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dimanche 27 octobre 2013

LOU REED R.I.P. 1942-2013

LOU REED 
R.I.P. 1942-2013
Reed's literary agent, Andrew Wylie, said the musician died on Sunday morning in Southampton, New York, of an illness related to the transplant. His UK music agent, Andy Woolliscroft, confirmed the news to the Guardian earlier on Sunday night, saying: "Yes I'm afraid it's true. I'm very upset."
We met him several times:

Live in Concert @ Grand Rex July 2011
@ Montereau Festival June 09 2012
@ Taratata with METALLICA for Lulu Nov 09 2011...



jeudi 7 mars 2013

Anthony & The Johnsons @ Salle Pleyel, Paris March 06 2013

Anthony & The Johnsons @ Salle Pleyel, Paris March  06 2013
with guests Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed
FUCK, we didn't go !!!

SETLIST (from Oliver Peel)
all videos from LysWantTwo
01: For All We Know
02: Returnal
03: Child Of God
04: Cripple And The Starfish
05: As Tears Go By (The Rolling Stones Cover)
06: Your Precious Love
07: A Dream
08: Cut The World
09: Cruel Mother (with Laurie Anderson)
10: I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor Cover)
11: You Are My Sister
15: Candy Says (with Lou Reed)

17: Dust And Water (a capella)


mardi 13 novembre 2012

Lou Reed @ Thé des Ecrivains, Paris Nov 13 2012

Lou Reed @ Thé des Ecrivains, Paris Nov 13 2012
Avery rare Picture: Lou Reed Signing LULU's box set

 After the reading @ Palais de Tokyo yesterday night Lou Reed is still in Paris promoting his new photo-book, this time at Thé des Ecrivains, very nice place in the trendy Marais, you can buy books and other stuff but you can also have a coffee or a glas of wine.
No reading tonight , just a short introduction and then Lou is signing his book to a well behaved crowd of fans. Some people also bring some vinyls and he signed probably for the first time ever a box set of the record he did with METALLICA : Lulu as nobody bought that crap but...me !!!

lundi 12 novembre 2012

Lou Reed Conférence @ Palais de Tokyo, Paris Nov 12 2012

 Lou Reed @ Palais de Tokyo in Paris 7:00pm




"SHUT UP"






To present his new book Rhymes/Rimes

Very late opening as Lou Reed worked on the Exhibition, starting in the morning then he had some interviews so he needed a rest. It was supposed to start at 7:00pm in fact Lou Reed showed up at 8:30pm.
They contacted the Palais de Tokyo just 3 weeks ago for this exhibition, it really shows that they have a huge space and really don't know what to do with it. We've been a few times at recent exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and we have to say that we haven't seen so many crap exhibitions in such a short amount of time excluding Lou Reed's pictures, most of them are pretty good even though the man doesn't want to "legend" any of them.

It started with a "lecture" of RAVEN but first Mr Grumpy asked people in the back to "SHUT UP".
It lasted for 20 min.
Then there was a Q&A for another 20 min: There are pictures dating back from the late 60's, no photoshop, he has several cameras, all the pictures in the book are in a certain order... ans so on.
and Lou signed his new book "Rhymes/Rimes.
The Palais de Tokyo knows how to spend our money so we had a nice reception afterwards with champagne and canapés/macarons.
Cool evening !

mardi 12 juin 2012

Lou Reed @ Olympia, Paris June 11 2012

We didn't go but here's the SETLIST:
Brandenburg Gate
Heroin

I'm Waiting for the Man
Senselessly Cruel
The View
Misstress dad
Street Hassle
Cremation
Walk on the wild side
Sad Song
Junior Dad
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Beginning to see the light
Pale Blue Eyes
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Sweet Jane

2 hour set, Can't find any videos on Youtube


samedi 9 juin 2012

Lou Reed + Blue Oyster Cult @ Montereau Festival June 09 2012

Blue Oyster Cult + Lou Reed + Hubert Felix Thiéfaine @ Montereau
Confluences Festival, June 09 2012

Good show from French singer HF Thiéfaine

Late arrival at the Montereau Confluences festival, in fact our photographer arrived there at 8:30pm instead of 6:00pm to get his pass, so thanks to the PR for their kindness.
Huber felix Thiéfaine is already on the main stage in this park, aound 15 000 capacity maximum.
This french singer has lot of dedicated fans even though he's never (rarely) played on the radio and ignored by the media. Lots of songs about junkies & shit. Cool pop-rock set.
Lou Reed is playing around 10:00pm, no one is allowed to take any pics when he's getting on stage from the dressing room surrounded by his musicians, his manager and half of the security of the festival, just to walk 10 meters. Of course only the local press is allowed to take pics for the first 3 songs and they have to be publish in black only.
Here are a few snapshot we took from the audience.
It's only a taste of the pain in the ass that is Lou Reed.
Funny to remember what people working for M______ told us about him.

setlist:
Brandenburg gate (from Lulu) (?)
Heroin
Waiting for the man
Senselessly Cruel
The View (Lulu)
Mistress dead (Lulu)
Cremation
Walk on the wild side
Junior's dad (from Lulu)


Never really listen to Lulu too many times , it's so boring maybe I should have as he played 4 songs from the record he did with Metallica. Didn't recognized the first one.
Then we had a very long version of "Heroin" clocking at more than 11 minutes, "Waiting for the man" was also an extended version, in fact he didn't play any below below 6 min.
9 songs in all for an 80 min + set.
Some people started leaving after "Mistress dead" which is the fastest song on the album.
Average performance.

Blue Oyster Cult didn't start before 12:45 pm, they had sound problems in their monitors at the beginning and we could hear Buck's vocals for a minute but that was nothing as they've done a KILLER set.
Hard to go wrong with such fantastic songs
Too bad Eric Bloom asked the audience which song they wanted between "Harvest Moon" and "Shooting Shark" and they chose the latter.
Great sound, great Lightning, an audience of dedicated fans even though some people left after Lou Reed as it was getting late and it was more of a family audience.
really strange that BOC headlined this festival and played so late as you couldn't get any train back to Paris
Late ending as the band left the stage at almost 2:00 in the morning.

SETLIST:
The red & the black
Golden age of leather
Burning for you
Cities on flame
Shooting Shark ( instead of "Harvest Moon")
ME 262
Buck's Boogie
Last days of May
Godzilla/
Bass medley: Joan jett/ Rungren's Utopia/ Meat Loaf + bass solo
Drum solo/ Godzilla
Buck intro/ Don't fear the reaper
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Hot Rails to hell

GREAT show by Blue Oyster Cult
We have a winner: BOC


Reminder:
BOC @ Olympia in 2009
Lou Reed @ Grand Rex 2011