Bird on The Wire + Milk & FruitJuice @ Espace B, Paris Jan 24 2011

Bird on The Wire + Milk & FruitJuice @ Espace B, Paris Jan 24 2011

Milk & FruitJuice (far left)

The famous Oliver Peel is organizing, on his own, a show @ the infamous Espace B with French Pop-folkies Milk & Fruit Juice and Bird on the Wire from Holland.
We already saw Bird on the Wire yesterday @ Oliver's, they were playing acoustic tonight it's electric with organ, electric guitar and a "real" drumkit... and the addition of a trumpet for extra flavour.

Bird on The Wire

Cool indie Pop-Rock-folk , great songs and the musicianship is high.
Great gig , too bad the owner of the club is a fucking arabic crook who swindle Oliver out of the admissions.

Bird on the Wire + Sister Fay + Agathe @ Oliver Peel Session, Paris Jan 23 2011

Bird on the Wire + Sister Fay + Agathe @ Oliver Peel Session #33
Somewhere in Paris Jan 23 2011

Another success for Ze Famous Oliver Peel session on this sunday.
The tiny appartement was crammed with people coming from different part of the world: France, Sweden, Holland , Germany and as far as Argentina.

Sister Fay from Sweden

Bird on the Wire from Holland

Part of the Beautiful people

Agathe on Ukulele

videos and review later

Jean Michel Basquiat exhibition @ Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris

Jean Michel Basquiat exhibition @ Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris
Jan 22 2011

Saturday morning ( in fact 1:00PM) out with the girls to see Jean Michel Basquiat exhibition @ Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris just in front of the Palais de Tokyo.
Of course the girls are late, anyway tickets were booked in advance to we don't have to queue otherwise it would have been a 30-40 min wait.

White open spaces with many HUGE paintings, I'm not too much much of a modern art freak so it doesn't talk to me as much as some other painters.
There are great paintings but some others are really...
Not as many people as for the Monet exhibition @ Grand Palais so you can really enjoy it and take your time without having assholes pushing you.You don't feel at all as if you were in the tube at rush hour which was the case @ Grand Palais.
It's also a very different audience: much more young and "trendy" compare to Monet.
My favorites were the paintings done in collaboration with Andy Warhol even though at the time critics didn't like it.

Last day is on Jan 30 2011

Patti Smith "Unplugged Dreams" @ Cité de la Musique, Paris jan 20 2011

Patti Smith "Unplugged dreams" @ Cité de la Musique
Paris Jan 20 2011

We're back at the beautiful Cité de la Musique in Paris to see Patti Smith performing an acoustic show.
A couple of days ago she performed a "Poetry & Music" show (click for review) which was much more better than expected. Not that much of a poetry man.
Unfortunately we won't be able to see her performing "Horses" @ Salle Pleyel on saturday.

It's another sold-out performance ( you could get tickets on the night).

Cool start with a Bob Dylan " Boots of Spanish leather" cover with just Lenny Kaye on acoustic guitar then the whole band is joining her for the rest of the gig.
It's always a pleasure to see Patti Smith playing live, she has classic songs and she's always playing a few covers, her last solo cd was a cover album and she's always relax with lots of talking between songs.
It was a bit of a special set as she played many songs that she's not playing very often : "Daydream Believer" from The Monkees ( here on video), some Dylan " Boots of..." and my favorite for the night : a fantastic version of The Beatles' " Strawberry Fields forever" dedicated to John L

"people have the power"

She also played her classic songs, even though it was acoustic, it was smoking with a great ending feat. " Because the night" "People have the power" & Rock 'n Roll nigger".

A couple of days ago she didn't come back , it's different tonight , as people were leaving the premises she came back to play another one ( not on the setlist) " Wing" (?!) that song was on the setlist two days ago and wasn't played.

1h50 min set , Great gig !

setlist

merchandising

The Monkees' "Daydream Believer":

More Patti Smith @ L'Arbre à Lettres on Oct 21 2010 for an acoustic performance to promote her book & @ Virgin Megastore on Oct 20 2010.

Anna Calvi @ L'Album de la Semaine, Jan 19 2011

Anna Calvi @ L'Album de la Semaine
Paris Jan 19 2011

setlist

Back to see Media darling Anna Calvi for a second time after the Black Session a couple of days ago.
Her album might be out for only a couple of days she seems to have perfectly rehearsed her set as we had tonight the same songs in the same order as @ Black session, well we had less as she played a shorter set ( same setlist minus 4 songs).
No communication with the audience apart form a "Thank You".
Indie rock with spanish influences, very good set but it seems that she's an autopilot.