ROCKERPARIS

vendredi 28 janvier 2011

Jae + General Bye Bye @ Oliver Peel session, Jan 30 2011 5:00pm

Jae + General bye Bye @ Oliver Peel session #34
Paris Jan 30 2011

Jae (far left) & D'Artagnan is getting ready to rock (far right)

Part of the audience

General Bye Bye

Jae live @ Oliver on video soon

Rockers Kulture presents "The French Rockabilly Scene #2" @ Boule Noire, Paris Jan 28 2011

Megatones + Jezabel Rock + Hot Chicken + Easy LAzy "C" & his Silver Slippers

Rockabilly evening @ the tiny Boule Noire with french Band only.
We were there a bit late so we only saw the last 4 bands. There were probably 7-8 others before.
Each one of them was playing 3 songs except the last one who played 5-6 songs ending this Festival @ 11:00Pm sharp.
Many well dressed rockers and a few very beautiful girls all dressed up as well.
Lively atmosphere, good quality bands playing mostly covers maybe they should make an effort to sing a better English, sometimes it was laughable.
Very pleasant Rockab' Fest.

Hot Chicken

Easy LAzy "C" & his Silver Slippers

jeudi 27 janvier 2011

Sarah Rumer @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+ Paris Jan 28

Sarah Rumer @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+

Paris Jan 28 2011

setlist

English female singer Rumer is playing tonight @ L'Album de la Semaine for Canal+ with her band ( 7 musicians & 2 girls on backing vocals) to promote her debut album "Seasons of my soul".
I was a bit afraid after the first song which was very soft and I said to myself "Fuck Here's the new Norah Jones" Well one is enough , we don't need another she's so boring.
In fact No the second song is more up-tempo , Rumer is playing typical English 60's pop with a bit of soul & jazz, a modern version of PP Arnold, Liza Strike or Dionne Warwick before she turned into a disco queen.
He softer songs are a bit too soft for us but the rest sounds really great.
She ended her set with Smokey Robinson's " you really got a hold on me".

Thin Lizzy (Part 1) + Supersuckers @ Bataclan, Paris Jan 26 2011

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Thin Lizzy + Supersuckers @ Bataclan, Paris Jan 26 2011

Supersuckers

The Boys are back in town with a "strange" line-up : from original band we have Scott Gorham on guitar, Brian Downey on drums & Darren Wharton on keys.
Plus Ricky Warwick on vocals & guitar from The Almighty, Marco Mendoza still on bass duties and Vivian Campbell from Def Leppard on guitar.

Opening band is Supersuckers for some fast & sleazy heavy Rock

Hey You ! Fuck Yaaaaaaaaa !!!

and... SuperFuck Yaaaaa !!!

This is Part 1

Full house tonight even though it's not sold-out, hard to find anyone under 30 years old tonight (and maybe 40).
Hard to believe it's the first Thin Lizzy gig in Paris since 1984 or 1985, at the time Phil Lynott was alive and they were touring for "Thunder & Lightning".
Can't really say that it's Thin Lizzy without Phil but we saw the reformed Thin Lizzy a few years ago @ London's Hammersmith Appolo and @ Shepherd's Bush Empire with John Sykes and they were GREAT .

Part 2 Here with more Pics, more Videos & complete setlist

Ricky Warwick taking vocal duties is not an obvious choice but we have to say he did a fantastic job, maybe he should shave that silly moustache.

Vivian Campbell is a great guitar player ( remember DIO) and for the first time in many many years he's playing lead guitar, he's not allowed to do so in Def Leppard.
Now he's playing in a band that is challenging for him.

The sound is Perfect and they have a good lightning with the famous Thin Lizzy logo in the back.

The setlist is amazing Thin Lizzy have so many great songs, they opened the set with "Are You ready" and then it was a Best Of setlist.

They've played songs from the whole catalogue of Thin Lizzy but John Sykes', funny to see that since he left ( or was given the sack) they don't play any songs from "Thunder & Lightning" or maybe was it just for this gig (?!?).