Alice Cooper @ Zénith Part 1, Paris Nov 08 2011

Alice Cooper @ Zénith Part 1, Paris Nov 08 2011

Alice Cooper is in the middle of his French Tour (several shows in France) so it's a small Zénith tonight (3500 capacity) which is quite full.
We arrived at the Zénith just after the support band so we can't talk about it.
The "No more Mr Nice Guy" Tour started months ago and Alice Cooper already played in June @ Montereau near Paris and there's nothing really new this autumn apart from the addition of new female guitar player Orianthi who played with Mickael Jackson just before he died.

Part 2 Here

For the first song "Black Widow" Alice is singing from the top of the stairway, in fact for each song there's something different: costume change or he's holding something different in his hands: Sword, crutch...or snake.
Nice female touch with Orianthi on guitars, she's doing just what is needed.

Under my Wheels

All Pictures (c) Guino Patrice ROCKERPARIS

"Welcome to my nightmare 2" is out for a couple of months but there are no songs performed from the record apart from the single " I'll bite your face off" that was already played months ago before the album was released.
I guess people don't wanna hear any new songs specially if they are not really good and Alice is giving what they want : Hits and more Hits. (see setlist in Part 2)

On this tour we have more obscure songs played like "Clones" (or "Cold Ethyl")

Between some songs the band is showing off for a couple of minutes on its own so that Alice gets his new costume or to get the stage ready for the decapitation or next stage prop.

SETLIST IN pART 2

Alice Cooper @ Zénith Part 2, Paris Nov 08 2011

Alice Cooper @ Zénith Part 2
Paris, Nov 08 2011

Muscle of Love

All Pictures © Guino Patrice rockerparis.blogspot.com

Only Women Bleed

Lots of heavy guitars all along the show apart for " Only Women bleed" which is the quiet moment of the show.
For "Clones" we have Alice Cooper clones on stage and musicians are wearing masks (see pic below).
For "Frankestein" we have the monster on stage (see below)

Frankestein / Clones

Killer-Dead /School's Out / Elected

Let's not forget the guillotine on "Killer-dead" medley.
Confettis for "School's out" and Alice is wearing the new awful French Football team jersey for the finale with "Elected" not forgetting the French flag.

Another great show by Alice & Co, in our top 10 for 2011.

Elected-Finale

GoodBye Paris See ya next time ! Merchandising

setlist

Check our review of previous shows:
[Alice @ London's Alexandra Palace for Halloween 2011]
Alice @ Montereau Festival in June 2011 (Part 2)
Alice @ Hellfest 2010
Alice @ Bataclan in Paris, special guest of SLASH

Anna Calvi + Le Prince Miiaou + Dum Dum Girls @ Olympia, Paris Nov 07 2011 Inrocks festival

Anna Calvi + Le Prince Miiaou + Dum Dum Girls + Theodore Paul & Gabriel
@ Olympia, Paris Nov 07 2011 Les Inrocks festival

setlist Dum Dum Girls

Dum Dum Girls were already playing when we made our way into the Olympia, first surprise the balcony is quite empty and the pit downstairs is far from being full.
The audience is very different from the one @ La Cigale for the other shows of Les Inrocks festival, much more male orientated and not a lot of teenagers , people are more in their late twenties early thirties.

Dum Dum Girls & Merchandising

We already saw Dum Dum Girls for a Black Session a few months ago and we haven't change our mind, the girls are beautiful and have sexy clothes for this gig but the music (60's influenced psyche-pop-rock) is very average.

Le Prince Miiaou

Then we have French band Le Prince Miiaou, we saw them a few days ago @ Fnac Montparnasse for a showcase. There are songs in French and others in English for this experimental indie rock band.
Cool set even though the female singer seems petrified of playing live.

Theodore Paul & Gabriel

The Olympia is now full for the headlining act but before Anna Calvi we have a French quartet with 3 girls in their early twenties, They've just played 3 songs in front of the curtain during the intermission. They may be playing for only 10 min but you can see (& hear) these chicks have talented skills for writing very good folk-rock songs ( Johnny Cash are you there ?) and we love the tiny hoarse voice of the blonde singer.

Anna Calvi & Friends

Last but not least is Anna Calvi, we've seen her many many times playing gigs in Paris since our first time when she opened for Nick Cave's Grinderman @ Cité de la Musique in Oct 2010.
She's playing always the same set but it's still very hypnotic, the guitar playing is perfect so is her voice
65 min show with an encore with two songs (see setlist for details) and perfect set as usual.

setlist & Merchandising

Check her lastest shows in Paris @ C'est Lenoir in January, @ L'Album de la Semaine a couple of days later, @ Nouveau casino in Feb, @ Cité de la Musique opening for Grinderman in Oct 2010 + Le Trianon on April 22 2011 + Black session in Jan 2011 + Fnac Montparnasse in June 2011 + Rock en Seine August 2011

Daniel Darc @ Fnac Ternes, Paris Nov 07 2011

Interesting meeting with Daniel Darc, he's promoting the release of his new album, it started 20 min late but we were late either so for once we won't complain.
He talked about his new album and the things he like music , cinema...
Very cool 40 min interview.

Kasabian live video from showcase @ Bus Palladium, Paris Oct 20 2011

Kasabian played a showcase @ Bus Palladium club in Paris on Oct 20 2011, we didn't go as we had to attend the vernissage of "Punk Attitude" exhibition @ Galerie Renoma and then went to see Peter Murphy @ Fleche d'Or but here's the video, enjoy ! :