Lulu Gainsbourg @ Fnac Ternes, Paris Nov 25 2011

Lulu Gainsbourg @ Fnac Ternes, Paris Nov 25 2011

Lulu Gainsbourg has just released an album with covers from his late father Serge Gainsbourg feat. lots of well-known artists: Marianne Faithfull, Scarlett Johansson, Iggy Pop, Vanessa Paradis & Johnny Depp and others not for the best result I've been told.
Anyway, he did , probably the shortest showcase I have ever attended.
He only played two instrumental songs on the piano, it probably lasted 4 min in all.
We were expecting songs from the album but he didn't sing at all.
Then we had a interview in which he told us that he was more a musician and arranger than singer ( the press slag him off for being a lousy singer) that's probably the reason why he didn't sing even though there was a microphone in front of him. He's more interested in being a composer for movie soundtracks., and gave us some of the names of the people he contacted for his album that didn't (or couldn't) make it including Bono from U2.
Then he signed copies of his album

Bruce Springsteen @ Paris Bercy on July 4th & 5th 2012 + European Tour 2012

updated Jan 18: with European Tour Dates

IT'S OFFICIAL :

Bruce Springsteen will play 2 shows @ Paris Bercy on July 4th & 5th.

He will be @ Montpellier's Park & Suites arena on June 19.
heck our pics & review of Bruce @ Parc des Princes 2008

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S 2012 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:

Date	City	Venue	On Sale
13 May	Sevilla	Estadio Olimpico	On Sale
17 May	Barcelona	Estadio Olimpico Lluis	On Sale
18 May	Barcelona	Estadio Olimpico Lluis	On Sale
25 May	Frankfurt	Commerzbank Arena	On Sale
27 May	Cologne	Energie Stadion	On Sale
28 May	Landgraf	Pink Pop	3 Mar
30 May	Berlin	Olympia Stadion	On Sale
2 June	San Sebastian	Estadio Anoeta	On Sale
3 June	Lisbon	Rock in Lisbon	On Sale
7 June	Milan	Stadio Meaza	On Sale
10 June	Florence	Stadio Francesco	On Sale
11 June	Trieste	Stadio Trieste	On Sale
17 June	Madrid	Estadio Santago Bernabu	On Sale
19 June	Montpellier	Park & Suites Arena	On Sale
21 June	Sunderland	Stadium of Light	On Sale
22 June	Manchester	Etihad Stadium	On Sale
24 June	Isle of Wight	Isle Of Wight Festival	On Sale
4 July	Paris	Bercy	On Sale
5 July	Paris	Bercy	On Sale
7 July	Roskilde	Roskilde Festival	On Sale
9 July	Zurich	Stadium Letzigrund	On Sale
11 July	Prague	Synot Tip Arena	On Sale
12 July	Vienna	Ernst Happel Stadium	On Sale
14 July	London	Hard Rock Calling	On Sale
17 July	Dublin	RDS	On Sale
18 July	Dublin	RDS	On Sale
21 July	Oslo	Valle Hoven	On Sale
23 July	Bergen	Koegen	On Sale
24 July	Bergen	Koegen	On Sale
27 July	Gothenberg	Ullevi	On Sale
28 July	Gothenberg	Ullevi	On Sale

Peter Doherty @, Truskel tonight, Nov 23 2011

Sorry it was announced live on OUI FM @ 7:30 pm
I've just been told that they cancelled it 2 hours later
We were @ Scorpions

Scorpions @ Bercy, Paris Nov 23 2011

Before the show (c) Official Bercy facebook Page
It's NOT a Gold award but just a commemorative "plaque"

updated Nov 25 with lots of links to videos

Scorpions + Guano Apes @ Bercy, Paris Nov 232011

Bercy is totally rammed tonight for Scorpions , they even sold tickets on the sides of the stage.
We have some fantastic seats in the stalls: 1st row with the band's family & management.
Great stage with some huge screens in the back and a catwalk where the band will band entire songs.
As it's a farewell tour it's a Best of setlist.
The show is starting nicely with a new song "Sting in the Tail".
They had to cancelled yesterday's show in Poitiers (sorry it was Tours, but who gives a fuck) and Klaus had trouble finishing the previous show in Montpellier, they had to stop it for 15 min.
Tonight his voice is perfect and the band is on top form specially Rudolf who's running like a maniac all the time.

It's a long tour so the band is making sure to have some moments so they can rest so we have lots of ballads, an instrumental "Coast to coast" to let Klaus rest his voice , a funny drum solo, a completely shitty guitar solo by Matthias.

The musicians are coming all the time on the catwalk to be closer to the fans, they're playing a couple of the acoustic numbers on it.
They do have a great lightshow that's guitar shaped (see pics below).
Klaus is giving away dozens of drumsticks to the first rows all along the show and the audience is singing along most of the songs. They're stretching out some songs so the audience can participate and sing they're lungs out.
No matter they've done some pretty average albums these last few years, on a stage they're giving it all and they've always done some great performances.
It's nice to see them them back playing in front of a full house in this Bercy arena, but even when we saw them playing at a small Zénith in front of 3000 people or at the Olympia theatre in May last year, shows were incredible.
Maybe I preferred the setlist on the previous tours, there were songs from the Uli Jon Roth era and more songs from "Lovedrive" & "Animal Magnetism" but tonight they've played a Best Of.. setlist so that everybody could go home happy.
We did !
Still loving you Scorpions !

SETLIST:
Sting In The Tail
Make It Real
Bad Boys Running Wild
The Zoo
Coast To Coast
Loving You Sunday Morning
The Best Is Yet To Come
Send Me An Angel
Holiday
Raised on Rock
Tease Me Please Me
Dynamite
Kottak Attack
Blackout
Big City Nights
-Encore 1-
Still loving You
Wind of change
Rock you like a hurricane
-Encore 2-
No one like You (sorry for the quality on this one)
-Encore 3-
When the smoke is going down (ONLY SONG MISSING ON VIDEO)

Merchandising

"Rock you like a Hurricane":

Lana Del Rey @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Nov 23 2011

Lana Del Rey @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Nov 23 2011, 3:00 PM

New American Pop sensation Lana Del Rey is (still) doing promo for her album to be out next year.
We already saw her performing one song when we went to Taratata tv show to see Lou Reed/ Metallica.We liked what we saw.
This time she's playing a "real" show in front of an audience of 200 people at the Studio 104 of la Plaine St Denis just outside Paris for Canal+ tv show "L'Album de la Semaine".
She's playing with the band she's been performing with for her last proper shows in Paris @ Nouveau Casino & @ Silencio Club this month: 3 black musicians (for the groove) on drums, bass & keys plus a white guy on guitar.
High heels, stunning dress, red hair, great actress poses, sulky attitude and always a smile in the end: that's Lana Del Rey.
She also has some really cool & laid-back songs and great voice to go with, sometimes low à la Nico, sometimes higher à la Kate Bush.
On a couple of songs you can feel a tiny Hip Hop influence but most of the songs are atmospheric, like a soundtrack to a David Lynch movie
8 songs 35 min set plus an encore with 2 songs that she already performed but this time with just a piano ( and a bit of guitar).
45 min set in all.

Despite all the gossips going on about her being manufactured, there's a great talent.

We met her after the show and she was VERY nice & Chatty with everyone, signing stuff and posing for photos with always a kind word and a smile.

Ana played another private show at a Nokia party on Nov 24 2011