Herman Dune + C.S.S. + The Kills @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud, August 26 2011

Herman Dune + C.S.S. + The Kills @ Rock en Seine

St Cloud August 26 2011

Herman Dune

The bill for this Rock en Seine is far from being good, no more than 2 very good bands or major acts every day.
Today apart from Foo Fighters and The Kills there's nothing really worth standing in the rain all day.
Well I guess that Météo France should by new computers as it didn't rain for the whole day.
We arrived there just in time for Herman Dune.
We've missed Seasick Steve who was joined by Allison from The Kills ( click for video) It was probably good, we already saw him @ L'Album de la Semaine and Biffy Clyro.

Very good discovery with Herman Dune, just 3 guys but they had a wall of sound. Lots of mid-tempo and relax songs for some cool folk rock à la Neil Young.
Nice start.

CSS from Brasil

CSS is playing on the main stage, these girls from Brasil have already played @ Rock en Seine in 2007 and even though we're not fans of electro pop, we've always liked CSS live, they are very entertaining.

As you can see on the pics, their singer LOVE FOXXX is making the show with some crazy dancing and funny stage clothes, they've also played a couple of (more) heavy rock songs.
Once again they were very good, even Foo Fighters fans around us liked the show.

Setlist CSS, The Audience, Frederic Mitterrand

Frederic Mitterrand french minister for the Culture was there hanging out.

We stayed on the main stage to wait for The Kills, last time we saw them was a few months ago @ the hot & sweaty Bataclan and we were disappointed.
Will it be the same today ?

The Kills

Well... yes, first the sound was shit down the front and second they don't have real songs and it seems that they're playing on auto-pilot. The fact that they added two black girls on backing vocals for a few songs didn't change anything.
We used to like them... not anymore so we left before the end to go and see Mick Jones' Big Audio Dynamite.

Rock en Seine special merchandising

The end of "C'est Lenoir-Black Sessions" on France Inter

Sad news: it's official "C'est Lenoir" radio show is over on France Inter

No more Black Sessions.

"Salut à vous, Entre musique pas comme les autres et vie au grand air, j'ai enfin choisi. Merci pour ces longues années de complicité et de soutien indéfectible. Cela ne sera pas facile de vivre sans ce rendez-vous quotidien. Vous me manquerez. Caresse et bise à l'oeil Bernard Lenoir"

We've seen sooooo many bands there, including Arctic Monkeys, Divine Comedy, Anna Calvi and countless others....

Jerry Lee Lewis cancells Béthune rock show on August 27 2011

Jerry Lee Lewis' concert in Béthune on August 27 is cancelled

Source : L'avenir de L'Artois

WE'RE BACK !!!

HI THERE !!!

ROCKERPARIS IS BACK

see ya there @ Rock en Seine
Stay tuned !

The Kills @ L'Album de la Semaine August 24 2011, Canal+

The Kills @ L'Album de la Semaine for Canal+

We didn't go as we were still on holidays

Here's the setlist:
No Wow
Future Starts Slow
Heart Is A Beating Drum
Kissy Kissy
DNA
Satellite
Tape Song
Baby Says
One Silver Dollar
Pots And Pan
The Last Goodbye

Rock en Seine Festival @ St Cloud, August 26-27-28 2011

ROCKERPARIS will be back at the end of the month

for the
ROCK EN SEINE 2011

Jerry Lee Lewis on August 27 in Bethune ( Near Lille)

Stanley Kubrick Exhibition @ Cinémathèque, Paris July 27 2011

Stanley Kubrick Exhibition @ Cinémathèque

Paris July 27 2011

"Paths of Glory", costumes for "Spartacus"

Last week for the Stanley Kubrick exhibition @ Cinémathèque next to Bercy Arena, it's closing on July 31.
If you like Kubrick's movies , it's a MUST SEE.
Lots of Pics of his career, posters , paper work, costumes, memorabilia 95% of them originals some reproduction.

"Lolita" "Dr Strangelove" & "2001..."

Everything from the beginning of his career as a photographer for Look Mag, some of his early documentaries, his first movies to the big time with Paths of Glory... to what he couldn't do : Napoleon, Aryan Papers & AI Intelligence Artificial.

"2001..." :academy award for special effects (far right)

The biggest room is the one dedicated to "2001..." with lots of drawings, Pics, costumes, slides for special effects...

"2001..." & "Clockwork Orange"

"Barry Lyndon" & "Shining"

Smaller rooms ( too small for me) for "Full Metal Jacket" & Eyes wide shut" on the second level
There's also a corridor filled with flight-cases, cameras & lenses.
Small rooms for unrealized projects.

"Full Metal Jacket"

"Eyes Wide Shut" & Audrey Hepburn's letter turning down Josephine for" Napoleon"

cop car on Ile St Louis

Now ROCKERPARIS is enjoying some well deserved holidays

Amy Winehouse @ Eurockéennes Festival 2007: entire footage of performance available for streaming

Rockerparis will be shortly on holidays so , in order to keep you busy here's the entire performance of Amy Winehouse @ Eurockéennes Festival in 2007
That's our tribute to Amy, ENJOY!

Amy Winehouse - Concert aux Eurockéennes de... par DirectStar

We'll be back for the Rock en Seine Fest between August 26-28 & Jerry Lee Lewis @ Béthune Retro on August 27.

Ben Harper footage of entire performance @ Festival de Fes, Marocco June 12 2011

Arte TV is streaming the entire performance of Ben Harper @ Festival de Fes des Musiques sacrées in Marocco recorded on June 12 2011 : ENJOY !

1h45 min show

Thin Lizzy footage of entire performance @ Hellfest in Clisson, June 18 2011

The entire concert of Thin Lizzy @ Hellfest in Clisson on June 18 2011 can be viewed below:

Catherine Ringer + Florent Marchet @ Festival Fnac Live @ Parvis Hotel de Ville Paris july 24 2011

Catherine Ringer + Florent Marchet @ Parvis Hotel de ville
Paris July 24 2011

Another busy day for ROCKERPARIS & friends, we went to check the Tour de France arriving in Paris, as they were riding nearby our home sweet home. It looks like they were late so we waited for an hour and we saw them less than 20 seconds. I don't understand how can people travel long distance and wait a whole day for that.
We wanted to go to the nearby Cinématheque for the Stanley Kubrick exhibition that is closing at the end of the month, we left as we didn't have the courage to wait in line for an hour to get tickets, we'll go later this week.

We did a bit of sightseeing like tourists and then headed to the Hotel de Ville for the last day of the Festival Fnac Live. Several bands were playing everyday from July 21 to 24. Free fest
Today is the last day.
We arrived just in time for French singer Florent Marchet, enjoyable chanson française.
We missed new sensation Selah Sue ( we saw her @ Album de la Semaine Canal+ tv show in May ) who was playing earlier as we were having diner at a nearby restaurant.

Much more people are here today mostly for former lead singer of french rock band Rita Mitsuko: Catherine Ringer who has released a solo album a few months ago.
We also saw her @ Canal+ tv show L' Album de la Semaine in May.

Cool set between pop-electro-chanson Française & rock.
Nice ending with Rita Mitsuko's "c'est comme ça " here on video.

"C'est comme ça":

Amy Winehouse, death of a star

It's better to remember Amy Winehouse with her show @ Zénith in Paris on Oct 20 2007 than her last performance in Belgrade this year:


We were lucky @ Rockerparis to attend her very first concert in Paris @ L'Album de la Semaine tv show in front of less than 200 people for Canal+ on Jan 29 2007.
At the time she was unknown, 6 months later she was a superstar.
She also performed a private short set @ Bobino club in Paris on June 28 2007.