Moriarty @ Fargo Store, Paris April 30 2011 12:00 AM

Moriarty @ Fargo Store 12:30 am
Paris April 30 2011

To promote the new album Moriarty is playing a showcase @ Fargo store in Paris.
We already saw them a few days ago @ Divan du Monde for a private gig.
It's a beautiful & sunny saturday, the atmosphere is realy cool and relaxed, the gig was kept secret to avoid a riot, just kidding ;-) so around 50 people but it's sold-out in the tiny shop.
Funny to attend a gig so early, the gig is starting at 12:40 and the band is playing their new song on acoustic.
The guys are not fooling around or joking or acting like buffoons (too much) like they did @ Divan du Monde even though the guitar player is still doing his funny moves à la Elvis once (that was enough).
In fact, new songs are pretty good when played more seriously.
The show lasted a good 40 min and 8 songs were played.
One of the guys from the band brought a huge Mozzarella cheese from Italy to share with people at the end of the show, really nice with tomatoes and olive oil and Fargo privided Fruit Juices and salami.
Wondeful to start a very long saturday for us in these conditions.

Then we went to the nearby open air secondhand market, where a friend of mine Miss F found an original small drawing and autograph of Jean Cocteau for just a few euros to a guy who didn't know what he was selling.
Couldn't fucking believe it !

last song of the show:

Angus & Julia Stone @ Trianon, Paris April 28 2011

Angus & Julia Stone @ Trianon
Paris April 28 2011

These guys are VERY popular in France right now, they've been here playing several sold-out shows a few months and now they're back playing the Trianon for several other sold-out shows.
We just know their hit song "Big Jet Plane" (here on video) and it sounds ok to us.
Glad to be invited for this gig to check them live.
First thing you notice before they get on stage is that it's a 80 % female audience in their late-teens early 20's and most of them very beautiful whwich is already a good point.
The duo hits the stage aound 9:00pm for a 90 min+ set.
They have bass, drums and cello players.
They're playing a cool pop-folk music, most of the songs are quite slow but not boring which I was afraid of, after 3-4 songs you get slowly into it and finally you like it.
The girl has a funny tiny-tiny voice, they did a James Taylor song and changed the setlist all along the show even playing a new song " I wanna live here".

A nice surprise, on some songs you could hear a pin drop as the audience was very respectful and remained completely silent.
A good show !

setlist

"Big Jet Plane"

"Back and Forth" Foo Fighters' Documentary screening @ Canal+, Paris April 27 2011

Screening for the press in a projection room at the Canal+ HQ.

James Doll did a documentary just in time for the released of the 7th Foo Fighters' studio album "Wasting Light" out this month.
All you wanted to know about Foo Fighters from the early beginning in 1994 when Kurt Cobain died to the recording process of the new album is in the documentary.
Lots of talking, a few things unknown to us and interesting facts from the beginning of the Foo, it's well done, there's also a bit a live footage but very few.
You won't see other musicians telling how great they are but as it's official there's no controversy regarding the HIV-Aids denialist movement that supported Nate Mendel or anything alse, it's only focus on the history of the band.
They did mention Dave playing with The QOTSA but NOT Them Crooked Vultures, Why ?
Really great, a must see.A good commercial for the new album.
It will be play on Canal+ on May 19 @ 11:55pm

Moriarty @ Divan du Monde, Paris April 26 2011

Moriarty @ Divan du Monde, Private show for the Fnac Store
Paris April 26 2011

After playing a few sold-out shows @ Trianon last month ( 1200 capacity) Franco-American Folk-country band Moriarty is playing a private show for the Fnac Store in this 'newly' refurbished 500 capacity club: Le Divan du Monde.
Competition winners are downstairs and VIPs upstairs on the tiny balcony drinking free champagne and ... talking loudly.
We already saw the band a few years ago and we liked what we saw but it seems that the band has turned into a joke, first: most of the songs are crap and second: musicians are trying to act funny on stage which is fuckin' ridiculous.
Only the last 20 min minutes of the 65 min gig was good with some better songs at the end including a couple of their hits and acting more "seriously".
Oliver called this "Musique pour les ploucs" I guess he wasn't that far...
The show ended with a song they recorded specially for the "Record Store Day" and here on video.
The only one problem was, once again these VIP dickheads upstairs that didn't stop talking loudly for the whole set. (Patrice, our photographer was there but I guess he didn't talk as he was probably so bored...)

Song for "Record Store Day":

Angus & Julia Stone @ Trianon, Paris April 26 2011

Angus & Julia Stone @ Trianon
Paris April 26 2011

We didn't go but here's the setlist wich is probably wrong as they never follow it