jeudi 4 décembre 2008

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan + Marie - Flore @ Trabendo Paris Dec 3rd 2008

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan are bak at the Trabendo club in Paris a few months after playing La Cigale in June .

First there is a cute French young girl ( ? ) who played a few songs on her own.
The girl is so shy it's hard to believe . She's almost sorry to play in front of us.
She did a very nice set reminding me of the early Cat Power, she's singing with a very soft voice, when she's pushing it a bit she has a high clear voice.
She's the Mistery girl tonight as no one could gave me her name ( i'll try to find out ).
YES I CAN : She's Marie-Flore , i don't know why but i guess it was her , it's funny a friend of mine ( the famous Oliver Peel ) talk to me about her a few days ago and here she is in front of me in flesh & blood . So Marie - Flore if ever you're reading this , hope you'll do an Oliver Peel session soon.
Check her myspace : http://fr.myspace.com/mariefloresmusic

Here's a link to a video i've recorded at the Trabendo : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ5kbttO_Mw

Opening artist : Marie - Flore

Same kind of music with headliners Isobel & Mark , that's their 3rd show in Paris since they started working together. They're still promoting their latest studio record " Sunday at devil dirt" but their were selling a live double CD at the merchendise .
Nothing has change with the happy couple (LoL) Mark has still the same very low voice , closed eyes , mic in hand all dressed in black and Isobel is still doing so nice soft vocals , playing a bit of Cello eyes wide open .

People are listening religiously. Not really the type of music to headbang to .
Sometimes you need to hear some laid back music and just relax , that's what we did tonight :
Relax and enjoy this fine gig.

Setlist
Their most heavy song for tonight :


Show ended early 10:30 pm so then we went to the Truskel hoping to catch the end of Adam Ficek ( Babyshambles ) but we were too late as the show had started at 9 pm instead of 10 pm. So we went home. Just called a friend past midnight and Adam was back @ The Bergerac bar to play , from what i've been told , a better show than the one the previous night.

mercredi 3 décembre 2008

Adam Ficek ( Babyshambles ) @ Café Bergerac Paris Dec 2nd 2008

UPDATED DEC 3rd WITH VIDEO

Adam Ficek
drummer for The Babyshambles is playing in this tiny bar next to the hotel France Albion where Pete Doherty used to come .

Very relax atmosphere , a bit like going into a bar to hear one of your mate playing the guitar for fun. Arrived there around 10 PM , he was already playing. Can't really tell you every song he played while i was there ( a couple of hours ) but he definitely did some of his songs ( he's got a solo record out ) and some Babyshambles ' .
A couple of guys ( and a girl : see picture ) played guitar with him with singalong from the 20+ crowd that gathered to hear him play.
Nice way to end the night with Adam who's one of the nicest lad i have ever met.
And he's got class : have a look at the way he put his scarf around his neck on the right picture above .
He should be French ;-)


He's playing tomorrow at 10pm at the Truskel ( M° Bourse ).

Check his Myspace to hear some of his songs :
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=281053977

It was a special gig for me as it was my 200th for 2008. ROCK 'N ROLL

Everlast @ Album de la semaine Canal+ Paris Dec 2nd 2008


Setlist

First time i was seeing Everlast live or even hear anything about them, well i check their Myspace before going...to know how they sounded like .
And I liked it very much .
4 musicians : one singer playing guitar, one monster drummer , a bass and guitar player and a keyboard player .
In Canal+ studios ( 150 capacity ) they 've done a great set of , well it's hard to describe they have some groovy tunes à la Stevie Wonder , some others are more folk-rock ( they did z cover of Johnny Cash ) but always with some samples for the beat that could make you think of Rap without beeing rap . A bit like what Junkie XL did with the Elvis Presly song . The singer has a low voice with a flow . So it's a mix of different influences that is sounding close to Pharrel williams ' NERD but different.
Do you get me ?
The thing i'm sure is that it was VERY GOOD .

mardi 2 décembre 2008

The Faces for 2009 Tour

Ronnie Wood confirmed that The Faces will tour in 2009 after rehearsals last month that went very well .

First shows will be in Ireland in July 2009: July 4th in Limerick ; July 5th in Dublin ; July 7th in Cork.

The Rascals + Music is not Fun @ Maroquinerie Dec 1st 2008


French support band : Music is Not Fun

Second show in Paris this year for The rascals , this time they're playing the Maroquinerie .
Nice to be back here in this tiny club just a couple of days after Pete Doherty's solo gig .
French band Music is not Fun is opening , decent set and they're singing in English, Nice !

The Rascals Live

Last time at the Fleche D'Or in September , The Rascals did a killer set , at the time i haven't heard their first album Rascalize.
Check our review + photos and Videos from the September gig here :
http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2008/09/rascals-fleche-d-or-paris-sept-5th-2008.html
Opening with " out of dreams " i knew straight from the opening song that they would do another killer set, Rascalize is a great record and the songs are working even better live. Miles is a funny lad looking a bit like a young John lennon and has to be very focus on his pedals using numerous effects on his guitar.
Watching The Rascals play live, you can see the HUGE gap between young french rock bands and young english bands. Technically they are perfect and their songs much more difficult to play and attractive than ALL french bands put together.
This Baby Rocker French scene is so laughable compere to this ( very ) good English young band.
They've played a new song " Chills and fever" .
The audience loved them , once again many girls tonight and the place is packed ( but not Sold-out ).
They did a cover of Echo & the Bunnymen ( " all that Jazz" ) and ended their very short set (only 65 min ) with John Lennon's " Instant Karma " ( see video below ) .
Sad they've played most of their set in the dark.
One of my TOP 10 Gig for 2008 ( it's my 198 th this year so far ... )


Miles Kane surrounded by girls + Setlist ( may be in different order )
Joe Edwards + Miles Kane signing autographs

Video of " I'll give you sympathy" : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=nrekhu4gv6E

Video of last song John Lennon 's " Instant Karma " :