are silly : up to 150 Euros.
The show started very slowly with Stevie playing the first song on the Harmonica, then things started getting hot as he played one of his hit but unfortunately the first part of the gig was plagued by some crap easy-listening songs. One hit out of 3 of these songs. So the first hour was interesting when he was playing a well known song otherwise it was plain boring ( well i' m exagerating a bit too much ! )

Nevertheless the band is smoking , they are ten musicians ( 1 drummer , 2 percussionnists , 2 keyboard players , 2 guitarists , 1 bassist , 2 brass players and 4 Backing vocalists including 3 stunning ( physically) black girls.) and Stevie of course centre stage behind his keyboards...who is on top form vocally , it's hard to believe his voice is still as perfect as 40 years ago, loud & clear . Physically he gain lots of weight .

We had a couple of guests , First was a guitar player (Mao Otayeck ) who played and sang a tune. Second was French Harmonica player called Frederic Yonnet who did a great duet with Stevie on "Boogie On Reggae Woman" , a real "battle" of harmonica . I've seen many "battle "of guitars but it was the first one with harmonicas , couldn't decide who won , both were great. Aisha , Stevie 's daughter ( the little girl crying at the beginning of " you are the sunshine of my life , that's her ) sang one too.
Stevie cried at the end of a song remembering his mother , that was emotional . He also played a few seconds of Edith Piaf 's "Milord" .
The second part was fantastic as Stevie played one hit after another . We were all here to hear those lovely songs, he played a lot of 'em but not all of 'em : "I wish" , "As" , Living in the city" , Higher ground" , "You are the sunshine of my life" " superstition" , " my cherie amour" , "visions" , " Don't you worry about a thing" , "Part time lover" , "free" , "Isn't she lovely", "I just called to say i love you",plus a few others ...
The only thing i could reproach to Stevie is that he's stretching out some songs a bit too much ( one lasted 15 min ) .
Stevie's supporting Obama for the elections so he mentionned it a couple of times, he did a song for his mother too who " went to heaven " a couple of years ago .
We even had a couple of minutes of Edwin Starr's " War" with the audience participation on the chorus.
Glad to see him back in Paris after all these years for an overall very good 2h40 concert.
The second part was so good that it made us forget the weak parts of the beginning.
Setlist to follow shortly...
There was an aftershow party at the Jamel Comedy Club and Stevie Wonder has played there for half an hour ( courtesy of http://www.funkhome.com/ )

Setlist :
All blues (From Miles Davis)
As if you read in my mind
Master blaster (jammin')
Did I hear you say you love me ?
All I do
Knocks me off my feet
"count us in " Jam - april in Paris ( spoken citation )
"Milord " by Edith Piaf ( a couple of lines )
The shadow of your smile ( love theme from - the Sandpiper- )
People make the world go round ( by the Stylistics )
Higher ground
Concierto de Aranjuez
Spain (from Chick Corea)
Don' you worry about a thing
Visions
Living for the city
Part time lover
Free
Carry on (Mao Otayeck on guitar and vocals )
Overjoyed
Lately
I'm gonna laugh you out of my life (Aïsha Morris lead vocals)
My cherie amour
Signed Sealed Delivered
Sir Duke
I wish
Boogie on a reggae woman (with Frédéric Yonnet on harmonica )
Isn't she lovely ?
You are the sunshine of my life
I just called to say I love you
Do I do
Superstition / Obama/ War ( edwin Starr )
As "
-2h32 min-

The ridiculously complicated Pass Sheet from Bercy

I'll put more videos here :
http://fr.youtube.com/user/rockingparis
Here's one. It's " free" :


Free daily newspaper -20 Minutes- has used my video of " you are the sunshine of my life" to illustrate Stevie Wonder's show in Paris Bercy :

http://www.20minutes.fr/article/257538/Culture-Stevie-Wonder-une-legende-a-Bercy.php

Tomorrow the 29th TV on the radio are playing a private TV show " L' album de la semaine" for Canal+ ; they will be playing a Sold-out gig at the Nouveau Casino on the 30th.

Cold War Kids are playing the Bataclan on the 29th.

Patti Smith will be in Paris for the " Nuit Blanche" ( Oct 4th )reading poetry @ Eglise de St Germain des Pres between 9 PM and 6 AM ( yes these are the right times )

Elliott Murphy @ Mairie du 6e Paris Sept 26th 2008

Breaking News :
The Dirty Pretty Things to play the Bataclan on Nov 25th
A new Springsteen record is planned for January 2009

LED ZEPPELIN TO TOUR NEXT SUMMER ...

Elliott Murphy & Olivier Durand

M. Le Maire du 6e arrondissement introducing Elliott .

Elliott Murphy & the Normandy all star band is playing an unusual free gig in one of the reception room of the 6th district 's Paris Town Hall. The 6th district is on the famous left bank and the Town Hall just in front of the Saint Sulpice church which is famous now for being in the -DaVinci Code- and 2 min 's walk from the St Germain des Pres church. Lots of people ( around 500 ) so the reception room is full. Many fans and some posh guests from the Left Bank.
Elliott is living in Paris for many years now and he's playing quite often here .
Never been disappointed with this american songwritter his catalogue is excellent and his shows are always great .
Tonight is no exception, what can I say ? Another fucking great gig.
How is it possible that he's not selling out stadium ? It's the greatest mistery of rock !
Short set of "just " 90 min ( curfew at 10:30 pm ) usually he's on for 3 to 4 hours .

Check his myspace if you don't know him he deserves it :
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=81421514

A video here covering The Doors' " LA Woman " :
http://fr.youtube.com/user/rockingparis