Gregory & The Hawk + Les Shelleys + Snailhouse @ Oliver Peel session, Paris Nov 07 2010

Gregory & The Hawk + The Shelleys + Snailhouse
@ Oliver Peel session, Paris Nov 07 2010

Gregory And The Hawk is Meredith Godreau

Couldn't attend the last Oliver Peel session on Oct 24, I went to see Robert Plant @ Palais des Sports.(click for review setlist, Pics & video)
Glad to be back, the place is packed and tonight there are 3 artists:
First to play is the tiny Meredith from New York aka Gregory & The Hawk, she's on her own with an acoustic or a small harp, she has a tiny voice and is playing... guess what ? Folk music
Cool starter.

some of the faces and All stars @ Oliver's

After some much needed sandwiches and drinks we have the duet Les Shelleys from Los Angeles with Tom Brosseau & Angela Correa.
I already saw Tom live in Paris when he opened for PJ Harvey/ John Parish @ Bataclan. for two shows (Here's the second one) in 2009
They're doing re-workings of american traditionnal songs à la Franck & Nancy or June Carter & Johnny Cash with just an acoustic guitar for Tom and hand-clapping for Angela, both singing great harmony vocals.

Les Shelleys

my new assistant ,who's trying to hide behind the table, is improving everyday (far right)

Snailhouse

Headlining is Canadian band Snailhouse with guitar player Mike Feuerstack from the Indie rock band Wooden Star.
Snailhouse is more of a solo project by Mike than a real band, he's playing acoustic tonight with a percussionist and a bass player. Nice harmony vocals
Typical Folk-rock even though their record is much more pop-rock sounding a bit like Tom Petty , absolutely not obvious on video here
Great show

Then still more food and drinks, Ollie & Sarah played a song for the "Aftershow"

Olie (far left)/ Sarah Jeanne (left) / The cat is getting sexually harrassed, what is doing Brigitte Bardot ? / Isn't she lovely (far right)

Snailhouse:

nice set

Sofia Coppola Master-class for "Somewhere" @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris Nov 6 2010

Sofia Coppola @ Fnac Montparnasse
Paris Nov 06 2010

Sofia Coppola is doing promotion for her new movie "Somewhere" with Stephen Dorff.
The Fnac Store organized a master-class , it was invit' only and as it's saturday afternoon the place is rammed.
A shame we couldn't see the movie before that meeting, it will be out in January 2011, strange to hear her talking about it when you don't know anything about it.
It was very interesting though.
She stayed for an hour, answering questions from the audience about her career at the end.
Cool !

I've found this lovely Beatles-KISS artwork on a wall of the Rue Dauphine @ Carrefour Buci Paris VI.

Here's the Q&A:

@ Fnac Montparnasse

Surfer Blood + Carl Barat + The Drums @ Les Inrocks festival, Cigale, Paris Nov 5 2010

Festival des Inrocks @ Cigale, Paris Nov 05 2010

Free Energy, Surf Blood, Carl Barat & The Drums

Surfer Blood

We arrived too late to see Free Energy which we already saw a couple of days ago @ L' Album de la semaine TV show for Canal+, we didn't really liked them but all my friends told me they were very good, much more better than @ Canal+
I guess I can trust them.

Surfer Blood

Surfer Blood is next, half of the songs are sounding like The Smiths or Morrissey , the other half like Vampire Weekend and we hate that shitty band, so part good, part average.
Even the singer is acting like Morrissey on stage.
They invited Free Energy to fool around on the stage for a song (see pic above)
Just above average.

Carl Barat with great lightning... not !

We saw Carl Barat a couple of days ago @ L' Album de la Semaine (click for review Pics & setlist) playing his new solo album. Some of it is quite good ,some of it is a bit too slow for us.
We were a bit disappointed by his performance.
Tonight it's night and day compare to Canal+.
First song from the new record " Je Regrette" with more balls, then his new single which is the fastest song on the album (here on video) plus some Libertines songs to rausing applause from the audience , great atmosphere and lots of pogoing in the pit. We had some quieter songs from the new album but they were fitting all right.
Carl Barat is much more involved and rocking.
Great set.

setlist

"Playing with the Boys":

Cool song

Last is The Drums, They are OK for 3-4 songs than teir pop-rock is getting boring, luckily the singer is acting like a ballet dancer playing tennis or maybe was he avoiding imaginary bullets, same with the guitar player from the left who's also acting strangely so they were funny to watch but the music...

The Drums

setlist

The Drums @ Cigale:

See Ya

Thanks to Marie for the Pass ;-)))

Keith Richard's little dick @ age 22

Little bird.

Keith Richards is talking shit about Mick Jagger in his book "Life" saying that he's not well hung.
So now you can judge by yourself for Keith LOL

We already posted naked pictures of Keith and Jerry Hall HERE enjoy !

Suzanne Vega + Mame @ Théatre Marigny, Paris Nov 4 2010

Suzanne Vega + Mame " Close -Up Tour"
@ Théatre Marigny, Paris Nov 4 2010

Close-up Tour"

MAME

Paris is a mess The Chinese President is in town so they've closed down some tube stations on the Champs Elysées, cops are everywhere, too bad The beautiful Théatre Marigny is in the middle of all this mess, we're lucky the weather is warm even though we're in november, a good walk won't do us any harm.

This old Théatre is beautiful ... and packed for Suzanne Vega.
She has just released a reworking of her classics called "Close-up", this is the Volume 2 "People & Places" ( Vol 1 was "Love Songs"). There will be other volumes for the next few months.
Nice to rediscover her classics with just an acoustic guitar , a bass and a few effects as the production of her early records are bit daté.

First we have an African guy from Senegal on acoustic guitar Mame, well not really our cup of tea, it was ok a bit of a quiet Keziah Jones but much more african.

Then we have Suzanne Vega with on electric guitar and loops & effects Gerry Leonard who has played the last World Tours with David Bowie.
As you can see on the pictures the stage couldn't be more simple, in case you haven't noticed this is NOT a KISS show but who cares when tou have the songs.
Don't need no pyro, just an acoustic guitar and the job is done... perfectly.
We have a "Best of..." (see setlist for details) ans as we're in Paris we're treated with a very nice cover of Serge Gainsbourg (& Brigitte Bardot) "Bonnie & Clyde", here on video.
She will also play a song by Sparklehorse ( That's on the new cd) as a tribute to Mark Linkous who commited suicide a few months ago.

She told us the Genèse of a couple of songs, with some funny bits. She also mentionned a show she did a few months ago in Paris , Did we miss something here or what? Can't fucking believe that we didn't know about it.
Anyway, Gerry is doing a great job on electric guitar , loops & effects.
She has some great songs so the arrangements are kept to a minimum and it's working perfectly.
Same with Divine Comedy , well... Neil Hannon (click for review of his show @ Salle Pleyel), with great songs you don't need a full orchestra, just a guitar or a piano and you can have a very good time
That's what we had tonight.
Another great show by Suzanne and you know we love her very mush here @ ROCKERPARIS.

As usual just after the show she came to the merchandise table to sign cds...

Gerry Leonard on guitar

setlist & After Show meeting

"Bonnie & Clyde" By Serge Gainsbourg

Thanks to Pias !

Suzanne Vega played @ French TV show ONE SHOT NOT yesterday on Nov 3
Watch her playing HERE