mardi 31 mars 2009

Les Wampas @ Casino de Paris March 30th 2009

Les Wampas + Les Brats @ Casino de Paris March 30th 2009

A sold-out Casino de Paris for the French Punk-Rock band Les Wampas

I've been a few times at the Gibus club a couple of years ago for the " baby-rocker scene" , and i can't remember seeing them but support band Les Brats were awful and some of their lyrics are really appalling.

Les Wampas are one of the "finest" rock band in France.
Seeing them playing live is always like Chritsmas. The atmosphere is really relax and it seems that everybody knows each other , their fans are like a big family. Quite surprising for a Punk band it's a 50% female audience.
They've played lots of new songs and their classics.

Didier Wampas crowd-surfing

Of Course Didier , the singer , went several times crowd-surfing while singing or playing guitar to the other side of the theatre even climbing up twice to the balcony to say hello and kiss people.

Didier is training for the Bouglione Cirkus ( left )

It's a tradition for the last song all the girls are getting on the stage , watch out if you're a man you'll be punch out immediately back into the pit.

Get over us little man !

We have a winner !

Les Wampas & 'The Queen of the Night' Régine
" La grande Zoa" :


lundi 30 mars 2009

Beatles' unrealeased footage Abbey Road Studio 2 July 30th 1968

Nice 5 min+ footage of the Beatles recording songs in the EMI studio 2 Abbey Road July 30th 1968

vendredi 27 mars 2009

Eagles Of Death Metal @ Bataclan March 27th 2009

Eagles of Death Metal @ Bataclan March 27th 2009

Sold-Out again in Paris

The Pigeons of Shit Metal as Axl Rose famously called them once are back in Paris for another sold-out gig two months after their show at the Nouveau Casino ( Jan the 27th ).
I only saw them once and it was at the famous Canal+ tv show "L' Album de la semaine"(click for the review & setlist ) and i thought they were very limited and a rip-off of the Stones even tough they were funny.
I've allways prefer a serious good band to a funny shitty band.

A wild audience in da pit

Tonight i've changed my mind , seeing them in front of an excited live audience is quite a difference.
Don't get me wrong they're still a bit limited , well i'm talking about their singer Jesse, can't say that about the monster drummer ( QOTSA ) , this guy is a fucking killer on drums .
Dave Catching
on guitars is cool and doing his parts properly. They have a funny Marky Ramone look-alike on Bass.
The songs are lively ( i'm not too familiar with their repertoire ) and you can really feel that these guys are having fun.
They did a nice version of Brown Sugar and a killer " New Rose" by The Damned which was the very first Punk records months before the Sex Pistols.
Nice evening
See ya Mother Fuckers !
Setlist +
Ridiculous pass-sheet for a band that is playing theatres.

EODM with a guest on vocals :

The Pretty Things + Guests @ Trabendo March 26th 2009

The Pretty Things & guests
+ The revellions @ Trabendo March 26th 2009

The Revellions

I've missed part of the first band so can't tell you that much about it but they seem OK
Then we had The Revellions from Ireland , good set , we're in the time machine Year 1966-67, the singer was a bit wild and a bit drunk too. Nice opening.
Our fellow photographer Patrice Guino for ONCE was NOT on the guest list, and you can't imagine how pissed off he was , but thanks to one of his mate could get in. ;-)
It's Funny when these things happen as it tends to annoy him greatly and make us LoL... anyway enjoy his pictures and fuck'em all.
The 3 Stooges

Nice to see The Pretty Things back in Paris , last time we saw them was at the 40th (?) anniversary of the Gibus Club a couple of year ago.
They have two new kids on drums and Bass.
Things haven't changed that much , still the same ol' blues rock, i really dig the guitar sound ( courtesy of Dick Taylor ) and Phil is as cool as ever.
Phil is showing us a magic trick ( left )
They invited guests to come and play with them , French singer Little Bob and French guitar player Henry Padovani (who was in the first line-up of The Police before Andy Summers ) for a couple of blues songs . See video of the second song below.
Once again a nice set and don't be fooled by the setlist below a couple of things are missing on it.
Jam with Little Bob & Henry Padovani

The Pretty Guests
SETLIST, May not be accurate & May relaxing after the show

The Pretty Things +Guests Little Bob & Henry Padovani :

mercredi 25 mars 2009

Iggy Pop + guests @ " La Musicale " March 25th 2009

Iggy Pop + Keren Ann , Emma De Caunes , Catherine Ringer , Benjamin Biolay , Peaches & Izia
@ "La Musicale" Canal+ March 25th 2009
Second day of recording for this french TV show that will be broadcasted on Canal+ on April 27th.

Things went much more smoothly than yesterday , they didn't have to do 2 or 3 takes of the same song and instead of staying almost 2 hours we only stayed for an hour.
Guests were more interesting and the show was more rock.

Setlist 1

Same as yesterday as we had duets once again :
  • For the first number " Les feuilles mortes" Iggy was solo , slow song , it's a poem from Jacques Prevert , french crooner Yves Montand made it famous by singing it.
  • First duet of the night with Keren Ann , cool song too
  • Iggy solo for what is his first single ( "Kings of the dogs" ) from his new album " Preliminaires"
  • Great duet with the beautiful MC for this show Emma De Caunes ( daughter of famous Antoine De Caunes ) on " You're the boss" originally sung by Elvis and Ann Margeret
  • Another great duet with Catherine Ringer ( from Rita Mitsuko ) on Screaming Jay Hawkins ' " i put a spell on You"
  • Benjamin Biolay did a cool one with Iggy
  • Peaches as always is a bit mad , the two seems to go on well ( Peaches played on several songs from Skull Ring )
  • Last guest was Izia ( daughter of French singer Jacques Higelin ) who already opened for The Stooges in Paris a couple of years ago. She's young , in her late teens , and has a nice rocking voice à la Janis Joplin. First song was dedicated to Ron Asheton , the late Stooges who died a couple of months ago , then we were lucky to be treated with a bonus song that wasn't planned " Gloria" by Van Morrison.
setlist 2

Great night and much more better than yesterday's recording.
One again Great job by Stéphane Saunier who organised everything.
This show is really one of a kind , seeing Iggy performing duets with all these artists and having the Primeur of hearing his new songs LIVE more than one month before it's out ( May 15th ) is a real privilege.

Oh ! by the way here's the artwork from Iggy Pop 's new album " Préliminaires":


There was a press conference @ the Hotel Regina in Paris the day after and Iggy Pop confirmed that he will NOT tour for this record .
So this tv show will be the only time he performed these songs.
How lucky we were.