Christophe @ Olympia Paris March 13th 2009

French singer Christophe is playing his last show tonight at the Olympia theatre in Paris, he's here tonight with guests including Eric Truffaz on trumpet who came on stage 3-4 times.
Gail Ann Dorsey , who played for David Bowie among many others , was on bass for the whole show ; Eumir Deodato was lucky to conduct most of the time an orchestra of very sexy violin players.
Carmine Appice appeared twice and did two fantastic drum soli.

First part of the show consisted of Christophe new cd , some part are good , others a bit boring.

Gail Ann Dorsey on Bass

Second part consisted of his hit songs , some of them re-arranged.

Christophe & Eric Truffaz

The whole cast with Eumir Deodato conducting

& Carmine Appice on the right clapping

Christophe is a funny guy on stage , always sitting on a stool , taking pictures all along the show of his musicians with a disposable camera that he throws away into the audience at the end.

Carmine Appice drum solo

Tracy Chapman European Summer Tour 2009

The Bitch is back in Europe with a vengeance !
With Joseph Arthur, who was treated like shit, opening again ??? LoL

- June 24, 2009: Roundhouse, London -
- June 26, 2009: Le Zénith, Paris, France
- June 28, 2009: Le Zénith, Nantes, France
- June 29, 2009: Le Zénith Grand Palais, Rouen, France
- July 01, 2009: Le Zénith, Lille, France
- July 10, 2009 - Cactus Festival 2009, Bruge / Bruges, Belgium
- July 15, 2009 - Moon and Stars 2009, Locarno, Switzerland

Pearl jam European Tour 2009

UPDATED APRIL 27th

YES, THERE WILL BE A EUROPEAN TOUR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are the shows confirmed so far :

Rotterdam Ahoy (August 13)
Berlin Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide (15)
Manchester MEN Arena (17)
London England 02 Arena (18)

They will be playing a festival in the States at the end of August
More info HERE

Babyshambles @ Neo Club in Paris - Secret Gig- March 11th 2009

Babyshambles @ Neo Club , Paris March 11th 2009
-Secret Gig-

Fantastic way of ending a week of concerts with The Peter Doherty & friends ' "Family"

• 1) Pete Doherty played a solo acoustic set for Canal+ TV show "L' Album de la Semaine" ( March 2nd ).
• 2) Pete Doherty playing his single on"Le fou du roi" radio show ( March 3rd )
• 3) Adam Ficek's Roses Kings Castles @ Pop'In ( March 8th )
• 4) Pete Doherty & Friends Featuring Graham Coxon @ Bataclan ( March 9th )
• 5) Pete Doherty solo acoustic set in a double decker bus ride around Paris ( March 10th, 7:00 PM )
• 6) Pete Doherty & Friends Feat. Graham Coxon @ Bataclan 2nd show ( March 10th , 9:00 PM )
• 7) Adam Ficek's Roses Kings Castles @ Gibert Joseph Music Store ( March 11th , 5:00 PM )

• 8) BABYSHAMBLES 's secret gig @ Neo Club near the Champs Elysées in Paris ( March 11th at midnight )

Click on each link above for review , setlist , Pics & videos

WHAT A FUCKING WEEK I HAD !!!

Toxic Twins

Kissing

They started the gig nicely with "Baddie's boogie" ( Here on video ) and then i can't bloody remember a thing , they've played hits after hits , it was a Libertines/Babyshambles Best of... they even played a cover from one of those shitty electronic duet from the eighties. ( "West end girls" from The Pet Shop Boys).

SETLIST included " Back from the dead" , "fuck forever" , "Unstookie titled", " I wish", "Albion", ...plus others , i'll get the correct setlist soon )

Pete and Mick were in high spirit , both having the time of their life , joking , kissing eachother ( see picture above ) .
Nice to have Mick back for Babyshambles songs as Graham Coxon seemed a bit lost playing them ( He was perfect on Pete 's solo material @ the Bataclan ).
Conditions were perfect for me as i was seating in a sofa just in front of Pete ( well , in fact there was no stage at all ) with 200 people behind me in this trendy club having also the time of their life.
A few posh people and very sexy girls ( this was the last day of the Fashion week in Paris ) but many fans were invited by band members ( Thanks Adam for putting Mathilde and I on the guest list ) including all the "hangers on" from the Bergerac café.
The band was on for a good hour playing 14-15 songs.
Pete was particularly WILD tonight singing in the audience , sofa-diving into the audience ( first time i'm seeing someone doing a SOFA-diving ) ; crashing his mike or the drums by jumping on it and finally tearing down part of the ceiling by hitting on it with the mike-stand .

Pete was really wasted by the end of this FANTASTIC GIG , probably the best I have ever seen from the Shambles.

Videos from MadameMime007 " I Wish " another version of "baddie's boogie".
Another video from the secret gig "There she goes"

"Baddie's Boogie" :

Adam Ficek @ Gibert Joseph Paris March 11th 2009

Adam Ficek @ Gibert Joseph store Paris March 11th 2009
AKA Roses Kings Castles

Elvis '58 is back

Dedicated audience

Really nice 20 min+ set by Adam Ficek ( drummer for The Babyshambles and Peter Doherty )
Many people came down to this free gig set up by Mathilde, i've already seen most of the girls present at the Bataclan for Pete's gigs.
It's a big family, everybody seems to know each other.

Peter was playing one song at 6:00 Pm for Canal+ tv show " Le Grand Journal " ( click to see Peter performing his single ) we couldn't get there in time as the show wasn't broadcasted live but recorded one hour earlier than usual , too bad !
Here 's another "secret" video from his performance

See our previous review of Adam Ficek' s gig at the Pop'In. a couple of days ago

Adam in full action :

Pete Doherty & friends @ Bataclan Paris March 10th 2009

Pete Doherty & Friends @ Paris Bataclan March 10th 2009

First part of the show was the same as yesterday : he played Grace/Waystelands in his entirety.

with Graham Coxon on guitars

Setlist : ( courtesy of Oliver Peel )
01: You're My Waterloo (Libertines)
02: Arcady
03: Last Of The English Roses
04: 1939 Returning
05: A Little Death Around The Eyes
06: Salome
07: Through The Looking Glass
08: Palace Of Bone
09: Music When The Lights Go Out (The Libertines)
10: Good Old Days (The Libertines)
11: I Am The Rain
12: Sheepskin Tearaway (mit Dot Allison)
13: Lady Don't Fall Backwards
14: Sweet By And By Drew
15: New Love Grows On Trees
15: Broken Love Song
16: Albion
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17: Back From The Dead (Babyshambles)
18: Side Of The Road (Babyshambles)
19: Time For Heroes (The Libertines)
20: Fuck Forever (Babyshambles)
No doubt : better show than yesterday.

some (very) young fans

Then we went to the Aftershow 1 , a bar/restaurant at the Canal St Martin , the whole band was there with all the crew and friends, including Pete .
We had a long chat with Graham Coxon , He's so nice and he gave us some great infos about the Blur return. I won't tell .
More pictures from the aftershow here: Flickr from Oliver Peel

Graham here with German and Austrian friends of ours

Here with Cécile handshaking for the "entente cordiale" between Germany and England
+ some stuff from the shows & bus ride

The night wasn't over for us , we went to the Bergerac café for an early morning drink , Adam & Drew were present + some of their friends & fans and a couple of guys from their entourage.
It's past 2 AM and it 's time to go to sleep .

FUCK FOREVER :

Pete Doherty Double decker bus ride in Paris March 10th 2009

UPDATED : March 11th with new pics and videos

Ride On

Pete Doherty was supposed to play a private gig in a double decker bus at 1 pm , once again this publicity stunt for the released of his solo cd was CANCELLED at the eleventh hour.

In fact NO , we had a phone call from the record company who made everything possible to get Peter , so we picked him up at 7:30 Pm with the bus directly at his hotel and we ( 15 competition winners + Pete 's friends ) headed for the Bataclan.
We ( i mean Mathilde , Candice and myself ) were sitting on the upper deck first row down the front just next to him , how cool is that !
We were given posters and tee-shirt but no cd , it's not out yet .
It was funny to see Pete having his new solo cd in his hands for the very first time , he looked at the cd and the booklet carefully.

One beer for the road

Everyone could get his things signed , took pics with him , had a chat and then he took his guitar and played us several songs, taking requests ( setlist soon ) until we arrived at the Bataclan 40 minutes later.

SETLIST : (click on songs to see videos , thanks to candice for filming )
Can't Stand Me Now , Can't stand me now ( different video angle )

France
the Ha ha wall

Back from the Deads

What Katie did ?

The Good Old Days
( and maybe "When the lights go out" not sure about it )

IN-CRE-DI-BLE : One the smallest show i have ever attended ( less than 20 people )
ROCK 'N ROOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL !!!!!

new pics

James Dean 's in da house ...sorry Bus ( left )

Discovering his new cd for the first time ( left )

Some Winners & Dot allison

Pete boarding the bus :

Next stop : Bataclan

CHANEL @ Grand Palais Fashion Week Paris March 10th 2009

Anna Mouglalis ( left )

Freida Pinto ,the actress from "Slumdog Millionaire"