Guns N Roses Pro-shot footage of entire Los Angeles show available

Guns N Roses entire concert @ L.A. Forum recorded on Dec 21 is now available
This professionally filmed video footage was streamed on iclips as pay-per-view
It is NOW on ROCKERPARIS , it's free and it's 3 hours long.
So enjoy MOTHER FUCKERS !

Part 1 with first two songs :"Chinese Democracy" & "Welcome to the Jungle" is HERE
Part 2 Entire show below


Guns N Roses performance @ Rock in Rio in Oct 2011 is also available to watch on ROCKERPARIS Here

Check our review of GUNS N ROSES @ Zénith arena in Lille France
GUNS N ROSES @ bERCY pART 1 pART 2 pART 3 (click on all links for GREAT Pictures, setlist, exclusive videos)
GUNS N ROSES @ L'aRC Club pART 1 pART 2

Lost footage of David Bowie playing "Jean Genie" on Top of the Pops in 1973 uncovered

Footage of David Bowie performing "The Jean Genie" with The Spiders from Mars on Top Of The Pops thought to have been lost forever is to be screened for the first time in almost 40 years.
The performance has not been screened on TV since it originally aired on January 4, 1973, the day after it was recorded.

HERE IT IS, ENJOY :

Read more on how the footage was uncovered HERE

Listen to "My Valentine" Paul McCartney's new song

Hear Paul McCartney's new song "My Valentine" featuring Eric Clapton on guitar from yet untitled new album to be out in February 2012



Paul is about to offer a glimpse into “the songs which inspired the songs” with the upcoming release of a brand new album of those standards he grew up listening to in his childhood—plus two brand new McCartney compositions: the album, which is currently untitled, will be released on Hear Music/Concord Records on February 7^th 2012.

Slayer's guitarist Jeff Hanneman's scar after surgery

(c) KEVIN WINTER (?)
Scar tissue: impressive !
irockinparis@yahoo.fr

Jeff Hanneman contracted necrotizing fasciitis, likely caused by a spider bite, and has been undergoing surgeries, skin grafts and intense rehab.
Tom Araya on Jeff's disease :"Jeff ended up contracting a bacteria that ate away his flesh on his arm, so they cut open his arm, from his wrist to his shoulder, and they did a skin graft on him, they cleaned up… It was a flesh-eating virus".

JEFF HANNEMAN 

RIP

Interesting article written by a doc on his death HERE

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers @ La Cigale, Paris Dec 19 2011

The Red Hot Chili Peppers @ Cigale, Paris dec 19 2011

After playing two sold-out shows in October @ Bercy (17 500 Capacity), The Red Hot Chili Peppers are back in Paris , this time to play the tiny Cigale ( 1500 capacity). It's the second time they're playing here, first time was in April 2006 and Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore were watching from the wings of the stage.

Don't need to tell you that it's Sold-out, but it's only competition winners from Orange Mobile phone and NRJ radio on the floor and VIP guests from media, Warner Cie and sponsors at the balcony upstairs.

We chose to be with real fans on the floor to get warm as the weather was absolutely horrible all day long: very cold and rainy.
There's a party with free booze and canapés at the nextdoor Boule Noire club before the show.

The band is onstage at 9:05 pm.

Even though we know that we're VERY lucky to be with the happy few, we're not great fans anymore of the RHCP they've done too many shitty records these last 10 years and the last album is probably the worst they've ever done.
Nevertheless when the RHCP are not playing shitty songs they are very entertaining, Flea is always doing his funny faces and funny stage moves, Chad Smith is a great drummer.

Can't say that Anthony is a great singer as he's sometimes singing flat but he's also doing the show.
Luckily the band has some great hit singles to entertain the younger audience and the girls.
They're not jamming too much like they did on their arena tour as it was very boring and useless.
It was a much better gig than the one we saw @ Bercy two months ago and it's always a pleasure to see a stadium rock band playing in a small theatre specially when you're so close to the stage as we were tonight.
Very good 1h50 min show.

Setlist & Pass-sheet

After the show we had a few drinks and some tasty canapés in the vip area @ Boule Noire.
We had our picture taken by the Orange guys in front of the "wall of fame" for the gig, looking forward to see our ugly faces on their website.

Great night out for our last show for 2011

Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground"


check our review of RHCP @ Bercy on Oct 19 2011

Peter Doherty @ Le Tigre, Paris Dec 17 2011

updated Dec 20 with link to pics from the show and this video below

Peter played yesterday night ( saturday Dec 17) @ Le Tigre club in Paris
Sorry we were NOT there as Boxer rebellion was playing La Maroquinerie

From what we've heard he played around 2:00am for 20 min, wasn't happy as people were making lots of noise (speaking loudly ?) He poured beer over the audience, then broke his guitar on the miror-ball threw it into the audience and left.
Pictures from the show HERE

Peter already played for the 2nd anniversary of this club on Nov 19 and in March (see review here)
We saw him @ Colette briefly on Nov 17 when Marie-Flore played this store.

Check our review of Peter 's gig @ We Love Green Festival in Paris in September 2011 with exclusive video in his dressing room.

Boxer Rebellion @ Maroquinerie, Paris Dec 17 2011

Boxer Rebellion @ Maroquinerie, Paris Dec 17 2011

setlist

The Beach Boys announce 50th Anniversary new Album and Tour

updated Dec 20 with link to Mike Love interview

It's NOW official:

– The founding members of The Beach Boys, one of the world's most legendary bands in popular music history, will reunite for a global 50th Anniversary CELEBRATION in 2012. Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks will come together for a new studio album and commemorative catalog releases with Capitol/EMI and a 50-date international tour to begin in April with a headlining performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ("Jazz Fest") as well as other exciting events to be announced. -
It was the worst kept secret as we already announced it on ROCKERPARIS several months ago.

Mike Love did an interview for Rolling Stone us mag HERE
There will be shows in Europe and 3 shows in Japan in August are confirmed

Check our reviews (with Pics , setlist & videos) of The Beach Boys in concert in Paris @ Grand Rex on July 06 2011
Brian Wilson @ Casino de Paris on Sept 20 2011

Peter Doherty for The Kooples 2012

Peter Doherty designing clothes for The Kooples

The Kooples vient de présenter sa prochaine collection dessinée par le chanteur Peter Doherty.

Pour les Hommes: 16 pièces. Pour les femmes: 8 pièces

Une collection de T-Shirts avec collages et dessins originaux de l'artiste
La collection sortira au printemps-été 2012.

and we're NoT getting paid for this publicity !

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Announce 2012 Tour

First time in 20 years in Paris ?

American shows are HERE

Europe 2012:

June 7: 02 Arena, Dublin, IR
June 8: The Marquee, Cork, IR
June 10: 02 World, Hamburg, GER
June 12: Open Air, Horsens, DK
June 14: The Globe, Stockholm, SWE
June 15: Norwegian Wood Festival, Oslo, NOR
June 22: Isle of Wight Festival, UK
June 24: Hallenstadion, Zurich, SWI
June 25: Lanxess Arena, Cologne, GER
June 27: Grand Rex, Paris, FR
June 29: Piazza Napoleone, Lucca, IT

June 30: SAP Arena, Mannheim, GER

We only saw Tom Petty once, it was @ Concert for George on Nov 29 2002 playing George's songs. Glad to see him perform his own tunes with his band at last...in Paris on June 27 @ Grand Rex.

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.