Black Joe Lewis @ L' Album de la Semaine Paris Nov 23rd 2009

First album for Black Joe lewis & the Honeybears and first time in promo & in concert in Paris.
Nice it's @ L' Album de la Semaine where the conditions are perfect, a selected audience of a 100 people.
Black joe Lewis on guitar & vocals dead center, guitar player and bass player on the right , 3 brass on the left and as usual the drummer in the back.
All dressed in costumes à la Hives; Funny all the guys are white and are all wearing glasses apart from the sax guy who's black with no glasses on.
The music is soulfull 60's style and Black Joe Lewis has the voice of a whyskey "rock 'n roller" drinker. He did drink some between songs but that seemed a bit rehearsed to look cool.
Great groovy songs ( they've played 8 tonight ) with the exception of one lame one.
Even if Black Joe Lewis has a great voice, he lacks charisma , he's not acting like the leader of the pack which he should.

see him LIVE @ L' Album de la Semaine ( click for video from show )

As soon as they left the stage Who style , we left the studio to run to Radio France to attend a Black session on France Inter.

Sorry no setlist for this one ( or pics it's verbotten ).

Troy Von Balthazar @ Oliver Peel session # 13 Paris Nov 21st 2009

Troy Von Balthazar @ Oliver Peel session # 13

Private gig in an appartment Paris Nov 21st 2009

Thanks to Mathilde , Oliver could get Troy Von Balthazar to play an Oliver Peel Session.
The appartment is getting smaller and smaller each time or is it that it's more and more crowded one session after another ?
Lots of new faces this time, couldn't fit anymore people in there.
Troy played a 50 min set of his songs ( including two brand new ones to feature on his next album ) on acoustic guitar.
SETLIST: ( from Oliver Peel ) check for more Pics HERE
01: Rainbow
02: Communicate
03: Heroic Little Sisters
04: Dots and Hearts
05: Dogs
06: Very Famous
07: Duncan
08: To A Girl With One Wing Gone
09: I Block The Sunlight Out
10: Wings
11: Valentine
12: Days Of Nothing

He told us it was the first time he was playing acoustic ever in front of an audience ( I've got my doubts about it ).
Anyway the atmosphere was really laid back even though it was a bit hot, there was so many people but thanks to Cecile there were lots of cold beers, soft drinks and lots of pastries and cakes to go with.
Once again there were people from all the world : China , Japan, USA and different parts of Europe.
The world is converging on Oliver's living room.

Troy & d' Artagnan

Everyone is listening religiously, specially the girls

Troy seems to enjoy this early gig a lot ( 6:00 PM ).
Nice to have a chat with new people ( I mean girls ;-)
Many people left for the Cigale to see Grizzly Bear ( Feist was a surprise guest at the end ) so we could chill out a bit and relax in the only sofa in the room after all these emotions.
Last but not least we ended the night way past midnight over a bowl of spaghetti.

Time for a drink & lonesome Jeanne meditating

Sold -out tonight @ Oliver's

Oh Yeah ! forget to tell that Chokebore ( Troy's first band ) will be back next year with a show in Paris France.

Sorry the light, the sound are complete shite I'll upload another one soon from another source.
This is a new song by the way :

The Brian Jonestown Massacre stream " Who killed Sgt Pepper" online

Click HERE to listen to the whole record
before its Jan 2010 released

One Shot Not recording with Rickie Lee Jones & ... Paris Nov 19th 2009

One Shot Not TV recording with
Air, Hindi Zahra, Richard Bona, Rickie Lee Jones, PSP

Full setlist & Simon Phillips' drumstick

Back to the 15e distric in Paris for the second day of the recording of Arte tv show One Shot Not.
Yesterday I didn't really know any of the artists , I spent a nice evening (between 8:30 & 11:00 Pm ) but nothing was fantastic.
Tonight is a bit different:
Air played songs from his last cd ,
Hindi Zahra did a couple , she's a bit like Ayo but with more depth,
Bass player extraordinaire Richard Bona did a couple too and Hindi Zahra came back to sing a Bob Marley cover with him.
Rickie Lee Jones did two songs with Pino Palladino ( The Who ) on bass and Manu Katche on drums.
Last were PSP for Simon Phillips, Pino Palladino & Phillipe Saisse on keyboards for two instrumentals jazz fusion songs, the audience asked for more so they came back for another one.

Nice evening for this one , not really rock but very enjoyable

One Shot Not recording Paris Nov 18th 2009

One Shot Not recording with Fink, Gurrumul, Florence & the Machine,

Axl & the Farmers, Okou, Thomas Dybdahl

Paris Nov 18th 2009