Band Of Horses + Mike Noga @ Cigale, Paris Feb 26 2011

Band of Horses + Mike Noga & the Gents
@ Cigale , Paris Feb 26 2011
Last show on the European Tour

Mike Noga (above) & Ben Bridwell from BoH on the far right

Another sold-out show in Paris after PJ Harvey, Razorlight, Skunk Anansie...
This time it is for one of the best, if not the best, new band to appear these last few years.

This is our 5th show since April 2010 ( L'Album de la semaine TV Show on April 07 , La Fleche d'Or on April 08, Rock en Seine Festival on August 27 and C'est Lenoir Black Session on August 30 ) and each time they have deliver a great performance.

[Click on links for reviews with Pics, setlist & videos]

We're late tonight and we could only see the last 2 songs of support band Mike Noga & the Gents, we thought that Band of Horses were already playing as the guys were jamming with Mike Noga. It was rocking.
For Band of Horses there is a huge backdrop in the back that will play images of the band live at different concerts & festivals + images of landscapes and animals so the lightshow is not too bright (read crap).
On album the music is more ambient but live these motherfuckers are rocking, the first 4-5 songs were smoking before they played more mid-tempo songs.

The guys are having a lot of fun as it's the last show on the Europan Tour and i'm sure they're glad to go back home. Ben ,the singer, is smiling all the time & telling both the guitar players to sing from time to time his parts.
It's the first time I see them interacting like this between each-other, usually they are very focus on the music ... almost too serious.

It's probably the most heavier show I've seen.That's what we like @ Rockerparis.
They should be acting more often like this, Mike Noga and his Gents are returning the favour by playing with Band of Horses for a song to everyone's laughter including band members of both bands.

The setlist is quite long with many songs coming from the latest album ( see setlist for details)

Great 110 min show, this show will surely end up in our top 10 for 2011

Smell the Horse !

The audience /setlist/ Aftershow @ Merchandising with Mike Noga & the Gents

PJ Harvey @ Olympia, Paris Feb 24 2011

Updated Feb 25 : more links to videos from the 1st show @ Olympia

Polly @ Maroquinerie on Feb 14th 2011 (far left) + Olympia marquee & Virgin Commercial

SETLIST: (From Oliver Peel's) check his website for review & Pictures from the show.

01: Let England Shake
02: The Words That Maketh Murder
03: All & Everyone
04: The Guns Called Me Again
05: Written On The Forehead
06: In The Dark Places
07: The Devil
08: The River (click for video) Other version
09: The Sky Lit Up
10: The Glorious Land
11: The Last Living Rose
12: England
13: Bitter Branches
14: Down By The Water
15: C'mon Billy
16: Hanging In The Wire
17: On Battleship Hill
18: Big Exit
19: The Colour Of The Earth

20: Met Ze Monsta
21: Angeline
22: Silence

"In The dark Places":

Check our review with Pictures , setlist and videos from her private gig @ Maroquinerie last week.

Ben Harper's "Give Till It's Gone" cover & tracklisting revealed

Ben Harper's "Give Till It's Gone" Out on May 17th 2011

Cover on the left

Tracklisting:

1. Don't Give Up On Me Now

2. I Will Not Be Broken
3. Rock N' Roll Is Free
4. Feel Love
5. Clearly Severely
6. Spilling Faith ( With Ringo Starr)
7. Get There From Here ( With Ringo Starr)
8. Pray That Our Love Sees The Dawn (with Jackson Browne)
9. Waiting On A Sign
10. Dirty Little Lover
11. Do It For You, Do It For Us

Check our previous reviews of Ben Harper & R7:
with Pics , Video & setlist @ Arras Main Square with Pearl Jam on July 3rd 2010, @ Cigale on April 20 2009 , private show @ Studio SFR on April 25 2009 & Fnac store Signing session on April 27 2009).

Warpaint @ C'est lenoir, Black Session, Paris Feb 24 2011 10:00pm

setlist

Lots of people are taking about this all girl band, they are the media darling in UK.
4 girls, the guitar players are also sharing lead vocals.
The gig started slowly with a very slow song and... it never took off for the hour long set.
I really wonder why there is such a buzzzzzzz ? they do sound like Sonic Youth or The Cure playing ambient music.
They have a couple of good songs but the rest is boring to death.
If it was an all-male band I think that no one would talk about them.
Average gig

PS: sorry no pics for this gig as Patrice Guino, our photographer, couldn't be with us tonight , we just hope he will be back in time for Band of Horses on saturday @ Cigale ( sold-out).

Kumi Solo + Anything Maria @ L'International, Paris Feb 23 2011

Oliver Peel presents:

Tonight @ The International ( free show)

Sorry too lazy to go out yesterday night , it was cold , raining.
We stayed home watching Manchester United vs Marseille.

Review & Pics from the show @ Oliver's & on his Flickr.
Videos HERE

Razorlight @ Fleche d'Or, Paris Feb 22 2011

Razorlight + Thos Henley @ Fleche d'Or
Paris, Feb 22 2011

Razorlight is playing two low-key club shows @ Fleche d'Or (500 capacity) in Paris, France to introduced the new line-up. Maybe we should call them New Razorlight as there has been many changes.
We are attending the second show which was the first one announced and sold-out in a day. Yesterday's gig was added later and was also quickly sold out too.
It's a 90 % female audience. :-)))
Their success has been going downhill for the last few years, from playing full house @ the Olympia theatre ( 2500 capacity) to an half full ( or half empty) Bataclan theatre (1200 capacity).

Chris Cornell has joined the New Razorlight !

Razorlight has two new members Freddie Stitz on bass, who looks like he escaped from a a southern rock band and Gus Robertson on guitar who looks like Chris Cornell from the early incarnation of Soundgarden just before he turned into a model for Gap.

We've never been fans of Razorlight, they were way too light for us and we always thought that Johnny Borrell looked like a dick with his white-sneaker-white pants & white INXS tee shirt.A good mama's boy.

Hey baby ! Things have changed for the new year, the guy looks like a tough mother-fucker now: dressed in black, short hair, moustache & beard , now he's looking like a proper rocker.
Even his attitude on stage is completely different ( see pics).
I don't know if it's a very honest move, the press will probably nail him to the wall for that but... we like it.

Johnny Borrell 2011: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Even the music is much more rock than it used to... and we like it too this way.

The band is playing pretty late (10:00pm) with Thos Henley & his band opening with their cool folk. Thos played an Oliver Peel session on his own a few months ago so we're glad to see him here.

Lots of heavy guitars for the new Razorlight and fun set as the bass player is singing a song on his own, we also have a guess singing ( and playing guitar) on Jonathan Richman's "Pablo Picasso". Looking for credibility ?
They've played some of their hits including "America" (click for video) plus many other songs (see setlist for details) we're not very familiar with but it was rocking.

setlist

The setlist is as long as my arm ( 28 songs ?) for a 90 min set.
They've changed a few things compare to the original setlist : (tbc)
Real thing
Perfectly high
America
Military Man
Pablo Picasso
Somewhere else
?
People who party

The new Razorlight is rocking and we like it.

Keren Ann @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Feb 21 2011 8:30pm

Keren Ann @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+
Paris Feb 21 2011

setlist

Keren Ann is promoting her new album and is having an international career playing all over the world , she's singing in perfect English, her music is influenced by Englo-American music. (that's probably why she has an international career: cqfd).
Many people over here think that she's french, her french is perfect, but she's in fact from Holland, born in Israel.
Large band: as usual drums, bass, guitar, keys + 4 guys on violin & cello & Keren on vocals, acoustic & electric guitar.
Her music is a kind of cool pop-folk, tonight we're lucky as she's not only playing songs from the new album ( That's the rule here) but also a few oldies and the show is longer than what other bands are doing @ L'Album de la semaine.
Very sophisticated pop-folk songs, great songwriting and soft clear high voice.
We only had two "UFO" songs : one with a rapper (?!?) and her latest single " My name is trouble" which sounds like 80's electro -pop with a very disco sounding bass.
Considering her repertoire , we really wonder what this song is doing here and why it is the single, the video is funny though.
Very good show. We like her a lot @ Rockerparis.

Timber Timbre @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris Feb 21 2011 5:30pm

Timber Timbre @ Fnac Montparnasse
Paris Feb 21 2011 5:30pm

As we came into the Fnac Montparnasse, there wasn't any instrument on the stage but a table and a few chairs, so we guess that something was wrong.
In fact the band was tired after doing the soundcheck and didn't bother playing so they just signed their record and left after half an hour.

They are playing tonight @ Maroquinerie with C.W Stoneking (we saw him last week @ L'Album de la semaine ) but we didn't bother going.

Next Shows for the end of February...

Band of Horses/ Skunk Anansie/PJ Harvey

Check first before going, we'll go to these shows

Feb 21:
Razorlight @ Fleche d'Or (sold out) check our review of the last gig @ Bataclan in Nov 2008
Timber Timbre @ Fnac Montparnasse @ 5:30pm ( free show)
Keren Ann @ L'Album de la semaine (invit' only)
Feb 22:
Razorlight @ Fleche d'Or (Sold-out)
Skunk Anansie @ Olympia (Sold-out) Check our review of the private gig @ Nouveau Casino in Sept 2010 & Rock en Seine 2010
Crocodiles @ L'Album de la semaine (invit' only)

Feb 23:
Kumi Solo (electro pop) + Anything Maria (electro pop) FREE SHOW @ L'International (map) M° Menilmontant
Joan As PoliceWoman @ Fleche d'Or (sold-out)
Feb 24:
PJ Harvey @ Olympia (sold-out) Check our review of her gig @ Maroquinerie with Pics, setlist and links to videos of the whole gig
Alan Vega @ La Machine
Ebony Bones @ Trianon
Warpaint @ C'est Lenoir Black Session (sold-out, invit' only)
Feb 25:
PJ Harvey @ Olympia (sold-out)
Feb 26:
Band of Horses @ Cigale (sold-out) check our reviews @ Rock en seine 2010, C'est lenoir, Fleche d'or & Album de la semaine : all in 2010

Who said nobody's going to concerts anymore ?

Ringo Starr plans European Tour for summer 2011

It's official !

click on Pic above for video

Ringo Starr is working on an new album and will be touring Europe, from Russia to Spain, this summer.
He will be in Hamburg for his birthday on July 7th.

New Radiohead album " The King of Limbs" OUT NOW

Radiohead's new album is already out, one day in advance.
Here's the single:

Another electronic shit ! Get the guitars back !!!

UK Rock Magazines are doing well !

Bauer Media's music title MOJO has an average monthly circulation of 98,484 ,retaining its status as the biggest paid-for music magazine.

Another Bauer music monthly, Q, held second spot with circulation of 88,240.

Uncut held on to third place among the paid-for rock music titles with sales down 2% period on period to 72,586.

Future Publishing's Classic Rock is within 5,000 copies of third place with 67,695.

Bauer's Kerrang! leapfrogged Metal Hammer to take fifth spot with a respectable 4.5% uplift in year-on-year circulation to 42,967. ( Metal Hammer: 41,826)

IPC media's NME, which was the only title in the sector to report a double-digit year-on-year fall, had a circulation of 32,166 in the second half of last year.

[ All are monthly magazines except Kerrang! & NME which are weekly]

Source: Guardian.co.uk for full article.

Can we get the numbers for France ? Rock&Folk, Crossroads, Inrocks, Rock Hard, Hard Rock, Rolling Stone ...

Buffalo Springfield Plans to Reunite for Fall Tour

Buffalo Springfield @ Bridge School

Stephen Stills, Neil Young & Richie Furay to Tour as Buffalo Springfield this fall while Crosby & Nash are touring together this summer. (@ Paris' Olympia on Oct 14 2011)
They will be one of the headliners with Arcade Fire, The Strokes & Eminem @ Bonaroo Festival

Rare Recording of Jim Morrison Poem Unearthed For New Charity Album

A rare recording of Jim Morrison reciting an untitled poem about the plight of Native Americans in Los Alamos, New Mexico will finally be released as part of a charity album titled Prayer Cycle 2. The record will benefit the anti-nuclear organization Global Zero. The album hits stores on May 10th, but you can listen to the poem, which features accompaniment composed by Elias, HERE right now.
Source: Rolling Stone

Charles Bradley @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Feb 16 2011

Funk-Brother Charles Bradley @ L'Album de la Semaine Canal+
Paris, Feb 16 2011

At the age of 62, Charles Bradley is releasing his first album.
He's here tonight to promote it with a small gig in the Studio 104 of Plaine St Denis for the famous Canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine.
Charles probably listened to Mr James Brown a lot, he can't dance like Mr Brown, nobody can't dance like him, even if he tried to, but the voice is pretty amazing.
It's very powerfull and when you close your eyes it sounds like James, sorry... Mr Brown is in da house.
Very cool & groovy 9 songs set.
I've already seen the musicians that are playing with him, maybe they're the same as Lee Fields, who already played at L'Album de la Semaine a few months ago, and with whom Charles Bradley is playing tomorrow night ( Feb 17) @ Maroquinerie club in Paris

Next Tv recordings @ L'Album de la Semaine Canal+ for February

L'Album de la semaine , Canal+ TV show

Feb 16:
Soul Man Charles Bradley
Feb 21:
Keren Ann
Feb 22:
Crocodiles
Feb 28:
Country soul folk rock band : The Duke & the King

Bookings for all these shows are open NOW
Call Bertrand on 01 55 93 40 48 or mail to albumdelasemaine((@))canal-plus(dot)com

It's a 45 min set @ Studio 104, Plaine St denis M° Porte de la Chapelle (7:30pm)