Kitty Daisy & Lewis + Reza @ Café de la Danse, Paris March 25th 2010

Kitty Daisy & Lewis + Reza
@ Café de la danse, Paris March 25th 2010

REZA

Lots of people to see this English 50's rock'n roll revival band @ the beautiful Café de la Danse in Bastille.

Reza is opening, very nice starter with laid back & cool songs à la Go-Betweens ( they did a cover ) and Tindersticks.
Folk-rock with a bit of electric guitars.
Very cool set.

English youngsters Kitty Daisy & Lewis + their parents on acoustic guitar & stand-up bass.
The time machine is set back into the mid-fifties somewhere around Memphis.
In a time when Rock'n roll was still the bastard son of country music.

The girls are pretty in their red & blue dresses, these kids are exchanging instruments on everysong for some cool country- rock'n roll even a bit of dub (see video).

The audience is dancing in the aisles , too bad that they only have one record so the gig is only 75 min long.
Maybe they should communicate a bit more with the audience but they know at this very young age how to entertain and rock these frenchies.
ROCK 'N ROOOOOLLL !!!!!

The only song of the show with a Jamaican feeling:

Tomorrow Elliott Murphy @ Fnac forum 5:30 PM Free Show.
Airbourne is playing Le zénith @ 9:00 PM
Saturday is an Oliver Peel session.
Monday: Lonelady @ C'est Lenoir, Black session

Rock photgrapher Jim Marshall dead at 74 RIP

A legend just died , his name was Jim Marshall , he took the most iconic Pics of rock'n roll

Check his Pics HERE

Another very sad news : actor Dennis Hopper is dying and can't undergo chemotherapy as he battles prostate cancer.

Tonight is 50's rock'n roll revival band Kitty Daisy & Lewis playing the Café de la danse in Bastille. See ya there

Another Peter Doherty Secret show with Alan Wass @ Truskel tonight March 24th 2010

Contact: irockinparis(@)yahoo(dot)fr

Updated March 27th with video

Peter Doherty with Alan Wass
@ Truskel, Paris March 24th 2010

Before the storm

Alan Wass & Peter

The show started very late , almost 1:00 AM.
Alan Wass started the gig playing several songs plagued by technical problems all along his set.
Sounds like the Stones " Exile" era, not as good of course !
He played for 45 min.

The atmosphere was electric since 11: 30 when the concert was supposed to start, once again the Truskel, like 2 years ago when Peter played there after he cancelled the Grand Rex ( click for review ), fucked it up so badly, no organization at all. People were crushed down the front, heavy and stupid security. Stupid people pushing their way to the front... a really mess and not only in the audience but also on stage.

Peter's performance was also plagued with technical problems, his "jack" kept falling off the guitar constantly on almost every song.
So it was a bit of a mess.
Can't really tell you about the setlist as I didn't write it all down.
He probably played 12 songs including " What a waster", " last of the english Roses", Katie", " Fuck Forever", "When the lights go out"," Down in Albion". In this order missing songs in between.

Like yesterday it was so hot in here, the place was so rammed, it could have been dangerous, I can't complain as I wasn't crushed, I was in the " vip" area on the left side of the stage.
Hard to believe that this bar has so little consideration for health & safety issues.

some people are trying to breath & survive

Alan Wass came to play harmonica on several songs at the end of Peter's set.

Duet

The show ended at 2:15 AM

Enjoyable night for me but I guess it was a nightmare for the poor bastards down the front.

There's a funny video from Canal+ from the show yesterday ( starts after 1 min ) HERE

Peter Doherty's last minute gig @ Truskel, Paris March 23rd 2010 at midnight !!!

contact: irockinparis(@)yahoo(dot)fr

Peter Doherty's surprise gig @ Truskel
Paris March 23rd 2010 @ midnight

Kids wanna rock !

It was a last minute show, announced in the afternoon on the Truskel's myspace.
The news spread quickly on the net and when we get there around 10:30 there was a few people but not as much as I expected.
Of course an hour later the tiny bar was packed.
Last time Pete played there it was a nightmare with over-excited and drunk teenagers pushing like maniacs , really dangerous , the atmosphere was electric full of bad vibes and the concert was cut short as a lot of people were talking while he was playing and Peter was really pissed off by that.( scroll down this page for a review of this gig )

Cool atmosphere this time , mostly underage girls ( no school tomorrow ? ).
Peter arrived around midnight with his cohort of hangers on , thank God he was on time.
He took a couple of minutes to test the sound and tuned the guitar.

And Bang ! Let's go.
Not that much talking between songs , he took requests ( Patrice our photographer, who was down the front, asked for "There she goes" by the LAs, he said no " not this one" ).
Lots of singing along by the first rows.

Setlist: (corrected setlist from Oliver Peel)
01: Delivery (Babyshambles)
02: For Lovers
03: Arcady
04: Tell The King (The Libertines)
05: Can't Stand Me Now (The Libertines)
06: Salomé
07: Baddies Boogie (Babyshambles)
08: Don't Look Back Into The Sun (The Libertines)
09: Death On The Stairs (The Libertines)
10: What A Waster (The Libertines)
11: Music When The Lights Go Out (The Libertines)
12: Albion (Babyshambles)

12 songs in all
50 min set.
Cool gig far from beeing his best , but nice to see him in such a tiny place.

See ya lads !

Delivery:

After the battle for both sides

Can't stand me now :

Alizé Meurisse's book signed by Peter

Don't forget to check our previous reviews of Peter's gigs:

click on link for Pics, setlist & video

Peter secret show @ Joseph's store, Paris March 8th 2010 ( and HERE)
Peter @ Fleche d'Or Jan 2010 ( and HERE)
Peter @ Zénith Oct 2009
Babyshambles secret show @ Neo Club, Paris March 2009
Peter @ Bataclan 1 March 2009
Peter @ bataclan 2 March 2009
Peter secret gig in double decker bus in Paris , March 2009
Peter @ Maroquinerie, Nov 2008
Peter @ Truskel, Nov 2008

Jessie Evans @ Black Session #312, C'est lenoir France Inter Paris March 22nd 2010 10: 00 PM

Jessie Evans @ C'est Lenoir, France Inter
Black session #312 Paris March 22nd 2010 10:00 PM

Last show for ROCKERPARIS today, our third after Noah & The Whale, Fink, Two Dor Cinema Club.( scroll down for reviews, Pics...).
We're in the cosy studio 105 ( mas or menos 300 capacity) of La Maison de la Radio for a Black Session with American girl, currently living in Berlin Germany, Jessie Evans ( and her drummer Toby Dammit).
as you can see on Patrice's Pics this chick is wild, a few costumes changes during her 45 min set, she's dancing she's running from one side of the studio to the other, making the show.
A real entertainer.
Musically that's really not the stuff we're listening to @ ROCKERPARIS, you know that we're a bunch of fuckin' Rock'n roll maniacs.
She can be compare to Peaches ( even tough she was there before Peaches), lots of African Beats, a post-punk diva queen playing Saxophone and singing in English & Spanish over samples.
Not my cup of tea but entertaining.
She's playing tomorrow @ Maroquinerie with Lonelady & Peau for the "Les Femmes s'en melent" festival.
Check the fest' website for the lineup
We already talked about La Fiancée and Lisa Papineau on this site ( click for review & video).

setlist

Tomorrow MGMT is playing a club show @ Trabendo ( we won't go we hate that shit ) &french Janis Joplin is Playing a private gig at studio SFR ( Maybe this one ).

Don't miss Kitty Daisy & Lewis @ Café de la danse on March 25th if you're into 50's Rock'n Roll , these kids are great.

Two Door Cinema Club @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris March 22nd 2010 3:00 PM

Two Door Cinema Club @ Fnac Montparnasse
Paris March 22nd 2010, 3:00 PM

Another free gig, just the time to take the tube from La Défense, where we saw Noah & The Whale + Fink ( scoll down for review), to Montparnasse to see Irish youngsters Two Door Cinema Club.
Lots of young girls for this one, around 60-70 people., The band is one time and you could'nt be late for this (very) short gig as they've only played 4 songs for a mere 12 minutes.

Hard to judge when you've never heard a band before and when it is acoustic , it's even more difficult as on cd they're a bit electro-pop à la Vampire weekend.
Listening to the album afterwards it's really not my cup of tea but the set was good.
The guys stayed after their "gig" to meet the girls and take Pics with them.

It was their first showcase in Paris ever and they are opening for French band Phoenix in a sold out Olympia tonight.