vendredi 7 décembre 2012

Next Rock shows in Paris for December 2012

Dec 07
Izia @ trianon
The raveonettes @ trabendo
Dec 08
Izia @ trianon
My Dying Bride @ Nouveau casino
Dec 10
Rufus Wainwright @ Folies bergere
Wishbone Ash @ New Morning
Fidlar @ Album de la semaine
Dec 11
Fleshtones @ Gibus
Ben Howard @ Casino de Paris
Dec 12
Doro @ Divan du Monde
The Foals @ Album de la Semaine
Dec 13
The Foals @ Maroquinerie (Sold out)
Eric Truffaz @ Studio SFR
Dec15:
Theophilus London @ Nouveau casino
Dec 17
Peter Hook @ Trabendo
Macy Gray @ Cabaret Sauvage
Dec 18:
Jean Louis Aubert @ Le Petit bain (private show)
The XX @ 104
Dec 19:
The XX @ 104

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jeudi 6 décembre 2012

Baron Wolman Exhibition @ Galerie Photo 12, Paris Dec 7 2012- Feb 16 2012

Baron Wolman Exhibition @ Galerie Photo 12, Paris  Dec 7 2012- Feb 16 2012

Vernissage tonight Dec 06

Hendrix, George Harrison , Mick Jagger, The Who, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Fogerty, Zappa, The Doors, Jeff Beck, BB King, Van Morrison, Joni Michell, Miles Davis and many many others....






mercredi 5 décembre 2012

James Iha @ Maroquinerie, Paris Dec 05 2012

James Iha @ Maroquinerie, Paris Dec 05 2012
Former SMASHING PUMPKINS and A PERFECT CIRCLE  guitar player James Iha playing @ Maroquinerie to promote his second solo record

Hard to believe that there is a show tonight @ Maroquinerie, when we arrived there at 8:00pm , there's no one outside, in fact people are waiting in the corridor, no more than 10 people and everybody's waiting for the guest list to open.They do have several guest-lists and they are full of names so I guess that they only sold a few dozens tickets.
James Iha is playing with two musicians, one on guitar and one on keyboards plus a drum machine.
He's playing mainly his new album, well it's for most of it dull and boring, there are a couple of covers: Patti smith's "dancing barefoot" and the SPumpkins' "mayonnaise" and these two are the only decent songs performed tonight. His voice is weak and sometimes off key, he looks as if he doesn't give a fuck.
60 min show with no encore,  he didn't come back even though people asked for more, I'm really wondering why they asked him back, it was sooo boring.
Hard to believe that this guy was in the Smashing Pumpkins.

What the fuck was I doing here when Mark Lanegan is playing at the Trabendo ?!?

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lundi 3 décembre 2012

Bettye Lavette @ Album de la Semaine, Paris Dec 03 2012

Bettye Lavette @ Album de la Semaine, Paris Dec 03 2012

Bettye Lavette is celebrating 50 years in the music business with a new album " Thankful N’ Thoughtful" and a new Tour, she will be playing @ Alhambra in Paris on Dec 05.
Before that she's playing famous canal+ tv show L'Album de la Semaine.
She may be well-known for singing soul orientated music but with the new album she's more into something else but still with that soul touch.
First song is much more Rock than expected with Savoy Brown's "I'm Tired", next is a very quiet and soulfull version of Gnarls Barclay's "Crazy" which I didn't recognized at all.
Neil Young's version of "Everybody knows..." was folky, we even had a Bob Dylan and a Tom Waits song that could be more Cabaret.
I guess it was a bit of a surprise for us to have all these covers that are far from the soul we know her for, but as it's the kind of stuff that we like we were more than satisfied.
Too bad she only played a short 6 song-set for no more than 30 min.

Benjamin Biolay @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris Nov 30 2012

Benjamin Biolay @ Fnac Montparnasse, Paris Nov 30 2012

French singer  Benjamin Biolay is promoting his latest album by playing a small acoustic show @ Fnac Montparnasse on this friday night. We are a bit late and... and it's packed, impossible to get in. Impossible is NOT Rockerparis so we managed to get in a nd get a good spot on the side.
I've never really paid attention to what he's doing and heard any of his songs and in fact it was much better than expected. Can't be bad with so evident Serge Gainsbourg influences.
Should listen to his records one day.

The only time we saw Benjamin Biolay on a stage was for the play Pop'Pea @ theatre du Chatelet last May (also featuring Carl Barat, Marc Almond among others) and the poor sucker was ridiculous singing English so was the play.