Franz Ferdinand @ Studio de la Grande Armée for Virgin Radio, Paris Nov 07 2013

Franz Ferdinand @ Studio de la Grande Armée pour Virgin Radio, Paris Nov 07 2013

 

Private FRANZ FERDINAND concert in a real recording studio where Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger and many others recorded. Organized by French radio Virgin Radio nad broadcasted live on the internet.

Not a lot of people, no more than a 100, mostly competition winners and guests. The entrance is very narrow and you have to walk through a tiny corridor to access the studio, it's not packed and conditions are perfect, great sound.
It's starting with a short interview and then the band is playing a 12 songs set, it's not the first time that we're lucky enough to attend a FF show in front of a selected audience, we've already seen them perform @ Studio SFR, Album de la Semaine (on the same night) and some proper shows @ Cigale, Zénith...

Always a pleasure, nice songs, it's rocking and the guys are really nice too. 

As you can notice they have a "new" bass player. 

We met all of them at the after-party where fans could get a picture with them and have their things signed and Nick told us that Robert Hardy their bass player had some family business and won't be with them for the next 3 weeks.

 There was also a aftershow cocktail in the tiny coridor leading to the studio, Virgin Radio have done things in a perfect way, no VIPs fo this one everyone is invited, well done guys.

Here are some of the official Pictures from the show HERE

 Meet & Greet

Next rock concerts in Paris for November 2013

Next rock concerts in Paris for November 2013

Nov 07:

Franz Ferdinand @ Studio de la Grande Armée (private show for Virgin radio)

Morcheeba @ Olympia

Arctic Monkeys (+ The Strypes) @ Zénith (sold-out)

Nov 08:

Arctic Monkeys (+ The Strypes) @ Zénith (sold out)

Sheila E @ New Morning

Charles Bradley @ Trianon

Nov 09:

Motorhead + Saxon @ Zénith ( pushed to Feb 22 2014)

Valerie June + London Grammar @ Cigale (Inrocks Fest)

Nov 11:

Trixie Whitley @ RTL ( invit' only)

Nov 12:

Hanni El Khatib @ Cigale

Bob Dylan @ Grand Rex

Nov 13:

Bob Dylan @ Grand Rex

Queens of the Stone Age @ Zénith

Nov 14:
Bob Dylan @ Grand Rex (last show)

Queens of the Stone Age @ Zénith

Nov 15:

Mark Lanegan @ Alhambra

Pat Travers Band @ Divan du Monde

Nov 19:

Nick Cave & The Bad seeds @ Zénith

Black Star Riders @ Trabendo, Paris Nov 04 2013

Black Star Riders @ Trabendo, Paris Nov 04 2013

Thin Liz... sorry Black Star Riders feat. Scott Gorham are playing the tiny Trabendo club, where we saw the Rolling Stones last year. Hard to believe it's empty... 200 people max, I guess the promotion for this show was non-existent and the tickets were very expensive (45 euros) for a band that has just released it's first album.
Who cares anyway...conditions were perfect, no one pushing you or obstructing your view and Scott Gorham playing his famous Les Paul, just a few inches in front of us. Can't beat that !!!

It's a classic line-up for Black Star Riders with Marco Mendoza on bass (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake), Jimmy Degrasso on drums (too many to mention...), Damon Johnson on guitar (Alice Cooper) and Ricky Warwick (The Almighty, Thin Lizzy) on vocals... and of course Scott on guitar.
Hard not to see that it is a Black Star Riders concert as the name is everywhere : on the drum kit, on a backdrop above the drum-kit, it's painted on the "marshall" amps on each side of the stage.
Sound is loud and clear maybe a bit too loud and the setlist (Pic below) is a mix of the first BSR album and Thin Lizzy songs.
Many of the BSR songs are Thin Lizzy friendly including the first single "Bound for glory". Damon Johnson on guitar is perfect and Ricky' voice is sounding like Phil's.

I guess every Thin Lizzy fans, like we are, all left the venue with a big smile on their face, like we did.
They could have played a few more songs as it "only" lasted 90 min.
Great show !

setlist & merchandising

Vente "It's only Rock n Roll" @ Artcurial, Paris Nov 07 2013

Vente "It's only Rock n Roll" @ Artcurial, Paris Nov 07 2013

Exposition

4, 5, 6 novembre, de 11h à 19h 

Artcurial

7 rond-point des Champs-Élysées
75008 Paris

Whole catalogue HERE

 Hendrix, Elvis' 78 and Mercury (blues)

 Beatles & Bowie

 Guitars/ Rolling Stones' pinball/ Andy Warhol art-works

ANGUS YOUNG,  KISS Pinball,

 Posters: AC/DC, Ramones, Heartbreakers, The Jam

 Shepard Fairey lithos / Stones 76/ Serge Gainsbourg

Soirée Hommage à Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, Paris Nov 03 2013

Soirée Hommage à Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, Paris Nov 03 2013

Feat. Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert and a few others...

 Théatre de l'Odéon (with Jean Charles de Castelbajac's angel )

Full house for this tribute to French Director Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, one of the most beautiful theatre in Paris, last time we were there it was to see Marianne Faithfull reading Shakespeare's sonnets  last year (link here). 

Many years again, I guess it was 15 years ago, we went to see Lou Reed reading his lyrics.

For tonight's show, Many artists came to talk about Patrice Chéreau or read a letter or some dialogues from a play.

French actors Michel Piccoli, Charlotte Rampling, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Desarthe and a couple of others including German director Peter Stein

Laure Adler was the MC for tonight's tribute introducing guests and extracts of documentary or play that wereshown on the screen.

Marianne Faithfull read a text from one of her song: "Sleep" that was in a Chéreau movie, Jane Birkin closed the night with the only song of this tribute to director Patrice Chéreau, singing on her own "L'Amour de moi".
Great night out

 Michel Piccoli (left) Isabelle Huppert (center) & Marianne Faithfull (right)

 Charlotte Rampling (far left) Jane Birkin