Social Distortion + The Durango Riot @ Bataclan Paris June 8th 2009

Social Distortion + The Durango Riot
@ Bataclan Paris June 8th 2009

First on stage is The Durango Riot a rock- psyche-Punk band from Sweden , as with many Swedish band it's a 100 % rock kick ass band.
The Hives is probably the most famous rock band from Sweden right now , we should hear about this one pretty soon.

The Durango Riot from Sweden

Then headliner Social Distortion is taking the stage by storm in a very packed and sweaty Bataclan.
Lots of rockers tonight many of them with tatoos & Lots of beautiful girls too also with tatoos.
Social Distortion has a very long career they've been Rock'n Roll with a Punk attitude and power then more heavy ( metal ) in the 90's , it seems that now, with the addition of a keyboard-piano player, they tend to be part of the "Americana" but with lots of balls.

Tonight we'll find all of these influences in their songs .
Some are Punk with OooHH and AAaahh to sing along ( Green day and Offspring have made a career with this ) others are more 50's Rock played heavy ( with piano ) but to my surprise lots of songs are ballsy country -rock with Hammond-sounding keyboard à la Deep Purple.

Mike Ness has a very monotonous voice which tends to get on my nerves after half an hour.
Overall good show but it could have been better.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band Feat. Gary Rossington @ Paris Zénith June 5th 2009

Lynyrd Skynyrd well sort of...
@ Paris Zénith June 5th 2009

After seeing Neil Young yesterday at the very same place , what's left of a band called Lynyrd Skynyrd is playing in front a little bit more than 2000 people when Neil Young played in front of more than 6000 people.
Who wants to pay between 70 and 80 euros to see a cover band ?
The only original member is Gary Rossington ( the guitar player with the hat ) all the others are dead.
Lynyrd Skynyrd my ass ...

Rickie Medlock ( former Blackfoot ) is on guitar and Johnnie Van Zant, on vocals, is wearing his brother's shoes. Can't tell the name of the others.
What to expect ?

Old songs , old songs and ... old songs , like any other cover bands they're not here to play any new songs nobody gives a damn.
We're here to hear the hits and that's what they're gonna do.
From start to finish Hits , Hits and ...more hits.
Unbelievable how many great songs this band HAD.

SETLIST :

1. Workin’ for MCA
2. I Ain’t the One
3. Saturday Night Special
4. What’s Your Name
5. Gimme Back My Bullets
6. Simple Man
7. That Smell
8. Medley :
• Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
• Down South Jukin’
• The Needle and the Spoon
• Double Trouble
• Tuesday’s Gone
9. Gimme Three Steps
10. Call Me the Breeze
11. Sweet Home Alabama
12. Free Bird

Not one song was played that was composed after 1977

They've played all these songs one after another no time for speeches, just 100 % music
The show ended with their anthem "Sweet home Alabama" ( the answer to Neil Young's " Southern man "), it's funny to hear them talking about Neil Young ( " The south doesn't need him around " ).
He was here on the same stage yesterday.
Just one encore and it's a terrific version of " freebird".

Great 90 min show , but how can they called themselves Lynyrd Skynyrd ?

Thanks to Patrice Guino for the pictures , he took'em with a small camera
you can see the difference with Neil Young's

Neil Young Part 2 @ Paris Zénith June 4th 2009

ALL PICS © Guino Patrice

Pictures Part 1 HERE

Neil Young @ Paris Zénith Part 2

Neil Young @ Paris Zénith June 4th 2009

Neil Young @ Paris Zénith
June 4th 2009

I was too late to see folk artist Laura Marling , too bad iI love what she's doing.

Needless to tell you that Neil Young 's show was hot.
Last year he played two gigs at the Grand Rex and they were fantastic , first part acoustic and second part electric.

This time it's an all electric performance with just a couple of acoustic songs thrown in ( "Heart of gold" , " Old man " , " comes a time" ).
A couple of new songs and ALL the hits " Cortez the killer" , " Like a hurricane" ...

GREAT SHOW

SETLIST :
Love And Only Love / Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / Pocahontas / Spirit Road / Cortez The Killer / Cinnamon Girl / Mother Earth / Don't Let It Bring You Down / Goin' Back / Comes A Time / Heart Of Gold / Old Man / Mansion On The Hill / Get Behind The Wheel / Rockin' In The Free World // Like A Hurricane / A Day In The Life

In a sold-out Zénith.

Complete setlist tomorrow

Pictures Part 2 HERE

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Kasabian @ Football Tournament & Sony Store Paris June 3rd 2009

Kasabian Football Tournament @ Urban Football in Puteaux

Sony music France organised a Football Tournament with the lads just outside Paris in a nice complex.
I was there too late to see Kasabian playing but it almost turned into a complete disaster as the drummer hurt his ankle and had to see a doctor immediately.
Too bad the band is opening tomorrow for Oasis in front of 30 000 people but he should be OK.
Lots of journalists ( Les Inrocks , Rock & Folk ) and record company executives , the winning team was the one from a Football magazine " So Foot" .
Kasabian came back , minus the drummer, to shoot some penalty against the winning team... and lost.
The sponsor was offering a tv set and Marion , photographer for Rock& Folk, won the lot.
Lucky bitch ;-) the tv is probably worth a 1000 quid.

Marion won the lottery

En route to the countryside ?

Then we all left to the George V avenue to the Sony Store where Kasabian signed cds to a 100 fans and then we had an acoustic set in the basement.
The lads were really nice and chatty to everyone.
The atmosphere was really relax and things went smoothly thanks to the organisation.
Really cool to hear these songs in an acoustic form as I wasn't really convinced when they played the new songs a week ago @ L' Album de la semaine for Canal+
Setlist is below for an half an hour set.

Video 1 Signing Here

The Band

Signing & Rocking

Setlist

Kasabian " L S F " @ Sony Store Acoustic set June 3rd 2009
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MUSE " resistance tour dates" 2009

THE RESISTANCE TOUR

22.10 Hartwell Arena, Helsinki, Finland

24.10 Hovet, Stockholm, Sweden

25.10 Spektrum Arena, Oslo, Norway

26.10 Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark

28.10 COLOR LINE ARENA, HAMBURG, GERMANY

29.10 O2 WORLD, BERLIN, GERMANY

31.10 STADE COUVERT REGIONAL, LIEVIN, FRANCE

01.11 LE GALAXIE, AMNÉVILLE, FRANCE

02.11 SPORTSPALEIS, ANTWERP, BELGIUM

04.11 SHEFFIELD ARENA, SHEFFIELD, UK

05.11 ECHO ARENA, LIVERPOOL, UK

06.11 O2 DEPOT, DUBLIN, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

09.11 SECC, GLASGOW, UK

10.11 NIA, BIRMINGHAM, UK

12.11 O2 ARENA, LONDON, UK

13.11 O2 ARENA, LONDON, UK

14.11 AHOY, ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

16.11 LANXESS ARENA, COLOGNE, GERMANY

17.11 BERCY, PARIS, FRANCE

18.11 HALLENSTADION, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND

20.11 OLYMPIAHALLE, MUNICH, GERMANY

21.11 FUTURSHOW STATION, BOLOGNA, ITALY

22.11 HALLE TONY GARNIER, LYON, FRANCE

25.11 ZÉNITH, TOULOUSE, FRANCE

27.11 PAVELLÓ OLÍMPIC, BARCELONA, SPAIN

28.11 PALACIO DE DEPORTES, MADRID, SPAIN

29.11 ATLÂNTICO PAVILHÃO, LISBON, PORTUGAL

01.12 ZÉNITH, LIMOGES, FRANCE

02.12 ZÉNITH, DIJON, FRANCE

04.12 PALA OLIMPICO, TURIN, ITALY