ROCKERPARIS

mardi 5 novembre 2013

Black Star Riders @ Trabendo, Paris Nov 04 2013

Black Star Riders @ Trabendo, Paris Nov 04 2013

Thin Liz... sorry Black Star Riders feat. Scott Gorham are playing the tiny Trabendo club, where we saw the Rolling Stones last year. Hard to believe it's empty... 200 people max, I guess the promotion for this show was non-existent and the tickets were very expensive (45 euros) for a band that has just released it's first album.
Who cares anyway...conditions were perfect, no one pushing you or obstructing your view and Scott Gorham playing his famous Les Paul, just a few inches in front of us. Can't beat that !!!

It's a classic line-up for Black Star Riders with Marco Mendoza on bass (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake), Jimmy Degrasso on drums (too many to mention...), Damon Johnson on guitar (Alice Cooper) and Ricky Warwick (The Almighty, Thin Lizzy) on vocals... and of course Scott on guitar.
Hard not to see that it is a Black Star Riders concert as the name is everywhere : on the drum kit, on a backdrop above the drum-kit, it's painted on the "marshall" amps on each side of the stage.
Sound is loud and clear maybe a bit too loud and the setlist (Pic below) is a mix of the first BSR album and Thin Lizzy songs.
Many of the BSR songs are Thin Lizzy friendly including the first single "Bound for glory". Damon Johnson on guitar is perfect and Ricky' voice is sounding like Phil's.

I guess every Thin Lizzy fans, like we are, all left the venue with a big smile on their face, like we did.
They could have played a few more songs as it "only" lasted 90 min.
Great show !

setlist & merchandising

lundi 4 novembre 2013

Vente "It's only Rock n Roll" @ Artcurial, Paris Nov 07 2013

Vente "It's only Rock n Roll" @ Artcurial, Paris Nov 07 2013

Exposition

4, 5, 6 novembre, de 11h à 19h

Artcurial

7 rond-point des Champs-Élysées
75008 Paris

Whole catalogue HERE

Hendrix, Elvis' 78 and Mercury (blues)

Beatles & Bowie

Guitars/ Rolling Stones' pinball/ Andy Warhol art-works

ANGUS YOUNG, KISS Pinball,

Posters: AC/DC, Ramones, Heartbreakers, The Jam

Shepard Fairey lithos / Stones 76/ Serge Gainsbourg

dimanche 3 novembre 2013

Soirée Hommage à Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, Paris Nov 03 2013

Soirée Hommage à Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, Paris Nov 03 2013

Feat. Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert and a few others...

Théatre de l'Odéon (with Jean Charles de Castelbajac's angel )

Full house for this tribute to French Director Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, one of the most beautiful theatre in Paris, last time we were there it was to see Marianne Faithfull reading Shakespeare's sonnets last year (link here).

Many years again, I guess it was 15 years ago, we went to see Lou Reed reading his lyrics.

For tonight's show, Many artists came to talk about Patrice Chéreau or read a letter or some dialogues from a play.

French actors Michel Piccoli, Charlotte Rampling, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Desarthe and a couple of others including German director Peter Stein

Laure Adler was the MC for tonight's tribute introducing guests and extracts of documentary or play that wereshown on the screen.

Marianne Faithfull read a text from one of her song: "Sleep" that was in a Chéreau movie, Jane Birkin closed the night with the only song of this tribute to director Patrice Chéreau, singing on her own "L'Amour de moi".
Great night out