The atmosphere is also getting electric in the audience. The band is on top form , Steven is stunning on guitar.
Funy to see how these guys seems to be such good friends on stage when they barely speak to each other the rest of the time and that they're travelling separately in their own tour bus.
CSN smoking...
Hats off
Yeah ! we Rock
Vini Vidi Vici !
Time for one more
Steven guitar hero
We were lucky to be treated with an extra song - NOT on the setlist : " Love the one you're with"
Peter von Poehl + Olle Nyman @ Swedish Institute Paris July 3rd 2009
The Swedish Institute is organising festivities to celebrate the Swedish European Presidency. Tonight is free event in the gardens of the Swedish institute in the Marais district, the sun is shining and there are LOTS of people queuing in the street. I don't think they expected that many people.More than a 1000.
Swedish artist Olle Nyman is opening the show with his cool Pop-folk. Soulfull voice à la Paul Rodgers. He's on a french label Fargo ( with Peter , Alela Diane , Joseph Arthur... )
Olle Nyman (on the right) & friend
Peter Von Poehl and his band ( 7 musicians: drums , bass , keys ,brass & cello ) all dressed in white are taking the stage at 8:30 PM for a smooth and relax 80 min gig.
I'm not too familiar with his catalogue, another swedish playing pop-folk-rock. He has a funny way of singing and probably listened to Nick Drake a lot in his youth. His songs are nice and soft even though he sometimes gets a little crazy with an electric guitar , headbanging a bit.
He's making the effort of speaking in French, I think he's living in Paris. Nice atmosphere in these gardens in the heart of Paris with lots of beautiful girls , not all swedish, I've also noticed that the cello player is also hot as hell. I don't think there was a better way of getting into July ( who ? ) with this very bucolic gig.
Tonight is a special concert as it's been recorded for a future DVD.
We arrived there early to see the rehearsals, Mick was already drinking and was walking very carefully, he played a couple of songs and went back to his nearby hotel. He has lost a bit of weight since last time I saw him and has made an effort to dress decently.
A French guitar player ( or by the way he's called Joël Daydé, sorry ) opened the show with a few blues songs on acoustic and electric guitar singing mostly in English and a couple of songs in French. The guy did a good job but some of Mick fans were calling their idol on stage, morons.
Mick came on stage late ( around 10 PM ) doing strange movements with his arms , had a chat first then took his guitar and started playing " Secret affair" . He was in high spirit tonight speaking between songs, always with a nice sense of humour. His guitar playing is far from being as fluent as before, it's like he's playing in slow motion and the voice is sometimes weak. Nevertheless there were some very good moments. He even took requests ( " alabama" ) as he didn't know what to play next. He left the stage after 4 songs ( 10 min each ) leaving his guitar player sing the next one : " Burial Ground" .
Complete setlist :
Secret Affair
Twisted Sister
Alabama
Losing my faith
Burial Ground (without Mick )
Blind Willie Mc Tell ( with Bits of All Along the watchtower )
Can't you hear me knocking
No Expectations
We were lucky to get a Bob Dylan song that he recorded for -Infadels- that wasn't used and ended on a -Bootleg series- called " Blind Willie Mc Tell".
He left the stage after 1H40 Min and came to sign a few cds to fans without forgetting to get a drink at the bar first.
