Emmanuelle Seigner @ Le Palace, Paris May 10th 2010

Emmanuelle Seigner @ Le Palace

Paris May 10th 2010

French actress Emmanuelle Seigner is playing the beautiful Palace Theatre.
This place is very famous for having the best wild parties back in the late 70's -early 80's ( A French Studio 54) and lots of gigs too ( Johnny Thunders, Stray Cats...).
It's just been re-opened after more than 15 years.

First time I'm going to this mythic theatre, well , it's really beautiful and it is as it was back then.
We have great seats on the second row. Thanks to Marie -Claire ;-)
It looks like most of the people attending the gig were on the guest lists, many of them ( or all of them) coming from the movie industry or friends & relatives.
Not the usual rock punter.

I already saw Emmanuelle Seigner when she did a showcase at the Fnac forum a few months ago when the record was released and I was less than impress, songs were a bit lame and her singing was average.

This time she's rocking !
She opened the set with the theme from Rosemary's baby ( a movie by her husband Roman Polanski who's detained in Switzerland)
The first songs were really rock, it calmed down a bit afterwards with mid-tempo songs.
We had a couple of acoustic songs and then back to some rockier tunes.
She's singing songs in french and others in English.
She's much more confident with her voice, even if she's singing sometimes flat and you can see that she practised a lot her stage moves.
We had nice covers of Jacques Dutronc's " on nous cache tout , on nous dit rien" and Nico's "Femme fatale".

It's a nice surprise , this gig and much better than i thought it would be, in fact we enjoyed it a lot.
She wasn't on stage for a long time only 65 min.
She could have played a bit more as she had a standing ovation from her friends from the showbizzzz.

setlist

Jacques Dutronc cover:

There was an aftershow party at the bar downstairs for the happy few, Emanuelle came to say hello to her friends. French actresses Anne Parillaud ( Nikita) and Agathe de la Fontaine were there among others.
Champagne and canopes were flowing for a couple of hours, when we left the party was still on.
Nice evening.

Peter Doherty @ Maroquinerie, Paris May 9th 2010

UPDATED MAY 11th WITH LINKS TO VIDEOS

Peter Doherty + Alan Wass + Anto Dust
@ Maroquinerie, Paris May 9th 2010

SOLD-OUT

Peter Doherty is still in Paris, he played @ Truskel on wednesday (click for review), this time he's back @ Maroquinerie where he played on Nov 28th 2008 (click for review, setlist Pics).
The gig was sold-out almost instantly so we're glad to be here with 400 people.
The security is strict at the entrance, you cannot even access the restaurant without a ticket, usually you can and cameras are not allowed, well, only small ones.
Rockerparis is providing Pics and videos, so don't worry baby !

aNTO dUST

There is a french band opening we didn't see them and we arrived as Anto Dust is playing, unfortunatelly we only catch the last 4-5 songs of her set.
We like her @ Rockerparis, she played 3 shows in the French capital last month @ Be There, Pop'In & Truskel ( click for...).
She had a nice reception from the crowd and she deserved it.

Peter introducing...Alan & Some girls

After a short break, Peter and Alan Wass went to the center of the stage , we thought that they were about to play NO, Peter was only there to introduce his friend Alan.
They have both played together @ Truskel on March 24th in Paris ( click for review).
Alan played a short set on acoustic guitar, cool music with 60's influences.
Bob Dylan meeting The Rolling Stones "Exile " era.
Cool set.

Alan Wass

Bob Dylan is in da house

Loud cheers are welcoming Peter on stage (9:30PM).
He loves Paris and plays here very often.
This is the 6th time we're seeing him in 2010.

Peeeeeeeeeete ! NO

Like all the gigs we've been to recently , he's very relax and cool.
There used to be a fury all around him a few years ago it has calm down.
The audience is listening to the songs religiously and no one is talking over the music.
It's a real gig and not a circus like it was in the "old days" , the atmosphere for this one is really different from last time in this very same place.

Not much talking between songs from Peter songs are played one after another, but we're used to it now.
He red a few lines from a book that was thrown on the stage, he did the same with a couple of papers that were thrown by a couple of girls.
As you can see on the Pics the WHOLE first row is squatted by girls.

Peter reading

I can't really say that it was "better" than the other shows I've been to this year but the atmosphere was so relax and laid back that it is probably my favorite.
Even though it seems that he really doesn't put as much effort as before , he's more on auto pilot.
No new songs tonight

[In fact he probably played one:
Do you Know this song ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0dDMoA1668
Mail me if you know the title : irockinparis((@))yahoo(dot)fr ]

SETLIST ( from here):
01. (intro)
02. Lady Don’t Fall Backwards
03. From Bollywood To Battersea (starts @ 3'00'') -new link-
04. Last Of The English Roses, another version
05. Dilly Boys
06. What A Waster
07. Love Reign O’er Me ( starts @2'45'' ) -new link-
08. You’re My Waterloo
09. Ballad of Grimaldi -New link-
10. Time For Heroes
11. The Lost Art Of Murder
12. Music When The Lights Go Out
13. ---new song ---
14. The Good Old Days
15. Salomé
16. Albion
17. Can’t Stand Me Now
18. What Katie Did
19. Hooligans On E
20. For Lovers

Check also Oliver Peel's website for more Pictures

The show was recorded by Katia de Vitas who ( with Christian Fevret) are making a documentary on Peter (click for trailer).They are still recording lots of material and the documentary is far from being completed.
The trailer was cut & uploaded on Youtube just because Peter asked them to.

Too bad he only played for 75 min, with NO encore.

a dedicated audience

A couple of songs from the show:


We've also been told that Peter played an unplanned acoustic gig ( playing covers) at Bergerac bar in the afternoon for customers and passers by.
He'll be back in London tomorrow.

Check these websites for an extra dose of Pete :

France-Albion

Free-Pete
French Dog writtles

Dont' forget than Adam Ficek (Roses Kings & Castles , Ex-Babyshambles) is playing Espace B in Paris on May 19th, it's only 5 Euros.

Christina Antipa + Flowers from the man who shot your cousin @ Oliver Peel session#23, Paris May 8th 2010

Christina Antipa +
Flowers from the man who shot your cousin
@ Oliver Peel session #23

Flowers from ....

Back @ Oliver's for his famous sessions.
It's sold-out , there's probably as much people than when Troy von Balthazar played a session here a few months ago.
Americans came once again in force.
First to play is American ,currently leaving in Paris: Flowers ftmwsyc with the help from Erwan on bass guitar who's in charge of Waterhouse records.
Laid back acoustic songs

...The man who shot your cousin

After a short break and more beer/wine/sandwiches/pies & everything we could put our hands on including beautiful girls.
Oliver Peel sessions better than Meetic ? Yes indeed !
We get Christina Antipa on electric guitar for some laid back (again?) electro-acoustic songs that reminded me of the early Cat Power.
Even had a "freebird" cover from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Christina Antipa

the beautiful people

A joyful audience

Can you spot Oliver Peel & Carla Bruni's little sister on the Pic ?

Yeah baby !

Paul Di Anno @ Forum Vauréal, May 7th 2010

Paul Di Anno + Waltari @ Forum de Vauréal
May 7th 2010

Paul Di Anno former singer with Iron Maiden is playing Vauréal , a new city 35 kilometers from Paris.
I've been told that he played last week in a very small city 20 km outside of Paris in a fuckin' restaurant, he couldn't believe how he landed there.
It's funny there's nothing at all around, the city center looks like being in the "Truman Show" or Disney-land , all the buildings are brand new and looking fake situated in the middle of nowhere.
A bit like Milton Keynes in better or Portmerion.( for all you ignorant bastards reading this, this the "Village "from "The Prisoner").

Le Forum is a small club ( capacity around 300), Steve Lukather from Toto played there last month.
Gates opened really late @ 8:30 PM, then we had to endure support band Waltari for a good hour, and Paul Di Anno didn't play before 10:30 PM.

Good light show and really heavy sound Paul is in fine spirit even though he can barely walk without help as he has problem to one of his leg, he's having surgery in Brasil to fix it at the end of the tour in Brazil where he lives.
Hard to recognize him if you still have in your mind the way he was looking when he was singing in Iron Maiden. He's bald without tattoos all over his body, he's looking like a perfect English hooligan at a football match.

Cheers and thumbs up !

He still has a decent voice, lots of very heavy versions of Iron maiden songs from the first two albums he recorded with them (the best ones) + songs from his solo career.(see setlist for details)
We also had a fast & furious Ramones' cover " Blitzkrieg Pop" lasting no more than a minute.
"I'm coming from Punk, you know !"
One thing is for sure he hates his ex-wife and London.

Nice girl in nice outfit

He was playing with a very good all french band

Heavy 90 min set, all the best to Paul for his leg surgery.

setlist

" Remember tomorrow"