King's X @ New Morning Paris Jan 20th 2009

It's been a long time coming...
18 Years to finally see King's X playing an headlining show in Paris France.
Last time they played here was in Bercy in 1991 opening for AC / DC.
Unusual place to see a "heavy metal" band as we are in the famous jazz club New Morning.

Needless to say that the show was sold -out a long time ago

The french audience listened religiously from the first second they were on till the last one , 90 minutes later. You could feel that the band was very happy to be playing in France ...at last.
The sound is crystal clear and Doug has a fantastic bass sound.
Funny to watch the whole audience moving their heads to the beat of the drums, lots of press is also here tonight with many photographers to catch this historical moment.
Many people were left outside without ticket.
And they' ve missed something tonight. Their sophisticated progressive metal is perfect and they've just done a great show !
Thanks guys and don't wait 18 years to come back to Paris .

Power trio

setlist

The Jim Jones Revue @ Album de la Semaine Canal+ Paris Jan 19th 2009

After leaving the Wampas ( review below ) and their dedicated fans we went straight to Canal+

New english rock ' n roll band The Jim Jones Revue is playing for the first time famous french tv show "L' Album de la semaine " .
They are greasy & sleazy and really rocking , i mean reaalllly rocking.
Dressed up like 50's rockers, they're playing a heavy rock very 50's orientated
The singer is also playing the lead guitar and is screaming like a maniac. They have a piano that keeps their heavy rock swinging ( The Killer would be proud ).
Very nice set with 2 covers as an encore Elvis' " A big hunk of love" and Little Richard 's " Good golly miss Molly" just in case you didn't noticed who their influences were.
sorry no pictures for this one it's forbidden

Those bastards from White Lies were supposed to play a Black Session tonight on C'est Lenoir but cancelled it at the 11th hour. The singer was sick. What a surprise when i looked at the NME website the day after, the band is playing a free gig @ the HMV store in London.
He made a quick recovery.
http://www.nme.com/news/white-lies/42186

Les Wampas Virgin Megastore des Champs Elysées Paris 19 Jan 2009

The french punk rock band Les Wampas is playing live @ the Virgin Megastore on the famous Champs Elysées to promote their new cd " Les Wampas sont la preuve que dieu existe " , ( The Wampas are the living proof that god exists ) .
Not to be taken too seriously of course. That's why the record cover is what it is : an Ostrich .
It is packed , their fans are bit like a family so everyone knows eachother and quite unusual for a french punk rockers they attract many girls some of them very pretty ( even more unusual for a punk band ).
As always The Wampas are kicking ass live, their heavy rock is lively and makes you wanna jump.
Short set : half an hour but fool of energy.
The singer Didier Wampas is mad and went several times singing in the pit , crowdsurfing ...in a very nice atmosphere.

Entertainment for the Braindead Oliver Peel session # 3 Paris Jan 18th 2009

Oliver Peel session #3 with Entertainment for the Braindead
review tonight

Julia in front of an impressive catering ( right )

Some of the beautiful people ( left )

Entertainment for the braindead at work

Nice little girl's handwritting for the setlist ( left ) and band's cds

Video from the show available here :
http://fr.youtube.com/user/rockingparis
Check her website for more :
http://www.entertainmentforthebraindead.com/
Hear some music here:
http://www.myspace.com/entertainmentforthebraindead

Check Oliver Peel ' s website for more ( lots of reviews in German & LOTS of pictures from gigs in Paris and Germany ) : http://meinzuhausemeinblog.blogspot.com/

Madonna Nude 1979 on sell at Christies New York Feb 12th 2009

Christies in New York will be selling pictures in a sale called :
Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection Part II
It will include pictures from famous photographers such as Ellen Von Unwerth , Jean Loup Sieff & Helmut Newton among others.
Most of the pictures will be fashion related , some movie related ( with lots of pictures from Marylin Monroe ) & some nudes including one of Madonna pictured by Lee Friendlander in 1979 when the singer was broke and paid 25 dollars for the session.
And here it is :

That's what i call Information !

More pictures from this session here :
http://zelebs2.blogspot.com/2008/08/madonna-old-nude-photo-shoot.html

More nude pictures from 1979 on this site :
http://www.madonnashots.com/1979.html

AC / DC @ Velodrome Marseille June 9th 2009

AC DC has added a second show in France in June , they will be playing in Marseille' s football stadium The Velodrome on June 9th .
A few rumours were talking about 2 shows in Nice June 8th and Paris June 10th , these shows won't happened as Ac Dc never play 2 stadium shows in a row ( too bad for Paris ).

The Fleshtones + Tony Truand @ Mécanique Ondulatoire Paris Jan 16th 2009

Second show for opening band Tony Truand & The "Mighty" Fleshtones should i call them now.And ROCKERPARIS is here again, you 'll never get rid of us ...
It's really funny how impredictable that funny little french fellow can be , that guitar player is as tall as Malcom Young from AC DC and tries to play the tough guy, he's going into the audience to play some guitar and acting like a cunt pushing people and when someone is pushing him back , he wanna fight & leave the stage . Ridiculous. Hey dude ! get an attitude.

Tony Truand & Yarol Poupaud

Anyway , once again The Fleshtones , sorry .... The " Mighty " Fleshtones have turned the Mécanique Ondulatoire upside down & inside out.
They've done another GREAT show, the band has changed the setlist a bit and played a monster version of Grand Funk 's " Inside looking out " .
Another nice atmosphere with lots of sing along , once again it's chaos down the front, the singer's wild tonight he's going twice at the back of the tiny venue crowdsurfing ( see picture )
yesterday the band invited a young kid ( and his father ) to play some bass and guitar tonight we have two girls.
Tony Truand is called back to play a couple of tunes for the encore with The " Mighty " Fleshtones .
Another GREAT gig.

Band arriving & " What's next ? "

" take me away "

This guy can play ANYTHING !

Once again all pictures are from our fellow photographer © Guino Patrice , he wants me to tell you that he HAD TO use the flash ( which is an heresy to him ) as the lightshow was the shittest he has even seen. as they say in French " Dont acte " .

The Fleshtones + Tony Truand @ Mécanique Ondulatoire Paris Jan 15th 2009

The Fleshtones are back in Paris for 2 shows ( tonight and tomorrow Jan 16th, both SOLD OUT ) @ La Mécanique Ondulatoire near Bastille in Paris.
Opening band is Tony Truand ( guitar player for The Wampas and ex- Dogs )

Show takes place downstairs in the cellar in front of 150 people ( sold out ) , thank God it's forbidden to smoke in there.

First on stage is Wampas ' guitar player Tony Truand & ses deux solutions featuring Yarol Poupaud ...on drums.
Decent set for this typicall french 80's sounding rock -punk band , they have funny lyrics ( " i took some speed to get less stoopid ... " ).

Tony Truand and bass player

Then we have The Fleshtones.
First time i was seeing them live , i have to admit i don't really know any of their music even though they started in new york more than 30 years ago. I considered them more of a punk band but in fact they're more a garage band with 60's influences of surf music and Rhythm & blues.

Singer , keyboard player , drummer . What else ?

They have to go through the audience to get to the stage ( if you can call this a stage ) so they started the gig in the crowd. It's chaos down the front people are getting crazy.
A few girls in the audience and a young kid ( he will end up playing bass with the band , see picture ).
The singer's a real showman and he's also playing his farfiza organ.
Lots of communion and communication with devoted fans , some kick ass rock 'n Roll and you have a killer concert.
Tony Truand came back on stage to play a few songs with them to rousing applauses .
Many songs were added to the setlist so it's not accurate.
The Fleshtones were stunning !!!
90 min of pure Rock ' n Roll

Nice haircut man !

Youngest member playing for the Fleshtones ( left )

ALL PICTURES © GUINO PATRICE for ROCKERPARIS

He just realised what he played on keyboards ( right )

The Fleshtones jamming with Tony Truand

"Smell the glove"

Eat this ( left ) + setlist ( not accurate )