The Travelling Band @ L'International, Paris sept 29 2011

The Travelling Band @ L'International, Paris sept 29 2011

The Travelling Band, Folk band from Manchester, not to be confused with a CCR cover band, are playing the International club in Ménilmontant. As always @ L'International it's a free gig and drinks are cheap.
The weather has been wonderful this week in Paris, better than this summer, it's 10:00pm and it's still more than 25°C outside, perfect weather to have dinner on a terrace but tonight we preferred to get stuck in the basement of the club to attend this gig.
5 guys on stage with cool vocal harmonies à la CSN.
Most of their songs are folk but sometimes they did get angry and ended some of their songs like a heavy rock band which is the stuff that we like @ Rockerparis.
Or maybe was it because part of the audience in the back were talking too loud, we don't know but they should have listen to this band more carefully as they did a very good set

Folking & Rocking

Metallica & Lou Reed "Lulu" Deluxe Edition revealed

Metallica & Lou Reed "Lulu" Deluxe Edition revealed

The deluxe version of "Lulu", which will come in a tube-shaped container measuring 13 centimeters x 1.24 meters, will include the following:

* 2xCD digipack package
* A large 1.2 m x 1.6 m poster (with song lyrics)
* 3 photographs by Anton Corbijn (50 cm x 50.8 cm)
Source : Blabbermouth
For more on Lulu
Listen to "the View" here (full song)

The Specials @ Olympia, Paris Sept 27 2011

The Specials @ Olympia, paris Sept 27 2011

Marquee & setlist (c) Mathilde Chevrier

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