Pearl jam European Tour 2009

UPDATED APRIL 27th

YES, THERE WILL BE A EUROPEAN TOUR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are the shows confirmed so far :

Rotterdam Ahoy (August 13)
Berlin Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide (15)
Manchester MEN Arena (17)
London England 02 Arena (18)

They will be playing a festival in the States at the end of August
More info HERE

Babyshambles @ Neo Club in Paris - Secret Gig- March 11th 2009

Babyshambles @ Neo Club , Paris March 11th 2009
-Secret Gig-

Fantastic way of ending a week of concerts with The Peter Doherty & friends ' "Family"

• 1) Pete Doherty played a solo acoustic set for Canal+ TV show "L' Album de la Semaine" ( March 2nd ).
• 2) Pete Doherty playing his single on"Le fou du roi" radio show ( March 3rd )
• 3) Adam Ficek's Roses Kings Castles @ Pop'In ( March 8th )
• 4) Pete Doherty & Friends Featuring Graham Coxon @ Bataclan ( March 9th )
• 5) Pete Doherty solo acoustic set in a double decker bus ride around Paris ( March 10th, 7:00 PM )
• 6) Pete Doherty & Friends Feat. Graham Coxon @ Bataclan 2nd show ( March 10th , 9:00 PM )
• 7) Adam Ficek's Roses Kings Castles @ Gibert Joseph Music Store ( March 11th , 5:00 PM )

• 8) BABYSHAMBLES 's secret gig @ Neo Club near the Champs Elysées in Paris ( March 11th at midnight )

Click on each link above for review , setlist , Pics & videos

WHAT A FUCKING WEEK I HAD !!!

Toxic Twins

Kissing

They started the gig nicely with "Baddie's boogie" ( Here on video ) and then i can't bloody remember a thing , they've played hits after hits , it was a Libertines/Babyshambles Best of... they even played a cover from one of those shitty electronic duet from the eighties. ( "West end girls" from The Pet Shop Boys).

SETLIST included " Back from the dead" , "fuck forever" , "Unstookie titled", " I wish", "Albion", ...plus others , i'll get the correct setlist soon )

Pete and Mick were in high spirit , both having the time of their life , joking , kissing eachother ( see picture above ) .
Nice to have Mick back for Babyshambles songs as Graham Coxon seemed a bit lost playing them ( He was perfect on Pete 's solo material @ the Bataclan ).
Conditions were perfect for me as i was seating in a sofa just in front of Pete ( well , in fact there was no stage at all ) with 200 people behind me in this trendy club having also the time of their life.
A few posh people and very sexy girls ( this was the last day of the Fashion week in Paris ) but many fans were invited by band members ( Thanks Adam for putting Mathilde and I on the guest list ) including all the "hangers on" from the Bergerac café.
The band was on for a good hour playing 14-15 songs.
Pete was particularly WILD tonight singing in the audience , sofa-diving into the audience ( first time i'm seeing someone doing a SOFA-diving ) ; crashing his mike or the drums by jumping on it and finally tearing down part of the ceiling by hitting on it with the mike-stand .

Pete was really wasted by the end of this FANTASTIC GIG , probably the best I have ever seen from the Shambles.

Videos from MadameMime007 " I Wish " another version of "baddie's boogie".
Another video from the secret gig "There she goes"

"Baddie's Boogie" :

Adam Ficek @ Gibert Joseph Paris March 11th 2009

Adam Ficek @ Gibert Joseph store Paris March 11th 2009
AKA Roses Kings Castles

Elvis '58 is back

Dedicated audience

Really nice 20 min+ set by Adam Ficek ( drummer for The Babyshambles and Peter Doherty )
Many people came down to this free gig set up by Mathilde, i've already seen most of the girls present at the Bataclan for Pete's gigs.
It's a big family, everybody seems to know each other.

Peter was playing one song at 6:00 Pm for Canal+ tv show " Le Grand Journal " ( click to see Peter performing his single ) we couldn't get there in time as the show wasn't broadcasted live but recorded one hour earlier than usual , too bad !
Here 's another "secret" video from his performance

See our previous review of Adam Ficek' s gig at the Pop'In. a couple of days ago

Adam in full action :

Pete Doherty & friends @ Bataclan Paris March 10th 2009

Pete Doherty & Friends @ Paris Bataclan March 10th 2009

First part of the show was the same as yesterday : he played Grace/Waystelands in his entirety.

with Graham Coxon on guitars

Setlist : ( courtesy of Oliver Peel )
01: You're My Waterloo (Libertines)
02: Arcady
03: Last Of The English Roses
04: 1939 Returning
05: A Little Death Around The Eyes
06: Salome
07: Through The Looking Glass
08: Palace Of Bone
09: Music When The Lights Go Out (The Libertines)
10: Good Old Days (The Libertines)
11: I Am The Rain
12: Sheepskin Tearaway (mit Dot Allison)
13: Lady Don't Fall Backwards
14: Sweet By And By Drew
15: New Love Grows On Trees
15: Broken Love Song
16: Albion
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17: Back From The Dead (Babyshambles)
18: Side Of The Road (Babyshambles)
19: Time For Heroes (The Libertines)
20: Fuck Forever (Babyshambles)
No doubt : better show than yesterday.

some (very) young fans

Then we went to the Aftershow 1 , a bar/restaurant at the Canal St Martin , the whole band was there with all the crew and friends, including Pete .
We had a long chat with Graham Coxon , He's so nice and he gave us some great infos about the Blur return. I won't tell .
More pictures from the aftershow here: Flickr from Oliver Peel

Graham here with German and Austrian friends of ours

Here with Cécile handshaking for the "entente cordiale" between Germany and England
+ some stuff from the shows & bus ride

The night wasn't over for us , we went to the Bergerac café for an early morning drink , Adam & Drew were present + some of their friends & fans and a couple of guys from their entourage.
It's past 2 AM and it 's time to go to sleep .

FUCK FOREVER :

Pete Doherty Double decker bus ride in Paris March 10th 2009

UPDATED : March 11th with new pics and videos

Ride On

Pete Doherty was supposed to play a private gig in a double decker bus at 1 pm , once again this publicity stunt for the released of his solo cd was CANCELLED at the eleventh hour.

In fact NO , we had a phone call from the record company who made everything possible to get Peter , so we picked him up at 7:30 Pm with the bus directly at his hotel and we ( 15 competition winners + Pete 's friends ) headed for the Bataclan.
We ( i mean Mathilde , Candice and myself ) were sitting on the upper deck first row down the front just next to him , how cool is that !
We were given posters and tee-shirt but no cd , it's not out yet .
It was funny to see Pete having his new solo cd in his hands for the very first time , he looked at the cd and the booklet carefully.

One beer for the road

Everyone could get his things signed , took pics with him , had a chat and then he took his guitar and played us several songs, taking requests ( setlist soon ) until we arrived at the Bataclan 40 minutes later.

SETLIST : (click on songs to see videos , thanks to candice for filming )
Can't Stand Me Now , Can't stand me now ( different video angle )

France
the Ha ha wall

Back from the Deads

What Katie did ?

The Good Old Days
( and maybe "When the lights go out" not sure about it )

IN-CRE-DI-BLE : One the smallest show i have ever attended ( less than 20 people )
ROCK 'N ROOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL !!!!!

new pics

James Dean 's in da house ...sorry Bus ( left )

Discovering his new cd for the first time ( left )

Some Winners & Dot allison

Pete boarding the bus :

Next stop : Bataclan