The kooks, BRMC & Blink 182 @ Rock en Seine August 27 2010

Updated August 29 with setlists (courtesy of Oliver Peel)

The Kooks, BRMC, Blink 182 @
Rock en Seine Part 2, August 27 2010, Parc de St Cloud.

The Kooks are playing on the second stage and there are much more people here than for Skunk Anansie on the main stage ( it was the same for The Foals).
We should have a word with the promoter...

Anyway, The kooks are a very decent band, the girls are crazy about them, we already saw them many many times in Paris including last year @ Fete de l'Humanité in front of more than 50 000 people before Deep Purple, we were on the stage ( click for setlist Pics & video FROM the stage) I remember the atmosphere was great and you could hear the girls screaming like maniacs all along the show.

SETLIST (from Oliver Peel)
01: Always Where I Need To Be
02: Eddie's Gun
03: You Don't Love Me (The Way That I Love You)
04: Sway
05: Strange One
06: Ooh La
07: She Moves In Her Own Way
08: Sabateur
09: Do You Wanna (Make Love To Me)
10: Naive
11: Shine On
12: Down To The Market
13: Stormy Weather
14: Sofa Song

Same atmosphere today : lots of ( young and very young ) girls most of them very sexy, once again The kooks have played a very nice set , I mean they're playing a very refreshing pop-rock, thay may not change the face of rock music but they're very good at what they're doing.
Very enjoyable.

The singer is getting in touch with his female audience, Police car backstage & Cypress Hill from the back.

We went ( on the main stage) to check Cypress hill unfortunately for this gig it was only rap & DJ even though The guitar player from Rage Against the machine is playing on their last album, no guitars to be heard tonight.
Not our cup of tea.
So we went back to the second stage for Black rebel motorcycle Club.
We have the first or second album then they went off the radar for us so we don't really know what to expect.
They're not as heavy & fast as before but much more dark. They sound like a stoner band which listened to Joy Division too much with a couple of bluesy tunes thrown in.
They're very impressive, once again it's really packed and it's chaos down the front.
probably their last show on this tour as the bass player's father died a few days ago ( he was the sound tech on the tour).
Robert came to play one song just in front of us ( see pics), people around went mad !

SETLIST ( from Oliver Peel):
01: Beat The Devil's Tattoo
02: Love Burns
03: Mama Taught Me Better
04: Stop
05: Bad Blood
06: Ain't No Easy Way
07: Conscience Killer
08: Berlin
09: Weapon Of Choice
10: Whatever Happened To My Rock'n Roll
11: Spread Your Love

Great set.

Then we went to Blink 182 , we missed the first 20 min but we didn't care after 4-5 songs that was enough.
Maybe i'm getting too old for that shit or maybe you need to be retarded to listen to that, I don't know.
I mean , they're not bad but they're far from being good either.

We made a quick exit, lucky day as it almost didn't rain at all , just a couple of showers.

See ya tomorrow !

Band of Horses, Foals, Skunk Anansie @ Rock en seine August 27 2010

Band Of Horses, The Foals, Skunk Anansie @
Rock en Seine Part 1 August 27 2010, Parc de St Cloud

We came mainly @ Rock en Seine fest to see Band Of Horses , once again we're late , we've missed the first song.
Band of Horses played a couple of shows this year in paris, France each time infront of a very small audience : first one was for the Album de la semaine tv show ( capacity 150) on April 7 2010 and @ Fleche d'Or ( Capacity 400) the day after. ( click on links for review , setlist, pics & video)
They will be playing in a few days a radio show for France Inter ( C'est lenoir , Black session) once again in front of a selected audience of less than 300.

No need to tell you than we love them and we were not disappointed, great gig , The audience was really into them ,quite a surprise as they're not very popular over here.
They only played 2 songs from the last record maybe to please the frenchies with more welknown tunes.
Nice to start the day like this.

SETLIST ( From Oliver Peel)
01: Islands On The Coast
02: North West Apartment
03: Is There A Ghost
04: Laredo
05: The General Specific
06: No One's Gonna Love You
07: Cigarettes, Wedding Bands
08: Compliments
09: Ode To LRC
10: The Funeral

The rest of the bill for the Rock en Seine is very poor this year for our tastes no real big names.
It is now time for The Foals to play the very same stage ( we didn't go to see Kele , former Bloc Party singer as we hate electronic shit), we saw them this year at L' Album de la semaine Tv show and we hated it, nothing's changed, they're very popular now in france and the place is packed.

The singer really sings like Robert smith, funny but we still don't like this band.

Setlist (from oliver Peel):
01: Total Live Forever
02: Cassius
03: Balloons
04: Miami
05: After Glow
06: Alabaster
07: Spanish Sahara
08: Red Socks Pugie
09: Electric Bloom
10: Two Steps Twice

With Skunk Anansie , they too have guitars but they know how to use them correctly: Heavy.

Last time we saw them was here @ Rock en Seine a couple of years ago, this time they're playing the main stage

The sound is neat, SKIN is like a lion in a cage as usual runing from one side of the stage to the other, even singing in the audience for a couple of times; and the set is heavy.

That's what we like Heavy guitars.

Very good set

Part 2 with The Kooks, BRMC & Blink 182

A new song:

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Tyler literally assaulted in New York by autograph seekers

Ebay is ruining everything , every time a band is going into a hotel you see dozen of autograph seekers assaulting artists in order to get an autograph to sell it later on Ebay.
Look at this location for video : a bunch of assholes in NYC assaulting Steven Tyler & entourage for autographs.

Don't worry we also have a bunch of assholes like this in Paris, same guys everywhere you go.

Columbia Records To Release Bruce Springsteen's 'The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story on Nov 16

Out before Christmas on Nov 16
Bruce is laughing all the way to the bank !!!

Box Set Includes 3CD/3DVD Package Of Remastered Album, Never-Before-Seen Studio & Live Footage, 80-Page Notebook, 21 Previously-Unreleased Songs, And An Extraordinary Documentary Film That Will Debut At The Toronto Film Festival Sept. 14 And On HBO Oct 7

Package Features Nearly Six Hours Of Footage, Including Classic 1978 Houston Performance, And More Than Two Hours Of Audio

Columbia To Simultaneously Release 'The Promise' Double CD Complete Songs From Darkness On The Edge Of Town's Lost Sessions

Here's the complete package & all...

Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen's 'The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story' on Nov 16. The Deluxe Package comprises over six hours of film and more than two hours of audio across 3 CDs and 3 DVDs. The media contents are packaged within an 80-page notebook containing facsimiles from Springsteen's original notebooks from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes in addition to a new essay by Springsteen and never-before-seen photographs. Containing a wealth of previously unreleased material, 'The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story' offers an unprecedented look into Springsteen's creative process during a defining moment in his career. 'The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story' will additionally be released as a 3CD/3 Blu Ray disc set.

The set will be available as 'The Promise,' an edition which consists of only the unheard complete songs on two CDs or four LPs, along with lyrics and the new essay by Springsteen.

The previously unheard song "Save My Love" and an excerpt from the documentary are now streaming at http://www.BruceSpringsteen.net.

The Deluxe Package includes 'Darkness on the Edge of Town,' digitally remastered for the first time.

CD 1: REMASTERED 'DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN'
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

"'Darkness' was my 'samurai' record," Springsteen writes, "stripped to theframe and ready to rumble…But the music that got left behind was substantial." For the first time, fans will have access to two discs containing a total of 21 previously-unreleased songs from the 'Darkness' recording sessions, songs that, as Springsteen writes, "perhaps could have/should have been released after 'Born To Run' and before the collection of songs that 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' became."

Highlights include the extraordinary rock version of "Racing in the Street," the never-before-released original recordings of "Because the Night," "Fire," and "Rendezvous," the supreme pop opus "Someday (We'll Be Together)," the hilarious "Ain't Good Enough for You," the superb soul-based vocal performance on "The Brokenhearted," the utterly haunting "Breakaway," and the fully orchestrated masterpiece and title song "The Promise." All 21 songs have been mixed by Springsteen's long-time collaborator Bob Clearmountain. According to long-time manager/producer Jon Landau, "There isn't a weak card in this deck. 'The Promise' is simply a great listening experience."

CD 2: THE PROMISE (DISC 1)
1. Racing In The Street ('78)
2. Gotta Get That Feeling
3. Outside Looking In
4. Someday (We'll Be Together)
5. One Way Street
6. Because The Night
7. Wrong Side Of The Street
8. The Brokenhearted
9. Rendezvous
10. Candy's Boy

CD 3: THE PROMISE (DISC 2)
1. Save My Love
2. Ain't Good Enough For You
3. Fire
4. Spanish Eyes
5. It's A Shame
6. Come On (Let's Go Tonight)
7. Talk To Me
8. The Little Things (My Baby Does)
9. Breakaway
10. The Promise
11. City Of Night

The Deluxe Package also features "The Promise: The Making of 'Darkness on the Edge of Town,'" a documentary directed by Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny. The ninety-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978—including home rehearsals and studio sessions—with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former-manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record. Advanced word on the documentary is so strong that it was invited to debut at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival on September 14 and will make its television debut on HBO on October 7.

DVD 1: "THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF 'DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN'"

In addition, the set features more than four hours of live concert film from the Thrill Hill Vault, including the bootleg house cut (the footage that appeared on-screen at the concert) from a 1978 Houston show, and a 2009 performance of 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' in its entirety from Asbury Park. The special performance in Asbury Park was shot in HD without an audience and successfully recreates the stark atmosphere of the original album.

DVD 2: DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN (PARAMOUNT THEATER, ASBURY PARK, NJ,
2009)
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy's Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

THRILL HILL VAULT (1976-1978)
1. Save My Love (Holmdel, NJ 76)
2. Candy's Boy (Holmdel, NJ 76)
3. Something In The Night (Red Bank, NJ 76)
4. Don’t Look Back (NYC 78)
5. Ain't Good Enough For You (NYC 78)
6. The Promise (NYC 78)
7. Candy's Room Demo (NYC 78)
8. Badlands (Phoenix 78)
9. The Promised Land (Phoenix 78)
10. Prove It All Night (Phoenix 78)
11. Born To Run (Phoenix 78)
12. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (Phoenix 78)

DVD 3: HOUSTON '78 BOOTLEG: HOUSE CUT
1. Badlands
2. Streets Of Fire
3. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
5. Spirit In The Night
6. Independence Day
7. The Promised Land
8. Prove It All Night
9. Racing In The Street
10. Thunder Road
11. Jungleland
12. The Ties That Bind
13. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
14. The Fever
15. Fire
16. Candy's Room
17. Because The Night
18. Point Blank
19. She's The One
20. Backstreets
21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
22. Born To Run
23. Detroit Medley
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
25. You Can't Sit Down
26. Quarter To Three

Bruce Springsteen - "The Promise: The Making of 'Darkness on the Edge of Town'" Sneak Peek from Columbia Records on Vimeo.