Coldplay @ Bercy, Paris Dec 14 2011 & Jarvis Cocker @ Agnes B

Vernissage @ Moretti & Moretti @ 6:30 pm

First there is a Vernissage @ Moretti & Moretti Galerie near Bastille with some street artists (Miss Tic, Konny Steding, Jef Aerosol and many others...) who are probably NOT street artists anymore considering the price they are selling their shit. Some good and some very bad but we'll talk about this later... so stay tuned

Jarvis Cocker @ Agnes B @ 7:15 pm

Then we went to the Agnes B store near St Eustache where Jarvis Cocker was doing a reading from his new book, we missed the beginning, it was more crowded than yesterday for Josh T Pearson's acoustic set.
Jarvis then sold a lot of books and people had it signed. We left for Bercy...

And...Coldplay @ Paris Bercy, Dec 14 2011 @ 9: 00pm

Balloons, confettis... Let's Party !

Sold -out Bercy for Coldplay, second time in a couple of months as they've played a theatre show in Paris @ La Cigale on Oct 31.

It's party time @ Paris Bercy as everyone has a wristband that would lit up several times during the set so everyone is waving his hands like maniacs to great effects.
They could have done in with cell phones it would have been more ecological.
They've also used lots of confettis at the beginning of the show and some big balloons.
There's a catwalk that Chris is using several times , the band will play a couple of songs there in the middle of the crowd.

SETLIST:
1) Mylo Xyloto 2) Hurts like Heaven 3) Yellow 4) In my place 5) Major Minus 6) Lost 7) Shiver 8) Violet Hill 9) God puts a smile... 10) The Scientist 11) Up in Flames 12) Up against the world (On B Stage) 13) Politic 14)Viva la vida 15) Charlie Brown 16) Paradise Encore 17) Clocks 18) Fix You 19) Every teardrop...

Entertaining show, you know what we're thinking about the music, the first 2 albums were great then it went from bad to worse.
Considering their stardom and after 5 hit records it's a bit strange that they're only on stage for 95 min.
I guess that was enough for us even though the show was better than expected

Pass -sheet

"Roll the Dice":

Josh T Pearson @ Agnes B store, Paris Dec 12 2011

Josh T Pearson @ Agnes B Store, Paris Dec 12 2011

Agnes B with Rough Trade record store for a week on the first floor of the female store in Rue du Jour just next to the St Eustache Church where we saw Patti Smith performed an acoustic set last month.
Around 50 people to attend Josh's showcase, as usual he's laid back so is the audience, he only performed 3 songs but there are between 7 min and 15 min long.
He took time afterwards to introduced himself to everybody in the room and have a chat with girls.

Ozzy, Geezer Butler, Dave Mustaine + others performed @ final 30th Metallica anniversary show @ Fillmore, Dec 10 2011

Contact: irockinparis (a) yahoo ((dot)) fr

Updated Dec 14 with more links to videos

METALLICA is celebrating its 30th Anniversary @ Fillmore in San Francisco with 4 very special concerts that already included on stage: Jason Newsted, John Marshall, King Diamond & Mercyful Fate, Rob Halford, Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed, Jerry Cantrell, Glenn Danzig, Biff Byford from Saxon, Diamond Head, John Bush from Armored Saint & Anthrax, Gary Rossington from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ray Haller from Sweet Savage...and probably a few others. (click for videos)

Yesterday night was a dream come true as ALL original members of Metallica have played on stage: [Hugh Tanner (Guitar)], Ron McGovney (Bass), Lloyd Grant (Guitar) & Dave Mustaine plus Jason Newsted.
Ozzy Osbourne & Geezer Butler also played a few songs with Metallica.

SETLIST (From Blabbermouth): click for more
01. Orion
02. Through the Never
03. Ride the Lightning
04. The God That Failed
05. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
06. Rebel Of Babylon (previously unreleased song from "Death Magnetic" sessions)
07. Blackened (with fan-club members Dennis, Annette Diaz)
08. Dirty Window (with Bob Rock)
09. Frantic (with Bob Rock)
10. Sabbra Cadabra (BLACK SABBATH cover) (with Geezer Butler)
11. Iron Man (BLACK SABBATH cover) (with Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler)
12. Paranoid (BLACK SABBATH cover) (with Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler)
13. King Nothing (w/ Jason Newsted)
14. Whiplash (w/ Jason Newsted)
15. Motorbreath (w/ Hugh Tanner)
16. Phantom Lord (w/ Dave Mustaine) (Other recording)
17. Jump In The Fire (w/ Dave Mustaine) (other recording)
18. Metal Militia (w/ Dave Mustaine) (other recording)
19. Hit The Lights (w/ Lloyd Grant, Dave Mustaine, Ron McGovney) (other recording)
20. Seek & Destroy (w/ Jason Newsted, Dave Mustaine, Lloyd Grant, Ron McGovney, Hugh Tanner, Mark Osegueda, and THE SOUL REBELS) (other recording)

Charlotte Gainsbourg @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Dec 10 2011

SETLIST: (from Oliver Peel) check his review
01: All The Rain
02: Anna
03: Greewich Mean Time
04: Terrible Angels
05: Ouvertures Eclair
06: Out Of Touch
07: Got To Let Go (mit Charlie Fink)
08: Me And Jane Doe
09: Waste Of Home
10: White Telephone
11: Jamais
12: Forever Dolphin Love (Connan Mockasin)
13: Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan Cover)
14: Memoir (Feat. Villagers)
15: The Song That We Sing

16: ?
17: Greenwich Mean Time
18: The Song That We Sing

Dec 11:
INXS @ Bataclan
Thurston Moore @ Gaité Lyrique
Dec 12:
Josh T Pearson @ Agnes B (7:30pm)
Dec 14:
Coldplay + Emeli Sande @ Bercy

Dec 17:
Boxer Rebellion @ Maroquinerie

The Ting Tings @ Caroussel du Louvre for Deezer, Paris Dec 08 2011

The Tings Tings' private show @ Caroussel du Louvre, Paris, Dec 08 2011
For Deezer worldwide launch with Facebook & Orange

Some Girls & Big Oils are out in force including French Minister for culture

LeWeb11 is organizing 2-3 days of conferences about the Internet and they had the good idea to have a huge party with The Ting Tings to celebrate the worldwide launch of French streaming Cie Deezer in collaboration with Big Brother's FaceFuck & Orange.

Lots of sexy girls in the audience, it's always a pleasure, and lots of free booze at the bars.
It's the first time we're attending a Ting Tings' gig and we only know a couple of songs that were played on radio from their first album.
No preconceived mind about this English duet...well maybe about their clothes !!!

Anyway, even though there are only the two of them on stage, it's sounding good, they do have some pre-recorded stuff but not that much.
The girl is doing the show running everywhere, including a small trip into the audience and headbanging like a Metallica fan during "Seek & Destroy".
The guy is playing Drums, some guitars and Keys and the chick is playing guitars and keys and singing of course.

They do have some cool songs that are rocking with a pop/dance beat and feeling.
I'm not too convinced with the more electro tunes, luckily most of the songs are rocking.
I'm not too familiar with the repertoire but out of 9 songs they've probably performed 5-6 new songs.
Nice 45 min set.

setlist with new songs