Rickie Lee Jones @ Bobino Paris Nov 24th 2009

Rickie Lee Jones @ Bobino Paris Nov 24th 2009

Just a few days after recording a tv show for Arte : " One Shot Not" playing two new songs.
Rickie Lee Jones is back in Paris this time to play a proper concert in a theatre I've never been before: Bobino in Rue de la Gaité, Montparnasse.
This street Rue de la Gaité ( "Joy street" ) is in the heart of Paris in the neighbourhood where all these famous painters ( Modigliani, Picasso, Soutine... ) used to paint. It's also a special street as it's the only street where there are sex-shop and theatres in this area.

Bobino used to ba a famous theatre where many French artists played : Brassens , Gréco, Fernandel , Renaud, Coluche... and then was destroyed in the 80's and rebuilt but it never was what it used to be... until now with Rickie Lee Jones.

No support band or real band with Rickie, just her with a bass player and a guitar player.
She wasn't happy at the beginning with the sound and complained for the first 4-5 songs then things get smooth.She remembered me of Lou " grumpy old man" Reed .
The voice is intact , crystal clear; She's playing most of the set on acoustic guitar, a few songs on the piano and some others on electric guitar ( a white Fender ).
Well , you really have to be into it to appreciate , if you don't know her repertoire it can be quite boring to a novice.
I don't know everything she did ( and the new record ) some parts were cool but others ...
There are too many soft songs, too bad the show started in a very nice way with David Bowie 's "Rebel rebel".
She's not like those new English bands playing barely for an hour even with 3 records under their belt as she almost played 3 hours with 'jus't one song as an encore.
Nice but it could have been better and ... She DID NOT play " Chuck E's in Love". NOOoooooo!!!!

Setlist with corrections

Next show in Paris on the 26th @ Radio France
( free show first come first serve basis )

Here's a video , sorry for the sound:

Thanks to Yaz

Them Crooked Vultures @ L' Album de la semaine Canal+ Paris Dec 4th 2009

Yes that's right

Paris is NOT on Them Crooked Vultures' European tour 2009 but YES they will play in Paris on December the 4th @ tv show L' Album de la Semaine on Canal+.
Unfortunately it will be a private show not open to the public as the record Cie took all the tickets.
Invit' only.

Rockerparis will be there so stay tuned !!!

See our review with Pics and video from their gig @ Rock en Seine this summer.
Best live video available on the net HERE

Pains of being pure at heart @ C'est lenoir Black session # 307 Paris Nov 23rd 2009

Pains of being pure at Heart @ C'est Lenoir Black session # 307
Paris nov 23rd 2009

Setlist & invitationssss

After leaving Canal+ where we saw Soulman Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears , we headed to Radio France next to the Eiffel Tower for a Black Session with New Yorkers : Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.
We get there just 2 minutes before they went on stage infront of another selected audience of 250 people confortably seated in red sofas like in a movie theatre.
The guys ( and the japanese looking girl on keyboards ) are quite young.
They are playing a mix between English early 80's indie rock and soft american college radio rock.
They have a few good songs including a couple of great ones ( which are sounding like the early Cure ).
Unfortunately most of their repertoire is sounding the same and the last 20 min of the hour show were pretty boring.

Huge billboards in front of Radio France to promote
Rickie Lee Jones' gig there.

U2 to headline Glastonbury festival 2010

The band will top the bill on the Friday night (June 25).

Festival organiser Michael Eavis told the event's official website, Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk: "I promised the best possible line-up for the show next year and the confirmation that U2 will play their first ever Glastonbury – and their first major festival gig since the early 1980s.

"We've been trying for years... And now we've finally made it happen. I'm sure they will pull out all the stops to make next year's Glastonbury the most memorable ever."

Black Joe Lewis @ L' Album de la Semaine Paris Nov 23rd 2009

First album for Black Joe lewis & the Honeybears and first time in promo & in concert in Paris.
Nice it's @ L' Album de la Semaine where the conditions are perfect, a selected audience of a 100 people.
Black joe Lewis on guitar & vocals dead center, guitar player and bass player on the right , 3 brass on the left and as usual the drummer in the back.
All dressed in costumes à la Hives; Funny all the guys are white and are all wearing glasses apart from the sax guy who's black with no glasses on.
The music is soulfull 60's style and Black Joe Lewis has the voice of a whyskey "rock 'n roller" drinker. He did drink some between songs but that seemed a bit rehearsed to look cool.
Great groovy songs ( they've played 8 tonight ) with the exception of one lame one.
Even if Black Joe Lewis has a great voice, he lacks charisma , he's not acting like the leader of the pack which he should.

see him LIVE @ L' Album de la Semaine ( click for video from show )

As soon as they left the stage Who style , we left the studio to run to Radio France to attend a Black session on France Inter.

Sorry no setlist for this one ( or pics it's verbotten ).

Troy Von Balthazar @ Oliver Peel session # 13 Paris Nov 21st 2009

Troy Von Balthazar @ Oliver Peel session # 13

Private gig in an appartment Paris Nov 21st 2009

Thanks to Mathilde , Oliver could get Troy Von Balthazar to play an Oliver Peel Session.
The appartment is getting smaller and smaller each time or is it that it's more and more crowded one session after another ?
Lots of new faces this time, couldn't fit anymore people in there.
Troy played a 50 min set of his songs ( including two brand new ones to feature on his next album ) on acoustic guitar.
SETLIST: ( from Oliver Peel ) check for more Pics HERE
01: Rainbow
02: Communicate
03: Heroic Little Sisters
04: Dots and Hearts
05: Dogs
06: Very Famous
07: Duncan
08: To A Girl With One Wing Gone
09: I Block The Sunlight Out
10: Wings
11: Valentine
12: Days Of Nothing

He told us it was the first time he was playing acoustic ever in front of an audience ( I've got my doubts about it ).
Anyway the atmosphere was really laid back even though it was a bit hot, there was so many people but thanks to Cecile there were lots of cold beers, soft drinks and lots of pastries and cakes to go with.
Once again there were people from all the world : China , Japan, USA and different parts of Europe.
The world is converging on Oliver's living room.

Troy & d' Artagnan

Everyone is listening religiously, specially the girls

Troy seems to enjoy this early gig a lot ( 6:00 PM ).
Nice to have a chat with new people ( I mean girls ;-)
Many people left for the Cigale to see Grizzly Bear ( Feist was a surprise guest at the end ) so we could chill out a bit and relax in the only sofa in the room after all these emotions.
Last but not least we ended the night way past midnight over a bowl of spaghetti.

Time for a drink & lonesome Jeanne meditating

Sold -out tonight @ Oliver's

Oh Yeah ! forget to tell that Chokebore ( Troy's first band ) will be back next year with a show in Paris France.

Sorry the light, the sound are complete shite I'll upload another one soon from another source.
This is a new song by the way :

The Brian Jonestown Massacre stream " Who killed Sgt Pepper" online

Click HERE to listen to the whole record
before its Jan 2010 released

One Shot Not recording with Rickie Lee Jones & ... Paris Nov 19th 2009

One Shot Not TV recording with
Air, Hindi Zahra, Richard Bona, Rickie Lee Jones, PSP

Full setlist & Simon Phillips' drumstick

Back to the 15e distric in Paris for the second day of the recording of Arte tv show One Shot Not.
Yesterday I didn't really know any of the artists , I spent a nice evening (between 8:30 & 11:00 Pm ) but nothing was fantastic.
Tonight is a bit different:
Air played songs from his last cd ,
Hindi Zahra did a couple , she's a bit like Ayo but with more depth,
Bass player extraordinaire Richard Bona did a couple too and Hindi Zahra came back to sing a Bob Marley cover with him.
Rickie Lee Jones did two songs with Pino Palladino ( The Who ) on bass and Manu Katche on drums.
Last were PSP for Simon Phillips, Pino Palladino & Phillipe Saisse on keyboards for two instrumentals jazz fusion songs, the audience asked for more so they came back for another one.

Nice evening for this one , not really rock but very enjoyable

One Shot Not recording Paris Nov 18th 2009

One Shot Not recording with Fink, Gurrumul, Florence & the Machine,

Axl & the Farmers, Okou, Thomas Dybdahl

Paris Nov 18th 2009

MUSE @ Bercy Paris Nov 17th 2009

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MUSE @ Bercy Paris Nov 17th 2009

MUSE is back in Paris after playing the tiny Théatre du Chatelet in Paris on Sept 8th ( click to see our GREAT pics from this show and a video ).
Only one Bercy Guys !!!
You know it was SOLD OUT aaaagges ago, tickets are exchanging outside for more than a 100 Euros.
We get there too late to see support band Biffy Clyro, sorry.

Muse always has a massive production , so it is tonight.
3 huge screen-columns , the band is playing the first song on this platform, 5 meters high above the ground. They will get back on it a few times all along the show.
They also have a huge sound , I really wonder how they managed to do that with only one guitar (and a poor sod hidden on stage on the keyboards with no lights on, he's not even introduced to the audience ).
Really sad that there are lots of empty seats behind the stage ( there are people there ) they could have sold a few hundreds more on the day.

Of course they've played all the hits which get an enormous response from the fans mostly teenage girls.

Setlist:
Uprising
Resistance
New Born
Map Of The Problematique
Supermassive Black Hole
MK Ultra
Hysteria
United State Of Eurasia
Cave
Guiding Lights
Undisclosed Desires
Starlight
Plug In Baby
Time Is Running Out
Unnatural Selection
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Exogenesis Part I : Overture
Stockholm Syndrome
Knights Of Cydonia

They have lots of epic 5 min+ songs with lots of very heavy guitar licks. On a couple of songs they could be sued for copyright infringement by Depeche Mode but that's Ok as they are much more rock.

Mat is on top form but they should communicate more with the audience.
They put on a great show, we know where the money is going to... their stage production.

Then it's time to get backstage the French record Cie is giving away free drugs to everybody ... NOT.

What is that ?

MUSE has never been so popular in France and the market might be collapsing but they've received a double platinum record.

HERE ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PICS :

CONGRATULATIONS GUYS

Ze Boss is smiling...

And so are the Slaves !

PS: Patrice Guino , our photographer would like to thank the guys for inviting him at the A/S party.LOL

Video from the show:

Lou Reed @ Galerie Martel Paris Nov 17th 2009

I won't be able to go , just coming out of a meeting.
Need to eat first , didn't get a proper meal since sunday night

see ya @ Muse at Bercy tonight

Gossip @ Bataclan 2nd Show Nov 16th 2009

Gossip @ Bataclan Paris

2nd Show Nov 16th 2009

Ssion

Back to the Hot & Sweaty Bataclan for Gossip's second SOLD-OUT show here.
Once again we have to endure the shitty support band Ssion , the music is unbearable.
Two of the Gossip ( Hannah and the bass player ) are enjoying them from the balcony.

Roadies are paid for this ! It's a hard job.

Gossip did a very nice ( short ) set yesterday same for today , Beth is on top form , the audience is hot all along the gig.
They may have change the setlist tonight ( not sure about it ).
Still communicating a lot with the froggies IN FRENCH . giving away the mic to a couple of french girls of the first row who sang a french song ( "les Champs Elysées" by Joe Dassin)

She went into the pit once again at the end to sing from the bar.
Just another GREAT gig should I say .

Video from the back :

Lou Reed @ Colette store Paris Nov 16th 2009 5:00 PM

Lou Reed lecture & book signing
@ Colette Paris Nov 16th 2009 @ 5:00 PM

Lou Reed is in Paris for a few days promoting a new very good book full of pics and memorabilia on the Velvet Underground.
Colette is a famous hype parisian concept store ( which means they're selling shit you don't need twice the normal price ) not too far from the Ritz hotel in a very rich area.
We're far from downtown Manhattan or the Bowery.

We get there earlier and to my surprise there was almost no one.
People arrived at the last minute and the place was packed with posh people .
We have nice seats in front of him , he's here to read a few of his lyrics like he did last year @ 104 in Paris -click for pics-( It was also for a book released but that was really crap,I mean The book).
Lou Reed is almost on time, No flash please !
Funny how Lou Reed is turning into a grumpy old man always moaning about someone taking a pic or reading his book while he's reading.
He did the reading like a robot as if he didn't give a shit ( he's always like this anyway )but the publisher was satisfied as they've sold lots of books today.

Lou Reed signing the new Velvet Underground book

Then it was time for the signing, everything went smoothly thanks to the people from the store, Lou Reed was chatty with people , you also could seat next to him to have your picture taken.

We had a great 90 min with Lou Reed but it was really funny to see him confronting people directly when he wasn't happy with something :
" Which part of the sentence don't you understand in -No flash-" ?
" Stop taking pictures NOW you've got enough " to the poor guy next to me
" How can you read a book while i'm talking , What am I doing here ? Tell me !" to a poor girl.