March 2nd 2010
Le Marais district
Nice and quiet street for the Fargo store selling the Fargo catalogue ( Alela Diane , Joseph Arthur,Great Lake swimmers,Neal casal... ) + everything related to Rock & the Americana.Le Marais district
It's a day off for us here @ Rockerparis , well in fact for Patrice Guino, our photographer.
So what did you do today you lazy bastard ?
First I went to the Izis exhibition @ Hotel de Ville de Paris ( free entrance ) for once not too many people queueing outside.
Lots of great Pics from London , Paris, Chagall at work ...
Then time to move to the new record store opened by Fargo records , we walk through the Marais ( see Pics below) to the store ( 42 rue de La Folie Mericourt 11e M° Oberkampf ) which is 3 min walk from the famous Bataclan theatre.
Before that we bumped into a Toy store with thousands of different dolls from Cartoons, movies , musicians , tv series including some Beatles ( see below ) the 4 of them for 500 Euros.
So what did you do today you lazy bastard ?
First I went to the Izis exhibition @ Hotel de Ville de Paris ( free entrance ) for once not too many people queueing outside.
Lots of great Pics from London , Paris, Chagall at work ...
Then time to move to the new record store opened by Fargo records , we walk through the Marais ( see Pics below) to the store ( 42 rue de La Folie Mericourt 11e M° Oberkampf ) which is 3 min walk from the famous Bataclan theatre.
Before that we bumped into a Toy store with thousands of different dolls from Cartoons, movies , musicians , tv series including some Beatles ( see below ) the 4 of them for 500 Euros.
CDs, vynils, Boxsets, Books...
Not only a record store , you can buy books , dvds, vinyls, magazines, T-shirts, Lted edition posters, very expensive paintings ( 300 euros ) and some reaaaally cool Mexican shit ( Pics below) at a fair price.
Reaaally cool Mexican Rock frames
The guys from Fargo are music fanatics, check their store or website for some cool blues , folk , rock stuff.
Paintings & Limited edition silk-sceen printings
Marina & the Diamonds @ L' Album de la semaine Canal+
Paris March 1st 2010
Paris March 1st 2010
setlist
Sometimes when we go to this famous Canal+ tv show where bands are playing a short set of their new album (& a few oldies ) , when it's a new band we don't know, we don't listen to it before to get a surprise.
With Marina & the Diamonds, we've been told it was 80's orientated but we've never thought it would be that shitty.
I mean this is the worst of the 80's; keyboards, no guitars, the singer Marina is really good looking and has a nice voice with Kate Bush's tone of voice ( or Klaus Nomi) but the music sucks so bad.
Even Marina's stage moves are typical from those 80's bands that we hated so much back then.
This band looks like a band that was put together by a lousy record cie trying to surf on the 80's revival.
Bollocks.
I's unbelievable that she's topping the NME charts for the last 4 weeks, maybe they took too much ecstasy when they were clubbing in Madchester a few years ago.
Next week's recording @ L' Album de la Semaine (click to book) is Fanfarlo
Gossip will play a private show for french radio NRJ @ divan du Monde on March 5th, Invit only strangely enough they're selling tickets for the aftershow party.
See ya tomorrow @ Truskel with DJ Mime mixing @10PM
Another sad day for Music, EMI has sold the famous Olympic studios in Barnes, London.
EMi sold it to a businessman for 3.5 M pounds, who is considering a number of options for the site including a cinema (!?!)
Many famous artists recorded there ( Beatles , Led Zep , Hendrix, DeepPurple, Queen , Thin Lizzy, Oasis , Madonna Bjork... in fact everybody )
The Rolling Stones recorded 5 or 6 albums there.
The studio already closed its door for the last time on Jan 30th 2009.
U2 beeing the last band to have recorded there with "No line on the horizon".
Everybody tried to save Abbey Road studios but Olympic is as important to music.
Too bad !!!
EMi sold it to a businessman for 3.5 M pounds, who is considering a number of options for the site including a cinema (!?!)
Many famous artists recorded there ( Beatles , Led Zep , Hendrix, DeepPurple, Queen , Thin Lizzy, Oasis , Madonna Bjork... in fact everybody )
The Rolling Stones recorded 5 or 6 albums there.
The studio already closed its door for the last time on Jan 30th 2009.
U2 beeing the last band to have recorded there with "No line on the horizon".
Everybody tried to save Abbey Road studios but Olympic is as important to music.
Too bad !!!
