Neil Young @ Paris Zénith June 4th 2009

Neil Young @ Paris Zénith
June 4th 2009

I was too late to see folk artist Laura Marling , too bad iI love what she's doing.

Needless to tell you that Neil Young 's show was hot.
Last year he played two gigs at the Grand Rex and they were fantastic , first part acoustic and second part electric.

This time it's an all electric performance with just a couple of acoustic songs thrown in ( "Heart of gold" , " Old man " , " comes a time" ).
A couple of new songs and ALL the hits " Cortez the killer" , " Like a hurricane" ...

GREAT SHOW

SETLIST :
Love And Only Love / Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / Pocahontas / Spirit Road / Cortez The Killer / Cinnamon Girl / Mother Earth / Don't Let It Bring You Down / Goin' Back / Comes A Time / Heart Of Gold / Old Man / Mansion On The Hill / Get Behind The Wheel / Rockin' In The Free World // Like A Hurricane / A Day In The Life

In a sold-out Zénith.

Complete setlist tomorrow

Pictures Part 2 HERE

ALL PICTURES © Guino Patrice

Kasabian @ Football Tournament & Sony Store Paris June 3rd 2009

Kasabian Football Tournament @ Urban Football in Puteaux

Sony music France organised a Football Tournament with the lads just outside Paris in a nice complex.
I was there too late to see Kasabian playing but it almost turned into a complete disaster as the drummer hurt his ankle and had to see a doctor immediately.
Too bad the band is opening tomorrow for Oasis in front of 30 000 people but he should be OK.
Lots of journalists ( Les Inrocks , Rock & Folk ) and record company executives , the winning team was the one from a Football magazine " So Foot" .
Kasabian came back , minus the drummer, to shoot some penalty against the winning team... and lost.
The sponsor was offering a tv set and Marion , photographer for Rock& Folk, won the lot.
Lucky bitch ;-) the tv is probably worth a 1000 quid.

Marion won the lottery

En route to the countryside ?

Then we all left to the George V avenue to the Sony Store where Kasabian signed cds to a 100 fans and then we had an acoustic set in the basement.
The lads were really nice and chatty to everyone.
The atmosphere was really relax and things went smoothly thanks to the organisation.
Really cool to hear these songs in an acoustic form as I wasn't really convinced when they played the new songs a week ago @ L' Album de la semaine for Canal+
Setlist is below for an half an hour set.

Video 1 Signing Here

The Band

Signing & Rocking

Setlist

Kasabian " L S F " @ Sony Store Acoustic set June 3rd 2009
envoyé par rockerparis. - Regardez plus de clips, en HD !

MUSE " resistance tour dates" 2009

THE RESISTANCE TOUR

22.10 Hartwell Arena, Helsinki, Finland

24.10 Hovet, Stockholm, Sweden

25.10 Spektrum Arena, Oslo, Norway

26.10 Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark

28.10 COLOR LINE ARENA, HAMBURG, GERMANY

29.10 O2 WORLD, BERLIN, GERMANY

31.10 STADE COUVERT REGIONAL, LIEVIN, FRANCE

01.11 LE GALAXIE, AMNÉVILLE, FRANCE

02.11 SPORTSPALEIS, ANTWERP, BELGIUM

04.11 SHEFFIELD ARENA, SHEFFIELD, UK

05.11 ECHO ARENA, LIVERPOOL, UK

06.11 O2 DEPOT, DUBLIN, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

09.11 SECC, GLASGOW, UK

10.11 NIA, BIRMINGHAM, UK

12.11 O2 ARENA, LONDON, UK

13.11 O2 ARENA, LONDON, UK

14.11 AHOY, ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

16.11 LANXESS ARENA, COLOGNE, GERMANY

17.11 BERCY, PARIS, FRANCE

18.11 HALLENSTADION, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND

20.11 OLYMPIAHALLE, MUNICH, GERMANY

21.11 FUTURSHOW STATION, BOLOGNA, ITALY

22.11 HALLE TONY GARNIER, LYON, FRANCE

25.11 ZÉNITH, TOULOUSE, FRANCE

27.11 PAVELLÓ OLÍMPIC, BARCELONA, SPAIN

28.11 PALACIO DE DEPORTES, MADRID, SPAIN

29.11 ATLÂNTICO PAVILHÃO, LISBON, PORTUGAL

01.12 ZÉNITH, LIMOGES, FRANCE

02.12 ZÉNITH, DIJON, FRANCE

04.12 PALA OLIMPICO, TURIN, ITALY

Next shows in Paris June 2009

June 2nd 2009 :

Morrissey @ Grand Rex CANCELLED

Maximo Park @ trabendo
Snow Patrol @ Elysée Montmartre
Alela Diane @ olympia
Patrick Watson @ Maroquinerie

June 3rd 2009

Kasabian football match in Puteaux + acoustic show Av. GV Paris

June 4th 2009

Neil Young @ Zénith
Whitesnake @ Casino
Jarvis Cocker @ Bataclan

June 5th 2009

Lynyrd Skynyrd @ Zénith ( well only the name there's only ONE from the original band )

Football tournament ( + Acoustic gig ) with KASABIAN June 3rd 2009

IGGY POP

UPDATED MAY 29TH 2009 :
with videos and pictures from the show @ France Inter

HERE

All info on poster below :

Unfortunately I couldn't go to the Iggy Pop gig for France Inter yesterday night.

Billboards in front of the Maison de la Radio in Paris this morning

Bat for Lashes + David Walters @ Bataclan Paris May 27th 2009

Bat for Lashes + David Walters & Caroline Weeks
@ Bataclan Paris May 27th 2009

Marquee & David Walters

The show started too early tonight so i couldn't see Caroline Weeks playing , i was just on time for David Walters.

The guy has skills , he's on his own playing guitar, percussion & lots of samples that he's actionning with his feet to nice effects, but I'm not really fan of his Electro-African-reggae style but he has talent.
The sold-out audience was reticent at the beginning but he won them over in the end.

Natasha Khan & Bat for Lashes have released a new cd with much more electronic than the first one and I really don't like all this electronic shit.
Caroline Weeks doesn't play with BfL anymore .
Now there's a drummer, a female guitar-bass piano player ( Charlotte ), a guy on the computer & Keyboard and Natasha on vocals & Keyboards ( guitar on one song ).
She still has her charming voice but the music is less interesting than it used to be, too much electro for my taste.
She's leaving the stage after just 50 min, Come on baby !
75 min in all that's a bit short.
One more thing that I don't understand is why all those bands are playing in an almost complete dark.
You're ON a stage , Why don't you switch on the lights for fuck's sake.

For pictures go to the Oliver Peel website and HERE. (click on links )

Setlist ( courtesy of Leslie ) & Merchandising stall

Great lake Swimmers + Amélie @ L' international Paris May 26th 2009

Great Lake Swimmers + Amélie @ L' international

Paris May 26th 2009

Amélie

After seeing Kasabian @ Canal+ we headed to the , now very trendy , L' International in Ménilmontant.
First time I was getting there. Nice place there is a bar and downstairs is the stage where bands are playing.
First is a funny blonde girl Amélie with a guitarist and drummer , she has a high voice and is acting funny. Nice set.
Then we have Great Lake Swimmers , I have never heard of that Canadian band before and it was a really interesting discovery.
There is a girl on keyboard and backing vocals , a drummer , a guitar and banjo player , a upright bass player and the singer-songwriter .
Typical canadian folkies with the shirt and beard ( except fot the girl of course ).
They made me think of a folk version of Grandaddy with nice harmony vocals and cool songs.

Blood red shoes on my way home

Kasabian @ L' Album de le semaine Canal+ May 26th 2009

Kasabian @ L' Album de la Semaine for Canal+
Paris May 26th 2009

After seeing the Plastic Heroes at the Gibert Joseph store in St Michel we headed north to the shitty Plaine St Denis to see Kasabian playing new songs in front of a selected audience of less then 200 for the Canal+ tv show "L' Album de la semaine".
First time i saw Kasabian I was very impressed it was at the Rock en Seine festival and I didn't know anything about them at all.
Today they're promoting their brand new cd ( they were yesterday at the Trabendo club ) so they're playing mostly new songs.
Usually bands playing live are much more better than on cd but I tonight I thought that Kasabian are much more powerful on cd than live.
There's something missing, maybe more guitars or more backing Vocals.
Even " Shoot the runner" was weak.
So it was good show but it could have been better.
I Guess it's a band you have to see in a festival when 30 000 people are singing along to their songs.

Plastic Heroes @ Gibert Joseph store Paris May 26th 2009

Plastic Heroes @ Gibert Joseph store
St Michel in Paris May 26th 2009

First of 3 shows for me today with London band Plastic Heroes at 5:30 PM.
They've already played a couple of times in Paris already and they're here to promote their new cd.
Nice 30 min+ acoustic show with this rock'n roll band , it's hard to judge a band playing acoustic when they are usually rocking with electric guitars.
The show went really well , I'm sure afetr hearing the songs that they're digging the Stones and 60's rock band.
Hope to see them soon rocking and rolling at full steam..

Iggy Pop @ FNAC St Lazare Paris May 25th 2009

Iggy Pop @ Fnac St Lazare Paris
May 25th 2009

Signing session for the Iguana @ the Fnac store to promote his new cd "Preliminaires" but not only as Gilles verlant was here, so we had a Question & Answer first, people could ask question to Iggy at the end..
Nothing really new, there will be a Stooges album with James Williamson , who's now retired from sony corporation, on guitar replacing the late Ron Ashton.
There will be no future collaboration with Bowie ...and so on.

Then it was time to sign some CDs .
Iggy as always is chatty and smiling and funny ... a perfect gentleman well ...no so perfect as he's saying FUCK at every sentence.
The whole thing lasted for a couple of hours.

Iggy Pop in Paris this Week

Iggy Pop will be in Paris this week to promote his new cd " Préliminaires":

Starting from today @ Fnac St Lazare for an instore signing session @ 6:oo pm

The main event will be his private gig for France Inter on May 28th broadcasted live from the Studio 105 @ 9: 00 PM sharp.

This is a real treat as Iggy has decided NOT to tour for this record.

See our previous review of Iggy Pop's 2 days of recording of La Musicale ( click here for the part 1 ) for Canal+ ( click here for the part 2 ) in March.

Erica Buettner @ Oliver Peel Session # 6 Paris May 24th 2009

Erica Buettner @ Oliver Peel Session # 6

Somewhere in Paris

Erica & the family cat relaxing to her music

Oliver Peel ( & Cécile ) are welcoming us once again in their lovely appartment facing the Eiffel Tower to attend American singer -songwriter Erica Buettner 's private show.

Just read what the Blogotheque is saying about her HERE ( sorry in french ).

Once again Oliver is bringing the best of the new Folk scene ( I Hope she won't mind if I call her music: Folk )
Charming young lady , beautiful voice , playing both guitar and banjo ( though not at the same time ;-).
Erica gaves us a emotional concert with her songs and a couple of covers, one by Elliott Smith and a surprising song by french artist Marie Laforet sung in French ; but the best is to see and hear by yourself by watching the video below : Isn't she nice ?
Things were really relax after the show with a couple of glasses of French Rosé. Won't mention any names.
We ended the evening with some al dente spicy spaghetti.
A sunday that felt like going to the countryside for the weekend.
When 's the next session ?

A video HERE with Erica on Banjo

Roger Hodgson @ Olympia Paris May 23rd 2009

Roger Hodgson @ Olympia

Paris May 23rd 2009

All Pictures © Patrice Guino

After playing a sold-out show at the very same Olympia on March 24th , Roger Hodgson ( formerly of Supertramp ) is back for another sold-out show.
This guy wrote so many hits with Supertramp it's unbelievable.
Lots of member for the French fan club in the audience.
Difficult not to spot them they're wearing the same ugly t-shirt. ;-)

Well , he played all the hits ( setlist tomorrow ) plus a couple of songs from his last cd " Open the door" and a new song.
This gig was in two parts the first one of 45 min and a second part of 70 min +.
Lots of talking between songs in English and in French.
Roger still has the very same voice as 35 years ago , a high and clear crystal voice that is absolutely perfect.
The only reproch that I would make is that considering the price of the tickets between 60 & 90 euros, he could come with a full band instead of just one guy on brass, woodwind & keyboard.

SETLIST :
Part 1
Take the long way home
Give a little bit
Lovers in the wind
Hide in your shell
Teach me to love again
Easy does it
Sister moonshine
Rosie had everything planned
A soapbox opera
Along came mary
The logical song

Part 2
the meaning
breakfast in america
the more i look
child of vision
lord is it mine
if everyone was listening
don't leave me now
dreamer
fool's overture
-encore 1 :
school
two of us
it's raining again
-encore 2 :
give a little bit (reprise)

Roger doesn't really need 7-8 musicians to perfectly play his material that is so good even though some songs would have been enhanced with a couple more players.

A very good gig , see you on July 7th for his third show at the Olympia.

" Fool's Overture" :

U2 Here's the stage for the U2 360° Tour 2009

Here it is :