The Gunter Sachs Collection, Exhibition @ Sothebys, Paris April 2012

The Gunter Sachs Collection
Highlights Exhibition @ Sothebys Paris April 3-5 2012
Auctions in London 22 & 23 May 2012

Andy Warhol's acrylic & silkscreen ink on canvas

Gunter Sachs, the millionaire who inherited a family fortune from the car maker Opel shot himself last year. He was a photographer & art collector.
His personal collection of art is being sold by Sotheby's in London.
Gunter Sachs is well known for having Brigitte Bardot as his second wife between 1966 & 1969

Richard Avedon Picture /Marianne by Alain Gourdon (Brigitte Bardot) / Andy Warhol

Highlights from his collection is shown in different cities around Europe: Paris, Zurich, Munich this month and in New York City in May before the auctions in London on May 22 & 23.

There are several furniture from Giacometti (tables & chairs not pictured here), Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann's secretaire...

Paintings by Yves Klein & Andy Warhol, Picture by Richard Avedon...

Yves Klein blue "Brain" & painting / François-Xavier Lalanne furniture (sheeps)

Cool exhibition, some objects or paintings in the catalogue are not in Paris so they probably split the collection in two for the exhibitions.

Arman's broken violin on panel /

Elmut Newton posters in Paris ( note: no naked girl on the subway poster, even the car is missing from the pic)

Christopher Cross @ Trianon, Paris April 02 2012

Christopher Cross @ Trianon, Paris April 02 2012

American soft-rock(pop) singer Christopher Cross is playing at the beautiful Trianon theatre to promote his new album "Doctor faith".
He's well known for having a few hits on his first album published in 1979 with "sailing" & "Ride like the wind".Then I can hardly tell you what he did for the last 20 years.
It's the first time that we're seeing him in concert and friends who saw him recently @ Cigale (?) told us they had a good time.
The Trianon is almost full for this all seated event, lots of posh people down the front as the concert is sponsored by a insurance Cie, the guests had a nice food & drink reception before and after the gig.
This Cie probably bought a lot of the best seats for their best elements and clients ,I guess it's an easy way of having more people attending a gig considering that the tickets were quite expensive.You have to find the money where it is.It's a tough world ;-)

With an audience of posh people in their late 40's needless to tell you that it wasn't wild specially considering the music that is played tonight: the soft of the soft pop-rock.
Christopher made an effort to dress up with a nice costume as this show is recorded for a DVD.
He played some of his biggest hits and songs from his latest record.
The music as you can guess is very soft, we only had a couple of electric guitar soli for the whole gig, the rest is typical from the 80's with sax soli on many tracks.
I know It's the kind of music that people tend to hate but , we have our guilty pleasure and it's enjoyable from time to time.
The musicians are perfect, it's a well oiled machine.
Unbelievable but Christopher still have the high crystal clear voice he had 30 years ago.
The night couldn't be perfect without "Ride like the Wind" with a shower of ticker tapes and everybody dancing as if they were 21 again.
Very good show

setlist not accurate as he changed the order of the songs, "Never be the same" was played just after" sailing" (see video below)

"Sailing":

Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Ronnie Wood & Paul Weller on stage for Teenage Cancer Trust @ Royal Albert Hall, london March 29 2012

Paul McCartney @ Royal Albert Hall, London, March 29 2012

for the Teenage Cancer Trust (click for official video & more)

setlist:
Magical Mystery Tour
Junior's farm
All My Loving
Drive My car
Sing The Changes
The Night Before
Let Me Roll It + Foxy Lady
Paperback Writer
The Long and Winding Road
Nineteen hundred and eighty five
My Valentine
Maybe I'm Amazed
I've Just Seen A Face
BlackBird
Here Today
Dance Tonight
Eleanor Rigby
Something Band
On The Run
Back In The USSR (+ "feeling" for video)
I've Got a Feeling
Let It Be
Hey Jude
Encore 1
Day Tripper
Get Back (with Ronnie Wood, Roger Daltrey & Paul Weller)
Encore 2
Yesterday (+ medley for video)
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End 



The night before Roger Daltrey was joined on stage for "Baba O Riley" by Kelly Jones & Ronnie Wood

Elvis The Concert @ Zénith, Paris March 29 2012

Elvis The Concert @ Zénith, Paris march 29 2012

Elvis is still alive & well more than 35 years after his death.
As we were at the press Conference for the Hellfest we were very late and the fact that we had trouble getting tickets we've missed a good 30 min of the first part.
It's a medium size Zénith and all seated event, Elvis fans are getting older and older... not I'm jocking there are quite a few young people in the audience.
Cool to see that Elvis is still as popular in France specially when he is only on a screen with his band, The TCB playing live.
Lots of musicians on stage there's a classical orchestra led by Joe Guercio, The Imperials (Male Backing vocalists), The Sweet Inspirations (Female backing vocalists) plus the original live band : The TCB minus bass player Jerry Scheff, who's missing for the second time (last show two years ago was Nathan East on bass), this time his substitute is Elvis' session man Norbert Putman.
Of Course Glen D Harding is on piano, Ronnie Tutt on drums & James Burton on guitar.

Norbert Putnam on bass

It's basically the same show as two years ago, I guess it will never change as they probably don't have too many live footage of Elvis that they can use for the show.
Complete setlist here.
Most of the footage are coming from "Aloha from Hawaii" & "That's the way it is" with a couple of songs from the "Comeback special '68".

Glen D Harding / Ronnie Tutt/ James Burton

It's like attending a real Elvis Presley concert as they kept the same running order, it might be weird if you're attending for the very first time but you're getting used very quickly and then you don't even noticed that Elvis is on a screen.

Fans are well behaved for rockers staying seated for the whole first set.
There's a 20 min intermission and a voice is inviting you to get stuff at the merchandising, Remember It's business first.
For the second half in the second set the audience is finally standing up and getting closer to the stage trying to get something signed or to get the best picture of one of the musicians.
The TCB might be getting older and older , they are aging well and can deliver like young kids will do.

great 2 hour show !!!

Merchandising

Reminder (review & Pics):
Elvis with TCB @ Zénith March 2010
Elvis 2008 feat TCB @ Grand Rex Oct 2008 (Part 2)

Hellfest 2012 Complete bill !!! All the bands !

Hellfest 2012 Complete bill !!! All the bands !

HELLFEST 2012


Press conference @ Gibus club in Paris , 6:00pm

They did tell us a few things:
-OZZY will play with Slash & Zak Wylde
-It's a 35 000 capacity maximum every day
-It's a new site a few yards from the original
-6 stages
-No photographers will be allowed for Motley Crue ( same as 2 years ago)
-They are "expecting" Guns N Roses to be late
-Van Halen should have headlined (They were in contact with them for a few months before the band decided to play only the US)
-They would like to have Iron Maiden, but not in the near future as they will be headlining Sonisphere next year ( A scoop ?!?)

Dionysos @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris March 28 2012

Dionysos @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris March 28 2012

Powerful 35+ min set by French Pop-Rockers Dionysos to promote new album "Dionysos plays Bird'n Roll".
Once again a band that is playing a showcase with all their live equipment, stage clothes and that is giving it all on stage, specially the singer , a pint size little fellow who's jumping up and down like a maniac including some stage diving and crowd surfing (see picture above).
Very entertaining show in front of a dedicated audience.
Signing session after but we left before.

The First song

Lee Fields @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris March 26 2012

Lee Fields @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris March 26 2012

setlist

Funk & Soul singer Lee Fields & The Expressions is promoting his new album by playing Canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine.
35 min of great soul & Funk music with some vocals à la James Brown for this veteran singer.
Neat vintage songs with sax and trumpet with some cool grooves.
His version of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny" was terrific.
Just mix James brown, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and you have Lee Fields.

Leonard Cohen's European Tour 2012 / Aerosmith-Cheap Trick American Summer Tour 2012

AEROSMITH /CHEAP TRICK "The Global Warming Tour"
American Summer Tour 2012

Sat Jun 16	Minneapolis	Target Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Tue Jun 19	Cleveland	Quicken Loans Arena	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Fri Jun 22	Chicago	United Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Wed Jun 27	Toronto	Air Canada Centre	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Sun Jul 01	Uniondale	Nassau Coliseum	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Tue Jul 03	Bristow	Jiffy Lube Live	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Thu Jul 05	Detroit	The Palace of Auburn Hills	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Tue Jul 17	Boston	TD Garden	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Sat Jul 21	Philadelphia	Wells Fargo Center	On Sale Mar 30 @ 10am	tweet	share
Tue Jul 24	East Rutherford	IZOD Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Thu Jul 26	Atlanta	Philips Arena	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Sat Jul 28	Dallas	American Airlines Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Mon Jul 30	Houston	Toyota Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Wed Aug 01	Denver	Pepsi Center	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Sat Aug 04	Oakland	Oracle Arena	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Mon Aug 06	Los Angeles	Hollywood Bowl	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am	tweet	share
Wed Aug 08	Tacoma	Tacoma Dome	On Sale Mar 31 @ 10am

Leonard Cohen's "Old Ideas" European Tour 2012

August 12th – Ghent, Belgium – St. Peter's Square

August 14th – Ghent, Belgium – St. Peter's Square

August 25th – Copenhagen, Denmark – Rosenborg Castle

August 26th – Aalborg, Denmark – Molleparken

August 28th – Bergen, Norway – Bergenhus Festning-Koengen

August 31st – Gothenberg, Sweden – Tradgardsforeningen

September 2nd – Helsinki, Finland – Sonera Stadium

September 5th – Berlin, Germany – Wuhlheide

September 6th – Monchengladbach, Germany – Hockey Field

September 11th – Dublin, Ireland – Imma

September 12th – Dublin, Ireland – Imma

September 25th – Verona, Italy – Verona Arena

September 28th – Paris, France – Olympia

September 29th – Paris, France – Olympia

September 30th – Paris, France – Olympia

October 3rd – Barcelona, Spain – St. Jordi

October 5th – Madrid, Spain – Palais Desportes

October 7th – Lisbon, Portugal – Pavilhao Atlantico