jeudi 26 avril 2012

The Ting Tings @ Palais Royal, Paris April 25 2012 6:00 pm

The Ting Tings @ Palais Royal, Paris April 25 2012 6:00 pm
for Rock Corps
Another free show in Paris ,on the first come first serve basis, this time just sandwiched between the Conseil d'Etat & the Louvre Museum on Place du Palais Royal. 1500 capacity.
it's not sold out as it's oudoor and the weathear has been awful all day with lots of wind and showers. Luckily it's dry when The Ting Tings are getting on the tiny stage.
This gig is part of the Rock Corps thing, when you volunteer for some work you get a free ticket for a rock concert.
We've seen them a few times recently @ Cigale in March, @ L'Album de la Semaine in January and @ Caroussel du Louvre last december where they premiered the new album.

I guess they're playing the same setlist as they ended the set with the same routine: an electro song then their two hits "Shut up & le me go" & "That's not my name" but with had something extra as there were 3 other stages facing the main stage with a Gospel Choir of black female girls all dressed up with XVIII century clothes and wigs on the first one, some dancers on the second one (see picture below) and a extra guitar player dressed up as an astronaut on the 3rd stage.
All that added an extra flavour to the electro-bluesy pop-rock of the Ting Tings.
Cool 30 min set.




mardi 24 avril 2012

Jack White @ HMV Forum, London, April 23 2012

setlist for the London show:
'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground'
'Freedom At 21'
'Missing Pieces'
'Love Interruption'
'Top Yourself'
'Hotel Yorba'
'Hypocritical Kiss'
'Weep Themselves To Sleep'
'I'm Slowly Turning Into You'
'Two Against One'
'We're Going To Be Friends'
'On And On And On'
'Blue Blood Blues'
'Ball And Biscuit'
'Sixteen Saltines'
'Take Me With You When You Go'
'My Doorbell'
'Carolina Drama'
'Seven Nation Army'
'Goodnight, Irene'

Sonisphere France, July 07 & 08, It's still on...

Sonisphere France @ Galaxie d’Amnéville,
still on with different line up...


Samedi/saturday
Faith No More
Machine Head
Marilyn Manson
Meshuggah
Black Stone Cherry
Combichrist
Pornqueen

Dimanche/Sunday
Evanescence
Wolfmother
Soulfly
The Darkness
Lostprophets
Lacuna Coil
Ghost

Same place same date

It is now INDOOR with a 12000 capacity

lundi 23 avril 2012

Jack White @ Cigale, Paris April 22 2012

Updated April 24 with complete & corrected setlist (thanks to Stéphane D)
Contact: irockinparis((a)yahoo((dot))fr

Jack White
@ Cigale, Paris April 22 2012
First proper European show on this Tour to promote his first solo album "Blunderbuss", the album is out tomorrow but you could buy the vinyl & cd at the show tonight.
We could get ours on friday just before going to see Jack White @ L'Album de la Semaine TV show for Canal+performing a 45 min showcase, in front of a selected audience of less than 200 people, with both bands (male and female for two sets of 25 & 20 min).

Oups... sorry for the lousy Pics ;-) waiting for the officials !

Tonight we're only getting the Male band, Jack decided which one he was to play with, minutes before getting on stage, which means that the girls were @ Cigale and watching the show from the wings of the stage.
I guess he made a whole lotta money with The White Stripes as it might cost a fortune to pay expenses (travel & hotel + fees) for 11 musicians when you're only using 5 or 6 every night.

We knew what to expect, so there wasn't any surprise but Jack & the band were smoking as much as they did @ Canal+.
White & blue light for the whole show and the security was tight, probably the first show in a long time where I didn't see any cell phones or cameras up in the air to catch the moment, It's enjoyable but here @ Rockerparis, we don't like to be told what to do.
It's a ROCK show and we don't obey the rules, 'cause we're fuckin' ROCKERS.

Of course he played many songs for the new album and a couple of oldies, I have to say that our favorite is once again "Buffalo" from The Dead Weather. This song is a killer even though the album was very disappointing.
A "good" surprise he ended the set with The White Stripes' "Seven nation army", the show was so good that he really didn't need to play that song and we would have prefer another one from his back catalogue.
Great 69 min set, a bit short don't you think Jack ?

SETLIST: (corrected & complete)
01. intro
02. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (by The White Stripes)
03. Sixteen Saltines
04. Missing Pieces
05. Evil (Tom Jones cover)
06. Weep Themselves To Sleep
07. We're Going To Be Friends (by The White Stripes)
08. Hypocritical Kiss
09. I Cut Like A Buffalo (by The Dead Weather)
10. intro to...
11. Hello Operator (by The White Stripes)
12. Trash Tongue Talker
13. Top Yourself (by The Raconteurs)
14. intro to...
15. Ball And Biscuit (by The White Stripes)
16. intro to...
17. Freedom At 21
18. I'm Slowly Turning Into You (by The White Stripes)
19. Two Against One (Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi cover)
20. Jack introduces his all-male backing band
21. Seven Nation Army (by The White Stripes)


merchandising, cd, poster , schedule, pass sheet...& "No Photos"

vendredi 20 avril 2012

Jack White @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris April 20 2012

Jack White @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris April 20 2012

setlist

GREAT show ! Looking forward to see him again on sunday @ Cigale

First show of Jack White in France before the one on sunday at La Cigale, it's like having him playing in your living room as the audience is sitting on stalls just in front of the stage with only 200 people.
First we have the Boys Band called "Los Buzzardos" for 6 songs set (25 min):
  1. Sixteen Saltines
  2. Missing Pieces
  3. Trash Tongue Talker
  4. We’re Gonna Be Friends
  5. Weep Themselves To Sleep
  6. Cut Like A Buffalo
Quintet with bass , drums, piano,lap steel & violin/ mandoline ; as usual with Jack the band is dressed up so are the roadies.
The band is neat, finally Jack White is writing proper songs, I mean compare to the one he wrote with The Dead Weather.
I Have not listen to the record yet but the songs sounds really great.
Glad that he played some White Stripes' and dead Weather's , fantastic version of "Buffalo".
There is a 10 min intermission so that they can change the drum kit and the back drop.

Then we have the Girls Band called the "Peacocks", all the girls are really good looking all dressed in white & blue. It's a sextet with a backing vocalist.
They have a great drummer that's kicking ass and the girl on the lap steel is a very sexy blonde but I think I have a crush for the black girl on backing vocals.
6 songs most of them no more than 3 min max so it's a short 20 min set.
  1. Freedom At 21
  2. Hypocritical Kiss
  3. Love Interruption
  4. Top Yourself
  5. My Doorbell
  6. Take Me With You When You Go
Jack is on top form and the guitar playing is neat, cool bluesy-rock-soul songs.

We were lucky to get both bands tonight but I don't know if it's like this for every gig.
We shall see on sunday as he's playing @ La Cigale

Great performances just hope he will play more than 45 min
Pic from the rehearsals HERE


Reminder:
Dead Weather @ Olympia October 2009
The Dead Weather @ Cigale June 2009(click for Pics setlist & review ) or Canal+ Tv show recording @ L' Album de la semaine ( click for review & pics ).
the Dead Weather @ Bataclan in 2010
The Raconteurs @ Rock en Seine 2008


Mariee Sioux @ Fargo store (6:00 pm) free show

Norah Jones @ France Inter (Invit' only) 8:00pm
Broadcasted live on the radio