vendredi 14 septembre 2012

Van Morrison @ Olympia, Paris Sept 14 2012

Van Morrison @ Olympia, Paris Sept 14 2012
Van The Man !

Once again tickets are ridiculously expensive, up to 220 euros for the best seats. WHAT THE FUCK ?!?
It's quite full tonight but not sold-out with people in their forties and fifties. Hard to afford a gig at such silly prices when you're a student.
Anyway... the opening band is Shana Morrison, I guess it's his daughter or his wife, nice voice but the music she's playing is an easy-listening-country-folk of no interest at all.

Then we have Van The Man standing in the middle of the stage among his musicians -guitar, bass, keys, several brass players & drums- with his trademark black hat & sunglasses.
He has two beautiful guitars just next to him that will be useless as he won't even have a look at them for the whole set.
He's singing , of course, perfectly playing a bit of saxophone from time to time, a bit of harp too, a couple of songs are played on the piano.
The sound is not too loud and as perfect as his voice or the musicianship of his band, fantastic bass sound, warm as I like it.
Lots of very relax and cool songs maybe a bit too many for my taste with some great covers "Fever" "Baby please don't go".
Unfortunately only one song from "Moondance" my favorite record, the title track.
Lots of classics. setlist included: "Moondance", "Brown eyed girl", "baby please don't go, "fever", "Gloria", "whenever god shines", "enlightenment", "here comes the night"...
great set too bad there wasn't any encore at the end.

jeudi 13 septembre 2012

Led Zeppelin's 2007 Reunion concert @ O2 in London to be released on dvd on Nov 19 2012.

UPDATED Sept 13

"CELEBRATION DAY" Out on Nov 19 2012 on DVD

"Celebration Day" will see a worldwide theatrical release by Omniverse Vision on 1,500 screens in over 40 territories on October 17.

"Celebration Day" track listing:
01. Good Times, Bad Times
02. Ramble On
03. Black Dog
04. In My Time Of Dying
05. For Your Life (live debut)
06. Trampled Underfoot
07. Nobody's Fault But Mine
08. No Quarter
09. Since I've Been Lovin' You
10. Dazed And Confused
11. Stairway To Heaven
12. The Song Remains the Same
13. Misty Mountain Hop
14. Kashmir
15. Whole Lotta Love
16. Rock And Roll



Fanfarlo @ River's King boat for Pepe Jeans, Paris Sept 13 2012

Fanfarlo @ River's King boat for Pepe Jeans, Paris Sept 13 2012

Fanfarlo played a showcase on the River's King boat for the Singular Music Festival presented by Pepe Jeans.
Strangely enough there are not a lot of people maybe just a 100. Luckily lots of our friends have tickets so we almost have the band for us as half of the audience preferred to stay on the upper deck and enjoy the view instead of watching the gig in the basement.
No free drinks or food and it's a pay bar.
Hard to believe Pepe jeans pay for the boat , the band and only have a handful of guests.
I guess they should reconsider their marketing department anyway...
Fanfarlo, that we already saw a few times @ Trabendo and some other places performed a great gig in front of a small audience despite the noise coming from the engines of the boat.
It's the first time I'm attending a gig on a boat that's sailing -on the river Seine from Bercy to the Eiffel Tower and back-.
The last time I took a boat like this in Paris, I was a kid.
We had a great evening even though things should have been handle differently.





Two Door Cinema Club @ Fnac Forum, Paris Sept 13 2012 1:00 PM

Two Door Cinema Club @ Fnac Forum, Paris Sept 13 2012 1:00 PM

Very short 4-song acoustic set
The songs are sounding much better like this than with all the electric gear
Then there was a signing session
Cool !



mercredi 12 septembre 2012

Two Door Cinema Club + The Aerial @ Studio SFR, Paris Sept 12 2012

Two Door Cinema Club + The Aerial @ Studio SFR, Paris Sept 12 2012

The Aerial

First on stage in this tiny space near La Madeleine is The Aerial, we already saw them opening for Paul Personne for a free show @ the 3rd district Town Hall this July.
Up-tempo electro-pop-rock that all the kids like, not really our stuff but they were OK.
Then we have trendy band Two Door Cinema club.
The first time we heard of them was when they opened for Phoenix @ Olympia on March 22 2010, we were not there but they did a showcase the afternoon at the Fnac Montparnasse store and played a 4-song acoustic set.
They came back later that year for a sold-out show @ La Cigale and @ the Rock en Seine festival on August 28 2010 in front of a huge audience on the second stage.

It's one of those bands that are playing the same kind of music as The falls or Vampire Weekend, lots of up-tempo songs with a disco beat and some African influences, well... it's less obvious than for Vampire Weekend for the African influences.
They have a couple of very catchy tunes but everything seems to sound a bit the same in the end.
Nevertheless they did a powerful & enjoyable show.

setlist