Dionysos @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris March 28 2012

Dionysos @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris March 28 2012

Powerful 35+ min set by French Pop-Rockers Dionysos to promote new album "Dionysos plays Bird'n Roll".
Once again a band that is playing a showcase with all their live equipment, stage clothes and that is giving it all on stage, specially the singer , a pint size little fellow who's jumping up and down like a maniac including some stage diving and crowd surfing (see picture above).
Very entertaining show in front of a dedicated audience.
Signing session after but we left before.

The First song

Lee Fields @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris March 26 2012

Lee Fields @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris March 26 2012

setlist

Funk & Soul singer Lee Fields & The Expressions is promoting his new album by playing Canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine.
35 min of great soul & Funk music with some vocals à la James Brown for this veteran singer.
Neat vintage songs with sax and trumpet with some cool grooves.
His version of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny" was terrific.
Just mix James brown, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and you have Lee Fields.

Leonard Cohen's European Tour 2012 / Aerosmith-Cheap Trick American Summer Tour 2012

AEROSMITH /CHEAP TRICK "The Global Warming Tour"
American Summer Tour 2012

Sat Jun 16	Minneapolis	Target Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Tue Jun 19	Cleveland	Quicken Loans Arena	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Fri Jun 22	Chicago	United Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Wed Jun 27	Toronto	Air Canada Centre	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Sun Jul 01	Uniondale	Nassau Coliseum	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Tue Jul 03	Bristow	Jiffy Lube Live	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Thu Jul 05	Detroit	The Palace of Auburn Hills	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Tue Jul 17	Boston	TD Garden	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Sat Jul 21	Philadelphia	Wells Fargo Center	On Sale Mar 30 @ 10am	tweet	share
Tue Jul 24	East Rutherford	IZOD Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Thu Jul 26	Atlanta	Philips Arena	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Sat Jul 28	Dallas	American Airlines Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Mon Jul 30	Houston	Toyota Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Wed Aug 01	Denver	Pepsi Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Sat Aug 04	Oakland	Oracle Arena	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Mon Aug 06	Los Angeles	Hollywood Bowl	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Wed Aug 08	Tacoma	Tacoma Dome	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am

Leonard Cohen's "Old Ideas" European Tour 2012

August 12th – Ghent, Belgium – St. Peter's Square

August 14th – Ghent, Belgium – St. Peter's Square

August 25th – Copenhagen, Denmark – Rosenborg Castle

August 26th – Aalborg, Denmark – Molleparken

August 28th – Bergen, Norway – Bergenhus Festning-Koengen

August 31st – Gothenberg, Sweden – Tradgardsforeningen

September 2nd – Helsinki, Finland – Sonera Stadium

September 5th – Berlin, Germany – Wuhlheide

September 6th – Monchengladbach, Germany – Hockey Field

September 11th – Dublin, Ireland – Imma

September 12th – Dublin, Ireland – Imma

September 25th – Verona, Italy – Verona Arena

September 28th – Paris, France – Olympia

September 29th – Paris, France – Olympia

September 30th – Paris, France – Olympia

October 3rd – Barcelona, Spain – St. Jordi

October 5th – Madrid, Spain – Palais Desportes

October 7th – Lisbon, Portugal – Pavilhao Atlantico

Nutcase @ La Scène Bastille, Paris March 24 2012

Nutcase @ La Scène Bastille, Paris March 24 2012

Electro Metallers on this saturday
check their facebook page and HERE (for music)

Other Lives @ Fnac Ternes, Paris March 23 2012 6:00pm

Other Lives @ Fnac Ternes, Paris March 23 2012 6:00pm

Great 6 songs -30 min set @ Fnac Ternes for Other Lives before their sold-out show @ Café de la Danse tonight.
They've played with all the equipment including a grand piano
respect... or maybe they tried to catch up because they've cancelled last time.
great gig too bad we couldn't go @ Café de la danse

Check our previous reviews
@ Casino de Paris Nov 2011
@ Black Session Nov 2011

Skip the Use @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris March 22 2012

Skip the Use @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris March 22 2012

Short but powerful 5 songs set with full gear @ Fnac before their show tonight @ Bataclan

Last song

Peter Doherty @ Olympia, Paris March 21 2012

Peter Doherty @ Olympia, Paris March 21 2012

For "Rock The Gibus". Master of ceremony Philippe Manoeuvre
with The Marginals, Big Money makers, Big Dist Allstars, Sex Assets & Waste Management

"Rock the Gibus" @ Olympia tonight, this is the final of the competition for french rock bands that started at the Gibus club in Paris a while ago, 2 of them have been selected after numerous scouting in clubs around France and each one is playing 4 songs tonight: only one winner.
Nina Hagen who was supposed to headline has cancelled yesterday and Peter Doherty has been asked for help.

We were a bit late as ROCKERPARIS is not only dealing with Rock'n Roll but also with Diplomacy (We sometimes have to work) as we had to attend a party at the UNESCO in Paris to promote The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic from the Russian Federation. I've never seen people fighting so much to get to the buffet even though they were all diplomats or ambassadors, funny, specially when the food was from the country and awful. Anyway we attended a very beautiful show at the end, the costumes were terrific and Yakutian female dancers very sexy.

MC PhilMan / Big Money Makers / Big Dist Allstars

We've missed the first band The Marginals and just in time to see MC Philippe Manoeuvre introducing Big Money Makers. They were quite good for a french band but there's still a huge gap with English or American band from the same age.
Hard to believe but the Balcony is half empty (or half full) and you could do some bicycle in the pit downstairs that is 2/3 empty, so probably just a few hundred rockers in this 2500 capacity theater.
Then we had Big Dist Allstars, much more heavy à la Rage Against the Machine, not bad too.
Last band, if I understood well, was just a guest and were pretty average.

Sex Assets & Waste Management / The Jury / The Winners: Big Money makers

After another short intermission , the jury, some boring old farts, have decided that the winner is Big Money Makers, funny that we were handed flyers for their EP on our way out, they already have sponsors like Deezer, iTunes, Facebook, Amazon so there's probably big money to support them. So I guess the fact that they ere the winners is no surprise for the big oils.

Peeeete !

Anyway who gives a shit as we are here for Nina Hagen...sorry Peter Doherty who's playing an acoustic show.
We've already seen him a thousand times in clubs playing acoustic, this one was no different, not better or badder.
On stage for less than an hour , no encore, same as usual.
Don't ask me for the setlist, he played his hits ("What a waster, Tell the king, unbilotitled"...) , a bit of a Georges Brassens song ("Les Copains d'abord").
I guess Nina Hagen would have been more fun.
Another Nice night out !
I'm just wondering tonight: where are the rock teenagers gone ?

Peter wondering where has his audience gone

Duet with Marie Flore:


Peter @ We Love Green Festival 2011
Check our reviews of ( all but two) Peter Doherty's solo shows for 2010 in Paris:
Pics & reviews : 1) Fleche d'Or 2) Joseph Store 3) Truskel1 4) Truskel2 4) Truskel3 5) Maroquinerie

Neil Young & Crazy Horse new album "Americana" Art work and tracklisting revealed

Neil Young & Crazy Horse new album "Americana" Art work and tracklisting revealed

Neil Young and Crazy Horse will release their new LP Americana on June 5th.

Tracklisting:

"Oh Susannah"
"Clementine
"
"Tom Dooley"
"
Gallows Pole
"
"Get A Job
"
"Travel On
"
"High Flyin’ Bird
"
"She’ll Be Comin ’Round The Mountain"
"This Land Is Your Land
"
"Wayfarin’ Stranger
"
"God Save The Queen"

Last show in Paris in June 2009 HERE
Setlist, Pics of his last show in Paris1 , Part 2 ( click)

Leon Russell @ New Morning, Paris march 19 2012

Leon Russell @ New Morning, Paris march 19 2012

I can't tell you if Leon Russell has already played in Paris before, maybe in the 60's or 70's so tonight's show at the tiny jazz club New morning is a "must see".

French female singer Jain is opening on acoustic guitar, sounds like Selah Sue to me, enjoyable.

Leon Russell arrived @ the New morning in a wheelchair but get on the stage with his cane to sit down behind his keyboard for the whole of his 90 min set.
White long hair and beard , sunglasses white cowboy hat and brown leather jacket: cool look.
Maybe his "hawaiian" shirt with the big flowers is not up to the standard ;-)
Anyway we heard some of his most well-known songs tonight and many covers from other bands
setlist included : Delta lady, Rollin in my sweet, stranger in a strange..., sweet little angel, lady blue, kansas city woman, takes a train, let the good times roll, hard rain, I've just seen a face, lucky ol' sun, song for you, a medley of jumping jack flash-papa was a rolling stone-kansas city (here on video) and a few others.
The voice is a bit frail but the piano playing is intact some of the songs were re-arranged like the up-tempo version of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses".

I would have prefer more of his songs and less covers but I guess that he's more well known for his contribution for other artists he worked with than for his repertoire even though he had huge hits with his own songs.
Very good show, better than expected.

signed by the Master

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