mercredi 3 avril 2013

Razorlight @ Olympia for Rock the Gibus, Paris April 03 2013

Razorlight @ Olympia for "Rock the Gibus", Paris April 03 2013

 French bands were playing before RAZORLIGHT, I Have to say we didn't really bother watching any of them. So we stayed in the lobby where they have some nice pictures of some of the artists who played in the old Olympia theatre before it was destroyed in 1997 (Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Otis redding...).

Razorlight played very late around 11:00pm just after the jury announced the winner band of the competition.

This version of Razorlight is more rock even though their sound is still a bit "light" to me. They do have some very decent songs and are enjoyable to listen to.
They've played a couple of new songs that are sounding very unusual with just piano, percussions and saxophone (?!?)
Their short 60mi,+ set ended with their Hit song "America".
Nice behave band in front of a young and well-behaved audience (with lots of young and sexy chicks).

Thanks to Phil S for the tix


SETLIST:


 From our archives:
 RAZORLIGHT  @ Fleche d'Or on Feb 22 2011

The Rolling Stones announce American summer Tour 2013 + Hyde Park Shows in London

The Rolling Stones announce American Tour 2013 + London HYDE PARK show


And the Tour...so far

50 & COUNTING  TOUR DATES
May 02              Los Angeles    STAPLES Center      
May 5              Oakland          Oracle Arena              
May 8              San Jose          HP Pavilion                
May 11            Las Vegas       MGM Grand Garden Arena 
May 15            Anaheim          Honda Center            
May 25            Toronto           Air Canada Centre    
May 28            Chicago           United Center            
June 12            Boston            TD Garden                 
June 18            Philadelphia    Wells Fargo Center   
 + HYDE PARK July 06:
Support acts for Hyde Park are The Vaccines, The Temper Trap and Gary Clark Jr.

According to my English friend Ray a second show will be added on 13th July 2013

lundi 1 avril 2013

Joe Bonamassa @ Grand Rex, Paris April 01 2013

Joe Bonamassa @ Grand Rex, Paris April 01 2013
It's been a long time since we've been to a proper gig in Paris, we've missed D.A.D. @ Divan du Monde last week and Rival Sons @ Trabendo as we were busy.
No need to tell that the show is long sold-out.
Couldn't miss Joe Bonamassa, it's the first time we're seeing him as a solo artist, the only time we saw him was with Black Country Communion @ Bataclan last summer.
Everyone is expecting the support band to take the stage @ 8:00pm when the lights go out and the PA is playing a country version of an AC/DC song.
Nope, it's Joe and his drummer Tal Bergman sitting down to play us a 25 min acoustic set starting with Bad Company's "Seagull". Nice way to start.

Then it's time to raise the dead with some neat electric guitar for a further 2 hours, we never really took the time to listen to any of his solo records, of course we're fans of BBC.
Great lightning, very bright.
A drummer on the far right, Tal Bergman that we already saw many years ago playing with Billy Idol @ Taratata tv show in Paris, a keyboard player (?) on the far left who has almsot as many keyboards as Rick Wakeman and Carmine Rojas on bass ( he played with David Bowie for many years).
Lots of blues rock songs à la Gary Moore of course and others more heavy Rock. You can feel the blues influences , great version of "Young Man Blues" (The Who version) but you also can feel that the man is fan of classic rock as he played a instrumental medley of Whitesnake & Led Zeppelin songs among others.
He has a great voice too that can remind you of Paul Rodgers even though he told us that he almost lost his voice this morning.
That was the last show on the European Tour.
Great Gig !



setlist (TBC): from JB forum)
Acoustic set :
- Intro (country Highway to hell)
- Seagull (Paul Rodgers' Bad Company cover)
- Jelly Roll
- ???
- Athens to Athens
- ???
Electric set :
- Slow Train
- Dust bowl
- Midnight Blues (I am sure of its position in the setlist)
- Dislocated boy
- Driving towards the daylight
- Who's been talking
- Look over Yonders wall
- Young man blues
- ??? (I believe that John Henry immediately followed Young man blues)
- Ballad Of John Henry
encore:
- Asking Around for You
- Just got paid (with medley feat Whitesake/Led Zep's "dazed&confused/ )