"Les Vanités" @ Musée Maillol Paris Feb 15th 2010

-Les Vanités- @ Musée Maillol, Paris
"De Caravage à Damien Hirst"

Gericault ( left)

A lost Bob Dylan @ Maillol ( right)

Dead Fruits & Picasso's

Buffet ( left ) & skull in toilet

11 Euros is a bit expensive but it's really worth seeing it.

Rivkah @ Oliver Peel session #16 Paris Feb 13th 2010

Rivkah @ Oliver Peel session #16
Paris Feb 13th 2010 6:00 PM

Back @ Oliver's place 2 weeks after attending Orouni's session.
This time it is for french artist Rivkah, as you can see on the pictures she's not playing Heavy Metal, another folk artist but no acoustic guitar this time. Just a small keyboard, some loops, 2 friends on backing vocals & violin and a soft high voice.
Not really the kind of music I'm usely listening to but she's got her own world that is worth exploring. Check her on myspace.
She's also designing stage clothes ( Gojira among many others... )
As usual @ Oliver's many folk freaks came for this private gig, only half of them are on the picture below as many left straight after the gig ( it's saturday night ).
Rivkah came with her possee so 'we' felt like foreigners in 'our' own land;-).

Rivkah and half of the audience

Emmanuelle Seigner @ Fnac Forum Paris Feb 13th 2010

Emmanuelle Seigner @ Fnac Forum
Paris Feb 13th 2010 4:00 PM

Nice boots, honey !

French Actress ( & Roman Polanski's wife) Emmanuelle Seigner has just released her second album and she's doing a showcase at the fnac store on this saturday afternoon to promote it.
Short 6 songs set with a guitar player a drummer, Her first album was rock this one is more pop and sung in French ( why ? the first one was in English).
Can't really say that she's a great singer, far from it, the music is OK but some of the lyrics ( she didn't wrote them ) are just really bad.
Nevertheless it was a cool 30 min set.
Small interview and signing session at the end.
Emmanuelle was nice and chatty with everyone.

'interview' and signing session

The Strokes recording new album on video

The Strokes are recording their 4th album at New York City's Avatar's studios.
They've just released a video from the recording process.
The record should be out in September, They're also planning two shows for this summer.
Watch them working on the new song " Taken for a fool":


I've received many E-mails asking us about Parisian shows, well I know but apart from the cold weather and sometimes snow there's NOTHING going in Paris right now... and for most of February.
That's why we're updating the site with News.
So stay tuned...

Tonight is an Oliver Peel session with Rivkah
Monday the 15th Album de la semaine recording with Lee Fields
Tuesday the 16th Album de la semaine recording with Local Natives
scroll down for the other Feb gigs in Paris

Black Sabbath. It was 40 years ago...

40 years ago on Feb 13th 1970 Black Sabbath released its first album.

Here's a message from the Riffmeister himself:
"This is quite a historic year, Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of Black Sabbath the album and this summer Heaven and Hell will have been making music for 30 years! Thank you for your support, continued loyalty and we look forward to seeing you all this summer" – Tony

Heaven & Hell summer European Tour ( click for dates).
Heaven & Hell in Paris last year HERE ( Pics, video setlist...)