Sixto " Sugarman" Rodriguez @ Zénith 1st show, Paris June 03 2013

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Rodriguez + Jill is Lucky @ Zénith 1st show, Paris June 03 2013

Thanks to OLIVER PEEL I've discovered cult musician Rodriguez just after he played his first ever ( and sold-out) show in Paris @ Nouveau Casino on June 01 2009. Of course Oliver, the lucky Bastard, was at the gig. Oliver offered me both his records for my birthday a few months later and I've been listening to them constantly since. Fantastic records !!! Many People are comparing him to the best records of Bob Dylan, I guess they're right, but I've never been a hard-core B. Dylan fan.
Needless to tell you my expectations were high  as I've been waiting for this moment for 4 years and needless to tell you that the movie "Sugarman",  its success and its quality I've raised my expectations  higher.
All shows are sold-out: 2 Zénith and 1 Cigale.
The audience:  from Posh young girls (many)  to old hippies ( a few). Going to Rodriguez is the Hip place to be/go , just heard a girl waiting in line telling her friend on the phone " I'm going to Rodriguez , Isn't that cool !! But I don't know any of his songs" Nice way to start !!!

Down the front before Jill is lucky starts playing I can see a bit more of the audience around me: a whole posh/ultra catho family, feels like being at the local church party/bazaar. What the Fuck ?!?

Anyway, Rodriguez is escorted onto the stage by 3 people , I guess that now that he is a rock-star he can afford it.
Unfortunately he seems to be a bit lost on this huge stage and a bit nervous, his voice is very weak and we can barely hear his acoustic guitar.
From all the Live videos I've seen on Youtube where he was really playing, now things have changed he's "acting" a Rock-star on stage.
To get things worse, Songs are under-rehearsed, the band is trying to follow him but it's far from being tight. In fact there was no rehearsals.and when Rodriguez is losing the rhythm because the band is not playing the right thing he's editing the song.
Of course like at all his gigs he's not only playing his own songs but he's doing a few covers "dead end street"... including a short " La vie en Rose" for Paris.
This is just above average.
I guess I'm the only one feeling (very) disappointed as all my neighbors seem to enjoy themselves.
75 min show
I have my ticket for tomorrow I hope his voice will be back after a good night sleep.

setlist shortly

Next Rock concerts/shows in Paris for June 2013

Next Rock concerts/shows in Paris for June 2013

2013 has been one of the quietest year so far, from January to May it was really dead in Paris, Finally it's June, the weather is still crap but at least we have some decent rock concerts in Paris.

June 03:

Joe Satriani @ Grand Rex

Rodriguez 'sugarman' @ Zénith (sold-out)

Stone Roses + The Strypes @ Cigale
Melissa Laveaux @ Maroquinerie

June 04:

Rodriguez @ Zénith (sold-out)

The Strypes @ Album de la Semaine tv show
Stone Roses + Little Barrie @ Cigale

June 05 

Rodriguez @ Cigale (sold-out)

Iron Maiden @ Bercy (sold-out)

Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) @ Trabendo
My Bloody Valentine @ Bataclan
Murray Head @ Olympia
Sophie Hunger @ Trianon

June 06:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Bercy

Paul McCartney & Wings "Rockshow" movie projection @ Publicis Champs Elysées

June 08 & 09:

SONISPHERE @ Snowhall Park in Amneville with Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit, Slayer, Megadeth, Motorhead, Korn, Airbourne, Mastodon...

June 10:

The Killers @ Zénith

House Of Wolves , Emma Russack @ Oliver Peel session # 51, Paris June 02 2013

House Of Wolves , Emma Russack + Liz Greenfield @ Oliver Peel session # 51, Paris June 02 2013

Malvina Meinier, Liz Greenfield et Koschka & Heimprofi @ Oliver Peel session # 50, Paris, April 31 2013

Malvina Meinier, Liz Greenfield , Koschka & Heimprofi @ Oliver Peel session # 50, Paris, April 31 2013

The Breeders @ Trianon, Paris June 01 2013

 The Breeders @ Trianon, Paris June 01 2013

 SETLIST:

New Year
Cannonball
Invisible Man
No Aloha
Roi
Do You Love Me Now?
Flipside
I Just Wanna Get Along
Mad Lucas
Divine Hammer
S.O.S.
Hag
Saints
Drivin' on 9 (Ed's Redeeming Qualities )
Roi (Reprise)
Encore:
Shocker in Gloomtown (Guided by Voices )
Head To Toe
Happiness is a Warm Gun (The Beatles)
Safari
Oh!
Lime House
Encore 2:
Iris (Tour debut)
Don't Call Home

Phoenix @ L'Album de la Semaine- La Musicale Canal+ , Paris May 30 2013

Phoenix @ L'Album de la Semaine- La Musicale, Canal+ , Paris May 30 2013

Live TV show tonight to promote new album "Bankrupt"

In the middle of their Tour to Promote new album "Bankrupt" Phoenix is playing Canal+ TV show L'Album de la Semaine which is in fact now call "La Musicale". Good point as band are playing a longer set, instead of the 7-8 songs it is now 14-15 songs. Queens of the Stone Age played a couple of weeks ago.

Tonight it's French pop band from the posh Versailles city: PHOENIX. We've never really paid that much attention to that band, we've heard a couple of their songs on the radio but that pretty much about it.

Well, that's very pop, with a very trendy radio-friendly sound, they've found a "formula" and they're sticking to it.They have some very good songs and I'm sure it's very enjoyable attending one of their gig at a festival but in the end it all sounds a bit the same.

One of the best song tonight was the one they've played with just the singer and an acoustic guitar.
Not really the kind of stuff that we're listening to everyday but a good show.

setlist

Punk+ Sheila Rock exhibition @ Agnes B, Paris From May 30 2013...

Punk+ Sheila Rock exhibition @ Agnes B, Paris From May 30 2013...

Vernissage tonight

Miles Kane @ Maroquinerie, Paris May 22 2013

Miles Kane @ Maroquinerie, Paris May 22 2013

We're getting into the tiny Maroquinerie as the opening band is playing its last song, of course it's packed as the show is long sold-out.
it's 9:00pm sharp when Miles Kane & friends are making their way onto the stage, Miles is here to introduce us to his new solo album out next week but all the young girls down the front know all the lyrics already.
A few weeks ago on April 22 @ Canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine we were lucky to see him performing some of the new songs, that sounding great and really rocking even though conditions at a tv show are more clinical.

Tonight in front of a "real" audience things are more organic, Miles is Rockin' like never before and always... with a smile to the girls from the first row.

See setlist (underneath) for details, first song of the Encore  "Colour of the trap" is performed alone by Miles on acoustic guitar.
Last song "Don't forget who you are" is also the tee shirt sold at the merchandise table tonight that was wearing all the roadies
The whole show was professionally video recorded by several cameras.

Great gig !

Our Archives:
Miles Kane 

@ Album de la Semaine, Paris April 22 2013 (TV show for new album)

@ Main Square Fest with PEARL JAM  June 30 2012

@ Inrocks festival in Nov 2011 @ Cigale,
@ Rock en Seine , august 2011
@ Album de la Semaine March 2011

Check our reviews of Arctic Monkeys @ Rock en Seine 2011, @ Cigale on June 16, @ L'Album de la Semaine on June 15 2011 & @ Zénith in 2009

Check also Check our reviews of The Last Shadow Puppets @ Olympia on August 26 2008 & @ Album de la Semaine for Canal+ the day after.

With The Rascals :
@ Maroquinerie Dec 01 2008
@ Fleche d'Or  Sept 05 2008

The Rolling Stones @ Staples Center, L.A. May 20 2013

The Rolling Stones @ Staples Center, L.A. May 20 2013

May 21: updated with MORE Links to videos

(c) Rolling Stones

SETLIST:

Get Off Of My Cloud
It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)
Paint It Black
Gimme Shelter
All Down The Line
Faraway Eyes (first on this Tour)
Sway (By Request – with Mick Taylor) Version 2
Doom And Gloom
One More Shot
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (with Mick Taylor) Version 2
Honky Tonk Women
BAND INTRODUCTIONS
You Got The Silver (with Keith on lead vox)
Before They Make Me Run (with Keith on lead vox)
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
Miss You
Start Me Up
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
Sympathy For The Devil
ENCORE
You Can’t Always Get What You Want (with the University of Southern California Thornton Chamber Singers)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (With Mick Taylor)

Ray Manzarek dead at 74, RIP 1939-2013

Ray Manzarek dead at 74, RIP 1939-2013

The Doors co-founder and keyboardist Ray Manzarek died yesterday in Rosenheim, Germany after a long battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74.

 A statement from his family says: “Ray passed away today at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his wife Dorothy and his brothers Rick and James."

Archives:
ray-manzarek/robby-krieger @ Bataclan in 2011

Joe Cocker @ Zénith, Paris May 15 2013

Joe Cocker @ Zénith, Paris May 15 2013

WOW ! Jesus ! Finally there is a gig in Paris ! Our second for this month. 2013 has been the quietest year Concert-wise for years. June will be better.
Tonight it's Mr Joe Cocker not anymore with his Englishmen but with some very sexy female singers and a hot bass player, same band as for his last show in Paris 3 years ago.
The Zénith is quite full though far from being sold-out, once again it's an all seated event as most of the audience is in their 50's.
First song is a new one which is not the best choice to start the gig than we have some of the classics ( see setlist below). Joe Cocker has a sore throat tonight so the vocals are not at their best for the first few songs, he will apologize a couple of times for his voice. The lightning is great and the sound crystal clear and not too loud: it's perfect for the Senior in the audience.

The audience is politely clapping between songs, feel like being in a retirement home, even on stage it's "polite" with mid-tempo songs, we even have a semi-acoustic sections to put us all to sleep.
Fortunately people are standing up for the last part.

Overall good 1h40  min+ show, perfect for grannies.

Archives:
Joe Cocker @ Zénith on Oct 10 2010