Two Door Cinema Club & Paolo Nutini @ Rock en Seine August 28 2010

Two Door Cinema Club & Paolo Nutini @ Rock en Seine
Parc de St Cloud, August 28 2010

Another of those English (sorry Irish) young indie-rock bands Two Door Cinema Club came out of nowhere and played a sold out Cigale in Paris a few months ago.
We were lucky to see them at the Fnac store for a very short acoustic showcase in front of 50 people in March (click for review setlist, pics & video).

They are even more popular now, the second stage is packed with once again lots of beautiful girls

The show is enjoyable even though the music is a bit average.
Exclusive Pics ( and video) from the stage courtesy of our photographer Guino Patrice.

setlist 2 Door Cinema Club

Here's a video for ya ( from the stage):

Oh Yeah

Paolo Nutini on the main stage, great soul voice, the music is OK but it lacks "soul".
The girls love him , enjoyable when you have nothing to do.

Plan B & Stereophonics @ Rock en Seine August 28 2010

Plan B & Stereophonics @ Rock en Seine
Parc de St Cloud August 28 2010

Late again so we've missed the beginning of Plan B , we already saw them a few months ago at L'Album de la semaine tv show for canal+, There were n°1 in England and people in charge of the booking couldn't get fans to attend this free tv show ( they've played for 45 min) the day before (or after) they were supposed to play in a club and the show was cancelled because of poor sales.
Things have changed now Frenchies know who is Plan B.
Nice rock-soul music with a bit of rap thrown in.

They were well received by the audience, Once again we have exclusive Pictures FROM the stage

They should be back soon in France for a headlining show.
Don't miss them

Setlist Plan B

Stereophonics are the Stereophonics, good rock band but nothing special
Lots of english down the front of the main stage

Cool set.

The kooks, BRMC & Blink 182 @ Rock en Seine August 27 2010

Updated August 29 with setlists (courtesy of Oliver Peel)

The Kooks, BRMC, Blink 182 @
Rock en Seine Part 2, August 27 2010, Parc de St Cloud.

The Kooks are playing on the second stage and there are much more people here than for Skunk Anansie on the main stage ( it was the same for The Foals).
We should have a word with the promoter...

Anyway, The kooks are a very decent band, the girls are crazy about them, we already saw them many many times in Paris including last year @ Fete de l'Humanité in front of more than 50 000 people before Deep Purple, we were on the stage ( click for setlist Pics & video FROM the stage) I remember the atmosphere was great and you could hear the girls screaming like maniacs all along the show.

SETLIST (from Oliver Peel)
01: Always Where I Need To Be
02: Eddie's Gun
03: You Don't Love Me (The Way That I Love You)
04: Sway
05: Strange One
06: Ooh La
07: She Moves In Her Own Way
08: Sabateur
09: Do You Wanna (Make Love To Me)
10: Naive
11: Shine On
12: Down To The Market
13: Stormy Weather
14: Sofa Song

Same atmosphere today : lots of ( young and very young ) girls most of them very sexy, once again The kooks have played a very nice set , I mean they're playing a very refreshing pop-rock, thay may not change the face of rock music but they're very good at what they're doing.
Very enjoyable.

The singer is getting in touch with his female audience, Police car backstage & Cypress Hill from the back.

We went ( on the main stage) to check Cypress hill unfortunately for this gig it was only rap & DJ even though The guitar player from Rage Against the machine is playing on their last album, no guitars to be heard tonight.
Not our cup of tea.
So we went back to the second stage for Black rebel motorcycle Club.
We have the first or second album then they went off the radar for us so we don't really know what to expect.
They're not as heavy & fast as before but much more dark. They sound like a stoner band which listened to Joy Division too much with a couple of bluesy tunes thrown in.
They're very impressive, once again it's really packed and it's chaos down the front.
probably their last show on this tour as the bass player's father died a few days ago ( he was the sound tech on the tour).
Robert came to play one song just in front of us ( see pics), people around went mad !

SETLIST ( from Oliver Peel):
01: Beat The Devil's Tattoo
02: Love Burns
03: Mama Taught Me Better
04: Stop
05: Bad Blood
06: Ain't No Easy Way
07: Conscience Killer
08: Berlin
09: Weapon Of Choice
10: Whatever Happened To My Rock'n Roll
11: Spread Your Love

Great set.

Then we went to Blink 182 , we missed the first 20 min but we didn't care after 4-5 songs that was enough.
Maybe i'm getting too old for that shit or maybe you need to be retarded to listen to that, I don't know.
I mean , they're not bad but they're far from being good either.

We made a quick exit, lucky day as it almost didn't rain at all , just a couple of showers.

See ya tomorrow !