Marie - Flore , Mina Tindle , Gaspard Royant , Mélanie Pain @ Fleche d' Or Paris Jan 13th 2009

" Live French & Folk " that's the name of this evening's concerts with 4 french artists @ La Fleche d' Or in Paris.
As you can guess they're French and they're playing Folk Rock, in English please .
All bands are playing 5-6 songs for 30 min .

First artist on stage is Gaspard Royant , very good acoustic set from this french singer singing in perfect english , so many frenchies are so ridiculous singing in english, not tonight.
Gaspard is playing with a drummer and a piano player to nice affect.
Check his myspace for more : http://www.myspace.com/gaspardroyant
Here's a video from the show : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=B9-ZbiH3AC0&feature=channel_page

Gaspard Royant

Then we have the lovely Marie - Flore, i came tonight specially for her . I first saw her when she opened for Mark Lanegan & Isobell Campbell last month.
Alone with her guitar and some home made loops , she looks frail and shy but her soft voice and guitar playing is full of feelings. She reminds me of early Cat Power.
Sooo good , check my past review with pictures here: http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2008/12/isobel-campbell-mark-lanegan-trabendo.html
Check her myspace ( with my video from the Trabendo ) here:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=89076180
Couldn't take any pictures as she played most of her set in the dark but here's a video :

Next to play is Mina Tindle with her Pop Folk rock, Jp Nataf is on banjo , another french girl who has listen too many times to Cat Power ( there's a piano too ) but it's better than listening to bon jovi, don't you think so ?
Another nice set in a very good english.
Check her myspace : http://www.myspace.com/minatindle
And video from the show :
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=CxYm5QwUtng&feature=channel_page

Mina Tindle

Last singer tonight is Melanie Pain ( another girl we're lucky tonight ) she used to sing with Nouvelle Vague.
Can't say that she's singing Folk rock. Her music is more Pop. Singing in english & french.
She has a soft voice, sounding a bit like Emilie Simon.
Instead of using samples she's using a home made vinyl with her music that she 's playing on a old player. that's a very good idea honey...
Check her myspace : http://www.myspace.com/melaniepain
Video from the show :
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=PaDqEdfnsUA&feature=channel

Melanie Pain

I usually don't go out to see unknown bands or artists , i'm such a lazy sod , but i should do this more often. All bands were really good and they were FRENCH , such a nice surprise.

Pete Doherty 's solo album name & tracklisting revealed

UPDATED : JAN 16TH

Here it is featuring Graham Coxon on guitars, recorded at The Olympic studio in Barnes:
The album will be out on Mach 9th

It's called : 'Grace/Wastelands'

All Babyshambles musicians are playing on it.
The tracklisting of Pete Doherty's solo album is:
'Arcadie'
'Last Of The English Roses'
'1939 Returning'
'A Little Death Around The Eyes'
'Salome'
'Through The Looking Glass'
'Sweet By And By'
'Palace Of Bone'
'Sheepskin Tearaway'
'Broken Love Song'
'New Love Grows On Trees'
'Lady, Don't Fall Backwards'

Babyshambles & Roger Daltrey @ Bristol Carling academy Jan 12th 2009

Pete Doherty's Babyshambles performed with The Who's Roger Daltrey to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust in Bristol yesterday night .
They've played Who songs and a Johnnny Cash cover
Here are the videos i' ve found on you tube :
The Who's My Generation:


Ring of fire + delivery :
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jow5DOm3ic
The kids are alright :
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=jpNf7pdKry0
Anyway anyhow anywhere :
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=-siOrUkGzAo&feature=channel_page

Complete setlist here :
'Pipedown'
'Beg, Steal And Borrow'
'Baddies Boogie'
'There She Goes (A Little Heartache)'
'Time For Heroes'
'A Legal Matter' (with Roger Daltrey)
'Substitute' (with Roger Daltrey)
'Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere' (with Roger Daltrey)
'The Kids Are Alright' (with Roger Daltrey)
'Magic Bus' (with Roger Daltrey)
'I Can't Explain' (with Roger Daltrey)
'Behind Blue Eyes (Roger Daltrey solo)
'I Got Stripes' (with Roger Daltrey)
'Ring Of Fire' (with Roger Daltrey)
'Delivery'
'Killamangiro'
'Albion'
'Side Of The Road'
'Fuck Forever'
'My Generation' (with Roger Daltrey)
Enjoy !

H R Giger @ Black Dog Paris Jan 10th 2009

My book signed ( left ) HR Giger signing a guitar

Famous painter H R GIGER is in Paris today @ goth bar Black Dog to sign stuff, lots of merchendising to sell ( Litho , books , Posters ... )
Signing session started at 6 PM but people were already queueing at 3 PM.
So you can guess it was crowdy , but everything went very smoothly even though this bar is quiet small.
As you can see on one of the pictures , some people get their limited edition GIGER design guitar signed.

Guitar signed + some of the Merchendising

Led Zeppelin will NOT tour or record " They're Over "

Just a couple of days after telling that Led Zeppelin will record and tour with a new singer.
Peter Mensch has told the press that THEY WILL NOT RECORD OR TOUR no matter who' s the singer, Plant or not
Even though he admitted that they tried a few singers , this dumbfuck of Peter Mensch added that "Led Zeppelin are over" for good . There are no plans for them to continue. "The whole thing is completely over now".

How can this fucker say such different things in just a couple of days ?
Does Jimmy really needs a manager like this ?

Anyway it's very quiet in Paris , Ayo did 3 shows at the Olympia , didn't bother going , James Hunter played the Café de la danse yesterday night , i couldn't go .

Next shows will be The Christians on saturday ( Alhambra ) , COCOON Jan 12th @ Olympia ,
Marie - Flore @ Fleche d' Or Jan 13th. Fleshtones Jan 15th @ Mecanique Ondulatoire. Lloyd Cole Jan 16th @ Européen.