Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has been honoured by The Queen in the New Year Honours List today (December 31). Robert Plant becomes a CBE for services to music as part of the 966-strong list of honours.
And still no news of a Led Zeppelin reunion with ... or without Robert Plant , but shoud it be called Led Zeppelin ?
Christopher Cross has played a private gig tonight ( monday 22nd ) @ Paris' Ciné Aqua near the Trocadero in front of 50 people unfortunately i couldn't go there ( had some family at home from abroad ) . The gig was sponsored by french Radio Nostalgie.
Of course the Bataclan is Sold- out , some people have payed ( 25 euros ) to be here tonight but as it's a radio show ( part of the show was broadcasted live on Virgin radio ) there are a lots of invits . It's 70 % female audience , many think Jamie's cute but most of' 'em are here for Duffy who's very popular in France . Early start , Jamie's on at 7:45 PM , He's a real showman always dancing, jumping, playing percussions and so on ... in the end it's getting on my nerves, he's doing a bit too much. As long as he's playing his " Light" funk that's allright but when he starts doing the DJ on his own with his sample machine it's quite boring ( his last show at the Rock en Seine was like this and it was sooo bad ). Nice hour gig but ...
Still doing it
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Duffy 's next . Her record is probably( one of ) the best selling this year. I saw her for the first time just 9 months ago in February @ Canal+, tv show " l' Album de la semaine" in front of a 100 people and she was completely unknown. It's amazing how fast singers can become famous . Same happened with Amy Winehouse after seeing her at the very same tv show she was selling out huge venues a few months later.
Unfortunately for Duffy her music is far from being as exciting and she's far from having the charisma of Amy. She's like a nice polish version but without the " spark" that makes Amy so special . At least she's sexy now , she has dropped her silly country girl dresses she used to wear a few months ago. Good point she's sexy but is still dressed like the girl's nextdoor . I like that .
She's more confortable on stage now than last time , she's walking the stage , but she should let it go a bit more . The show is nice but way too nice , it's like going to a Razorlight or a Stereophonics concert : everything is too perfect , its good but there's no excitement at all. Enjoyable though but too short less than 1 hour with no encore Come on Duffy i'm sure you can do better .
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR That was my last gig for 2008 ( the 208th ). Here's " Mercy" for you all , Enjoy :
Forget to tell you :
Pete Doherty is playing the Bataclan on March 9th 2009.
Crosswords before the show ( left ) Laetitia Sheriff ( right )
Laetitia Sheriff opened the show tonight on her own with a guitar to play a " minimalist" dark pop-rock-folk. Strange how all these french girls are playing that kind of music . Last time i was at the Trabendo another french girl ( Marie - Flore )opened for Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan, playing a similar music. They're young and beautiful and living in Paris there should be a " Joie de vivre " in their music but no that's the opposite , they look ( or sound ) like they wanna commit suicide. Doesn't mean it wasn't good but where's the " Joie de vivre " ? Difficult to open for a Punk band but she did very good ( well she wasn't booed off stage ) even tough her music is too " minimalist" for me. People welcomed her nicely. Here's a video here : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8ulhYg1wc
These boots are made for playing ...
Mick Jones & Tony James
First concert in Paris for Carbon/Silicon, far from being full here tonight and many people are on the guest list( including myself i have to admit )Shameit's not sold out when a Clash is in town buti've heard their new cd and i can't really say that I liked it , Songs are lame . Had my fear about the show. They were both in Paris last month to promote the album and these guys are really nice and funny so at least i was expecting some funny moments. Some songs might be a bit too long but live they sound good , Mick Jones is a character always ready for a laugh. the band seem very happy to be with us and the audience seem very happy to be with them. Nice 80 min of rock' n roll in a very relax atmosphere they both entered the stage with a bottle in hand. Tony James told us that the last time he played in Paris was 20 years ago at the famous Gibus Club with Johnny Thunders. They don't really look like punks anymore , these days are long gone, but more like Dandies ( for Mick ) or Bankers ( for Tony ). Sad they only played songs from their cds maybe a couple of covers ( not necessarilly Clash's ) could have been nice. Mick picked someone up from the audience to come and sing with him for the last song ( another lad sneaked in too ) Enjoyable evening.
Mick & Leo " Eezykill " Williams on bass
Mick and Tony went to meet the audience after the show and signed many autographs to fans , they were nice and chatty to everyone and pose for pictures .
I just saw the last song of the french heavy rock who was opening tonight , hard to judge in 3 min but they sounded promising . I'll try to find out who they were.
Kids wanna ROCK
First time i was seeing The ( International ) Noise Conspiracy Live and i wasn't disappointed , i like their kick ass rock ' n roll. They' re 60's influenced , with a keyboard ( organ ) to nice effects even though i couldn't really hear it as i was standing in front of the guitar player. These guys have to jump around all the time and are giving it all on stage. A nice change after seeing all those indie english bands who are looking at their shoes while playing. These guys FUCKING ROCK !!! No time to breath for 90 min. Very good show.
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Don't forget Carbon/Silicon ( with former CLASH guitar player : MICK JONES ) are playing the Trabendo tomorrow. See Ya there
