ROCKERPARIS

lundi 20 octobre 2014

Ty Segall @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+, Paris, Oct 20 2014

Ty Segall @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+, Paris, Oct 20 2014

Media darling Ty Segall playing Canal+ TV show L'Album de la Semaine to promote new album "Manipulator"

Wow !!! It was rocking, !!! a trip back into the 70's of American Classic Rock.

They've soundcheck briefly before getting on stage by playing snippets of Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral".
The band was introduced by a Cow-Boy, with his moustache he was looking more like the guy from Village People that a real one, he then stayed to play keys just for the first song before exiting the stage and never to come back. I guess he could have outroduced the band it would have been fun too.
Musically it's Vintage 70's American Classic Rock with a bit of 60's psyche thrown in.
Ty is playing the guitar hero on the right handside of the stage.
7 songs for a 30 min set
Very nice

dimanche 19 octobre 2014

Johnny Rotten @ Thé des Ecrivains, Paris Oct 19 2014 6:00pm

Johnny Rotten @ Thé des Ecrivains, Paris Oct 19 2014 6:00pm

"La rage est mon énergie" / "Anger is an Energy"

Signing session with John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten tonight , he arrived @ 7:00pm ( one hour late) but was nice to everyone, signing his book and any other stuff, cds, vinyls, pics... and posing with people.
Everyone had prepared a "post it" with his name but no time to have your book personalized as there were lots of people queuing.

The first 30-40 to get in had a free t-shirt, which was very nice from the book publisher.
The store had it well done too with snacks and free drinks inside.

My stuff...

More on his promotionnal treck in Paris here (click on links):

French publication of Anger is an Energy (La Rage est mon énergie) via Seuil, plus information on Paris book events for Sunday October 19th and Tuesday October 21st see links below...

Sunday October 19th at 1800 (CEST)
Paris, Thé des écrivains - information

Tuesday October 21st 1230 (CEST)
Paris, Fnac Saint-Lazare - information

Tuesday October 21st 1800 (CEST)
Paris, mk2 Bibliothèque - information

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jeudi 16 octobre 2014

Jean-Louis Murat @ Fnac Ternes, Paris Oct 16 2014

Jean-Louis Murat @ Fnac Ternes, Paris Oct 16 2014

Petit entretien de 30 min avec le critique rock du Figaro Olivier Nuc, qui y va tout doucement, on connaît la réputation du chanteur. Discussion assez sympa, Jean-Louis évoque l'enregistrement du dernier disque avec son groupe et la nécessité pour lui de faire des disques assez souvent; ne pouvant pas se permettre de faire un album, comme certains de ces confrères "rentiers qui ont achetez un immeuble entier il y a 30 ans", tous les 4 ans. Il évoque aussi la possibilité de faire un disque bien rock un jour, dans le style de sa reprise du MC5.

Entretien suivie d'une petite séance de dédicace.

lundi 13 octobre 2014

Roger Kasparian & Philippe Manoeuvre, Archives Inédites D' Un Photographe Des Sixties, Éditions GRÜND @ Café de la Danse, Oct 13 2014

Roger Kasparian & Philippe Manoeuvre, Archives Inédites D' Un Photographe Des Sixties, Éditions GRÜND @ Café de la Danse, Oct 13 2014

Exposition au Café de la Danse du 14 Oct au 20 Déc 2014

an article in the press here (with Pics)

Soirée vernissage ce soir (13 Oct) avec projection du Documentaire pour la sortie du Livre dans quelques jours

Très bon documentaire sur Roger Kasparian , exposition des photos qui sont dans le livre à sortir ces jours-ci et petit cocktail au bar.
Soirée très sympa mais comment se fait-il qu'il n' y avait aucun livre à disposition ( lire: à acheter) ?

mercredi 8 octobre 2014

Kaiser Chiefs + Teleman @ Bataclan, Paris Oct 07 2014

Kaiser Chiefs + Teleman @ Bataclan, Paris Oct 07 2014

After playing la Flèche d'Or a few months ago to present us their brand new album, Kaiser Chiefs are back in Paris. It's not Sold-out, the band is not as popular as it used to be.
Support band Teleman was just plain boring and put us all to sleep.
I was expecting a much younger audience tonight with lots of 40's at the balcony, downstairs it's much younger but still...

First song is a new song, the band is on top form specially Rick Wilson who, as always is doing the show. Latest albums were not as great at the first two , so the band is playing many old songs which are welcome with rousing applause.
Even though Rick is doing the show he's not as wild as a few years ago, he went singing a couple of songs from the balcony to the delight of people seating upstairs.

at the balcony

The band is still kicking ass but played a very short set, they left the stage after just 75 min, I guess they could have done a bit more.They have 5 albums.

Very good gig but...