The Black Keys + Noel Gallagher + Mark Lanegan + Eagles of Death Metal + Deus @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud August 25 2012

The Black Keys + Noel Gallagher + Mark Lanegan + Eagles of Death Metal + Deus

@ Rock en Seine, St Cloud August 25 2012


DEUS

Second day @ Rock en Seine with a better line-up than yesterday, the sun is shining even though rain is expected for today.
DEUS from Belgium is playing on the main stage, strangely enough 10 min before they went on there is literally nobody there, people arrived at the last minute, they do have an older audience than the normal punter @ Rock en Seine.
Nice rocking 45 min set even though the sound 's not that good.

SETLIST: (from Oliver Peel)
01: The Architect
02: Constant Now
03: Instant Street
04: Girls Keep Drinking
05: Quatre Mains
06: Ghost
07: Keep You Close
08: Bad Timing
09: Suds & Soda

Had a walk around the site to see the Jean Charles de Castelbajac store (Pic above) with limited edition t-shirts, Tender Trap is playing on the second stage but it's seems to be very average.

NOEL GALLAGHER & His High Flying Birds

We've never been fans of Oasis @ Rockerparis but we like Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds a lot, we saw them @ Casino de Paris (Dec 2011) & @ Grand Rex (March 2012) and they performed great shows each time. This time it's no exception, Noel is alternating his new songs with some from Oasis which are sounding better with him.
It's a shame they didn't play a longer set.

SETLIST:(from Oliver Peel)
01: (It's Good) To Be Free
02: Everybody's On The Run
03: Dream On
04: If I Had A Gun
05: The Death Of You And Me
06: (I Wann Live In A Dream In My ) Record Mchine
07: Aka...What A Life!
08: Talk Tonight
09: Aka...Broken Arrow
10: Half The World Away
11: Stranded On The Wrong Beach
12: Whatever
13: Don't Look Back In Anger




Eagles of Death Metal aka Pigeons of Shit Metal

Novelty band EODM is very popular over here and it's packed to see them, Can't understand why, they're funny to watch but honestly they have very simple/average songs with volume to the "11".They're not great players either.
The singer from Black Keys is watching from the wings of the stage (see pics above)
Axl Rose from Guns N Roses called them Pigeons of Shit Metal after firing them from the support slot , I guess he was right.
At least they have a great sense of humor that's probably why they're doing so good, check the t-shirt above with the GNR logo.

BLACK KEYS

Everybody's waiting for the Black Keys, cool stage with some great lightning, still haven't heard the last album that got rave reviews.
We saw them @ L'Album de la semaine tv show at the very beginning of this tour to promote the new album, I guess we were very lucky to see them perform in front of a hundred people now that they are filling up arenas and headlining festivals.
The reviews from both their shows at the Zénith in Paris a few months ago were not that great, it seemed that they took a long between each song, this problem has been resolved as they're playing one song after another -without much interaction with the audience- alternating new and old songs.
The sound is great and the addition of extra players gives a warm and enhanced the music to some new levels.

They do not forget their old fans by playing a few oldies as a duet.

Probably the best set form the festival so far.They have great songs and the attitude.
Hard to believe they didn't play more than 90 min, I mean What the Fuck ???
Bruce Springsteen played for 3h40 min last July @ Paris Bercy, Can't those "younger" bands play longer ?!?

setlist: (From Oliver Peel)
01: Howlin' For You
02: Next Girl
03: Run Right Back
05: Same Old Thing
05: Dead And Gone
06: Gold On The Ceiling
07: Thickfreakness
08: Girl Is On My Mind
09: Your Touch
10: Little Black Submarines
11: Money Maker
12: Strange Times
13: Nova Baby
14: Everlasting Light
15: Tighten Up
16: Lonely Boy
17: I Got Mine

Mark Lanegan is closing this day on the smaller stager in front of a few thousands of dedicated fans. He was in good spirit -he thanked us twice- and played us the new album, always classy as usual, he'll be back in Paris at the Trabendo club in Paris later this year, not to be missed. Too bad he didn't played a very long set.

Mark Lanegan

Placebo + Sigur Ros + Bloc Party + The Shins + Get Well Soon + Citizens + Grimes @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud , August 24 2012

Placebo + Sigur Ros + Bloc Party + The Shins + Get Well Soon + Citizens + Grimes

@ Rock en Seine, St Cloud , August 24 2012

Grimes

setlist (from Oliver Peel):
01: Vanessa
02: Oblivion
03: Be A Body
04: Genesis
05: Phone Sex

Back in the french capital after some well deserved holidays, it was sunny & hot, we're back and ready to Rock & Roll for a long week-end @ Rock en Seine in St Cloud, just outside Paris.
The line-up on this friday is very poor with no big names or any bands worth waking up for.
Saturday will be a bit better and sunday will be fun with more real rock bands.

Grimes is the first"band" we're seeing as we're making our way to the main site, she's playing on the small stage, we saw her @ Colette store a few months ago, that was fun in a bar but in front of a few thousands people in open air it's less interesting. There's a guy with long air on stage dancing next to her, don't know what this dick is doing here it's ridiculous.
We didn't stay long and went to the second stage to see...

Citizens!: Nice English pop, very 80's sound but enjoyable.

Citizens !

There are lots of things to see @ Rock en Seine; several exhibitions, a big Wheel (that is free),the Park is beautiful with lots of trees, lawn so you can lie down and enjoy the sun...and lots of sexy girls, it's a posh festival compare to any others I've been to, and probably the best location site ever. That was our first walk on the festival site while Asteroids Galaxy Tour was playing on the main stage. Didn't bother...

Get Well Soon

setlist (from oliver peel)
01: I sold my hands for food so please feed me
02: Seneca's silence
03: A voice in the Louvre
04: 5 steps/7 swords
05: Roland, I feel you
06: Werner Herzog gets shot
07: The last days of Rome
08: Listen! Those lost at sea sing a song on christmas day
09: A burial at sea
10: Angry young man
11: You cannot cast out the demons (You might as well dance)

Next on the second stage was German band Get Well Soon with a Symphonic Orchestra, great songs and cool attitude it reminded me of Divine Comedy (Regeneration era) & Radiohead (first era when they were not playing some electro shit).

First time we were seeing them and we thought they were simply great.

Festival site from the TOP !

Didn't care about French rock band Dionysos playing the main stage so we had a walk in the park and went to the Big Wheel, nice view over the festival site and the neighborhood. (Pics above)

The Shins

setlist (from oliver Peel)

01: Caring Is Creepy
02: Australia
03: Simple Song (viel Orgel)
04: Bait And Switch
05: Phantom Limb
06: Rifle
07: Saint Simon
08: It's Only Life (new single)
09: So Says I
10: Kissing The Lippless
11: No Way Down
12: Port Of Morrow

We were having dinner at one of the many restaurants with food coming from France or different part of the world ( Caribbean, Senegalese, Ethiopian, Thai, Tex Mex, Italian, Japanese, Irish...) -not the kind of thing you see at Rock festivals.-We chose a sandwich from Senegal.

so we missed the beginning of the Shins' set on the second stage. Nice discovery: this band has great melodies and songs, cool 60's influenced pop-rock. We're gonna check their albums to see if they sound as good on cd as on a stage.

Bloc Party

SETLIST:
01: Octopus
02: Hunting For Witches
03: Positive Tension
04: Kettling
05: Song For Clay
06: Bnquet
07: Team A
08: One more Chance
09: Truth
10: This Modern Love
11: Ares
12: Flux
13: Helicopter

We're not great fans of Bloc Party so we catch the last part of their set on the main stage. The last time we saw them was here @ Rock en Seine a couple of years ago when they announced that OASIS had split and that their show was cancelled. They enjoyed it as the Gallaghers told some naughty things about them, Watch the video HERE. The singer called them "Imbred Twins" That was fun.
The main stage is packed for them.

Sigur Ros

setlist:(from Oliver peel)
01: i Gaer
02: Varúð
3: Saeglópur
04: Festival
05: Hoppípolla
06: Með Blóðnasir
07: Hafsól
08: Popplagið

Sigur Ros from Iceland with a singer with a high and very distinctive voice and he's singing in his native tongue not English with ads a litle something to their set.
Very ambient with some heavy part. Can't remember the last time we saw them... Yes, they were opening for Radiohead in 2000. 12 years ago.

Placebo

Placebo is headlining on the main stage, they are still very popular over here in France, we used to like them at the beginning of their career, after the 3rd album we stopped as the records were less and less good and Brian Molko is such a dickhead.
Funny to see them after all these years: nice set, better than expected, they've played a new song:"B3".

Even though the line-up was very poor -no big names- we had a very pleasant day, saturday should be (even) better... see ya there.

Rock en Seine August 24-25-26 2012 St Cloud, The line-up...

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August 24-25-26 2012 St Cloud, The line-up...

Can't tell you that this line-up is the best, there are some great bands on sunday: Waterboys, Grandaddy, Dandy Warhols and on saturday: Mark Lanegan & The Black Keys the rest is very weak

See ya there anyway !!!

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L'Angelo & ROCKERPARIS Team.