mercredi 28 septembre 2011

The Specials @ Olympia, Paris Sept 27 2011

The Specials @ Olympia, paris Sept 27 2011

Marquee & setlist (c) Mathilde Chevrier

mardi 27 septembre 2011

Ryan Adams @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 28 2011

Ryan Adams @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 28 2011

setlist & A/S

Solo acoustic performance of Ryan Adams @ Canal+ tv show to introduce his new album, to be out next month, before his show @ Trianon on Nov 02.
Probably of the the longest session we ever attented @ L'Album de la Semaine.
Atfter Les Guignols de l'Info ( The local spitting image) we had to wait for more than 20 min before Ryan took his seat on the stage.
He then played 10 songs, some old some new, see setlist for details.
It was a real pleasure to attend a gig in these conditions, it was as if he was playing in your living room.
Unfortunately he had trouble with his acoustic guitar, an old one that's on every record he did.
Before each song he had to tune it and it took each time 2-3 minutes.
He did "New York- New York" on the piano.
After playing his ten songs he left the stage to come back 5 minutes later to re-play 6 more as he wasn't satisfied with the result, in fact 5 songs plus a cover of Iron Maiden's "Waysted Years" which sounded as if he wrote the song.

Great gig, Ryan is very talented, songs are great, the guitar playing and the voice is perfect.
He's always cranking up jokes between songs like Neil Young but the constant tuning that took ages was a real pain in the ass.

Looking forward to see him at the Trianon with a new acoustic guitar.

Theophilus London @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 27 2011

Theophilus London @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 27 2011


setlist

New american artist Theophilus London is doing promotion for his new (first ?) album @ L'Album de la Semaine.
I've been told it was Rap so I was a bit afraid, in fact not really, there's a real band with a drummer, bass player, two guitar players and a very sexy Asian girl as a DJ.
It's a mix of Hip Hop-Funk-Soul and rock, some of the songs are sounding a bit like N.E.R.D when they were doing some cool music a few years ago ( For "Fly or Die" ).
For the second song we had a super-hot & sexy female singer for some additional vocals.

Funny that we had to wait a couple of minutes between EACH song because Mr London needs to change his clothes for every fucking song. The band kept us entertained with some jam.
Even The guys in the band (minus the sexy DJ) changed clothes once.
Much better gig than expected.

He's playing @ La Machine du Moulin Rouge on thursday Sept 29

lundi 26 septembre 2011

Metallica entire Rock In Rio performance available for streaming, Sept 25 2011 Rio de Janeiro

Metallica @ Rock in Rio 2011
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sept 25 2011


Not only Metallica's full show is available for streaming, you can also watch performances by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Slipknot, Motorhead, Katty Perry, Elton John
SETLIST:
01. Creeping Death 02. For Whom the Bell Tolls 03. Fuel 04. Ride the Lightning 05. Fade to Black 06. Cyanide 07. All Nightmare Long 08. Sad But True 09. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 10. Orion 11. One 12. Master of Puppets 13. Blackened 14. Nothing Else Matters 15. Enter Sandman Encore: 16. Am I Evil? 17. Whiplash 18. Seek & Destroy

Miossec @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris sept 26 2011

Miossec @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 26 2011


French singer Miossec is playing famous Canal+ tv show, we can tell he's Rock'n Roll. He did the rehearsals 5 minutes before the show was supposed to start, they did one song and that was it. Perfect.
It seems that he has problem walking as he's using his mike stand as a crutch for the whole set like Daniel Darc from Taxi Girl.
Musically it's between Chanson Française and rock , a bit like Hubert Felix Thiéfaine with some nice lyrics even though for one song we couldn't understand a bloody word he was singing.
With HF Thiéfaine probably one of the only French singer worth checking.