Eric Burdon & The Animals @ Olympia, Paris Nov 26 2013

Eric Burdon & The Animals @ Olympia, Paris Nov 26 2013

The Animals (well what's left of...) were in Paris a few months ago at the tiny New Morning club now it's their singer ERIC BURDON.Last time Eric played Paris was at the Trabendo club, he also played a full show for France Inter radio in 2006.

Nice surprise the Olympia is quite full for this all seated event, of course  tickets were very expensive : 90 euros for the best seats down the front.

French singer Camille Bazbaz is opening, alone with a keyboard...well that was ok.

Then Legendary Eric Burdon is introduced on stage by the promoter, He's looking good, short white hair, sunglasses, jacket and scarf over a "peace-sign" tee-shirt. 7 musicians on stage including Eric Mac Fadden on guitar.

To  our surprise some of his most famous songs are played in the first part of the set, see setlist below for details, we're wondering what would be left for the encore. These songs are re-orchestrated for good, well..."Misunderstood"  is too slow compare to the original version.
We also have songs from the very good new record "Till your river runs dry", the band is tight and Eric's voice is fine.
"We're gonna get out of this place " is stretched out past the 10 min mark with guitar and keyboard soli, too bad that the audience, mostly in their late fifties, is a bit too quiet. We have to wait for the encore, 70 min after the start for them to stand up.

The band is leaving the stage after a rousing version of "I'm crying" here on video.

A second encore would have been perfect as they've only played for a bit more than 80 min.

Great show.

Merchandising / original and incorrect (? )setlist /

"I'm crying"


 Archives:
The Animals with Steve Cropper @ new morning club 2013

Hellfest 2014 , Sonisphere & Download 2014, The line ups so far...

Hellfest 2014 , Sonisphere & Download 2014, The line ups so far...

 3 main Festivals this summer, only one in France but 3 fantastic headliners...

Download 2014 in England 13-15 June Donington Park:

Aerosmith,Avenged Sevenfold,Linkin Park,Alter Bridge,Rob Zombie,Fall Out Boy,Status Quo,Offspring,Steel Panther,Trivium and many others...

AEROSMITH European Tour 2014 so far:
 May30 : Hartwall Areena, Helsinki
June 01 Tele2 Arena , Stockholm
June 04: Odderoya Kristiansand, Norway
June 06: Festival  Horsens, Denmark
June 09: O2 World Berlin, Germany
June 18: Westfallen halle Dortmund, Germany
HELLFEST
June 25: Arena concirti Fiera Milano, Italy

Sonisphere 2014 Knebworth Park  04th-06th July:

major announcement next week, it looks like the French edition is dead specially after the strong rumours about the Hellfest line up for 2014

HELLFEST 2014 June 20-21-22 2014:

So ...

Friday: IRON MAIDEN headlining (which day ?)

Saturday: AEROSMITH (?)

Sunday: BLACK SABBATH (?)

Looks like it's on its way with Aerosmith in Europe for the summer and BLACK SABBATH extending its word tour in the USA from March 31 to April 26 and then Europe (with Soundgarden opening on some of these shows):

May 29 Abu Dhabi, UAE – du Arena

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Jun 01 Moscow, Russia – Olympic Stadium
Jun 03 Saint Petersburg, Russia – TBA
Jun 06 Solvesborg, Sweden – Sweden Rock Festival
Jun 08 Berlin, Germany – Kindl-Buhne Wuhlheide
Jun 11 Lodz, Poland – Atlas Arena – Impact Festival
Jun 13 Munich, Germany – Konigsplatz
Jun 15 Pannonia Fields, Austria – Nova Rock Festival
Jun 18 Casalecchio di Reno, Italy – Unipol Arena
Jun 20 Hallenstadion, Zurich

HELLFEST
Jun 24 Stuttgart, Germany – Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
Jun 27 Essen, Germany – Stadion-Essen

see ya there

Jim Morrison 70th Birthday celebration @ Galerie Blumann, Paris from Nov 23rd to dec 31 2013

Jim Morrison 70th Birthday celebration @ Galerie Blumann, Paris 

from Nov 23rd to Dec 31 2013

 Never seen before pictures from Gunther Zint

Galerie Blumann : 4 place des Vosges - 75004 Paris

Ouvert tous les jours de 12h à 19h

 

 

"Flags from the old regime" Peter Doherty & Alizé Meurisse exhibition @ Espace Djam, Paris From Nov 22

"Flags from the old regime" Peter Doherty & Alizé Meurisse exhibition @ Espace Djam, Paris 

From Nov 22

 We went there at the very beginning , lots of people, Peter was supposed to say hello but we didn't stay long enough to see him.

in fact , yes he turned up later, here are some pics here

Jake Bugg @ Album de la Semaine, Canal+, Paris Nov 20 2013

Jake Bugg @ Album de la Semaine, Canal+, Paris Nov 20 2013

see ya there for this tv show, one day before his show @ Olypia to play songs from the new album "Shangri La"

Setlist: 1) There's a beast 2) Strorm passes 3) Messed up kis 4) Pine Trees 5) Song about love 6) All your reasons 7) Scumville sunrise 8) What doesn't kill ya

Jake Bugg with a drummer and a bass player only playing his new song, a bit different than his first album, now there are some proper rock songs mixed with some acoustic stuff and his trademark Roy Orbison/ Johnny Cash stuff. The little fucker is talented, whatever style he's playing he's good.