Madonna@ Bercy July 9th 2009

Madonna @ Bercy
July 9th 2009

Same show as in September 2008 @ Stade de France
See our Pictures HERE ( First show) and HERE ( Second Show ) from the Stade de France.

Bercy is really packed even though there were still tickets left a few days ago.
The promoter even put people on both sides behind the stage , Bastard.

Lots of backing tapes for the vocals

After seeing Britney Spears in this very same place 3 days ago ( see our review and pictures HERE ) you can really tell the difference between someone with talent and who knows how to dance and entertain and a lousy " singer".
Just imagine a boxing game between Myke Tyson vs Prince.

Britney is KO.

Tribute to Mickael

ALL PICTURES, Courtesy of PATRICE GUINO

Lie down baby

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Rock & dance

Some Fans

Some Girls

SEAL @ Paris Bercy July 8th 2009

SEAL @ Paris Bercy
July 8th 2009

Opening Band ?

3rd show in 3 days in Bercy for our team at ROCKERPARIS , we should be back for Madonna tomorrow ( or maybe we'll go to see Canned Heat @ Bataclan or Anthony & the johnsons @ Salle Pleyel or Chris Cornell @ Black Calavados , we don't know yet )
Almost sod-out tonight , Seal is VERY popular in France , he sold more than 1 Million of his last album " Soul".One third of the woldwide sales of his last cd were in France.
I saw him before chritmas at a Canal+ TV show " La Musicale" ( click on link for the review ) and I thought he was brilliant.

Can't tell you anything about the folk - rock support band ( even their name ) we just saw the last song , people seemed to have enjoyed it

Lots of soul cover in the first half with SEAL ( "Papa was a rolling stone" , "a change is gonna come" , "I've been loving you too long" , "Knock on wood" + one from Al Green , The Impressions ... )
Songs are great but when you're singing Soul music , you need SOUL and there isn't any SOUL in Bercy tonight , it sounds more like an easy-listening version of soul covers.
He's not helped by some totally uninspired musicians.

The second part is more focus on his songs which are much more electronic and dance than I thought , it's better but far from being fantastic.
He stayed most of the time on a small catwalk to be in contact with his fans shaking hands with them very often and even taking request ( He did " Ne me quitte pas" in English and a cappela ) and is also making the effort to communicate with the audience.

Nevertheless it was a very disappointing concert

Sorry the pictures are crap Patrice Guino our photographer didn't bother taking any for this one.

" Crazy " probably the best song tonight :

Leonard Cohen @ Paris Bercy July 7th 2009

Leonard Cohen @ Paris Bercy
July 7th 2009

On his knees

Back to Bercy for a very different concert than yesterday ( Britney Spears ) , this time we have a real composer & a real singer.
I' m not too familiar with Leonard's catalogue apart from his most famous songs , the place is packed but not sold-out in this all seated arena.
So there's around 12-13000 people.
Leonard is playing over two sets for almost 3 hours.
He has a deep and low voice, he's dressed smartly and is with 7 musicians and 3 girls on backing vocals.
Maybe some songs are sounding the same if you're not too familiar with his songs like I am.

SETLIST ( Courtesy of Leonard Cohen site & 1heckofAGuy )

• Dance Me To The End Of Love
• The Future
• Ain't No Cure For Love
• Bird On The Wire
• Everybody Knows
• In My Secret Life
• Who By Fire
• Chelsea Hotel #2
• Waiting For The Miracle
• Anthem

Second Set

• Tower Of Song
• Avalanche
• Suzanne
• Sisters Of Mercy
• The Partisan
• Boogie Street
• Hallelujah
• I'm Your Man
• Take This Waltz

First Encore

• So Long, Marianne
• First We Take Manhattan

Second Encore

• Famous Blue Raincoat
• If It Be Your Will
• Closing Time

Final Encore

• I Tried To Leave You
• Whither Thou Goest (tutti a cappella)

The best is to , Watch this :

" Suzanne" :


"The Partisan"

Blur NOT PLAYING @ Parvis Hotel de Ville Paris August 5th 2009

UPDATED JULY 9th:

BLUR HAS OFFICIALLY DENIED PLAYING IN PARIS ON AUGUST 5th
Sorry , you should never rely on French journalists especially in music.
These morons don't know shit.

BREAKING NEWS :
BLUR will play their last ever show In Paris on August 5th 2009
This will be a free show on the Parvis de L' Hotel de ville.

Updated July 8th:
Hold on baby ! NOTHING has been confirmed so don't buy your eurostar tickets to come to Paris before it's confirmed officialy.
I tried to get more info and got nothing , the journalist who said that might have been confused with Damon Albarn 's african project with Amadou & Mariam who are playing that day.
Paris Match original news

Britney Spears @ Bercy Paris july 6th 2009

Britney Spears @ Bercy
Paris July 6th 2009

Circus

Last show for Britney Spears lots of empty seats in the back covered with black curtains , the other two were sold-out.

I Went with my two little cousins who are on holidays in Paris ( i'm trying to find a cheap excuse ).

First on stage is French new Gay icon Sliimy thankfully get there for the last song , he was on stage with just a guy on acoustic guitar , I don't think the response he get from the audience was overwhelming.

Then we had a very cute female DJ ( Havana Brown ) She was sooo bad it was embarrassing , if she ever DJ like this in Ibiza this summer i'm sure someone 's gonna find her body mutilated in a plastic bag.

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Last but not least we had some dancers and jugglers for a good 20 min before Britney Spears got on the stage arriving from the ceiling.
I've been told that the show was stunning , well that's partly true , it's a center stage with perfect view wherever you are , the musicians are hidden in the pit.
There are 500 and 1000 euros tickets just in front the stage and you're sitting on a sofa but who would pay to see such crap.
She's not singing AT ALL for the whole show , yeah it's a show not a concert.
The pre-recorded voice is unbearable from start to finish drowned with distorted auto-tune.
Can we talk about the music ?
Well NOT , the biggest piece of shit I have ever listened to.
At least Madonna has some very decent tunes.
LOTS ...I mean LOTS of very beautiful girls in the audience tonight.
I had my camera with me so I kept myself busy for the whole show so enjoy !
After such crap I really had to listen to some real music , there's nothing better than "Painkiller" by Judas Priest to wake up the neighbors at 1:00 AM
Vengeance is sweet.

review © Guino Patrice

Hey dude watch out behind you !

If you like Madonna come and have a look at our review with lots of pictures from both nights last year at the Stade de France
Show 1 ( click on link )
Show 2

ALL PICTURES © Guino Patrice

The best for the end : Cute English girls

Next Shows in Paris july 2009

July 6th:

Foreigner @ Olympia
Fred Wesley @ new Morning

July 7th:

Léonard cohen @ Bercy
Roger Hodgson @ Olympia
Fred Wesley @ new morning

July 8th:

Seal @ bercy
Lee Ritenour @ new Morning

July 9th:

Madonna @ Bercy ( there are tickets left )
Canned Heat @ Nem Morning ( with Larry Taylor & Harvey Mendel )

CHRIS CORNELL @ Black Calavados ( Private Show )

July 10th:

John Butler @ Folies Bergere

July 11th & 12th :

U2 & Kaiser chiefs @ SdF

july 22nd:

BB King @ Palais des Congres

Crosby Stills & Nash Part 1 @ Olympia July 4th 2009

Crosby Stills & Nash @ Olympia Paris
July 4th 2009
Part 1
Part 2 ( click on link )

see our review ( with Pics ) of Stephen Stills 's concert in Oct 2008 @ Olympia( click on link )

Cool to see those legends back together in Paris , the show at the Olympia theatre near the Opera is long Sold-Out even though the tickets were once more VERY expensive ( between 80 and 100 Euros ).
Same promoter as usual. I won' t name the bastard.

ALL PICTURES © Guino Patrice

Nice introduction as the trio started very slowly on acoustic with " helplessly Hoping".
They've played songs we're not used to hear from CSN, covers from The Rolling Stones , Bob Dylan , Tim Hardin , The Grateful Dead.
For the last one David said that he would never have thought singing this one in a million years.

Each one of them had a solo spot during this first part of the show , Graham & David did a duet on one and Steven took the bass for " dream for him" ( from the album " Looking forward" )

" Our House" had the best ovation for the 1st part
Really cool 50 min+ 1st set.

Setlist Part 1

End of Part 1