Bryan Ferry & The Bryan Ferry Orchestra @ Jazz à La Villette, Paris , Sept 03 2013

Bryan Ferry & The Bryan Ferry Orchestra @ Jazz à La Villette, Paris , Sept 03 2013

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It's been a long since we last saw Bryan Ferry, apart from a Q&A @ Fnac store to promote the Olympia album. It was at the Grand Rex in 2007.
This year he has just released a jazz album and he's playing tonight with his orchestra, all dressed up in tuxedos, the band is playing songs on their own, pure jazz. Everyone is listening politely, hoping that Bryan will turn up to his own gig, he's making his entrance on stage after 6 songs with "Love is a drug" could have been worse !
Songs are a bit re-orchestrated jazz style with horns but it's also a rock concerts specially when playing with his own drummer, a sexy female: Cherisse Osei ,  and a young gunslinger on guitar: Oliver Thompson.
Many songs from his solo album , some Roxy Music and a few covers (see setlist below for full details).
The set is divided in several parts: Jazz / Pop-Rock / Horns orientated / soulful with some neat backing-vocals from the two girls and more rock at the end.
As always with Bryan it's very classy and the girls from the audience are standing up and dancing in the aisles and getting down the front to get a closer look to their childhood lover.
After an average start with jazz instrumentals Bryan won the audience over with some classy vocals-great songs and some kick ass rock versions at the end
great gig.

 

 

 setlist above (far right)

Bryan Ferry's version of Van Morrison's "Crazy Love"

 
Archives:

Bryan Ferry @ Fnac store to promote new album

Next ROCK shows in Paris for August & September 2013

Next ROCK shows in Paris for August & September 2013

August 13:

Jello Biafra @ Glazart

August 23-24-25

ROCK EN SEINE (click for the full line-up)

September 03:

Brian Ferry @ grande Halle de la Villette

Crocodiles @ Nouveau casino

Sept 06

Deftones @ Zénith

Sept 07:

Paramore @ Zénith

Sept 10:

CHIC feat. Nile Rodgers@ Grande Halle de la Villette

Sept 14 :

Jack Johnson @ Olympia

Holidays in the sun...2013

No ROCK EN SEINE (too much crap)  for ROCKERPARIS

SEE YA IN SEPTEMBER !!!

Rokia Traoré + Concrete Knives @ Hotel de Ville, Paris , July 20 2013

Rokia Traoré + Concrete Knives @ Hotel de Ville, Paris , July 20 2013

Back at Hotel de Ville for this Free festival, We already saw Rokia Traoré @ UNESCO for the Evening of Solidarity with Mali in February  where she was invited to perform with other Afrivcan artists , at the time she only played a couple of songs. We have a bit more tonight 25-30 min set.

Pop-Rock with African rhythms, nice. Better when she's singing in English than in French. 

Then we have Concrete Knives, a french indie-pop band with, once again , African Rhythms, The kind of music to dance to.

Not really our stuff but very enjoyable and a singer very "French Chic" with the attitude of Jeunes Gens modernes.

The Blues Brothers Band @ Trianon, Paris July 19 2013

The Blues Brothers Band @ Trianon, Paris July 19 2013

Steve Cropper is back in Paris, a few months after playing with The Animals @ New Morning club. From the original band there's only The Colonel & Lou Marini.

The Blues Brothers are playing quite often over here, they were @ Enghien les Bains for a free show on July 02 2011, first gig after Alan Rubin's death a month earlier. They also played @ the Olympia theatre on July 05 2008 with guest Eddie Floyd on vocals.

We arrived too late to see opener Mountain Mex, both balconies are full but the pit is pretty empty as we're making our way in, everyone's at the bar , it's so hot in there and the show hasn't started yet.

It's 8:30 when the musicians are getting on stage one by one unannounced to everyone's surprise to start with two instrumentals "Booker T's " Green Onions" and the theme from Peter Gunn before the first singer, dressed up as a Blues Brother with the trademark black hat, sunglasses,white shirt/ black suit makes his entrance for a set of blues and soul covers made famous by the movie to a whole new generation of fans. Only classics are performed (see setlist for details below) and with the addition of a second singer and with the Jack/ Elwood dance routine it's like attending the shooting of the original Blues Brothers movie as both singers are doing a terrific job.

Show is ending with great renditions of Steve Winwood's "gimme some Loving" and the Classic "Everybody need Somebody to love".
Great show !!!

 setlist (above)

"Gimme Some Lovin' "

Melissa Laveaux @ Parvis Hotel de Ville, Fnac Live, Paris , July 19 2013

Melissa Laveaux @ Parvis Hotel de Ville, Fnac Live, Paris , July 19 2013

Before going to The Blues Brothers band @ Trianon, short stop @ Parvis de l'Hotel de Ville to see Melissa Laveaux. Pop-Folk with some African influences, not really our thing , enjoyable though.
Keziah Jones was next.