Black Lips @ L' Album de la Semaine Canal + Feb 9th 2009

setlist, invit + giveaway posters

Live recording for Canal+ TV show " L ' album de la semaine " in front of 150 people .
Lots of fans are here tonight so the atmosphere is really cool with many people screaming.
Funny guys , the guitar player is dressed with a poncho and a huge hat and the drummer wears the french football team tee-shirt of St Etienne. The guitar player ( the one with the poncho ) is spitting in the air and catch his saliva back into his mouth. Nice !
Musically they're a bit wild sounding like a 60's garage band. They do share the lead vocals duties between the drummer , the Poncho man and the bass player who's singing most of the songs.
Lots of energy but they should sometimes focus on the way they're playing as they're singing often out of key , same with the guitars.
Nevertheless is was Fun.
Some posters were given on our way out .

Next musicians to play @ " L' Album de la semaine " are :

Seasick Steve on Feb 16th
Popa Chubby on Feb 17th

To book for both these shows ( it's free ) call Bertrand 01 55 93 40 48
Studios are situated 5 min walk from Porte de la Chapelle , north of Paris

A Camp The side-band from The Cardigans' lead singer Nina Persson will play a " Black Session " for C'est Lenoir on Feb 16th.
UPDATED fEB 13TH : BLACK SESSION CANCELLED

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss @ Grammy Awards

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss ( here with producer and musician T Bone Burnett ) won 5 Grammy Awards yesterday.
It's not good for a Led Zeppelin reunion , that will never happen... anyway as Robert Plant confirmed in an interview a couple of weeks ago.

U2 @ Stade de France July 17th & 18th 2009 ( TBC )

The title says it all
U2 will be playing 2 shows in Paris @ Stade de France July 17 th & 18 th 2009 ( could be 16th & 17 th ) TBC

U2 will be in Paris promoting their new cd on Feb 23rd playing 2 songs live at " Le Grand Journal " tv show on Canal+

Iron Maiden in Paris ?

A couple of friends told me that the musicians from Iron Maiden are in France rehearsing in a studio near Paris .
I'll check and see if i can get more info about it .

Tower of Power @ bataclan Paris Feb 06 th 2009

Tower of Power @ Bataclan in Paris Feb 06th 2009

the Marquee

Mr James Brown is dead , The JB's ,Parliament & Funkadelic are long gone , Sly ( & his Family Stone ) is high up in the clouds God knows where .
But there 's still one band funkin' & Groovin' in 2009 and he's playing the Bataclan tonight.
41 years together, a real performance in itself. Tower of Power is in da house .
A bit sad that the parisian theatre is far from being full , the balcony is closed and there are lots of empty spaces down in the pit.
What are you doing froggies on friday night ?
Anyway ToP is here to groove and that's what they're gonna do for 90 min.
Storming set very Funky but they know also how to keep things calm too with a couple of slower songs including one reminding me of those vocals band from the sixties
The band will release a new cd next month ( they've play one new song from it ) featuring Tom Jones ,the legend from Sam & Dave : Sam Moore and the lovely Joss Stone.
Nice evening & some of the guys came to sign stuff to fans just after the show
I guess that everyone went home happy

The whole cast & signing session with singer and original bass player

Groovin' in Paris + Setlist

Aftershow meeting