Deep Purple @ Fete de L' Humanité Paris sept 12th 2009

Deep Purple @ Fete de L' Humanité

Parc de la Courneuve near Paris Sept 12th 2009

Deep Purple , one of my fav band.

50 000 people on the site , The Kooks , who did a great set and were welcomed with open arms, had barely left the stage that people are calling already for Deep Purple.

Things started in the nicest way with " highway star".

Then we had the classic setlist ( for details see below ) alternating between classics , new songs and less known titles ( " wring that neck" )

The lightshow is superb.
The band is on top form and you can see that they're enjoying themselves.
Maybe the guitar solo and the Keyboard solo should be cut down but it's funny , from the stage , where we are standing now, to see Ian Paice relaxing on the chair while Don Airey is doing his solo parts.
Jean Paul Huchon , smoking a big cigar , President of the "Ile de france" territory who's a fan of rock is there with his family , The Kooks are also enjoying Deep Purple from the side of the stage.

The highlight of the show is " Perfect strangers" , one of their best song ever.

Ian Gillan is singing barefoot so he rarely goes down the front.

"Smoke..." is still as popular in France as 30 years ago or is it maybe 40 now ?

After seeing Blue Oyster Cult for certainely one my favorite show for 2009 , Purple is getting close, Holding the flame of rock high even though there's only one original member.

Setlist

Only 2'44' of " Smoke on the water" (from the stage) sorry :

The Kooks @ Fete de L' Humanité Paris Sept 12th 2009

The Kooks @ éFete de L' Humanité
Parc de la Courneuve near Paris Sept 12th 2009

Hell on earth this place, it's far from Paris and the traffic is mad.
So we get there as The Kooks were playing their 3rd song , the site is packed , more than 50 000 people.
Patrice couldn't get into the photographers' pit , it was too late, so the bastard went straight on stage thanks to his contacts within the music-biz . Some teenage girls would kill their own mother just to be there.

Anyway The Kooks delivered a great set , they have lots of catchy song to sing to and the respons they get from the audience is overwhelming.

Great set by the boys

I've seen them a few times and they've always been good on stage.
For more details see setlist below

Setlist

Next is Deep Purple , the band we came for...

Gossip @ Nouveau Casino OUI FM radio show Paris Sept 11th 2009

GOSSIP @ Nouveau Casino Paris

Private OUI FM radio show
Sept 11th 2009

Beth with french OUI FM DJ Linda Lorin behind her clapping.

Gossip is doing lots of promo in Paris , 2 days ago they've played for Le Mouv' rock radio and did a tv show for Canal+ : " Le grand Journal " playing one song live.
Yesterday they recorded "Taratata" tv Show and tonight they're doing another radio show for the other rock radio in Paris OUI FM broadcasted live on the air.

They did exactly the same setlist as 2 days ago playing for around 50 min with the exception of an encore consisting of Tina Turner 's " What 's love got to do with it" HERE on video.
Cool dance-rock gig once again with Beth doing the show.

See our review of Le Mouv' ( with Pics & Video ) HERE

Nice dog honey

Tina Turner 's " What's love got to do with it":

David Lynch exhibition @ Galeries Lafayette Paris Sept 10th 2009

David Lynch exhibition
@ Galeries Lafayette Paris

from the inside of the store ( right )

First there are a few " tableaux" in 3d visible from the street in the shop-windows .
Stunning !
Galeries Lafayette is a bit like a less posh version of Harrods

Then on the first floor there is the exhibition with "lithographie" , there are numbered and for sale ( 1800 euros each ) , most of them black , some with colours ( below )
There is also a cinema within the exhibition in which you can watch some of his early ( very ) experimental videos. Weird.

One of the stone for the making of the lithographie ( left )