Sean Lennon & Charlotte Muhl @ Point Ephémere Paris Oct 3rd 2009

Sean lennon & Charlotte Muhl
@ Point Ephémere Oct 3rd 2009

On the night of the " Nuit Blanche" lots of artistic performances in Paris including this strange football pitch where kids are gonna have fun all night long next to the Point Ephémere where Sean Lennon & girlfriend Charlotte Muhl are playing their first show.

The club is packed tonight, first we have folk singer Sam Amidon for half an hour and then Sean & Charlotte.
Not yet as Sean is telling us that his mother is late so he has to wait to start the show but as people didn't want to let him wait backstage he's staying on the stage and has a chat with the audience for a good 5 min.
He's inviting one of his friend Irina to do a duet with him ( Pic below ) then Charlotte is taking the stage.

She's dressed in a very sexy way and is quite young, let's see if she's talented.

It's probably one of the first time ever that they're playing their songs in front of an audience, Sean is on the guitar and Charlotte on the vocals and tambourine , later on the bass.
Songs are pop and similar to what Sean has recorded for his last solo record.
Charlotte has a nice tiny sexy voice and has co-written most of the material played tonight.
Sean is very cool and relax speaking in a fluent french with the very quiet and dedicated French audience.
Charlotte is even playing bass for a few songs and is doing very well after learning it for just 2 weeks , so they say.

Here's the setlist

Nice

After the show Sean & Charlotte went to sign and pose for photos but wasn't very happy as not a lot of people were buying his new cd so he decided to leave and pack his stuff. Not so nice.
Even when he was signing stuff you could feel that he was just doing "after sales service" .
Nice gig.

Merchandising

Prince in Paris ?

Rumours are back :

Prince @ Fashion week ?
Several shows in Paris in October ???
Check back for more news soon

The Cult @ Bataclan Paris Oct 2nd 2009

The Cult @ Bataclan Paris
Oct 2nd 2009

After opening for The Who in Paris Bercy a couple of years ago , The Cult is back in Paris , this time to headline the Bataclan theatre.

As we get in , french stoner band Nebulla Oscillator are already playing , the sound is messy and it seems like they're playing the same song over and over again.
It's very easy to get down the front of the pit as there are lots of spaces ; the balcony , with reserved seats for the crazy fans who are willing to pay more than a 100 Euros for a meet & greet after the show, is quite full.

They start the show with " Nirvana " , the sound is neat even tough Ian ' s voice is very far in the mix.
Of course there are always a couple of drunk assholes pushing their way to the front and pissing off everybody, the security had to calm them down and kicked one out in the end

Anyway Billy Duffy on the guitar is on top form, still looking great and posing with his guitar like a true guitar hero unfortunately there are no photographers at all as The Cult didn't want any press photographers ( but us ) WOW so enjoy the Pics.
Ian is looking more and more like Jim Morrison at the end of his life when he was living in Paris

I don't know the new guys at all but they have a nice bass player and a funny looking guitarist.
A fweird thing happened : Ian though that one guy in the front was challenging him or insulting him so he spat in his face and insulted , the poor guy, several times and asked the security to kick him out. They didn't know what to do as the guy didn't do anything wrong.
In fact he was just showing his " The Cult " tattoos to Ian.
Big misunderstanding.
The show went on without problems ( see setlist for details )

Setlist & Merchandising

After the show we went to the Meet & Greet ( of course we didn't pay , do we look like we have to pay for an autograph ? No fucking way .
There were around 50 people queueing , the band was nice and chatty sitting behind a table , it wasn't a proper meet & greet like i though it would be but you could get a picture with the whole band. So cool.

" Rise" :

Gigs for October in Paris

It's been very quiet for this week
Here are the next shows in Paris :

Sept 30th :
Au Revoir Simone @ Cabaret Sauvage
Starsailor @ Elysée Montmartre

Oct 2nd:
Tony Franck Photo Exhibition @ Fnac Forum 5:30 PM
Elton John & Ray Cooper @ Palais des Congres

The Cult @ Bataclan

Oliver Peel session with Mad Man & Leopold Skin

Oct 3rd:
Sean Lennon @ Point Ephemere
Tori Amos @ Palais des Congres

Oct 4th:
Roses Kings Castles @ disquaires ( 6 rue des Taillandiers near Bastille )
Green Day @ Bercy ( sold out )
SparkleHorse @ Trabendo

Oct 5th:
Stella McCartney Fashion show @ Palais de Tokyo 10AM
Graham Coxon + Dot Allison + Roses Kings Castles & Peter Doherty @ Zénith
Roses Kings Castles @ Belushi's ( 5 min walk from the Zénith ) @ 11 PM
Yoko Ono & Sean Lennon @ Le Grand journal Canal+ TV Show

Oct 6th:
CHANEL fashion show @ Grand Palais 10AM

The Dynamites feat Charles Walker @ L' Album de la semaine TV Show
Great soul/Funk Music, Bookings here : Bertrand 01 55 93 40 48 NOW

Jay Jay Johanson @ New Morning
Alexander McQueen fashion show @ salle Marcel Cerdan Bercy 8:30 PM

Oct 7th:
Mick Taylor ( Ex Rolling Stones ) @ Le Plan in Ris Orangis ( 10 miles outside Paris )

AC / DC 's Backtracks Box -set The visual :

Updated Sept 29th :

Here's the link with lots of pics from the collector's box-set , the details for all the tracks on cd & dvd and so on....
http://www.acdcbacktracks.com/pages/3999219/?locale=en

The only thing I can say after seeing this : the so called "unreleased songs"... and the price they're selling it

SONY, FUCK YOU !!!
How can you sell something like this ?
There's NOTHING at all in this boxset , all the so-called unreleased songs are all well-known songs that any AC/DC fans already have.
Not mentioning all the songs from the "Live at Donington" & " No Bull"
This limited edition boxset is also manufactured in the USA which means that there are taxes (30 euros ) and shipping (45 euros ) so : 75 Euros to add to the price .
Don't tell me that SONY couldn't have manufactured it in Europe.
Fuckin' crooks.

Here's the visual for the box-set , out in mid -November