The Kills @ Fnac Forum, Paris April 05 2011 1:00 pm

The Kills @ Fnac Forum 1:00 pm
Paris April 04 2011

Before their sold-out show tomorrow @ Bataclan, The Kills are doing a signing session @ Fnac Forum at lunch time. Many teenagers, everything went smoothly, band was on time. Both of them were cool signing stuff and posing for pictures.

say"cheeeeeese"

setlist and video from La Fleche d'Or on March 22 2011
Check our (small) review of the Kills @ Bataclan on Oct 28 2008 & @ Arte's One Shot Not on Oct 29 2008.
Check also The Dead Weather @ Bataclan on June 05 2010, @ Cigale on June 29 2009, @ L'Album de la Semaine on June 30 2009 & @ Olympia on Oct 28 2009.
With lots of Pics, setlist & videos

Horse Feathers @ Oliver Peel session, Paris April 4 2011

Horse Feathers @ Oliver Peel session #36
Paris April 4 2011

Horse Feathers

Another Oliver Peel session but this time on a monday night, nice way to start the week.
Horse Feathers from Idaho is playing, they've done a gig yesterday @ Café de la Danse (check review here).
Lots of Americans @ Oliver's and some familiar faces.

Only one band, remember it's only monday, don't know if the neighbours would agree with 40 people stomping, talking, shouting, drinking...so we can't party all night long.
Very cool set with this 4 piece country-folk band. Acoustic guitar, banjo, violin, cello and... saw so all the songs were very different from one another.

Some of the beautiful people

As always lots of beauties in the audience, some "quiche" courtesy of Michael and lots of booze to go with.
Wild party as we even had a couple trapped in the tiny elevator, we left before they were delivered, hope they didn't do any naughty things in there !!!

Beauty of the session (center)

Love in the elevator !!!

Calvin Russell 1948-2011 RIP

So sad to hear that Calvin Russell just died this week end at his home in Texas.

RIP

We were @ this recording for Arte TV on Dec 12 2007 with Poni Hoax, Stacey Kent & Craig Amstrong

Sunday afternoon @ Louvre & Vuitton store ...

Louvre : Messerschmidt exhibition

Messerschmidt faces (except far right)

Sunday afternoon the weather's shit, nothing better than visiting the Louvre museum and it's free (every first sunday of each month), it was packed at the entrance, once you're in it's half empty, I guess all these tourists in short were there for Mona Lisa, not us.
We went there for the Messerschmidt exhibition, lots of tortured faces, subtitles are laughable, they were made after the faces were dicovered. It's made of steel .A must see.
Of course that's the only part where you CAN'T take any pictures.
Then we had a walk around the museum in the sculpture department : Fantastic

happy faces...not : Death

Made of laces & bras @ Vuitton store

Then we went to the top floor of the Vuitton store at the corner of the Champs Elysées and GV Avenue for some (shitty) modern art. This top floor with art is only an excuse so that they can open on sunday. The only good thing was these things hanging out made of bras and laces.
First we had a drink at the nearby GV hotel for a hot chocolate then we went to the restaurant @ Café Constant and we had a table next to actors Matthew McConaughey , Ryan Philippe and Amanda Seyfried who were in Paris to do promo duties for their next movie (i've been told).
Great day away for Rock'n Roll !

Vuitton shop window & billboards for Kubrick exhibition & Joan Baez's gigs

Foo Fighters streaming entire new album "Wasting Light" HERE

Click on album cover to listen to the new album

The Bewitched Hands @ Paul B, Massy , April 1 2011

Shout Out Louds + The Bewitched Hands @ Centre Paul Bailliart
Massy, April 1st 2011

Shout Out Louds

Thanks to Fabien , who invited (and drove) us to this gig 25 kms south of Paris in the middle of nowhere in Massy we went to see The Bewitched Hands.
Beautiful concert hall in the middle of upper class council houses.
Opening Swedish band Shout Out Louds is starting pretty late (after 9:00pm) for a 55 min show.
Heavily influnced by The Cure, for the vocals at least, Shout Out Louds is playing a great pop-rock with nice melodies.A little bit of Arcade fire is thrown in too.
The singer ended the set singing in the pit as there was a huge gap betwen the stage and the first row, were people afraid ?
Nice discovery for us.

setlist

The Bewitched hands

We already saw The Bewitched hands @ L'Album de la Semaine last November.
Very cool rock band between The Pixies, Brian Johnstown Massacre or Grandaddy.
French band but they're singing in English.

Too bad there wasn't too many people , less than 200 even though it's friday night.
They've done an hour long set.
A couple of videos "Out of myself", "Birds and drums".for ya to enjoy !

"Smell the glove"

Led Zeppelin to reform for Charity concert for Japan @ Wembley Stadium

Led Zeppelin to reform for a charity gig @ Wembley Stadium in June 2011
for Japan

Led Zep @ O2 on Dec 10 2007

After the terrible earthquake and Tsunami that devastated Japan, a charity gig @ Wembley in June will be organise and Led Zeppelin has confirmed that they will reform for this gig only other acts are not known but there are strong rumours of Paul McCartney being part of it.

SORRY, THAT WAS OUR STUPID HOAX FOR APRIL'S FOOLS DAY !