Alice Cooper (Part 2) @ Montereau Confluences festival, June 10 2011

Alice Cooper @ Montereau Confluences festival
June 10 2011
Part 2

The boa is out on this tour

This tour has been dubbed "No more Mr Nice guy" so the boa is out on this tour as you can see on the setlist (in Part 1) Alice is playing ALL the Hits. some recent songs, a brand new one called " I'll bite your head off" and even "Muscle of Love".

The band is on top form maybe some songs sound a bit too Heavy Metal which is not my favorite Alice, I've always prefered when he's more "classic" rock or even "Cabaret".

Only women Bleed

The audience is not a rock audience, more a family audience so I guess they liked the show as there are different things happening: we have a huge " Frankestein" who lost his jaw, it was probaly not part of the show but it was funny, we have the guillotine and lots of costume changes (like Mariah Carey or Beyonce) but Alice is not as pretty ;-)
Maybe I would have like to have a song from "The Last temptation" which is one of my favorite album but the setlist is a good mix of old stuff and more recent songs.

A jaw-dropping Frankestein

The guillotine

"School's out" including snippet from Roger Waters' "Another brick in the wall" is having the audience singing along.
Alice is back on stage with a French flag for the Encore " Elected".
Very entertaining 90 min show

I Wanna be elected ...in France

Zazie was headlining but we didn't bother (whod did anyway ?) it was time to go back to Paris.

GoodBye Montereau, Promotional "Goes to Hell" vintage tee-shirt signed by Steve Hunter

"Elected":

System of a Down + Clutch @ Bercy, Paris june 08 2011

System of a Down + Clutch @ Bercy
2nd show, Paris June 09 2011

Clutch

Back into Bercy Arena to attend System of a Down's second sold-out show in Paris.
This time instead of Trail of dead, that wasn't very welcomed by the audience we have Clutch.
We arrived late , as usual , so we've missed the beginning of their show, in fact we only saw the last four songs of the band, too bad it was very good, the kind of shit that we liked at ROCKERPARIS, some cool bluesy rock stoner.

Nice... tee-shirt !

After a 30 min intermission, System of a Down took the stage in the same great atmosphere as two days ago. 17 000 people jumping up & down from the first minute to the last.
The band is as relaxed on stage as at the first concert.
Once again the sound is clear & neat.
This time there is a small pit down the front , for people with a wristband, not as stupid as the previous gig where they divided the pit in the middle from the front to the back.
I haven't seen any press photographers in the pit tonight (same as previous show), I guess the band doesn't want any photos as Patrice had to put his camera at the cloakroom after the security went to see him in the stalls, but he always has a Plan B.

CORRECTION : Same setlist as the first night @ Bercy on june 06. (click for pics, video & review or scroll down this page).
Show started @ 8:45 and ended @ 10:30 pm
Anothe Great gig.

After the storm

The Kooks @ Cigale, Paris June 07 2011

The Kooks @ Cigale
Paris, June 07 2011

Another sold-out gig, in my favourite theatre in Paris: La Cigale.
The Kooks are doing a tour without any new album out yet, the next one "Junk of the heart" will be out next September.
This band from Brighton has lots of dedicated fans and when I'm saying fans I'm talking about young ( between 15 & 20 years old) girls most of them very sexy.
Going to a Kooks' gig is always a pleasure : the band is good, they have nice songs, the atmosphere in the audience is always lively and... the girls are young and pretty.

We arrived to late to see the support band, sorry.
Even though it's sold out, there is room in the pit and the A.C. is working correctly so it's not too hot in there.
The band is not on the stage that people are starting jumping up and down and as the floor of La Cigale is like a trampoline (it's on springs) it's funny to see from the sides.
Each songs is greated with screams, they've played the hits and... a few new songs.
Hard to say how the new album will sound as they've played a slow song and a heavy one.

It's also funny to see that as the years go by it's still the same (very) young audience.
The singer is teasing the first row by walking on the edge of the stage several times but no stage diving, I guess he's afraid of having his clothes tear off.
The guitar player is still playing nice licks on guitar as if he was somewhere else.

They may have 3 albums (with the new one) they're still playing a very short set, no more than 75 min including the encore.
Very nice gig !

Setlist

Have a look at our review of their show @ Rock en Seine in 2010
@ Zénith for the Inrockuptibles fest with CSS & Mistery Jets in Nov 2008