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samedi 11 avril 2009

Peter Doherty video @ L' album de la semaine April 2009

Peter Doherty recorded last month this tv show for Canal+
Here's an extract , the whole show will be broadcated on Canal+ April 18th at midnight:

vendredi 10 avril 2009

Anthony & the Johnsons @ Grand Rex Paris April 9th 2009

Watch a video of Anthony @ Album de la semaine TV show (click on link )
Recorded April 8th in Paris

Anthony & the Johnsons @ Grand Rex

Paris April 9th 2009

Correct setlist

Anthony was playing "L'album de la semaine" tv show for Canal+ yesterday , I didn't go as I was at Bob Dylan.
So i'm glad that he's playing a long sold-out show in the most beautiful cinema in France and probably the biggest with more than 2000 confortable seats. These seats are so confortable that they are closer to private sofas. So the conditions are perfect.
Anthony's last cd " The crying Light" is absolutely great so i was looking forward for this gig. His voice is sooo amazing, quite a difference compare to Bob Dylan's
The gig started very slowly with lots of very slow songs but then things started to move a bit.
Anthony is on the piano on the left with 6 musicians on the right ( Drums , Bass, Guitar , 2 violins or cellos and woodwind ).
Once again i've found out another artist who's palying 90% of the wole set almost completely in the dark but it suits the music fine, See Pics ( or video )for the only moment with decent lightning.

Thumbs up for the performance !

His voice is very emotional and the gig went smoothly until he had to restart " you are my sister" 3 times but he took the opportunity to chat with the audience and be political on God & Jesus + Obama for a good 5 min that was really fun and interesting.
Some songs were welcome with rousing applause ( the "old" ones )
No one has the new cd in here ?
The guy is nice , the songs are good and the voice is amazing : Great gig
Anthony has gone a long way since his first show at the tiny Maroquinerie a few years ago.
Next step is the Zénith in Paris ( Hope so )

From Oliver Peel :
A few pictures from the gig here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliverpeel/sets/72157616566332814/
A few pictures from the Aftershow here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliverpeel/sets/72157616476116749/

Enjoy this one :

mercredi 8 avril 2009

Bob Dylan 2nd show @ Palais des Congres Paris April 8th 2009

Bob Dylan @ Palais des Congres Paris
2nd Show April 8th 2009

Back to the Palais des Congres for Bob Dylan's second show in Paris.
This time no fooling around , yesterday the audience, as soon as Bob was introduced , rushed to the front of the stage and it took the security a few songs to clear the perimeter.
Tonight everybody stayed quietly seated.
In fact Frenchies were really sleeping for the whole gig and only woke up for the encore, strange.
I've got to say that this show was much better than yesterday maybe because he played " Lay Lady lay" early in the show which is one of my favorite song.

Of course, the lightning is still too dark to take decent pics ( That's Patrice Guino's opinion , our camera man ).
As long as you try to exclude the poor vocals , it's fine.
So I really enjoy this one.
French crooner Charles Aznavour was here, so was Lenny Kravitz( who seemed to be bored out of his mind ).

SETLIST :

See our review from Yesterday's show HERE

The whole stage

The whole cast / Beautiful girl in the subway

I met this beautiful young girl on my way home , i had to ask her for a pic she was so cute ( her father is next to her ) ;- )

" Thunder on the mountain" :

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mardi 7 avril 2009

Bob Dylan @ Palais des Congres Paris April 7th 2009

UPDATED APRIL 9TH : Carla Bruni Sarkozy was at the gig ( with her husband ? ) , i've been told about it yesterday but as i didn't noticed it myself on the night I didn't talked about it. According to the press Carla even get Bob's Harmonica. BITCH

Bob Dylan @ Palais des Congres Paris

1st show April 7th 2009

1st show in Paris , it was sold-out a long time ago and many people were looking for tickets outside , you could get one from the scalpers for 250 Euros.
Patrice Guino, our photographer, who has connections all over the world could get us invitations on the 20th row , not the best seats in the house but who's gonna complain ?
Well... maybe him as he couldn't do any decent pictures.

Anyway , Bob is still stuck to his keyboards most of the time , only playing the guitar for a couple of songs ,and he's playing on all but 3 songs almost in complete dark ( " a fucking nightmare for me" dixit Patrice )
Of course when you go to a Bob Dylan concert don't expect the best , you go to see a Legend.
His glory days are long behind him and the poor sucker just CANNOT sing anymore at all.
Some songs , the most well-known ones , are barely recognizable.
Nevertheless there are some very good moments when the band is playing an extended version or solo and Bob is NOT singing.
Overall good 2 hour show.

SETLIST :