MERRY FUCKIN' CHRISTMAS

MERRY FUCKIN' CHRISTMAS

The Rolling Stones to Tour in 2013 and Ronnie Wood weds girlfriend today

The Rolling Stones @ Magador theater in Paris 

The Rolling Stones are more than likely to Tour in 2013, Coachella and Glastonbury Festivals are on the cards.

I've also been told late October that The Rolling Stones may rock Paris Bercy Arena for 3 shows.

We shall see...

in the meantime...

Ronnie Wood, 65, weds Sally Humphreys in secret ceremony today in London with Rod Stewart as best man

Paul McCartney was among the guests

Some pics HERE

Congratulations to the happy couple.

Royal Republic + Blackfeet Revolution + Sleepers @ Divan du Monde , Paris Dec 22 2012

Royal Republic + Blackfeet Revolution + Sleepers@ Divan du Monde , Paris Dec 22 2012

Sleepers

Blackfeet Revolution

Royal Republic

Last show of the year 2012 for ROCKERPARIS, Oui Fm and "Bring the noise" last free show @ Divan du Monde in Pigalle. 

It's packed with lots of yougsters.

First band is Sleepers from Bordeaux, cool hard-core/Stoner French band. Nice heavy set.

Next is Blackfeet Revolution, a duet: a guy on drums and another one on guitar /Vocals, heavy bluesy band, Black Keys wanabee: fuckin' ridiculous but the kids love it, I guess they don't know how to recognize a proper blues-rock band from a shitty mama's boys band that's trying everything to look and sound cool but which is not.

Last is Royal Republic, a Swedish heavy Metal band another uninspired and useless band with some skills but no talent at all.

Once again the kids love it.

We left before the end.

PS: Congratulations to the Divan du Monde sound engineer , each band had a terrific sound, greasy and not too loud. It was PERFECT, too bad the bands were not up to the level of the sound.

THIN LIZZY becomes BLACK STAR RIDERS !!!

THIN LIZZY is dead, Long Live BLACK STAR RIDERS !!!

New line-up without Brian Downey & Darren Wharton

Featuring: 

Ricky Warwick (vocals), Scott Gorham (guitar), Damon Johnson (guitar), Marco Mendoza (bass) with new addition Jimmy DeGrasso (ALICE COOPER, MEGADETH, DAVID LEE ROTH, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES) on drums.

The new band is getting into the studio in L.A. in January 2013 with Kevin Shirley as producer.
Thin Lizzy will play its last shows in Australia in March 2013 with KISS & Mötley Crüe.
Then Black Star Riders will start rehearsing and touring.
 Black Star Riders Official Website: www.blackstarriders.com (active Dec 24th 2012)

Thin Lizzy @ Bataclan in Paris , France Jan 26 2011

Eric Truffaz + Baden Baden + Balthazar @ Pont des Artistes, France Inter, Paris Dec 19 2012

Eric Truffaz + Baden Baden + Balthazar @ Pont des Artistes, France Inter, Paris Dec 19 2012

Balthazar

set list

Eric truffaz

Baden Baden

 Radio show tonight @ Radio France with Belgium rock band Balthazar, french Rock band Baden Baden and jazz man Eric Truffaz.

Each band is playing a couple of songs one after another ( see setlist for details) between boring interviews as Eric Truffaz is the main artist tonight he's ending the show with 4 songs.
Balthazar is another very good pop-rock band from Belgium (with Deus and Zita Swoon) with some keys and violin to add extra flavor.
Baden Baden is french band  singing in English or french between Pop-Rock and "Chanson" depends on the language, I guess we prefer in English
Eric Truffaz doesn't need any introduction, some cool jazz on the trumpet ( we saw him last week at Studio SFR) once again with a girl on vocals for several songs, nice voice but songs are more pop when she's singing so we prefer when it's more jazz & instrumental.

Cool 150 min recording maybe they should cut out interviews between songs as it's a bit boring.

BB Brunes + Hugh Coltman @ Bellevilloise for Le Ring, Paris Dec 18 2012

BB Brunes + Hugh Coltman @ Bellevilloise for Le Ring tv show on France Ô , Paris Dec 18 2012

First time we're attending Le Ring TV recording for France Ô, in fact we've never heard of it before, this TV program already had Michael Kinawuka, Charlie Winston, Selah Sue and a few others.

Each time two artists are playing 5-6 songs each on a Box Ring, tonight we have English musician Hugh Coltman an french Rock band BB Brunes.

Early start as we're making our way into the Bellevilloise club around 7:30 pm and leaving the premises at 9:00pm.

Nice setting with a small white stage.

First is Hugh Coltman with his drummer and keyboard player for a cool short set of folk-rock.
Then we have the BB Brunes, lots of teenage girls in the audience who came specially for them but no screaming, everyone is very relaxed and enjoying the music.
It's less rock and more "dance" but enjoyable.

Highest earning Tours of 2012: Madonna, Bruce Springsteen...

HIGHEST EARNING TOURS OF 2012:

TOP 25 Tours on  Billboard website

1) Madonna

Total Gross: $228,406,085     Number of Shows: 72
Total Attendance: 1,635,176   Number of Sell-Outs: 72

2) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

Total Gross: $199,371,791     Number of Shows: 72
Total Attendance: 2,165,925  Number of Sell-Outs: 54

3) Roger Waters

Total Gross: $186,466,703    Number of Shows: 72
Total Attendance: 1,680,042   Number of Sell-Outs: 51

4) Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour by Cirque Du Soleil

Total Gross: $147,310,505     Number of Shows: 183
Total Attendance: 1,374,482   Number of Sell-Outs: 9

5) Coldplay

Total Gross: $147,188,828      Number of Shows: 67
Total Attendance: 1,811,787   Number of Sell-Outs: 56

 

Courtesy of BILLBOARD

The Rolling Stones @ Prudential, Newark Dec 15 2012

(c) Official

The Rolling Stones @ Prudential, Newark Dec 15 2012

Get Off Of My Cloud
The Last Time
IORR
Paint It Black
Gimme Shelter w/Lady Gaga
Wild Horses
Going Down w/John Mayer and Gary Clark Jr.
Dead Flowers (request song)
Who Do You Love w/The Black Keys
Doom and Gloom
One More Shot
Miss You
Honky Tonk Women
(Intros)
Before They Make Me Run
Happy
Midnight Rambler w/Mick Taylor
Start Me Up
Tumbling dice w/Bruce Springsteen
Brown Sugar
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Sympathy For The Devil
Encores:
You Can't Always Get What You Want w/the Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Satisfaction

Pics from the show

Eric Truffaz @ Studio SFR, Paris Dec 13 2012 8:30pm

Eric Truffaz @ Studio SFR, Paris Dec 13 2012 8:30pm

 A little bit of Jazz music can't do us any harm after all the Rock'n Roll we've been listening to all these years. We're great fans of Freddie Hubbard over here @ Rockerparis so Eric Truffaz is allright for us.
We've missed the first song as we were @ Ballades Sonores for Marie-Flore 's acoustic set.
It's an all seated event (a first) at Studio SFR for us full of people in their 50's, I guess Jazz music is only for boring old fart.
Youngsters are really missing something, another great performance mainly instrumental with a couple of songs with a girl on vocals. Perfect music to chill out and relax after a hard work day.
Don't be afraid by the word "Jazz" this is not the boring side of jazz but the best one.
One hour set that should be broadcated on the SFR website.

Marie-Flore @ Ballades Sonores, Paris Dec 13 2012 7:30pm

Marie-Flore @ Ballades Sonores, Paris Dec 13 2012 7:30pm

 Small gathering of fans, even though the store is packed (it's very small)

for a short electro-acoustic set (around 7-8 songs), we had to leave the premises after just 3 songs as it started late and we had to go to the Studio SFR to see Eric Truffaz, too bad for us; she has a soft voice and her songs are really nice.

Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes) @ Silencio club, Paris Dec 12 2012 10:45 pm

Rich Robinson @ Silencio club, Paris Dec 12 2012 10:45 pm

setlist

This is our third show tonight, after seeing Rich Robinson playing an acoustic free showcase @ fargo Store @ 6:00pm (click for video, pics and short review) and FOALS playing at Canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine, and the second with none other than Rich Robinson from The Black Crowes fame.

He's playing David Lynch's club : Le Silencio which is a private club only opened to members, membership is costing you your right arm and you have to work in media or art to be a member.

We went to see The Rolling Stones playing a club show last October @ Trabendo then we went to the Stones once again playing a private show for some bankers @ Théatre Mogador and finally we were invited by The Rolling Stones to attend one of their rehearsals, needless to tell you that even without being a member getting in was a piece of cake.Well sort of... thanks to the man who invited me in.

Beautiful club but there's nobody, I could see the raffle winners from fargo (check the link for story) and some other guests from the band that were at Fargo, can't believe that Rich is gonna play in such a tiny room in front of 60 to 80 people including members of the club.
It's like attending a gig in my living room !
Rich is playing with his band and is starting the gig with a very cool instrumental from an unknown German band Agitation Free that is sounding like The dead, from the back the sound is neat but down the front it's a bit loud and it's hard to hear the second guitar or lap-steel.
We have some new song form the new album. Rich is probably not the best singer but when it comes to playing the 6-string, as american would say: "The motherfucker can play".
Lots of extended soli and jams all along the set as we like them: cool, innovative and fluent.
I haven't heard such classic guitars for a long time, last time being the last Black Crowes show in Paris or the Winwood/ Clapton concert @ Paris Bercy.
The fender Rhodes is adding some extra flavour specially on War's "war drums" cover song, but still we have more and more guitars...
the band is not leaving the stage for the encore.
This day wouldn't be perfect without a Rolling Stones song "Winter" from "Goats' head soap" and final song of this 60 min set Fleetwood mac's "Oh Well"
Terrific !!!

FOALS @ Album de la semaine, Paris, Dec 12 2012 8:00pm

FOALS @ Album de la semaine Canal+, Paris, Dec 12 2012 8:00pm

setlist

Indie English band FOALS  promoting their new album "Holy Fire" to be out next year in February.
We saw them a couple of times in Paris @ Rock en Seine and @ the very same tv show and we didn't really liked what we  heard. They are very popular, specially in England where they sold the Royal Albert Hall in twenty minutes, hard to believe.
Not too fan of their african-dance-pop-rock, though better than expected.

Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes) @ Fargo, Paris Dec 12 2012, free show @ 6:00pm

 Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes) @ Fargo, Paris Dec 12 2012, free show @ 6:00pm

SETLIST: (Thanks to Thierry for the setlist AND all the details) :

1) Lost And Found (extrait du dernier LP/CD Through A Crooked Sun)

2) Sunday Night Buttermilk Waltz (intrumental issu du catalogue des Crowes, paru à l'origine en B-side puis en bonus track des éditions remasterisées de Amorica (1994))

3) Follow You Forever (extrait de Through A Crooked Sun)

4) Falling Again (idem)

5) Look Through My Window (inclus à l'origine sur le CD 4 titres promo Llama Blues EP, édité en tirage très limité aux States lors de la parution de Through A Crooked Sun, a depuis été ajouté en bonus track sur le CD pressage européen de l'album). A noter le "I forgot the Lyrics!" pendant l'interprétation du titre! 

6) What Is Home? (tiré de Before The Frost, avant-dernier album des Crowes (2009), ce fut le 1er titre que Rich interpreta en lead sur un album du groupe).

Great to see M. Rich Robinson from The Black Crowes fame playing such a small (free) showcase in a record store in Paris. The little store is packed with die-hard fans , Rich is here with some members of his band but he will play on his own on acoustic guitar and singing without any PA, so you could hear a pin drop during the gig. 3 songs from the new album and a couple of gems. Great gig.
Rich is very nice and chatty, explaining how sorry he is that his booking agent booked the band to play in a private club ( @ David Lynch's Silencio Club) that is only open to private members. So he's offering a few tickets with a raffle and the people winning ( 6 in all) will be on his personal guest list.
How nice of him.
Then everyone could get his cd signed and buy some stuff, that's when we left  as we had another show to attend.
But hey ! we had to go to the Silencio Club...

FIDLAR @ Album de la Semaine, Paris Dec 10 2012

FIDLAR @ Album de la Semaine,Canal+  Paris Dec 10 2012

Harcore/Punk band from california FIDLAR  is about to release it's first album and is playing famous canal+ Tv show L'Album de la semaine to promote it.
Never really heard of them before but it's a nice discovery  in the style of D.R.I or Gang Green with a bit of surf music in it.
Lots of short and heavy songs with nice riff and probably stupid lyrics as they called a song "Cocaine" as they love it ! 
Even though they're drinking between songs , acting like idiots and  trying to sound a bit "noisy", you can hear that the playing is neat and the band very professional when it comes to rock.
Very nice , fresh and heavy set.
That's the kind of shit we dig @ Rockerparis.

The Rolling Stones Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NYC December 8, 2012

The Rolling Stones, Barclays Center Brooklyn, NYC December 8, 2012

SETLIST:

Get Off of My Cloud
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I Wanna Be Your Man
The Last Time
Paint It, Black
video2
Gimme Shelter (with Mary J. Blige)
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video3
Wild Horses
video2
Going Down (with Gary Clark, Jr.)
All Down the Line
Miss You
video 2 (complete)
One More Shot
Doom and Gloom
It's Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It)
Honky Tonk Woman
video2
Before They Make Me Run
Happy
Midnight Rambler
Start Me Up
video2
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
video2
Sympathy for the Devil

ENCORE

You Can't Always Get What You Want
Jumping Jack Flash
Satisfaction
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Pics here

Next Rock shows in Paris for December 2012

Dec 07

Izia @ trianon

The raveonettes @ trabendo

Dec 08

Izia @ trianon

My Dying Bride @ Nouveau casino

Dec 10

Rufus Wainwright @ Folies bergere

Wishbone Ash @ New Morning

Fidlar @ Album de la semaine

Dec 11

Fleshtones @ Gibus

Ben Howard @ Casino de Paris

Dec 12

Doro @ Divan du Monde

The Foals @ Album de la Semaine

Dec 13

The Foals @ Maroquinerie (Sold out)

Eric Truffaz @ Studio SFR

Dec15:

Theophilus London @ Nouveau casino

Dec 17

Peter Hook @ Trabendo

Macy Gray @ Cabaret Sauvage

Dec 18:

Jean Louis Aubert @ Le Petit bain (private show)

The XX @ 104

Dec 19:

The XX @ 104

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