Crocodiles @ Agnes B store, Paris April 19 2012 & Caandides @ Colette

Crocodiles @ Agnes B store, Paris April 19 2012 6:30 pm

Tight schedule, we're getting into the store just as Crocodiles is starting playing.
We are the girls from the band ? It's an acoustic set and there are just the guys.
Tonight it's packed, I've never seen so many people in the store for a showcase.
They do sound much more "English" when it's acoustic , I remember them from playing a Black session it was much more 60's Psyche.
They have some very good tunes, the attitude, very cool 5-6 songs set.

The singer from Poni Hoax is also playing a few acoustic tunes on another stage.
A DJ was getting ready on the main stage when we left the premises.
When we went to the Kim Fowley signing session we were given an Agnes B-Rough Trade bag with cds , this time its a white single 45 from Nicolas Ker & Jonathan Fitoussi.

Caandides @ Colette Music Box, Paris April 19 2012 5:30pm

First in this late afternoon is another Colette Music Box with 2 bands & a DJ.
This time we're feeded with fresh vegetables and some Spanish Ham, Musicwise as the show started very late because of technical problems we could only hear the first band Caandides for some pop-electro -rock, not our drug of choice, we left before Tristesse Contemporaine took the stage as we didn't wanna miss Crocodiles @ Agnes B.

Levon Helm 1940-2012 RIP

LEVON HELM (from The Band) 1940-2012 RIP

Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.

Mariee Sioux @ Gibert Joseph, Paris April 06 2012, 6:00pm

Mariee Sioux @ Gibert Joseph, Paris April 06 2012, 6:00pm

Another free show in Paris, this time on Bd St Michel with folk lady Mariee Sioux promoting her new album.
Small gathering of fans, she's playing acoustic guitar without any amplification, hard to hear anything as she has a tiny voice and the guitar playing was also very soft.
4 songs set maybe the conditions were not top to appreciate her quiet folk.

She's playing @ Café de la Danse on Thursday (April 19) with Matt Elliott
She'll play another showcase @ Fargo on friday (April 20) at 6:00pm
There should be another one on sunday at a secret location

Laura Gibson @ Agnes B Store, Paris April 16 2012

Laura Gibson @ Agnes B Store, Paris April 16 2012

Laura Gibson & band

Agnes B-Rough Trade store in Paris, today it's Laura Gibson to play a showcase in front of a dedicated audience.

Check the program of all the showcases on our facebook page (here)
Today we're talking about classy Folk Music, for a cool & relaxed 5-6 songs set with Laura on vocals, Guitar or Piano.

setlist & more Pics HERE

She played @ Oliver's a couple of years ago & @ Fleche d'Or in 2010

Agnes B store in Paris

Jack White to play @ Cigale , Paris April 22 2012

Jack White @ Cigale , Paris April 22 2012

2 shows in Paris in 3 days

April 20 @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+ (Invit' only)
April 22 @ Cigale, bookings on April 17 10:00am

Pin-Up @ Crazy Horse, Paris April 14 2012

Pin-Up @ Crazy Horse, Paris April 14 2012

Pin-up

Not much for Rock'N Roll this week so here are some sexy girls for ya all !!!

Kate Moss/ Marilyn Monroe/ Pinball tops

Exhibition today and auction tomorrow (on sunday) by Maître Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr
Francis Giacobetti pics + Pin-up paintings and drawings (Greg Hildebrandt)
Helmut Newton & David la Chapelle Pics
Marilyn Monroe carboards
Wigs & shoes from the Crazy Horse...

More Marilyn / David La Chapelle Pics and Brigitte Bardot as Marianne (Aslan)

Helmut Newton Pics & Book

Grand Pre-Opening @ Palais de Tokyo, Paris April 12-13 2012

Grand Pre-Opening @ Palais de Tokyo, Paris April 12-13 2012

A "Circuit 24" for artist & Music lovers

Pre-opening of the Palais de Tokyo after being closed for refurbishment, it has now triple its initial size.

Opened 30 hours non-stop.

The only good thing we saw was that huge Grand Prix racing track for kids made out of thousands of old vinyls and you could actually drive the car, with a camera, in front of a screen.

That was cool

un peu d'humour dans un monde de brutes (center)

The rest was mostly crap and certainly not up to the level of the Palais de Tokyo.

• Small "figurines" made out of small plastic objects and trash : OK
• Some small drawings and texts written on notebooks & porn mags (pic below), the kind of things you do in class when the Maths lesson is boring you to death: crap
• there was a "dismembered" car: The metalwork with all the seats, wheels, lights... put around it (not pictured here), I'm pretty sure that workers repairing cars in a garage didn't know they were doing art: complete crap
• A huddle of wood : we thought it was the place where workers put all the trash away in fact it was ART: shit

I mean who the fuck do they think we are
Can they call "ART" any shit
It looks like the answer is "YES @ Palais de Tokyo

ART SWINDLE

So WHAT ?

Someone very dubious about all that shit !!!

Kim Fowley @ Saint Merri Church , Paris April 12 2012

Kim Fowley @ Saint Merri Church , Paris April 12 2012

Eglise St Merry

a bar selling beer & champagne in the church ... shocking !!! Full House

After seeing him at the Agnes B store for a signing session Kim Fowley is playing tonight in a church situated in the heart of Paris next to the Pompidou Center.
It's a bit of a mess in front of the church as there are lots of people and only one small door to get in. They also have to check the name of each punter on a list as they don't have a scanner for advance tickets.

The show's running late so it's giving us the time to have a chat with a few friends, we don't know what to expect as the "show" is advertised as a "Evening with The Animal Man" in fact it's a proper rock concert with a French band that has been put together the night before at a restaurant.
As you can see on the setlist below it's mostly covers, as it's their first show together the band is not very tight but it's fun.
Kim is acting more like a MC than a real singer but I have my doubt about the girl who's "singing" with him, she's hot but can't really call her a singer.
Lots of funny and salacious lyrics on some songs and there's a screen behind playing some of Kim's movies with sexy girls.
That was entertaining.

Poster & setlist

Tony Conrad was next on the violin to play us some "early Minimalism" but it was time for us to leave...