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Iron & Wine @ C'est Lenoir,Black session @ france Inter, Paris jan 31 2011 10:00PM

Iron & Wine @ C'est Lenoir, Black Session #323
Maison de la Radio, France Inter, Paris Jan 30 2011

setlist

Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam is playing this Black session for C'est Lenoir in the studio 105 of La Maison de la Radio near the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Conditions are always perfect: sound is crystal clear and the 250 + people are all confortably seated in red sofas.
Iron & Wine has released a few records and its leader is here to promote the new one "Kiss each other clean" out on Jan 25.
He's playing the first 3 songs on his own on the acoustic guitar and he's then joined by his friends on piano, mandoline and backing vocals.
They are playing a mix of Folk-country-rock. Beautiful songs.
Very good hour set with one extra song on his own (not on the setlist)

Twin Shadow @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Jan 31 2010 8:00PM

Twin Shadow @ L'Album de la Semaine for Canal+
Paris, Jan 30 2011

Twin Shadow @ Canal+ to promote their album "Forget".
They've already played the Point Ephémere last october (Oct 29) so i don't know why the colourful , for his nice shirt, singer George Lewis Jr is saying that's their first gig in Paris.
They will play an already sold-out Nouveau Casino in a couple of days.
Very cool 80's pop new-wave. The kind of music we hated when we were kids but I have to say it was very enjoyable.
80's revival even for the clothes they're wearing, they do have a very sexy female keyboard player and the singer has a funny haircut and even more funny he's looking like the hidden child of Phil Lynott (from Thin Lizzy fame).

Then we rush to the Maison de la radio to see Folkie Iron & Wine

Angels & Airwaves @ Cigale, Paris Jan 30 2011

Angels & Airwaves @ Cigale
Paris Jan 30 2011

After being @ Oliver Peel session we went straight to the Cigale theatre in the red light district and we were just on time for the beginning of American band Angels & Airwaves.
I don't know if it is sold -out tonight but the pit is crammed and it's hard to find an empty seat at the balcony.
If you don't know this band it is the side project of that guy from Blink 182 so I expected a kind of new power -pop American Punk band and ... absolutely NOT.
First: It's the better than expected. Second : It sounds like a new power pop "Prog" band.
"Prog": Yes sir, like those old geezers of "YES", many atmospheric mid tempo songs and a few faster ones.
The singer has some funny stage moves and has a sens of humour as he introduced the drummer as the best one in the world and that " He (the drummer) shit on John Bonham's grave" Immediately saying that he was joking just in case someone missed the joke.

Songs tend to sound a bit the same in the end but cool show , very short set as they only played for 80 min with no Encore.

merchandising

Thanks to Miss CK for the tickets xxx

Composer John Barry dead at 77, RIP

English composer John Barry just died of a heart attack at age 77
He composed the music for many James Bond movies, Midnight Cowboy with Dustin Hoffman and tv series including the very famous The Persuaders ( Amicalement Votre en francais)
He was also the first husband of English singer Jane Birkin