Peter Bjorn & John @ L'International March 2 2011

Peter Bjorn & John @ L'International

Paris March 2 2011

Well... we've changed our plans tonight, instead of going to the other side of Paris @ Casino de Paris to see Maroon 5 we've decided to go to Peter Bjorn & John @ L'International.
In fact we already saw Maroon 5 a couple of times, last time being @ Westin Hotel for a private gig on Sept 14 and we've never seen Peter & Co.

We thought it would be a relax night as it is at the International club.
Wrong ! These Swedish are wellknown so the place is rammed and it's a free gig as usual in this club , we've never seen so many people there.
Hard to get to the front, some arrived at 7:00pm to be front row.
It's hot as hell but the atmosphere is relax, lots, I mean lots of swedish girls.

They started the show at 10:00pm, aren't they playing folk ? Niet
We had a powerful pop-rock set for 60 min, the guitar player is jumping up & down and handbanging as if he was playing in QOTSA. The bass player is more cool asking people to calm down as the pit is getting ugly but we are tough mother-fuckers at ROCKERPARIS and we survived to Metallica @ Boule Noire or Sepultura gigs down the front so we know what it is to fight for our lives on the front row.
Luckily some security guys are here to calm things down.
The band is playing a few new songs from the new record to be out next month including the brand new single "Second Chance" here on video.
Nice 60 min set.
They will be playing the Point Ephémere on April 9

New Single " Second Chance":

Fifi Chachnil + Philippe Katerine @ Carmen, Paris March 1 2011

Fifi Chachnil + Philippe Katerine @ Carmen club
Paris March 1 2011

Band (minus Piano Player) / The Audience feat. French Photographers Pierre & Gilles

French lingerie designer Fifi Chachnil is playing a special gig with French singer Philippe Katerine in a very nice club in the red district of Pigalle in Paris.

The Carmen club is a beautiful hotel particulier from the French Second Empire (XIX Century) classified as "Historic Monument", George Bizet supposed to have wrote his famous opera "Carmen".It is also a former whore house.

We usely don't go to that kind of parties but 1) she's a lingerie designer 2) this is the fashion week 3) it's a concert so... we were expecting lots of girls in underwear, lots of models, lots of free drinks and food.
In fact we had... NOTHING !

"Where are the fuckin' lyrics !"

It was a gig with Fifi singing and Philippe katerine helping out on vocals.
It's a trendy club so lots of sexy girls in the audience even though it's not obvious on the pics.
The music is pre-WW2 french songs style with funny lyrics, this was a bit surreal, well I mean completely surreal, very unrehearsed, they had the lyrics on sheets of paper but completely mixed them so it took them a while to get it back together.
As you can see the singer is a character and acted a lot on stage
Surreal but fun and we had a good time.
French actress Julie Depardieu (who was sitting next to our dear photographer) , she's the wife of singer Philippe Katerine.

Julie Depardieu / Arielle Dombasle / Fifi

French photographers Pierre & Gilles were in the audience with Arielle Dombasle ( a failed french actress and singer but she has a rich and powerfull husband)
Entertaining.

Ringo Starr & his All Starr Band European Tour 2011 ( Palais des Sports, Paris June 26)

Updated March 3: with UK shows

Ringo Starr & his All Starr band @ Palais des Sports in Paris
June 26 2011

Tickets on sale on March 03 at 8:00pm

European Tour as follows so far:
11. June "Norwegian Wood" festival, Frognerbadet, Oslo, Norway
12. June Værket, Randers, Denmark

London Hampton Court Palace (June 17)
Liverpool Empire (18)
Birmingham Symphony Hall (20)
Manchester Opera House (22)
Glasgow Clyde Auditorium (23)

Bournemouth International Centre (24)

26 June Palais des Sports ,Paris, France

july 2: Lyon Amphithéatre Cité Internationale

4. July "July Sounds Good festival", Cavea in the Auditorium, Rome, Italy
7. July Hamburg, Germany
9. July "The Bospop festival", Weert, Holland

Duff McKagan joins Adler's Appetite on stage @ London's Underworld

(c) ? Duff & Steven @ Camden's Underworld

Duff McKagan joined Adler's Appetite yesterday night (Feb 28) @ London's Underworld to perform two GUNS N ROSES songs "My Michelle" & "It's so Easy" from "Appetite for Destruction".

Here's a shaky video from "My Michelle":

Check our review of Adler's Appetite @ Forum de Vauréal in France (with Pics, setlist & videos)

Some GUNS N ROSES for YA with Dozens of Great Pictures, videos & setlist:
Guns N Roses @ Paris Bercy Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Guns N Roses @ L'Arc Club Part 1 Part 2
Guns N Roses @ Zénith Liller

The Duke & The King @ L'Album de la Semaine for Canal+, Paris Feb 28 2011

The Duke & The King @ L'Album de la Semaine TV Show, Canal+

Paris Feb 28 2011

New York state Folk-Soul-Rockers The Duke & The King are playing famous Canal+ TV Show.
We heard briefly their music before going there so we knew what to expect and we were not disappointed at all.
3 guys exchanging theirs instruments for each song and one girl on guitar and violin and all singing lead vocals.
The main singer is having a lot of fun as he's completely waysted on Armagnac (He's mixing it with water ! only americans can do that).
Their music is strongly influenced by Folk rock legends CSN ( Crosby Stills & Nash) & Neil Young (both acoustic & electric) or the early America.
The guys are making you feel confortable as if they were playing in your living room.
Between songs we had a couple of lines from Tina Turner's "We don't need another hero" from the Mad Max movie & Beasty Boys' "Fight for your right". Remember the main singer is a bit... drunk.
They all have perfect voices including the girl with her Rickie lee Jones' high & clear voice.
I thought there would be more soul influences into their music after listening to songs on their myspace but that's allright their were SO GOOD we didn't miss that.

Probably one of the best session we had for a long time @ L'Album de la Semaine.
And a pleasure to discover such a great band.

Jeff Beck to record an album with Rod Stewart

Jeff Beck confirms that he's to write new material with Rod Stewart:
"I saw him today, I've just come straight from a meeting��, he said. "He's dead serious as far as I could gather and therefore I'm serious. Because he's got a reputation and I've got a reputation, who wants to mess up? Nobody. Neither of us. So we're gonna choose material very carefully"
Source: Planet Rock

They did record together with Ronnie Wood & Rod Stewart in the late 60's as The Jeff Beck Group

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