Alice Cooper (Part1) @ Montereau Confluences festival, June 10 2011

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updated on saturday 11 June with links to videos

Alice Cooper @ Montereau Confluences festival

Parcs des Noues @ Montereau Fault Yonne ,June 10 2011
Part 1

Grégoire (far left), Zazie, Kob (far right)

I 'm still wondering what Alice Cooper is doing here, sandwiched between French singers Grégoire & Zazie who's headlining the first day of this festival in the beautiful city of Montereau Fault Yonne, yes that's the full name.
This city has a history that goes back to the XIII century is also welknown for being the place of one of the last victory of Napoleon on the Austrians in 1814.
Situated 40 km outside Paris, it's a 1 hour ride with the train.

Napoleon is watching over us so is John Paul II

10 bands are playing today, we're just here for Alice Cooper, we saw French singer Grégoire and a good French metal band KOB.

It feels good to be in the countryside, the festival is taking place in a small but lovely parc just next to the river, probably around 4000 capacity.
Tickets are VERY cheap only 12 euros, yes 12 Euros for 2 days.
The weather's sunny but not too warm and Alice Cooper is starting his show in daylight at 8:30 sharp.
As you can see we could walk him to the main stage, there's a nice "front" drop, they should have kept it as a backdrop for the whole show.

Cool Vincent Price intro, the gig is starting with "Black Widow" Alice is standing up on a "throne". Line up is Glen Sobel on drums, Chuck Garrick on bass, Tommy Henriksen on guitar, Damon Johnson on guitar and... last but not least: the great Steve Hunter on guitar. We saw him performed with Lou Reed on his Berlin Tour. He was the guitar player on several tours (and albums) back in the 70's with Alice. He's also playing on Lou Reed's original albums "Rock'n Roll Animal" and "Berlin".

With 3 guitar players it's a festival of guitars and with Alice's costumes changes for every song there's always something different happening. Lots of props on stage : a cane, a sword, a crutch...some bank notes too.

I didn't write down the setlist but as the show is basically the same at each gig this should this:
0) Vincent price intro 1) Black Widow 2) Brutal Planet 3) I'm 18 4) Under my wheels 5) Billion dollar Baby 6) No more Mr Nice Guy 7) Hey Stoopid 8) Is it my body 9) Halo of Flies 10) I'll bit your head off 11) Muscle of Love 12) Only women bleed 13) Cold Ethyl 14) Feed my frankestein 15) Clones 16) Poison 17) Wicked Young man 18) Killer 19) I love the dead 20) School's out (with Another brick in the wall) Encore 21) Elected (click on links for videos)

Part 2 of the show is HERE
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"NO more Mr Nice Guy":

Alice Cooper (Part 2) @ Montereau Confluences festival, June 10 2011

Alice Cooper @ Montereau Confluences festival
June 10 2011
Part 2

The boa is out on this tour

This tour has been dubbed "No more Mr Nice guy" so the boa is out on this tour as you can see on the setlist (in Part 1) Alice is playing ALL the Hits. some recent songs, a brand new one called " I'll bite your head off" and even "Muscle of Love".

The band is on top form maybe some songs sound a bit too Heavy Metal which is not my favorite Alice, I've always prefered when he's more "classic" rock or even "Cabaret".

Only women Bleed

The audience is not a rock audience, more a family audience so I guess they liked the show as there are different things happening: we have a huge " Frankestein" who lost his jaw, it was probaly not part of the show but it was funny, we have the guillotine and lots of costume changes (like Mariah Carey or Beyonce) but Alice is not as pretty ;-)
Maybe I would have like to have a song from "The Last temptation" which is one of my favorite album but the setlist is a good mix of old stuff and more recent songs.

A jaw-dropping Frankestein

The guillotine

"School's out" including snippet from Roger Waters' "Another brick in the wall" is having the audience singing along.
Alice is back on stage with a French flag for the Encore " Elected".
Very entertaining 90 min show

I Wanna be elected ...in France

Zazie was headlining but we didn't bother (whod did anyway ?) it was time to go back to Paris.

GoodBye Montereau, Promotional "Goes to Hell" vintage tee-shirt signed by Steve Hunter

"Elected":

System of a Down + Clutch @ Bercy, Paris june 08 2011

System of a Down + Clutch @ Bercy
2nd show, Paris June 09 2011

Clutch

Back into Bercy Arena to attend System of a Down's second sold-out show in Paris.
This time instead of Trail of dead, that wasn't very welcomed by the audience we have Clutch.
We arrived late , as usual , so we've missed the beginning of their show, in fact we only saw the last four songs of the band, too bad it was very good, the kind of shit that we liked at ROCKERPARIS, some cool bluesy rock stoner.

Nice... tee-shirt !

After a 30 min intermission, System of a Down took the stage in the same great atmosphere as two days ago. 17 000 people jumping up & down from the first minute to the last.
The band is as relaxed on stage as at the first concert.
Once again the sound is clear & neat.
This time there is a small pit down the front , for people with a wristband, not as stupid as the previous gig where they divided the pit in the middle from the front to the back.
I haven't seen any press photographers in the pit tonight (same as previous show), I guess the band doesn't want any photos as Patrice had to put his camera at the cloakroom after the security went to see him in the stalls, but he always has a Plan B.

CORRECTION : Same setlist as the first night @ Bercy on june 06. (click for pics, video & review or scroll down this page).
Show started @ 8:45 and ended @ 10:30 pm
Anothe Great gig.

After the storm