Farewell Poetry + Glissando @ Oliver Peel Session, Paris Sept 21 2010

Farewell Poetry + Glissando @ Oliver Peel session
Paris Sept 21 2010 8:00PM

Security on duty at the door , you needed to be on the guestlist to get in;Farewell Poetry duet

Unusual Oliver Peel session as we're on tuesday but it didn't prevent people from coming after work as it's SOLD OUT, the appartment is rammed, even in the kitchen (the only room where people can smoke) it's hard to make a move.
The music tonight is also a bit unusual no folk young lady with acoustic guitar & banjo.
First artists on stage are Farewell Poetry, a french duet, a real couple in life. The guy's on guitar & the gal on "vocals" reciting 'poetry'.
Lots of effects & loops for the guitar The kind of music that would be perfect for a soundtrack.
Too bad they seem to be a bunch of arrogant posh twats.

Glissando from England

Then we have english band Glissando from Leeds.
It's not folk it's more ambiance , shoegaze & classical with piano , aerian guitars and violin (played buy a sexy asian brunette).
Very interesting session with a different kind of music. When is Oliver inviting Heavy Metal bands ?
Sorry for the pics as I was stuck in the back of the room luckily foods & drinks were right next to me.
Always a pleasure to come to these famous Oliver Peel sessions, which are getting more and more famous woldwide in the folk circles in UK and California.

Won't mention any names but some people were a bit drunk ( right pic) Guess who ?

The beautiful people @ Oliver's ( not everybody could fit on the Pic)

sorry no videos (yet) for this one.

KORN @ Virgin Megastore, Paris Sept 21 2010 2:00PM

KORN in store signing @ Virgin Megastore
Champs Elysées Paris Sept 21 2010 2:00 PM

It seems that KORN's glory days are behind them as there were not too many people for this in store signing session that went very smoothly.
A few years ago it would have cause a riot.
we didn't stay very long as we had other plans.

Montblanc has created several John Lennon's pens

John Lennon's Montblanc special edition pens

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There are several limited edition John Lennon's pens (70 copies to 1940 copies) or boxsets with 3 pens.

It's a Montblanc so it's very expensive from 500 Euros to 20 000 Euros ( Yes 20 000 Euros) for the edition limited to 70 copies with Diamond, Saphir & "or blanc".

Ozzy Osbourne @ Bercy, Paris Sept 20 2010

OZZY OSBOURNE @ Bercy

Paris Sept 20 2010

Nice to see Ozzy back in Paris ...at Last !!
Fucking hell, It's been sooo many years.

Last time OZZY played in Paris was at the tiny Cigale for his "Farewell Tour". He never came back even with Black sabbath.
He cancelled a show in 1995 or 1998 because of poor sales, only 2000 tickets sold for the Zénith (capacity 6500).
tonight it could have been cancelled too, 1) because he hurt his back a few days ago 2) Once again because of poor sales; even with Danko Jones and Korn opening , only 6000 tickets were sold tonight.
There were competitions everywhere ( websites, radios...) to win tix for this one.
As you can see on the Pics Bercy is half empty and the stage is almost halfway through the pit.

Can't talk about Korn we only saw the last 5 min and it sounded like shit.

Great beginning with " Bark at the moon", then it's the new single, the only song from "Scream", Glad there's only one song from the new album , Once again it's a complete crap album.
So we have all the hits .
He's still acting funny on stage, a bit like seeing your grand-father on stage, the voice is Ok.

SETLIST: (click for videos)
Bark at the moon, Let me hear you scream, Mr Crowley, I don't know, Fairies wear boots, Suicide solution,War Pigs, Shot in the dark, Rat Salad( with Guitar & drum solo),Iron man, Killer of Giants, I don't want to change the world,Crazy train Encore 1: MamaI'm coming home, Paranoid Encore 2: Flying high again, Into the Void.

The first rows took many showers for free as he dropped buckets of water all over them, he 's also using a firehose. Good point as I've never seen so many dirty, smelly fat cunts down the front.
Probably one of the reason I always sit down in the stalls at a Heavy metal concert, anyway it's OZZY, I couldn't sit on my ass for the whole gig, I needed to be down the front.
the new guitar player's really good.
The stage (apart from being very low) is kept to a minimum no screens like in the UK maybe it was our punishment for not filling up bercy.
We had a long guitar solo/ Instumental / Drums solo in the middle then Ozzy came back to sing more of his hits including a few ballads.

Compare to the other shows on this tour the set was pretty long ( 1h50 min) and we were treated with an extra Encore after "Paranoid"

Really good show.

Completely wrong setlist & merchandising

Working Pass & merchandising

Here's one from Black Sabbath:

Yo

Aerosmith played last show on their "Cocked, Locked, and Ready to Rock!" Tour in Vancouver

AEROSMITH played their last show on the "Cocked, Locked, and Ready to Rock!" on Sept 16 @ Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada.
This might be a historical show considering that Tyler will be a judge for a tv show and that Joe Perry dosn't want wait for him.

Last ever performance of AEROSMITH with Tyler ?

Anyway they ended the tour on a happy note as they celebrated John Lennon's 70th birthday and then played one of my fave song " Chip away the stone" with jesse Kramer ( son of Joe Kramer) on drums.

Next shows in Paris for September 2010

Please check before going to any of theses gigs first:

Sept 20:
Divine Comedy @ Cigale (sold-out)
Ozzy Osbourne + Korn + Danko Jones @ Bercy (only 6000 tix sold, Capacity 17000)
Philippe Katerine + L' Album de la semaine ( Invit only)
Sept 21:
Oliver Peel session with Farewell Poetry & Glissando
Professor Green @ Album de la Semaine
Gary Lucas @ New Morning
Korn signing session @ Virgin Megastore ( Time ?)
Sept 22:
Seal @ Vivement Dimanche TV recording (1:00PM)(invit only)
Band of Skulls @ Fleche d'Or (only 8 euros)
Cee-Lo-Green ( Gnarls barkley) @ L' Album de la semaine (Invit only)
Sept 23:
Philippe Katerine @ Studio SFR (Invit Only)
Sept 24:
Jo Krasevich @ Gibert Joseph in St Michel ( free showcase)[Folk music & she's pretty]
Roger Hodgson @ Palais des Congres
Karen Elson @ Boule Noire
Musée Mecanique @ Point FMR
Mumford & Sons @ Trabendo ( Sold-out)
Sept 29:
Brendan Flowers ( The Killers) @ Cabaret Sauvage
Oct 2:
Tricky signing session @ Fnac Forum 2:00PM ( free)
GUNS N ROSES @ Zénith Lille ( see ya there)

U2 @ Stade de France, Paris Sept 18 2010

SdF 2009

We didn't go but here's the setlist and click on links for videos, enjoy !

SETLIST: (From U2France )

Intro
Return of the Stingray Guitar
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Elevation
Until the End of the World
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
North Star
Mercy
In A Little While
Miss Sarajevo
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (remix) - Two Tribes - Relax
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On - You’ll Never Walk Alone
Encore :
One
Amazing Grace - Where the Streets Have No Name
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
With or Without You
Moment of Surrender

Check our beautiful Pics & video from the shows last year :
Stade de France July 11 2009
Stade de France July 12, 1st Part
Stade de France July 12, 2nd Part

Divine Comedy, Neil Hannon solo show @ Pleyel July 8 2010

Reminder:

Neil Hannon played a special solo show @ Salle Pleyel (click for pics review setlist & video) in July , if you go the the Cité de la Musique's website, you can watch the whole show professionaly recorded.
Enjoy !