lundi 4 avril 2011

Calvin Russell 1948-2011 RIP

So sad to hear that Calvin Russell just died this week end at his home in Texas.
RIP

We were @ this recording for Arte TV on Dec 12 2007 with Poni Hoax, Stacey Kent & Craig Amstrong

Sunday afternoon @ Louvre & Vuitton store ...

Louvre : Messerschmidt exhibition
Messerschmidt faces (except far right)

Sunday afternoon the weather's shit, nothing better than visiting the Louvre museum and it's free (every first sunday of each month), it was packed at the entrance, once you're in it's half empty, I guess all these tourists in short were there for Mona Lisa, not us.
We went there for the Messerschmidt exhibition, lots of tortured faces, subtitles are laughable, they were made after the faces were dicovered. It's made of steel .A must see.
Of course that's the only part where you CAN'T take any pictures.
Then we had a walk around the museum in the sculpture department : Fantastic



happy faces...not : Death

Made of laces & bras @ Vuitton store

Then we went to the top floor of the Vuitton store at the corner of the Champs Elysées and GV Avenue for some (shitty) modern art. This top floor with art is only an excuse so that they can open on sunday. The only good thing was these things hanging out made of bras and laces.
First we had a drink at the nearby GV hotel for a hot chocolate then we went to the restaurant @ Café Constant and we had a table next to actors Matthew McConaughey , Ryan Philippe and Amanda Seyfried who were in Paris to do promo duties for their next movie (i've been told).
Great day away for Rock'n Roll !


Vuitton shop window & billboards for Kubrick exhibition & Joan Baez's gigs

vendredi 1 avril 2011

The Bewitched Hands @ Paul B, Massy , April 1 2011

Shout Out Louds + The Bewitched Hands @ Centre Paul Bailliart
Massy, April 1st 2011

Shout Out Louds

Thanks to Fabien , who invited (and drove) us to this gig 25 kms south of Paris in the middle of nowhere in Massy we went to see The Bewitched Hands.
Beautiful concert hall in the middle of upper class council houses.
Opening Swedish band Shout Out Louds is starting pretty late (after 9:00pm) for a 55 min show.
Heavily influnced by The Cure, for the vocals at least, Shout Out Louds is playing a great pop-rock with nice melodies.A little bit of Arcade fire is thrown in too.
The singer ended the set singing in the pit as there was a huge gap betwen the stage and the first row, were people afraid ?
Nice discovery for us.

setlist


The Bewitched hands

We already saw The Bewitched hands @ L'Album de la Semaine last November.
Very cool rock band between The Pixies, Brian Johnstown Massacre or Grandaddy.
French band but they're singing in English.

Too bad there wasn't too many people , less than 200 even though it's friday night.
They've done an hour long set.
A couple of videos "Out of myself", "Birds and drums".for ya to enjoy !

"Smell the glove"

Led Zeppelin to reform for Charity concert for Japan @ Wembley Stadium

Led Zeppelin to reform for a charity gig @ Wembley Stadium in June 2011
for Japan

Led Zep @ O2 on Dec 10 2007

After the terrible earthquake and Tsunami that devastated Japan, a charity gig @ Wembley in June will be organise and Led Zeppelin has confirmed that they will reform for this gig only other acts are not known but there are strong rumours of Paul McCartney being part of it.

SORRY, THAT WAS OUR STUPID HOAX FOR APRIL'S FOOLS DAY !