Miles Kane @ Maroquinerie, Paris May 22 2013

Miles Kane @ Maroquinerie, Paris May 22 2013

We're getting into the tiny Maroquinerie as the opening band is playing its last song, of course it's packed as the show is long sold-out.
it's 9:00pm sharp when Miles Kane & friends are making their way onto the stage, Miles is here to introduce us to his new solo album out next week but all the young girls down the front know all the lyrics already.
A few weeks ago on April 22 @ Canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine we were lucky to see him performing some of the new songs, that sounding great and really rocking even though conditions at a tv show are more clinical.

Tonight in front of a "real" audience things are more organic, Miles is Rockin' like never before and always... with a smile to the girls from the first row.

See setlist (underneath) for details, first song of the Encore  "Colour of the trap" is performed alone by Miles on acoustic guitar.
Last song "Don't forget who you are" is also the tee shirt sold at the merchandise table tonight that was wearing all the roadies
The whole show was professionally video recorded by several cameras.

Great gig !

Our Archives:
Miles Kane 

@ Album de la Semaine, Paris April 22 2013 (TV show for new album)

@ Main Square Fest with PEARL JAM  June 30 2012

@ Inrocks festival in Nov 2011 @ Cigale,
@ Rock en Seine , august 2011
@ Album de la Semaine March 2011

Check our reviews of Arctic Monkeys @ Rock en Seine 2011, @ Cigale on June 16, @ L'Album de la Semaine on June 15 2011 & @ Zénith in 2009

Check also Check our reviews of The Last Shadow Puppets @ Olympia on August 26 2008 & @ Album de la Semaine for Canal+ the day after.

With The Rascals :
@ Maroquinerie Dec 01 2008
@ Fleche d'Or  Sept 05 2008

The Rolling Stones @ Staples Center, L.A. May 20 2013

The Rolling Stones @ Staples Center, L.A. May 20 2013

May 21: updated with MORE Links to videos

(c) Rolling Stones

SETLIST:

Get Off Of My Cloud
It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)
Paint It Black
Gimme Shelter
All Down The Line
Faraway Eyes (first on this Tour)
Sway (By Request – with Mick Taylor) Version 2
Doom And Gloom
One More Shot
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (with Mick Taylor) Version 2
Honky Tonk Women
BAND INTRODUCTIONS
You Got The Silver (with Keith on lead vox)
Before They Make Me Run (with Keith on lead vox)
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
Miss You
Start Me Up
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
Sympathy For The Devil
ENCORE
You Can’t Always Get What You Want (with the University of Southern California Thornton Chamber Singers)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (With Mick Taylor)

Ray Manzarek dead at 74, RIP 1939-2013

Ray Manzarek dead at 74, RIP 1939-2013

The Doors co-founder and keyboardist Ray Manzarek died yesterday in Rosenheim, Germany after a long battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74.

 A statement from his family says: “Ray passed away today at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his wife Dorothy and his brothers Rick and James."

Archives:
ray-manzarek/robby-krieger @ Bataclan in 2011

Joe Cocker @ Zénith, Paris May 15 2013

Joe Cocker @ Zénith, Paris May 15 2013

WOW ! Jesus ! Finally there is a gig in Paris ! Our second for this month. 2013 has been the quietest year Concert-wise for years. June will be better.
Tonight it's Mr Joe Cocker not anymore with his Englishmen but with some very sexy female singers and a hot bass player, same band as for his last show in Paris 3 years ago.
The Zénith is quite full though far from being sold-out, once again it's an all seated event as most of the audience is in their 50's.
First song is a new one which is not the best choice to start the gig than we have some of the classics ( see setlist below). Joe Cocker has a sore throat tonight so the vocals are not at their best for the first few songs, he will apologize a couple of times for his voice. The lightning is great and the sound crystal clear and not too loud: it's perfect for the Senior in the audience.

The audience is politely clapping between songs, feel like being in a retirement home, even on stage it's "polite" with mid-tempo songs, we even have a semi-acoustic sections to put us all to sleep.
Fortunately people are standing up for the last part.

Overall good 1h40  min+ show, perfect for grannies.

Archives:
Joe Cocker @ Zénith on Oct 10 2010

Dan Aykroyd @ Cave Fauchon in Paris for Crystal Head, May 15 2013

 Dan Aykroyd @ Cave Fauchon in Paris for Crystal Head, May 15 2013

Dan Aykroyd will sign the bottle tonight at the Fauchon store in Paris

 

Limited Edition Rolling Stones Crystal head Vodka boxset with a double live cd

Should be 80 euros, Double cd with 18 songs

Very cool signing session with Blue Brother Dan Aykroyd, couldn't believe that there was NO Rolling Stones' box set with the cd available ( it's out on June 1st).

There were a few guys dressed up as Ghostbusters which was fun.

The limited edition gift set, which is available for US$89.95, features an iconic bottle of Crystal Head Vodka with an interchangeable crystal decanter top engraved with The Rolling Stones lip-and-tongue tattoo. Also included is an exclusive 2-CD compilation of live Rolling Stones hits, a bottle tattoo featuring the 50^th anniversary logo, and handcrafted display case featuring a real zipper reminiscent of the Sticky Fingers album cover.

A very limited whiskey set was released in October of last year (photo above)

Paul McCartney @ Belo Horizonte, Brazil, May 04 2013

Paul McCartney @ Belo Horizonte, Brazil, May 04 2013

(c) Paul McCartney official

Belo Horizonte Setlist: (links to videos shortly)

• Eight Days A Week (first time played since 1965)
• Junior's Farm
• All My Loving
• Listen To What The Man Said (first time since 1976)
• Let Me Roll It
• Paperback Writer
• My Valentine
• Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
• The Long And Winding Road
• Maybe I'm Amazed
• Hope Of Deliverance
• We Can Work It Out
• Another Day (first time since 1993)
• And I Love Her
• Blackbird
• Here Today
• Your Mother Should Know
• Lady Madonna
• All Together Now
• Mrs Vandebilt
• Eleanor Rigby
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
• Something
• Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
• Band on the Run
• Hi, Hi, Hi (first time since 1976)
• Back in the U.S.S.R.
• Let It Be
• Live And Let Die
• Hey Jude

Encore:
• Day Tripper
• Lovely Rita
• Get Back

Second Encore:
• Yesterday
• Helter Skelter
• Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

THE WHOLE SET:

The Rolling Stones @ Staples Center, Los Angeles, May 03 2013

The Rolling Stones @ Staples Center, Los Angeles, May 03 2013

 some pics here

SETLIST: (with LINKS to videos)

1. Get Off Of My Cloud
2. The Last Time
3. It's Only Rock'n Roll
4. Paint It Black
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Wild Horses (with Gwen Stefani)
7. Factory Girl
8. Emotional Rescue
9. Respectable (with Keith Urban)
10. Doom And Gloom
11. One More Shot
12. Honky Tonk Women
    --- Band presentation
13. Before They Make Me Run (Keith)
14. Happy (Keith)
15. Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
16. Miss You
17. Start Me Up
18. Tumbling Dice
19. Brown Sugar
20. Sympathy For The Devil
    --- Band off stage
21. You Can't Always Get What you Want
22. Jumping Jack Flash
23. Satisfaction

Show start  :  9:00pm
Show finish : 11:25pm

Walking Papers @ Fleche d'Or, Paris May 03 2013

Walking Papers @ Fleche d'Or, Paris May 03 2013

setlist & merchandising 


Archives:
Walking Papers @ Nouveau Casino on Nov 10 2012

Arborea @ Oliver Peel session, Paris may 01 2013

Arborea @ Oliver Peel session #49, Paris may 01 2013

 Another Oliver Peel session with folk band Arborea for some laid back songs on banjo and a bit of electric guitar.
They already played @ Oliver's in 2010.

Lou Doillon @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris April 30 2013

Lou Doillon @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris April 30 2013

 French singer LOU DOILLON playing tonight @ Canal+

French Pop-Folk, her first album had good reviews, we'll see how she's doing Live !

Not too bad,, first part was acoustic with the whole band sitting on stools down the front with Lou on acoustic guitar for some new songs.
Then there was a short break and they came back to play songs from the first album which is more orchestrated and electric (and more pop).
All the songs are slow tempo or mid-tempo so it was a relaxed affair.
Good songs but her way of singing ( or intonations) tends to be a bit annoying in the end.
Nice hour+ set.