Timber Timbre @ C'est Lenoir- Black session, Paris May 02 2011

Timber Timbre @ C'est Lenoir - Black session #327
Paris May 02 2011

billboards near the Eiffel Tower & setlist

Strange session with Timber Timbre and their dark folk-blues-rock.
The girl on the left on violin & keys , the singer, dead center on guitar and percussion, the guitar player & other instruments on the right.
Most of the songs are slow, dark & the singer has a low voice.
Not the kind of music we're used to @ Black Session but interesting nevertheless.
You really need to be into that kind of music to appreciate it.
So mixed emotions.
The singer is moody as he went to see someone seating on the first row and we really thought he was about to punch him in the face as he was probably taking Pics (No it wasn't Patrice LOL)

We already noticed that these guys are moody as they were supposed to play a showcase @ Fnac Store before their gig @ Maroquinerie in February and they didn't play because they were tired and didn't seem to bother... and they didn't want people to take pics.

AC/DC's "Let There be Rock" DVD & Blu-Ray out on June 7 2011 The Trailer

Upadated May 05 : Release probably push back to the end of August 2011

Out on June 07

The DVD of Live @ River Plate will be out on May 10
get your wallet ready !!!!

Metronomy, showcase @ Fnac Forum, Paris May 04 2011 6:00 pm

Metronomy's showcase @ Fnac Forum,
Paris May 04 2011 6:00 pm

Before their sold-out show @ Cigale tonight , Metronomy is playing a small showcase @ Fnac Forum.
Lots of people attending and the gig is running late, the band might be busy so they're only playing a small 17 min -4 songs set.
They're playing acoustic but the music is still the same... crap but it's funny and the band seems to have fun playing acoustic.

After the gig Metronomy is posing for fans, Nice !

Selah Sue @ L'Album de la Semaine Canal+, Paris May 02 2011

Selah Sue @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+
Paris May 02 2011

setlist

New Soul Reggea- Raggamuffin sensation Selah Sue is promoting her first and new album by playing a short 7 songs (in fact 9 songs as she did the last two songs another time) set in front of a selected audience of 200 people.
All white band, she sings like a black girl from the caribbean (which means eating half of each word) even though she's a cute tiny white blonde from Belgium.
Cool music even if it's not our cup of tea, the band is very tight with a nice drummer who looks like he's barely in his late teens.
She has a great soul-rock voice like a black singer so it's funny to hear her talk in french between songs as she has a very thick Flemish accent.
Some of the songs are quite good with a very modern soul feelings with a groovy up-tempo, some others are a bit too ragga for us

Very nice discovery, good show

Hervé Bourhis' Rock'n Roll Music Exhibition @ Galerie Oblique, Paris April 30 2011

Saturday afternoon art galeries & exhibitions

Taschen (far left) Just Jaeckin galerie (left) shop window

After attending Moriarty's showcase @ Fargo store and digging through boxes of memorabilia at the nearby secondhand market, we later had a walk in St Germain des Pres, The Taschen store is selling a very expensive book of Linda McCartneys' Pictures (see shop window above) of The Beatles, The Stones, Hendrix ...& family pics. Fantastic.
3 different books with prices ranging from 45 euros, 750 euros & 1750 euros for the limited art edition signed by Paul McCartney with print.

The nearby Anne & Just Jaeckin galerie has some nice Pics with Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Fonda & Ursula Andress + sculptures. (see pic above)
We found a plaque with John Paul Jones' name on it, Led Zeppelin Bass player was a ship captain in a previous life.(see pic above)

Then we went to the Rock'n Roll Music exhibition by Hervé Bourhis @ Galerie Oblique in Village St Paul, lots of drawings of musicians: Radiohead, KISS , Elton John, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Undergroud, Arcade Fire... and a whole room for The Beatles.

Too bad it was the last day , lots of great stuff

drawings between 150 & 300 euros

66 rpm Beatles vinyl

Ended the day @ Constant for a nice diner.

Moriarty @ Fargo Store, Paris April 30 2011 12:00 AM

Moriarty @ Fargo Store 12:30 am
Paris April 30 2011

To promote the new album Moriarty is playing a showcase @ Fargo store in Paris.
We already saw them a few days ago @ Divan du Monde for a private gig.
It's a beautiful & sunny saturday, the atmosphere is realy cool and relaxed, the gig was kept secret to avoid a riot, just kidding ;-) so around 50 people but it's sold-out in the tiny shop.
Funny to attend a gig so early, the gig is starting at 12:40 and the band is playing their new song on acoustic.
The guys are not fooling around or joking or acting like buffoons (too much) like they did @ Divan du Monde even though the guitar player is still doing his funny moves à la Elvis once (that was enough).
In fact, new songs are pretty good when played more seriously.
The show lasted a good 40 min and 8 songs were played.
One of the guys from the band brought a huge Mozzarella cheese from Italy to share with people at the end of the show, really nice with tomatoes and olive oil and Fargo privided Fruit Juices and salami.
Wondeful to start a very long saturday for us in these conditions.

Then we went to the nearby open air secondhand market, where a friend of mine Miss F found an original small drawing and autograph of Jean Cocteau for just a few euros to a guy who didn't know what he was selling.
Couldn't fucking believe it !

last song of the show:

Angus & Julia Stone @ Trianon, Paris April 28 2011

Angus & Julia Stone @ Trianon
Paris April 28 2011

These guys are VERY popular in France right now, they've been here playing several sold-out shows a few months and now they're back playing the Trianon for several other sold-out shows.
We just know their hit song "Big Jet Plane" (here on video) and it sounds ok to us.
Glad to be invited for this gig to check them live.
First thing you notice before they get on stage is that it's a 80 % female audience in their late-teens early 20's and most of them very beautiful whwich is already a good point.
The duo hits the stage aound 9:00pm for a 90 min+ set.
They have bass, drums and cello players.
They're playing a cool pop-folk music, most of the songs are quite slow but not boring which I was afraid of, after 3-4 songs you get slowly into it and finally you like it.
The girl has a funny tiny-tiny voice, they did a James Taylor song and changed the setlist all along the show even playing a new song " I wanna live here".

A nice surprise, on some songs you could hear a pin drop as the audience was very respectful and remained completely silent.
A good show !

setlist

"Big Jet Plane"

"Back and Forth" Foo Fighters' Documentary screening @ Canal+, Paris April 27 2011

Screening for the press in a projection room at the Canal+ HQ.

James Doll did a documentary just in time for the released of the 7th Foo Fighters' studio album "Wasting Light" out this month.
All you wanted to know about Foo Fighters from the early beginning in 1994 when Kurt Cobain died to the recording process of the new album is in the documentary.
Lots of talking, a few things unknown to us and interesting facts from the beginning of the Foo, it's well done, there's also a bit a live footage but very few.
You won't see other musicians telling how great they are but as it's official there's no controversy regarding the HIV-Aids denialist movement that supported Nate Mendel or anything alse, it's only focus on the history of the band.
They did mention Dave playing with The QOTSA but NOT Them Crooked Vultures, Why ?
Really great, a must see.A good commercial for the new album.
It will be play on Canal+ on May 19 @ 11:55pm

Moriarty @ Divan du Monde, Paris April 26 2011

Moriarty @ Divan du Monde, Private show for the Fnac Store
Paris April 26 2011

After playing a few sold-out shows @ Trianon last month ( 1200 capacity) Franco-American Folk-country band Moriarty is playing a private show for the Fnac Store in this 'newly' refurbished 500 capacity club: Le Divan du Monde.
Competition winners are downstairs and VIPs upstairs on the tiny balcony drinking free champagne and ... talking loudly.
We already saw the band a few years ago and we liked what we saw but it seems that the band has turned into a joke, first: most of the songs are crap and second: musicians are trying to act funny on stage which is fuckin' ridiculous.
Only the last 20 min minutes of the 65 min gig was good with some better songs at the end including a couple of their hits and acting more "seriously".
Oliver called this "Musique pour les ploucs" I guess he wasn't that far...
The show ended with a song they recorded specially for the "Record Store Day" and here on video.
The only one problem was, once again these VIP dickheads upstairs that didn't stop talking loudly for the whole set. (Patrice, our photographer was there but I guess he didn't talk as he was probably so bored...)

Song for "Record Store Day":

Angus & Julia Stone @ Trianon, Paris April 26 2011

Angus & Julia Stone @ Trianon
Paris April 26 2011

We didn't go but here's the setlist wich is probably wrong as they never follow it

James Blake @ Maroquinerie, Paris April 25 2011

James Blake @ Maroquinerie
Paris April 25 2011

setlist

We didn't go but Uschi kindly sent me the setlist so here it is with a nice video from a Feist cover song

Dum Dum Girls @ C'est Lenoir, Black Session Paris April 25 2011

Dum Dum Girls @ C'est Lenoir, Black Session
Paris April 25 2011

All girl band Dum Dum Girls @ C'est Lenoir for a Black session just one day after playing La Machine du Moulin Rouge.
Nice poppy song to begin with , a kind of psyche-rockier version of The Bangles then and for the whole gig it was more rock but it sounds all the same with the same rythm over & over, impossible to single out one catchy song.
Maybe is it because they are technically limited so a good above average show with one new song played.
45 min + set

see ya tomorrow (on tuesday) @ Divan du Monde for the Fnac private gig of Moriarty ("musique pour les ploucs" as Oliver called it)

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Yes, it's Avenue de la Motte Picquet in case NO one noticed (center)
Jean Charles de Castelbajac chalk drawings (left & right)