Richard Avedon sale @ Christies France , Nov 20 2010

Vente Christies, Photos provenant de la Fondation Richard Avedon

Paris, Nov 20 2010

Dylan 65 / Stéphanie Seymour 1992 / Chet Baker 1986

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The Beatles Portfolio 1967 / Dovina with Elephants / Charlie Chaplin

The sale raised 5,467,762 Euros
The Beatles portolio went for 445,000 Euros, Dylan for 58,600 Euros, Chet Baker for 39,400 Euros, Stéphanie Seymour for 265,000 Euros, Charlie Chaplin wasn't sold.

Most expensive photo: Dovina with Elephants 841,000 Euros ( a record in France)

Thos Henley @ Gibert Joseph, Paris Nov 19 2010 5:00pm

Thos Henley @ Gibert Joseph store, Paris
Nov 19 2010 5:00pm

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The Shoes live + Chapel Club @ Nouveau Casino, Paris Nov 18 2010

Soirée Custom @ Nouveau Casino, Paris Nov 18 2010
with The Shoes Live + Chapel Club + Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya

Chapel Club

Early start @ Nouveau Casino as they're having a club night afterwards so everyone has to be out by 10:30PM.
We arrived too late to see first band Bitchee Bitchee YaYa which were on by 7:30PM and a bit late to see Chapel Club, you could catch their last 3-4 songs.
Typically British indie rock band

setlist

Then we had headliners The Shoes: electronic shit that we HATE !
After 2 songs we were out, couldn't stand that crap.

The Shoes Live

Iron Maiden Final Frontier European Tour Dates 2011 announced

The Final frontier world Tour dates are HERE

IRON MAIDEN has now confirmed the following European shows as part of THE FINAL FRONTIER WORLD TOUR 2011:

MAY
Sat 28 - Frankfurt, GERMANY Festhalle
Sun 29 - Oberhausen, GERMANY Kopi Arena
Tue 31 - Munich, GERMANY Olympiahalle
JUNE
Thur 2 - Hamburg, GERMANY o2 World
Fri 3 - Berlin, GERMANY o2 World
Tue 7 - Stuttgart, GERMANY Schleyerhalle
Wed 8 - Arnhem, THE NETHERLANDS Gerledome
Mon 27 - Paris, FRANCE Bercy

In other news:
-System of a Down are back and will play a show @ Paris Bercy on June 06 2011
-The Strokes have finished recording the new album , they are mixing it now, it will be out in a few months

The Bellrays @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+ Paris Nov 17 2010

The Bellrays @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+

Paris, Nov 17 2010

setlist

Back from famous Canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine in front of a small audience of a 100 people.
This time we have a real Rock'n Roll band with balls and everything...
The Bellrays have a new album out: "Black lightning" with the most horrible cover I have seen in a long time.Fortunately the album's fucking great.
They are here to play songs from the new album and only the new one, it started very nicely and quietly with two cool, groovy and soulfull songs ( "Sun comes down" & "Anymore") and then it's The Bellrays' tornado for the rest of the gig, Take-no-prisoners attitude , each song played one after another, no time to breath.
Pure rock'n roll from start to finish with soulfull vocals.
A short break and they're back to play, again, a couple of songs and extras " Detroit Breakdown" & " Blues for Godzilla".
One of the best gig we've seen these last few months, sound was neat and not too loud, heavy & groovy.
Perfect conditions.
After seeing this we are so disappointed. WHY ?
ROCKERPARIS won't be able to attend their show @ La Machine du Moulin Rouge in Pigalle on Nov 19 with Detroit 7 & Pussydelic.

• Thos Henley is playing @ Gibert Joseph store in St Michel on Nov 19 5:00PM Free Admission.
• Yesterday ( Nov 18) , Peter Doherty and Mick Whitmall were supposed to play a "secret" acoustic show @ Bergerac bar in Paris, unfortunately it wasn't secret and the guy from the bar cancelled it fearing that hundreds of people turned up cauding a riot.
  

Jenny & Johnny @ L'Album de la Semaine Canal+, Paris Nov 15 2010

Jenny & Johnny @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+
Paris Nov 15 2010

Famous Canal+ TV show is welcoming american duet ( they are 4 on stage) Jenny & Johnny They are promoting their first album together " I'm having fun now".
In fact it seems that the girl Jenny Lewis is a bit wellknown on her own before, and is playing with her longtime boyfriend young actor Jonathan Rice ( who played Roy Orbison in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line), he also produced Jenny before and she, in turn, played on his last solo album "Further Noth".
We didn't know any of this before seeing them tonight.
Very nice set of college rock radio between early REM when Johnny is singing and a more pop sound when Jenny is singing with some 50's influences thrown in (for the sound).
They're sharing or singing together on most of the other songs.
They ended the set as a duet on acoustic guitar with " Love Hurts" by The Everly Brothers (if I get it right).Gram Persons & Emmylou Harris, Nazareth also covered this song.
They will be opening for Vampire Weekend on Nov 17 @ Zénith in Paris so don't forget to be there early.

Pierre Cardin shop window on Rue du Fbg St Honoré in front of the Elysée.

Monfils/Soderling Final BNP Paris Bercy Tennis Masters' Final

BNP Paris Bercy Tennis Masters
Final Montfils / Soderling

Couldn't miss the Final with French Tennisman Gael Monfils, unfortunately Swedish guy Soderling was way to fast & strong for Montfils today.
He drowned for the first set straight away, second set was better but Soderling was one step above him and Montfils lost logically at the tie-break 6-1.
Second time in a row that Montfils is losing the final @ Bercy.

Greenpeace was there today again to demonstrate but this time inside Bercy just before the cup ceremony and... just behind us.
Security was sharp and fast to kick them out. You can't demonstrate in Tsarkozy land.
Anyway it doesn't prevent us from having a few drinks and macarons at the VIP bar afterwards.

Tomorrow there are a few gigs line up:

• Maroon 5 @ RTL 2,Private show, we already saw them on Sept 14 playing a private show at the Westin Hotel (click for review) in Paris just before we went to see Guns' N Roses playing a private show @ L'Arc Club (click for review, Pics & videos).
• Johnny & Jenny @ L'Album de la Semaine
• VV Brown @ Bataclan
• Florent Marchet @ C'est Lenoir, Black Session 10:00PM
  

Soderling/ Llodra & Federer/ Monfils @ BNP Paris Bercy Masters Semi-finals Nov 13 2010

Greenpeace @Paris Bercy

Paris Bercy Arena is full of cops (well... at least a dozen) as Greenpeace is demonstrating in front of the Arena and giving out flyers to the audience.

After going to so many concerts it's always interesting to see something different, couldn't go this week but couldn't miss the semi-finals with two french tennismen.
First is Llodra vs Soderling, good match but Llodra broke down in the last set, too bad but congratulaions , that's his best performance ever on the circuit.

Llodra vs Soderling

Then Monfils vs Federer, it's another level with these two players, the match was great and tough all along the 3 sets.
Monfils broke down a bit at the end of the 2nd set and completely at the beginning of the third, he came back miraculously at the end and after a very difficult tie-break won the match.

Monfils vs Federer

Funny to see Federer, this guy doesn't show any emotions, he's a Terminator a cold killing machine but Monfils was the best today.

Federer is wondering what's going on (left) Bye Bye (right)

Your Kid Sister & Narrow Terence @ L'International, Paris Nov 11 2010

Your Kid Sister & Narrow Terence @ L'International
Paris Nov 11 2010

Your Kid Sister

On this Bank Holiday in France, everything is in slow motion except @ The International where Mon Petit Club is welcoming two bands in front of a packed audience in the basement of the International club in Menilmontant.

First on stage is sexy French-American currently living in Barcelona Maia Vidal aka Your Kid Sister, hard to believe that she was a punk rocker as she's playing accordéon & toy-piano , it sounds a bit like Amélie Poulain's soundtrack by Yann Tiersen.
She has a beautiful high & soft voice & she's really cute.

Then headlining are French Rockers Narrow Terence, That's what I call Heavy blues rock between Nirvana's Bleach era and Tom Waits.
Just two guys one on guitar and one on drums & vocals.
They've just released their second album.
Great stuff

Narrow Terence

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Jenny & Johnny + The Bellrays @ L'Album de la Semaine recording next week in Paris

Jenny & Johnny + The Bellrays @ L'Album de la Semaine next week

American duet Jenny & Johnny will be recording The Album de la Semaine tv show for Canal+ on monday Nov 15 @ Studio 104 of Plaine St Denis near Paris.
They will be opening for Vampire Weekend @ Zénith on Nov 17.

The Bellrays will also be recording The Album de la Semaine on Nov 17.
They will be playing on Nov 19 @ La Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris
Bookings here: Bertrand 01 55 93 40 48 or albumdelasemaine((arobas))canal+(dot)fr

Check our previous review of The Bellrays @ Paris Plage in 2008

Gorillaz, Bobby Womack, De La Soul, Shaun Ryder, Little Dragon, Hypnotic Brass, l’Orchestre National de Syrie & The Clash's Mick Jones et Paul Simonon will be recording Canal+ tv show La Musicale on Nov 24