Calvin Russell 1948-2011 RIP

So sad to hear that Calvin Russell just died this week end at his home in Texas.

RIP

We were @ this recording for Arte TV on Dec 12 2007 with Poni Hoax, Stacey Kent & Craig Amstrong

Sunday afternoon @ Louvre & Vuitton store ...

Louvre : Messerschmidt exhibition

Messerschmidt faces (except far right)

Sunday afternoon the weather's shit, nothing better than visiting the Louvre museum and it's free (every first sunday of each month), it was packed at the entrance, once you're in it's half empty, I guess all these tourists in short were there for Mona Lisa, not us.
We went there for the Messerschmidt exhibition, lots of tortured faces, subtitles are laughable, they were made after the faces were dicovered. It's made of steel .A must see.
Of course that's the only part where you CAN'T take any pictures.
Then we had a walk around the museum in the sculpture department : Fantastic

happy faces...not : Death

Made of laces & bras @ Vuitton store

Then we went to the top floor of the Vuitton store at the corner of the Champs Elysées and GV Avenue for some (shitty) modern art. This top floor with art is only an excuse so that they can open on sunday. The only good thing was these things hanging out made of bras and laces.
First we had a drink at the nearby GV hotel for a hot chocolate then we went to the restaurant @ Café Constant and we had a table next to actors Matthew McConaughey , Ryan Philippe and Amanda Seyfried who were in Paris to do promo duties for their next movie (i've been told).
Great day away for Rock'n Roll !

Vuitton shop window & billboards for Kubrick exhibition & Joan Baez's gigs

Foo Fighters streaming entire new album "Wasting Light" HERE

Click on album cover to listen to the new album

The Bewitched Hands @ Paul B, Massy , April 1 2011

Shout Out Louds + The Bewitched Hands @ Centre Paul Bailliart
Massy, April 1st 2011

Shout Out Louds

Thanks to Fabien , who invited (and drove) us to this gig 25 kms south of Paris in the middle of nowhere in Massy we went to see The Bewitched Hands.
Beautiful concert hall in the middle of upper class council houses.
Opening Swedish band Shout Out Louds is starting pretty late (after 9:00pm) for a 55 min show.
Heavily influnced by The Cure, for the vocals at least, Shout Out Louds is playing a great pop-rock with nice melodies.A little bit of Arcade fire is thrown in too.
The singer ended the set singing in the pit as there was a huge gap betwen the stage and the first row, were people afraid ?
Nice discovery for us.

setlist

The Bewitched hands

We already saw The Bewitched hands @ L'Album de la Semaine last November.
Very cool rock band between The Pixies, Brian Johnstown Massacre or Grandaddy.
French band but they're singing in English.

Too bad there wasn't too many people , less than 200 even though it's friday night.
They've done an hour long set.
A couple of videos "Out of myself", "Birds and drums".for ya to enjoy !

"Smell the glove"

Led Zeppelin to reform for Charity concert for Japan @ Wembley Stadium

Led Zeppelin to reform for a charity gig @ Wembley Stadium in June 2011
for Japan

Led Zep @ O2 on Dec 10 2007

After the terrible earthquake and Tsunami that devastated Japan, a charity gig @ Wembley in June will be organise and Led Zeppelin has confirmed that they will reform for this gig only other acts are not known but there are strong rumours of Paul McCartney being part of it.

SORRY, THAT WAS OUR STUPID HOAX FOR APRIL'S FOOLS DAY !

Listen to Jane's Addiction new song "End to the Lies" with Dave Sitek on bass

Perry Ferrel played a brand new song featuring Dave Sitek on bass ( From TV on the radio) on a Chilean radio a few days ago.
Jane's Addiction new album 'The Great Escape Artist' will be out this summer.

Jane's Addiction - End to the Lies by paniko

Kris Dollimore @ Gibert Musique, Paris March 31 2011

Kris Dollimore @ Gibert Musique
Paris March 31 2011 6:00pm

English bluesman Kris Dollimore is stopping @ Gibert Musique store in St Michel in the middle of his European Tour to play a short set of 4-5 songs.
Between delta blues -country and English folk à la Bert Jansch, he has a great voice and the guitar playing is neat. Check his myspace page to hear some of his music.
He's the former guitar player with The Godfathers and has played with Steve Bator, Dee Dee Ramone & Johnny Thunders.

Bijou SVP @ Café des Beaux Arts, Paris March 30 2011

Bijou svp played a small gig just by the river Seine in front of the Louvre Museum, on the left bank in this beautiful bar next to the beaux Arts and a couple of streets away from where Serge Gainsbourg used to live.
The bar is packed with many of their friends, including famous photographer Tony Franck who was the "official" photographer for Serge Gainsbourg and many other french artists.
Can't really say it's Bijou as there's only the bass player (& singer) left from the original band but we had a great time, they've done many Serge Gainsbourg covers plus a couple of their own songs.
They have a "long" history with Serge as he wrote lyrics for them and they invited him to play with them on stage in the late 70's for a whole tour as a guest on some songs which gave him the force to perform on his own later, as Serge was terrified of playing in front of an audience.
They've played for an hour, great loud & heavy bass sound.
Nice time out ! Cool people there and a few pretty girls

The Kills streaming entire new album "Blood Pressures"

The Kills streaming new album "Blood Pressures" HERE

Click on album cover above and again on the cover to listen to it... enjoy!

WHITESNAKE: Entire New Album " Forevermore" Available For Streaming

The Album is out today but listen to it for free HERE

Click on " Forevermore" album cover above and...enjoy !

Other news: WHITESNAKE's "Live At Donington 1990" DVD/live double CD set will be available on June 3; Full tracklisting HERE

Miles Kane @ L'Album de la Semaine Canal+, Paris March 29 2011

Miles Kane @ L'Album de la Semaine, Canal+

Paris March 29 2011

Former guitar player and singer for The Rascals & The Last Shadow Puppets is going solo.
Why sharing all the money in a band when you can keep everything for yourself and have session guys ?
After playing a sold-out show @ Point Ephémere (setlist: Better left Invisible / Rearrange / My Fantasy / King Crawler / Telepathy / Quicksand / Happenstance / Hey Bulldog [The Beatles] / Come Closer / Inhaler) last week on March 23 ,we didn't go we were @ Marianne Faithfull. Miles is back in Paris for this tv show.

He's starting the gig with a very punchy song from the new album "Colour of the trap " that will be out in May 09 2011.
No looking back as he's playing only new songs. It's very close but less rock than The Rascals in which he was the main composer.
Between rock and pop, the musicianship is high, everysong is perfectly executed but i've already noticed that the first time I saw Miles with The Rascals @ Fleche d'Or in 2008 (click for Pics & review).
Between songs he always has a few words for the audience or a "thumbs up" That's him he's always cool and smiling, sure he's a nice guy.
All well dressed with nice shoes and jackets, very 60's English especially Miles all in black with white shirt, is he coming back from a funeral ?
Funny they look like the Beatles '65.
I was a bit disapointed after hearing a few songs from the new album but Live they really rock.The single is much more better live than on cd
Great gig

Check our reviews of The Rascals @ Maroquinerie on Dec 1 2008
& The Last Shadow Puppets @ Olympia on August 26 2008 & @ Album de la Semaine for Canal+ the day after

Radiohead's "The Universal Sigh" in Paris, March 28 2011

Radiohead's "The Universal Sigh" newspaper

Paris, March 28 2011

People were handing out copies of the band's free newspaper to fans today in Paris just in front of the Pompidou Center from noon to 6:00pm.
From what they told me it was a bit of a mess around 12:00 because you needed to have your picture taken with the newspaper. Hundreds of fans turned up to get their free copy.
I went there around 5:45pm there was just a few fans so it was done quickly.

The album is out today on cd & vinyl.

Megadeth + Slayer (Part 2) @ Zénith, Paris March 26 2011

Megadeth + Slayer @ Zénith, Paris March 26 2011

"Carnage Tour"

After a powerful 75 min set by Slayer, it's time for Megadeth to take the stage.
It's a good surprise that they are headlining tonight.
Last time MEGADETH played the Zénith ( Click for the review setlist Pics & video) was on March 21 2009 opening for Judas Priest (click for Pics, setlist & video) and they stole the show with a killer best-of set.

For Slayer review , Pics, video & setlist Click HERE

Huge rattle-head backdrop, great lightshow and perfect sound as well.
They started the show with a song from Cryptic Writings : "Trust" maybe not the best choice to start the gig with.
Patrice Guino , our photographer, told us that from the photographer's pit he couldn't hear Dave's voice at all, it was better from the stalls but it's hard to go on stage just behind Tom Araya considering his powerfull voice and Dave's.

It's so nice to have Dave Ellefson on bass, it wasn't really Megadeth without him, a bit like the Smashing Pumpkins with only Billy Corgan.
For the first part of the show they're playing hit after hit, it dives a bit in the middle section with less known songs (see setlist below for details).
"A tout le monde" (click for video) is having the Zénith sing their lungs out.

Last part of the show is a killer with "Symphony of destruction" , "Peace sells" and "Holy Wars" here on video.

Dave Mustaine

Setlist & Merchandising

"Holy Wars"