The XX @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 05 2012

The XX @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Sept 05 2012

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Before their sold out concert @ Cirque d'Hiver on Sept 06 , The XX are playing Canal+ famous tv show, see ya there !
It's sold-out tonight for our first session after the holidays, Eugene McGuinness played last week but we were back to the west-coast for an extra week on the seaside, enjoying the sun & sand.

The XX are getting more and more popular over here, the music is very soft, very ambient and atmospheric with a just some bass , dome very soft guitar and percussion or electro beats.
Most of the songs are very quiet with just a couple of more up-tempo songs.
Not really the kind of things we're used to listen to but it's quite interesting.

We already saw them @ Fnac Forum in 2010

The Rolling Stones' new Greatest Hits album "GRRR!" out on Nov 12 2012

The Rolling Stones' new Greatest Hits album "GRRR!" out on Nov 12 2012

Grrr !

The Rolling Stones, ABKCO Music & Records and Universal Music Group are pleased to announce the release of GRRR! by the Rolling Stones on the 12th November 2012 for the world, excluding North America, and on the 13th November 2012 in North America.

Including:
“Come On”, their first single issued in June 1963, via the thrilling chart-toppers “The Last Time”, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, “Get Off Of My Cloud”, “Jumping Jack Flash”, “Honky Tonk Women” , “Brown Sugar”, “Tumbling Dice”, “Miss You” and “Start Me Up”,
all the way to the present day with the inclusion of “Gloom And Doom” and “One Last Shot”, two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France in August 2012.

GRRR! GREATEST HITS FORMATS:

50 Track 3CD album

3CD / 50 tracks in a digipack with 24 page booklet

50 Track 3CD Deluxe Edition

3CD / 50 tracks in a DVD size box with 36 page hardback book and 5 postcards

Super Deluxe Edition Box Set

4CD / 80 tracks plus Bonus CD, 7″ Vinyl, Hardback book, Poster, 5 postcards in a presentation box

12” Vinyl Box Set

5x 12″ Vinyl / 50 tracks in a casebound LP Box

The Rolling Stones to play a few shows in NYC & London before the end of the Year

The ROLLING STONES are planning to play 2 shows @ Brooklyn's Barclays Center before the end of the year to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

The band is also planning two shows at the O2 Arena in London for November.

The band recorded two songs in Paris at the end of August at Studio Guillaume Tell in Suresnes for a future Best of

The Waterboys + The Dandy Warhols @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud August 26 2012

The Waterboys + The Dandy Warhols @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud August 26 2012

Last day of this 3-day festival in this posh area of St Cloud near Paris, today has the best bill starting with The Waterboys, we saw them a few months ago @ Bataclan and we had an excellent good time with some good ol' rocking and rolling.

As the band is playing at 5 pm it's a short set but they managed to rock the place, they dedicated "The whole of the moon" to Neil Amstrong who died the night before (first man to walk on the moon), it's a sunny day so conditions are perfect, for the last song we have a special guest with French singer Cali playing acoustic guitar and doing vocals.
Great set

SETLIST (from Oliver Peel)
01: Rags
02: Killing My Heart
03: A Girl Called Johnny
04: Glastonbury Song
05: Mad As The Mist And Snow
06: The Pan Within
07: The Whole Of The Moon
08: Fisherman's Blues (with Cali)

The Dandy Warhols are playing on the main stage, they do have a good sound but the band is on auto-pilot, we missed the begginning of the set and we had to leave before the end for the second stage to get a good spot for Grandaddy but their show is very average so I guess that we didn't miss that much.

Green Day + Grandaddy @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud August 26 2012

Green Day + Grandaddy @ Rock en Seine, St Cloud August 26 2012

Grandaddy was THE band to see @ Rock en Seine, they've just reformed after a few year's split, We've always wanted to see them live and never could so there were lots of expectations.

Lots of dedicated fans down the front of the stage, They started with "El Caminos" one of my favorite song, couldn't start better !

Many great song all along the set.

Maybe they sound-engineer should buy himself some new ears as the sound was perfect for the first 3 songs then with had some extra bass for the rest of the gig that ruined a bit everything. Not the first time that the bass is ruining the sound at this festival.

Great 9 min version of "He's simple" to close this set

The gig of the festival

SETLIST

01: El Caminos In The West
02: Now It's On
03: "Yeah" Is What We Had
04: The Crystal Lake
05: Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
06: A.M. 180
07: The Go In The Go-For-It
08: My Small Love
09: Levitz
10: Charstengrafs
11: Stray Dog And The Chocolate Shake
02: Hewlett's Daughter
13: Summer Here Kids
14: He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot

We had a few things to do so we couldn't see Social Distortion, too bad.Foster the People was just horrible, sounded like a bad version of Mika, hard to believe that so many people turned up on the second stage to see them.

Green Day is headlining with a beautiful and very simple stage, the sound is absolutely PERFECT. They may be Punk but they do sound like the perfect Pop band with some great catchy tunes with a hook to sing along too, kids love them.

They have a few extra players so that the singer can act a lot on stage without having to concentrate on his guitar duties.
Lots of interaction with the audience, they had a few dozen people on the stage for a song, too bad the set turned into a circus when they started playing a few snippets of classic rock songs and when they dressed up a "clowns" for it. Not really Punk isn't it !!!

The good point is that even if you don't have any of their records it's enjoyable
So we had a good time. This Festival ended on a good friendly note.