Lenny Kravitz + Vintage Trouble @ Paris Bercy, June 26 2012

Lenny Kravitz + Vintage Trouble @ Paris Bercy, June 26 2012

Vintage Trouble

Lenny Kravitz is back in the French Capital just a few months after playing a sold out show at the very same Paris Bercy, There are still a few tickets left at the box office.
last year we had a quality support band with Raphael Saadiq, this year we have soul-rock band Vintage Trouble, just imagine a rock bluesy-soul band with a young James Brown on vocals and you'll get the picture. They were welcomed by the french audience and they deserved it, maybe I will add a few more up-tempo songs but they did a great job.
45 min set

It's way past 9:30 (9:40 exactly) when Lenny is getting on the stage, the first hour of the set is broadcasted live on RTL2 radio.

It's a 70% female audience (many of them very sexy) with lots of teenagers and people in their 20's which shows that Lenny Kravitz has new fans and lots of them.
Last year's show was great and it was a real surprise as I remember him acting like a fucking diva on stage a few years ago.
He left the Diva-Rock-star attitude in his dressing room to act like a proper rocker...well he's still over-acting a bit but that's bearable.
He's not celebrating the anniversary of his first album anymore so for this year we have a Best Of setlist (see below for details) with not too many songs from the new album.
Same kick ass band with Craig Ross on guitar and Gail Ann Dorsey on bass and vocals.

It's rocking and smokin' for most of the time with some ballads from time to time, no matter what people are saying about Mr Kravitz, the mother fucker knows how to write a Hit single/great tune and we have plenty of them tonight.

The stage is once again beautiful with great lightning ( "a delight to take pics" is telling me our photographer) and a huge screen in the back.

With an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, on piano and on vocals Lenny knows how to entertain you, with some nice poses and better attitude than a decade ago.
Another great 2 hour+ set.

Mean man

SETLIST: (TBC)

1. Come On Get It
2. Always on the Run
3. American Woman
4. It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
5. Mr. Cab Driver
6. Black And White America
7. Fields of Joy
8. Stand By My Woman
9. Believe
10. Stand
11. Rock Star City Life
12. Where Are We Runnin'?
13. Fly away
14. Let love rule (extended version)-------Encore
15. Stillness of heart
16. Blues for sister someone
17. I'll be waiting--------Encore
18. Are you gonna go my way
    

Mission accomplished

Reminder:
LENNY @ Paris Bercy on Nov 29 2011
@ Peace One day Fest @ Grand Rex Sept 2009
@ Paris Bercy May 2009

Metallica entire footage of concert @ Orion Music + More Fest. June 23 2012 "Ride the Lightning" night

Metallica performing "Ride the Lightning" in its entirety @ Orion Music + More Fest. June 23 2012 Bader Field, Atlantic City, NJ :

Full concert available on Youtube

Tiny Ruins + Andréa Perdue @ Oliver Peel session #42, Paris June 24 2012

Tiny Ruins + Andréa Perdue @ Oliver Peel session #42, Paris June 24 2012

Chris Cornell @ Trianon, Paris june 22 2012

update June 23: with links to videos & complete setlist (I Hope so) & review

Chris Cornell @ Trianon, Paris june 22 2012

Less than a month after Soundgarden played in Paris @ Zénith (check our Pics & review) and literally blew our brains out with probably the worst sound we have ever heard at a rock concert (well Mötley Crüe was also way too loud) Chris Cornell is back in the french capital, this time for an acoustic show on his own.
It's sold-out and an all seated event.
Chris has barely walked the stage that he's celebrated like the messiah by dedicated fans, many coming from foreign countries.
The first thing that he's doing is to shake hands with the whole first row before touching his acoustic guitar.
The light is kept to a minimum and the sound is clear and not too loud.
Chris is very relaxed between songs and is telling funny stories, interacting with the audience, he's also taking time to get some fans on stage to get their picture taken for his facebook page, he's also introducing his kids (see pic below) & wife....in fact it is not really a concert but more of a party with friends.
in between all this he's playing a best of... of his songs in a stripped version, from Temple of the dog to Soundgarden, Audioslave and his solo albums.
Whether it's electric or whether it's acoustic a good song is a good song and Chris has plenty of it.
Hard to believe that when he's telling us that it is the last song he's already on stage for almost two hours.
Glad to see that he dropped his Timbaland shit for the acoustic "songbook". I guess that many remember his awful gig @ Cigale in Feb 2009 promoting his solo album produced by Timbaland.
Chris stayed on the stage After the last song and signed literally everything... cool !
After reforming Soundgarden and now the acoustic set, Chris is back on the right track.
Simply Brilliant

(c) Guino Patrice

SETLIST:

1. Scar on the Sky
2. As Hope and Promise Fade
3. Ground Zero
4. Wide Awake
5. Disappearing Act
6. Can't Change Me
7. Be Yourself
8. Wooden Jesus
9. Call Me A Dog
10. Hunger Strike
11. Sunshower
12. Fell On Black Days
13. Burden in my hand
14. When I'm down
15. Scream
16. Sweet Euphoria
17. Seasons
18. Imagine ( lennon)
19. Thank You (Led Zep)
20. Finally Forever
21. Like a Stone
22. Doesn't remind me
23. Blow up the outside world--------------encore
24. I am the highway
    

signing stuff on stage

Merchandising

Placebo @ Bataclan, Paris June 22 2012 for Mercedes

Placebo @ Bataclan, Paris June 22 2012
A Rock Events

setlist:

1. Kitty Litter
2. Battle for the Sun
3. Ashtray Heart
4. Soulmates
5. Breathe Underwater
6. I.K.U.W.S.
7. Every You Every Me
8. In A Funk
9. Speak In Tongues
10. Black-Eyed
11. Meds
12. Without You I'm Nothing
13. For whar it's worth
14. Special K
15. Song to say goodbye
16. The Bitter End ------
17. Nancy Boy
18. Post Blue
19. Infra red
20. taste in Men
    

Merchandising, canapés and pass sheet

Goodbye


Thumbs up to Madame Mime for the Pics & Video

Pony Pony Run Run @ Hotel de Matignon, Paris June 21 2012

Pony Pony Run Run @ Hotel de Matignon, Paris June 21 2012

Pony Pony Run Run

Just after attending a show by Mina Tindle & Saint Vincent @ Colette store on the right bank, it's time to cross the Seine for the left bank to the residence of the French Prime Minister @ Hotel de Matignon.
French Electro pop band Pony Pony Run Run is playing in the front courtyard, it's packed out there and you have to go through metal detectors and Gendarmerie to get in.
It's a posh audience with mainly neighbors and people working here.
The courtyard is packed.
We're just in time to see the band getting on the stage, it's electro -pop with lively songs , it's ok but not really our drug of choice.

-Gendarmerie nationale : "Vos papiers svp"- & our French Prime Minister (and wife)

Our new French Prime Minister Jean Marc Ayrault is trying to act as if he is the coolest mother fucker in France by joining the audience while the band is playing and crossing the courtyard from one side to the other followed by dozens of photographers, reporters and cameras.
He stayed for the end of the set just next to us with his posse (of security guards) posing for photographers and acting as cool as fuck. He's da man !!!

Just been told Rockerparis & guests could be seen on iTV with MC JM Eyrault in the news.

The Posh audience is getting wild but our Prime Minister is keeping his "cool attitude"

Mina Tindle + Saint Michel @ Colette Music Box, Paris June 21 2012

Mina Tindle + Saint Michel @ Colette Music Box #16, Paris June 21 2012

Mina Tindle

First part of the -Fête de la Musique- @ Colette store with Folk singer Mina Tindle for a short solo set of her folk-rock songs, from the brand new album. Cool ! Electro-Acoustic guitar with some loops.
Strangely there are not too many people but the Rockerparis gang is out in force for this gig.
After some pizzas and drinks we have Saint Michel from Versailles, for a VERY short set of a few -two minutes songs- 20 min max. they sounded a bit like Kings of Convenience.

Always a lively atmosphere @ Colette with lots of sexy chicks with free drinks and food, they know how to welcome costumers.

Nice starter for the evening before going to the Prime Minister's residence @ Hotel de Matignon to see French band Pony Pony Run Run.

Saint Michel