Paul Mc Cartney @ Stella McCartney Autumn-Winter 2011 Paris Opéra Garnier March 07 2011

Paul Mc Cartney @ Stella McCartney Autumn-Winter 2011
Paris Opéra Garnier March 07 2011
with Zoé Felix, Vahina Giocante & Liv Tyler

Zoé Felix (left) Paul & Friend (center) Liv Tyler (right)

Early wake up call this morning to be on time for Stella McCartney's fashion show @ Opéra Garnier.
It started @ 10:30am, Paul was there , Liv Tyler too.
That was it.
The Opéra is splendid, we've already been here a few times for concerts or fashion shows and I'm still amazed.

The beautiful Opéra garnier

The Show

Backstage with Paul & Stella

Paul did a couple of interviews but didn't stay that long backstage, he didn't even pose with his daughter for photographers making a quick exit by the side door.

More from Paul Mc Cartney :

• Paul McCartney @ Stella McCartney Spring Summer 2011 @ Opera Garnier, Paris Oct 4th 2010
• Stella McCartney @ Opéra Garnier AW 2010, Paris March 8th 2010

• Paul McCartney @ Stella McCartney Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2009 Paris Carreau du Temple Oct 2nd 2008

• Paul McCartney & Friends @ Stella McCartney A/W Fashion Week
  Paris, March 9th 2009 Carreau Du TemplePaul McCartney @ Stella McCartney
  
• Fashion week Spring /Summer Oct 5th 2009 Palais de Tokyo
• Don't forget to have a look at our review (lots of Pictures and videos) from his show @ Paris Bercy in Dec 2009 : Part 1 & Part 2 (click on links)

Sisters of Mercy @ Trianon, Paris March 05 2011

Sisters Of Mercy @ Trianon
Paris March 05 2011

Post-Punk, Goth-rock, Dark Wave ( or whatever you wanna call them) English band Sisters of Mercy is playing the beautiful and recently re-open Trianon concert hall in the red district of Pigalle, a two minutes walk from the Moulin Rouge, in Paris.

As you can guess most of the audience is in their 30's and ALL dressed in black.
The place is packed though not sold out.
No support band, just a DJ playing some cool tunes ( The Who , The Sparks....) but the poor guy seemed a bit lost on the stage.
The Sisters are taking the stage @ 8:50pm in a huge cloud of dry ice and some back lightning (a nightmare for our photographer, well he wasn't supposed to take any pics tonight but he just can't help).
The sound is perfect and not too loud, no drummer , just a drum machine and some cool "cold" guitar works for some cool cold Goth-rock.
Even if songs tend to sound similar, you get slowly into the music and the beat and by the second part of the show everybody in the stalls is standing up and dancing to their most famous songs.
It was probably Christmas as the singer said a few words and introduced the musicians, they even throw away some baloons in the audience at the end.
Nice David Bowie cover in the middle of the set, "John only Dancin'" on the setlist.

setlist

Even though I'm absolutely not familiar with their catalogue and not really into Goth-rock, that was really enjoyable.
Very good 90 min set.

It was also a pleasure to attend a gig @ Trianon, it's now the most beautiful concert hall in Paris ( the nearby Cigale has always been my favorite) and the bar is just amazing with some confortable sofas & chairs to lie on before or after the gig.
Maybe they should do something for the toilet, beautiful too but not very useful when they are overflowing.

Merchandising & the beautiful bar of the Trianon

"Dominion/Mother Russia" (Courtesy of Madame Mime)

Check our previous review of Sisters of Mercy @ Bataclan on March 7 2009

The Kills @ Fleche d'Or on March 22 2011

The Kills @ Grand Rex in Nov 2005

The Kills will premiere their new album @ Fleche d'Or on March 22 2011.
Tickets on sale shortly in Fnac Stores only.
The show will be broacasted live on the internet by SFR.

Check our (small) review of the Kills @ Bataclan on Oct 28 2008 & @ Arte's One Shot Not on Oct 29 2008.
Check also The Dead Weather @ Bataclan on June 05 2010, @ Cigale on June 29 2009, @ L'Album de la Semaine on June 30 2009 & @ Olympia on Oct 28 2009.
With lots of Pics, setlist & videos

Too bad we just get our tickets for Marianne Faithfull @ Théatre du Chatelet the same day.
We won't miss this one as she told us that Wayne Kramer from the MC5 will play guitar with her for these shows ( Also on March 23rd)

Fran Healy (Travis) @ Maroquinerie, Paris March 04 2011

Fran Healy @ Maroquinerie

Paris, March 04 2011

Fran Healy , lead singer from Travis has just released a solo album and is playing a low key acoustic show to promote it @ Maroquinerie club where Travis played its first gig in Paris many years ago.
Foley Stewart opened the show but sorry we arrived too late to see him.
Even though it's friday night it's not packed, lots of girls all knowing lyrics inside out to every song.

Just to keep the audience interested Fran is playing one new song then one Travis song and so on...
Lots of talking between songs, some people found it boring , I didn't.
Fran told interesting stories about how the songs were written or other funny ones including one telling how he stole the chords from Oasis' "Wonderwall" for one of Travis' song fearing that Noel might discover it and punch him when they opened for them. He only had a "Nice Fookin' chords, man", plus other ones about Paul McCartney recording with Nigel Godrich ( Here on video, missing the first part sorry).
Oh yeah, by the way Paul is playing bass on his album.
For the last half hour he took requests from the audience, ending his two hour set as he started it: playing acoustic guitar and singing without amplification.
Very cool set

SETLIST:
20
Holiday
Writing To Reach You
Anything
As You Are
Fly In The Ointment
Side
As It Comes
Sing
Rocking Chair
Driftwood
Moonshine
Sierra Leone
-Encore-
Love Will Come Through
Closer
Selfish Jean
Humpty Dumpty Love Song
Turn
Slide Show
Buttercups
Flowers In The Window

Fran's gone & Ringo's back

Short story with Paul McCartney + new song:

Serge Gainsbourg "Initiales L G" exhibition @ Sotheby's Paris, March 3 2011

Serge Gainsbourg "Initiales L G" exhibition @ Sotherby's
Paris, March 03 2011 7:00pm

There is a Serge Gainsbourg exhibition @ Sotheby's in Paris from Feb 28 to March 09 just in front of the Elysée, Rue du Fbg St Honoré.
Tonight was the varnishing-day so it's very crowded with Posh people , not very rock'n Roll.
All the pictures are on sale, there are also a few lyrics sheets.
A DJ is playing Serge Gainsbourg's records in the background

Lyrics to "Love on the Beat" / Gainsbourg-Dali

I've spotted french singers Dany and Daniel Darc plus famous rock photographer Claude Gassian & the man responsible for introducing a very young Jane Birkin to a not so young Serge Gainsbourg for the first time ever: Mr Pierre Grimblat, who's a producer and director.

Dj (far left) Pierre Grimblat (center) Serge & topless Girls including Bambou (far right)

Cool party with sexy girls, music, drinks & canapés.

Check our Pics and more from the Serge Gainsbourg's Exhibition @ Cité de la Musique on Oct 20 2008 & our report of the "Melody Nelson" gig @ Cité de la Musique with JC Vannier, Brian Molko from Placebo & other guests on Oct 23 2008

Peter Bjorn & John @ L'International March 2 2011

Peter Bjorn & John @ L'International

Paris March 2 2011

Well... we've changed our plans tonight, instead of going to the other side of Paris @ Casino de Paris to see Maroon 5 we've decided to go to Peter Bjorn & John @ L'International.
In fact we already saw Maroon 5 a couple of times, last time being @ Westin Hotel for a private gig on Sept 14 and we've never seen Peter & Co.

We thought it would be a relax night as it is at the International club.
Wrong ! These Swedish are wellknown so the place is rammed and it's a free gig as usual in this club , we've never seen so many people there.
Hard to get to the front, some arrived at 7:00pm to be front row.
It's hot as hell but the atmosphere is relax, lots, I mean lots of swedish girls.

They started the show at 10:00pm, aren't they playing folk ? Niet
We had a powerful pop-rock set for 60 min, the guitar player is jumping up & down and handbanging as if he was playing in QOTSA. The bass player is more cool asking people to calm down as the pit is getting ugly but we are tough mother-fuckers at ROCKERPARIS and we survived to Metallica @ Boule Noire or Sepultura gigs down the front so we know what it is to fight for our lives on the front row.
Luckily some security guys are here to calm things down.
The band is playing a few new songs from the new record to be out next month including the brand new single "Second Chance" here on video.
Nice 60 min set.
They will be playing the Point Ephémere on April 9

New Single " Second Chance":