Roger Waters "The Wall" 1st show @ Bercy, Paris May 30 2011

Roger Waters @ Paris Bercy , May 30 2011
Firsy show & First Part:

Two happy blokes outside and two Not so happy blokes inside !

Roger Waters playing his masterpiece : The Wall.
This tour is VERY popular and second shows of third shows (even fourth) have been added in many cities across Europe including France, for once, with 4 shows in all.
One today and one tomorrow and two other shows on June 30 & July 1st.
All shows are sold-out.

Roger Waters scaring poor kids, who didn't ask for anything.

Hard to day something as there are so many things going on all along this 2 hour + show, split in two.
On "Another Brick Part 2" we have a dozen kids on stage.
The wall is being built slowly for the first part and finished for the end of it.
Lots of projections all the time with some inflatables like the school teacher & the mother + the Pig at some time during the gig.

Teacher leave the kids alone.

The sound is terrific and in quadrophonic, great lightning even though I would have prefer to have it more bright.
The band is way behind the stage so you can't really see them clearly specially as the wall is being built.

Great show : A MUST SEE !

"Do you wanna take a bath ?"

Intermission for 30 min

2nd Part of the show:

After a 30 min intermission, the show in itself is fantastic as the wall is completed, projections are looking terrific.
For the first couple of songs you can't see the band then they are playing in front of the wall.
Don't need to tell about the songs or the setlist as it's the album or the movie soundtrack as they added a few songs and bits now & then for it.

EIN, ZWEI, DREI !

Heil Roger.

SETLIST :
FIRST HALF: In the Flesh, The Thin Ice, Another Brick in the Wall Part 1, The Happiest Days of our Lives, Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, Empty Spaces, What Shall We Do Now, Young Lust, One of My Turns, Don't Leave Me Now, Another Brick in the Wall Part 3, The Last Few Bricks, Goodbye Cruel World
SECOND HALF: Hey You, Is There Anybody Out There?, Nobody Home, Vera, Bring the Boys Back Home, Comfortably Numb, The Show Must Go On, In The Flesh, Run Like Hell, Waiting for the Worms, Stop, The Trial, Outside the Wall.

Archie Shepp is in da house.

The only reproach would be Roger's vocals: they are perfect and that's the problem, I guess that he's miming over a backing track for most of the gig.
Nevertheless it's a must see !

The Wall came tumbling down

Merchandising

Someone recorded the whole show in Arnhem Holland in April check his top quality videos
1st part, 2nd Part

Arctic Monkeys stream entire new album

Arctic Monkeys stream entire new album on official website
The album "Suck it and see" will be available next week.

Click on cover above to listen to it

Gil Scott-Heron 1949-2011 RIP

RIP
Il était considéré comme l'un des pères du rap : le musicien Gil Scott-Heron est décédé le vendredi 27 mai 2011 à l'âge de 62 ans. Selon son éditeur, le poète, romancier et musicien américain était tombé malade à son retour d'un voyage en Europe et était hospitalisé dans un hôpital de New York. Les causes exactes de son décès n'ont pas encore été rendues publiques.

The Sonics @ Cigale, Paris May 27 2011

The Sonics @ Cigale
Paris, May 27 2011

ALL PICTURES (C) Madame Mime

original setlist

From Madame "Motley Depeche" Mime:
"Ce soir c'était un peu les fashions'jeunots Rock'n roll friday meets les quadras de Born Bad.
En 1ere partie les Masonics.(click for video from the gig)
Les Sonics ne ressemblent plus à rien mais la musique roxe.
La set list n'est pas la bonne parce qu'ils ont fait bcp + de morceaux donc un 2eme rappel qui n'était pas prévu tant l'ambiance était chaude".

"Psycho":

video from "Have Love, Will Travel" @ Cigale.

Julie Doiron @ Oliver Peel session, Paris May 28 2011

Julie Doiron @ Oliver Peel session
Paris, May 27 2011

Probably one of the last ever Oliver Peel session @ the appartment on Avenue Dusquene next to the Eiffel Tower & Invalides as Oliver & Cecile have to find another Home sweet Home before Decembre as they're evicted by their landlord.
Tonight only one artist: Miss Julie Doiron from Canada s she's the only one playing she played a longer set than usual @ Oliver's.
Voice and electric guitar for some cool folk-pop-rock songs , videos should follow shortly as someone from Le Cargo was video-recording the whole set.
Cool atmosphere on this friday night & always some tasty food and lots of wine/beer.

"Kids wanna ride"

No gigs for this week-end (we probably won't go to Thurston Moore @ Villette Sonique on saturday)

Monday ( May 30) will be mad with no more than 6 shows:

Roger Waters @ Bercy (sold-out) (we'll go to this one)
Al Di Meola @ Casino de Paris
Jay Jay Johanson @ Café de la Danse
Fleet Foxes @ Bataclan
Black Lips @ Social Club
Cat's Eyes @ L'Album de la Semaine
May 31:
Roger Waters @ Bercy (we'll go as well)
Jamiroquai @ Casino de Paris ( Private gig for a beer)
Then nothing until June 6:
System of a Down @ Bercy (sold-out)
June 07:
The Kooks @ Cigale (sold-out)
June 08:
System of a Down @ Bercy (sold-out)
June 10:
Duran Duran @ Grand Rex
Alice Cooper @ Montereau Festival ( 40 km outside Paris)

Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam @ Bercy, Paris May 26 2011

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Updated may 31 with setlist

Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam @ Bercy
Paris, May 26 2011

First concert in Paris for Yusuf Islam as he's calling himself now. We're gonna call him Cat Stevens if you don't mind.
We were lucky @ Rockerparis to attend the very first time he came back on a stage after converting to Islam, that was 10 years ago @ RAH in London for a charity gig , he only sung a couple of songs if I can remember well.

The Peace Train (far right)

This time it's different it's a real concert, his first in Paris for 35 years.
Strangely enough I've been told that tickets sold badly, they were VERY expensive, the promoter had to sell some of them on websites (Vente Privée to name it) with a 50% discount.
Considering that, I was a bit surprised when the show started ( a bit late @ 8:15 pm) to see that the, all seated, floor is full , the lower blocks in the stalls are full too, empty seats are on the upper blocks on the side and in the back. So I guess there was a bit more than 10 000 out of the 16500 capacity.

The 1st set started very slowly with Cat Stevens on his own on the acoustic guitar for a few songs then his musicians came in to play a mix of new and old stuff.
Cat Stevens played his Musical so he was introducing each song with the translation on the screens on each side of the stage.
Songs are good but talking before each song cuts the rhythm of the gig.
Good 1st set but it could have been better.

Official Setlist (check Here for official Pics from Paris)

After a 30 min intermission Cat & band came back on the stage to play more classics, a couple of times he played the first chords to "Wild World" stopping immediately and saying " Well , not Now !".
There's a huge screen in the back with some nice projections, strangely after a few songs Cat Stevens left the stage for a break and left the band play a song ( the one with Dolly Parton and Macca).
As the hits kept coming in the audience started to react and finally stood up for the last songs... at last.
Funny enough there were lots of pretty young girls in the audience some of them screaming " I Love you" several times which made him laugh and saying " My wife is here and I Love ONLY my wife... but there are different kinds of love...".
He didn't talk politics at all, just telling us the story when he wasn't welcomed in the USA a few years ago and was sent back to England. There was a funny cartoon relating this on the huge screen.
The show couldn't be complete without 'Wild World" of course but he DID NOT play " Lady D'Arbanville".

Good show overall.
Full setlist shortly, check this official website for more.

Peace Brothers & Sisters !

Merchandising & 2nd Poster

Last song of the show:

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They've done a medley of Priest's classics : "Living After Midnight" and "Breaking The Law".

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Kitty Daisy & Lewis @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris May 24 2011

Kitty Daisy & Lewis @ L'Album de la Semaine

Paris, May 24 2011

setlist

Kitty Daisy & Lewis from Durham , England are doing this famous Canal+ tv show to promote the new album "Smoking in Heaven" to be released at the end of the month.
Still the same vintage rock 'n roll with a bit of reggae thrown in, they have a guest on a couple of songs on the trumpet (for the reggae songs), he was already there when they've played in Paris @ Café de la Danse in March last year.
The girls are as sexy as ever with their tight dresses and long hair.
They ended this 7 song set with an instrumental which is the title of the new album
Good show