Bruce Springsteen @ Festival des vieilles charrues July 16th 2009

That's official :

Bruce Springsteen & the E street band will play in Britanny at the Festival des vieilles charrues in Carhaix on july 16th.
Other bands confirmed on the same day are Fiction Plane , The Killers + another still unknown band.
Capacity for this festival is only 43 000 .
For the moment that's his only show in France, and might the only one.

Bruce Springsteen European tour 2009 so far :

May 30	Pinkpop Festival	Landgraaf, NED	3/7
June 2	Ratinan Stadion	Tampere, FIN	1/26 9 a.m.
June 4	Stockholm Stadion	Stockholm, SWE	1/26, 10 a.m.
June 5	Stockholm Stadion	Stockholm, SWE	1/26 10 a.m.
June 9	Bergenhus Festning - Koengen	Bergen, NOR	1/26, 9a.m.
June 10	Bergenhus Festning - Koengen	Bergen, NOR	1/26, 9 a.m.
July 2	Olympiastadion	Munich, GER	check here
July 3	Commerzbank-Arena	Frankfurt, GER	check here
	Despite a public onsale for Munich and Frankfurt listed as 1/26, we're told that "Tickets are on sale NOW at eventim.de. If you can't go directly to buy them, get yourself registered under Ticketalarm. You will than get an email allowing you to register for the tickets. This registration is binding and you will get a confirmation by email."
July 5	Ernst Happel Stadion	Vienna, AUS	1/26
July 8	MHC Messecenter	Herning, DEN	1/26, 10 a.m.
July 11	RDS Arena	Dublin, IRE	1/30, 9 a.m.
July 19	Stadio Olimpico	Roma, ITA	TBA
July 21	Stadio Olimpico	Torino, ITA	TBA
July 23	Stadio Friuli	Udine, ITA	TBA
July 31	Estadio Municipal de Foietes	Benidorm, SPA	TBA

Pete Doherty @ Taratata Feb 2nd 2009

Pete Doherty will be in Paris to promote his first solo record "Grace/Wastelands" on Feb 2nd @ french tv show Taratata ( other artists including Keane , friendly fire + others...). Sold out.

Reminder : Pete will be @ the Bataclan for 2 shows on March 9th and 10th ( the first one is already sold-out ) Adam Ficek 's Roses Kings Castles will be the opening band.
Adam Ficek will also play a free show @ the Gibert Joseph store on March 11th.

I've heard a few things about David Bowie recording a new album in Berlin , how can the NME relate such a stupid thing just because someone who calls himself David Bowie posted on Twitter : "Cheers from a snowy Berlin! Working on some new material!" ?
NME where's your credibily gone on this ???

Also have mixed emotions on news about The Faces reforming or not reforming , the management denied it but some news coming from London are telling me that it's on for 2009.

Keziah Jones @ Trabendo Paris Jan 22nd 2009 RATP "Destination Musique "

Keziah Jones ' private show @Trabendo for the RATP ( Parisian transportation ) Destination Musique.
Invit' only for VIPs and competition winners.
The Trabendo is a 500 capacity club, so it is now a real privilege to see him playing in such a small place as he's filling up the Olympia Theatre ( 2500 Capacity ) for several nights.
His last album was a success thanks to a very good promotion ( and his talent ) Keziah Jones played 4 secret shows in the Parisian Underground,where he was supposed to have been discovered many years ago, I was at 3 of them.
The press coverage was massive.

see past reviews here: ( all with videos )
http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2008/09/keziah-jones-le-pont-des-artistes.html
http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2008/09/keziah-jones-metro-auber-paris-sept-6th.html
http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2008/09/keziah-jones-beaubourg-center-paris.html
http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2008/09/keziah-jones-metro-montparnasse.html
http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2008/09/keziah-jones-rene-miller-metro.html

Invitation front side

He gave a catastrophic concert @ the Olympia in November , tonight he seems much more relax as usual he sometimes plays out of key, but that's allright .
He's in a good mood and he's talking with the audience. Interacting should I say .
He played a couple of songs on his own and has the audience sing.
Short set , just an hour including the encore with a very good version of his hit record " Rythm is love "
Nice gig but he could do better ( and certainly worse )

Invitation back side

Keziah Jones Blue-Funkin'

Here's a B-side:


There was an aftershow party afterwards for a 100 VIPs with champagne ans canopes, Keziah stayed there less than 2 minutes when he saw the crowd and made a quick exit , too bad.

The Faces are rolling for 2009

The Faces with Rod Stewart and Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood are planning shows for 2009.
LA's Hollywood Bowl is confirmed and a big announcement will be made soon for some London shows...
So stay tuned to Rockerparis for more info ...

Check my english friend's website for what's going on in London:
http://www.raysgigs.com/raynews.php

More News coming from the NME 's website :
1) They've wrote ( which doesn't mean they recorded it ) a new album in 3 days .
2) Flea will be their bass player ( replacing the late Ronnie Lane ).

Well , i hope they will spend more time writing new material , 3 days is a little bit short to write a whole new cd and i don't know if Flea ( From the Red Hot Chili Peppers ) is the right choice for The Faces ( what about Glenn Matlock ??? )

Bruce Springsteen news : a few European stadium shows have been confirmed in Finland and Sweden beginning of June. and talks for a show in Nice ( south of France ) in July .

AC / DC news : Boxoffice for the Marseilles' show on June 9th will open Jan 27th.

King's X @ New Morning Paris Jan 20th 2009

It's been a long time coming...
18 Years to finally see King's X playing an headlining show in Paris France.
Last time they played here was in Bercy in 1991 opening for AC / DC.
Unusual place to see a "heavy metal" band as we are in the famous jazz club New Morning.

Needless to say that the show was sold -out a long time ago

The french audience listened religiously from the first second they were on till the last one , 90 minutes later. You could feel that the band was very happy to be playing in France ...at last.
The sound is crystal clear and Doug has a fantastic bass sound.
Funny to watch the whole audience moving their heads to the beat of the drums, lots of press is also here tonight with many photographers to catch this historical moment.
Many people were left outside without ticket.
And they' ve missed something tonight. Their sophisticated progressive metal is perfect and they've just done a great show !
Thanks guys and don't wait 18 years to come back to Paris .

Power trio

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