Football, Football and ...football with a little bit of Rock

Hi there
Been lazy those last 3 days didn't go to Manu Chao ( Jun 11th and 12th )
neither to Supergrass ( 12th ).

Tonight The Damned are playing the Gibus and Marron5 the Olympia
I'll crush once again on my sofa in front of the Tv to watch Football as france is playing vs Holland, they've been very good and beat the shit out of those macaronis. Should erect 'em a statue for this.

Well, as i want to update the site as often as possible i've asked my mate Patrice Guino to sent me some pictures from his archives so that you can rock your arse off .

He's a very good photographer as you could see:

Here are a few gems :Iggy & the Stooges , Paris Zénith May 08 th 2006
Little Richard , Paris Olympia Jun 06 th 2005

James Brown's last show in Paris , Juin 29 th 2006 @ Palais des Congres.

Enjoy !!!

Check Oliver's site too, lots of critics and pictures. In english, french and german ( updated very often ) :
http://monconcertmonblog.blogspot.com/

Offspring Paris Trabendo Jun 10th

Offspring at the tiny Trabendo ( 500 capacity ) , i wasn't there but one of my mate sent me the setlist :

Bad Habit
All I want
Come Out and Play
Beheaded
Gone Away
Hammerhead
Have you ever
Staring at the sun
Trust in You
Gotta get away
Want you bad
You're gonna go far, kid
Why don't you get a job
Pretty fly
What happened to you?
Americana
The kids aren't alright
-encore -
Session
Can't get my head around you
Self Esteem

They've played for 80 min.

Radiohead Paris Bercy Jun 10th 2008

Back to bercy for the second show
This time i could see Bat For Lashes : nice electro-rock music but not the best conditions to see them, everyone was talking over the music and they've played almost completely in the dark for the whole gig. Her voice remind me of Bjork but she's much more sexy
Good introduction to radiohead
Well, what can i say ?
Tonight was the same "shit " as yesterday: Some ( very )good parts and some (very) boring parts
Here's the setlist :
01. 15 Step
02. Bodysnatchers
03. All I Need
04. Airbag
05. Nude
06. Pyramid Song
07. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
08. The Gloaming
09. Dollars And Cents
10. Faust Arp
11. Videotape
12. Optimistic
13. Just
14. Reckoner
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. Fake Plastic Trees
17. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Encore1 :
18. House of Cards
19. There there
20. Bangers’n Mash
21. The National Anthem
22. How To Disappear Completely
Encore2 :
23. Super Collider
24. You And Whose Army ?
25. Karma Police ( dedicated to "Bat for Lashes ” )
26. Idioteque

Radiohead Paris Bercy Jun 9th 2008

Hi there
So that's my first message on this Blog , let's see how things are working down here .

RADIOHEAD BERCY 9 jUIN 2008
Yesterday was the the first Radiohead concert at the 16500 capacity Bercy arena. they will be playing tonight as well. Bat For Lashes is supporting for both night .
Couldn't be in time for the support slot.
I gotta say i WAS very fond of them many years until they played some dumbass electronic music after OK Computer and i wasn't really convinced by their "free-download-pay-what-you-want" - iN rAINBOWS - album. But Radiohead has always been very good on stage.
Unfortunately tonight they played too many songs from their lasts albums to really get my attention; Don't get me wrong they were good especially with the old rocking gems; But they are way toooo electro for me.
So i had mixed feelings about yesterday's gig.

Setlist :
1) All I Need
2) There There
3) Lucky
4) Bangers’n Mash
5) 15 Step
6) Nude
7) Pyramid Song
8) Arpeggi
9) The Gloaming
10) My Iron Lung
11) Faust Arp
12) Videotape
13) Morning Bell
14) Where I End And You Begin
15) Reckoner
16) Everything In Its Right Place
17) Bodysnatchers
Rappel 1
18) Exit Music (For A Film)
19) Jigsaw Falling Into Place
20) House Of Cards
21) Paranoid Android
22) Street Spirit
Rappel 2
23) Like Spinning plates
24) You and whose Army ?
25) Idioteque

So they've played the whole of " In rainbows" including the bonus song.
Only 2 tracks from -The Bends- and 3 tracks from - OK Computer-

JOHN FOGERTY Grand Rex Paris June 8th 2008

Back to the beautiful Grand Rex after the Pete Doherty no-show.
This time no Eurostar 5 hours delay
John Fogerty is like Santa Claus : he's coming to town every year.
As always He's rockin' and Rollin' and if you wanna hear some solid rock' n Roll : He's Da Man

Setlist :
1,Born On The Bayou
2,Bad Moon Rising
3,Green River
4,Who'll Stop The Rain
5,Lookin' Out My Backdoor
6,Don't You Wish It Was True
7,Bootleg
8,Midnight Special
9,I Heard It Through The Grapevine
10,Comin' Down The Road
11,Jambalaya
12,Broken Down Cowboy
13,Keep On Chooglin'
14,Have You Ever Seen The Rain
15,Down On The Corner
16,Old Man Down The Road
17,Hey Tonight
18,Fortunate Son
19,Rockin' All Over The World
20,Proud Mary

As you could guess, lots of Creedence Cleawater Revival Songs
No surprises but no disappointments.
Tonight we were not lucky as john was sick we were treated with a small 20 songs set instead of the usual 27 songs set.