BLOOD RED SHOES - "Time 2 Voices" - Rock En Seine - Parc de Saint Cloud - Paris - 24-08-14 / PURPLE -  Studio 104 - La Plaine Saint Denis (F) - 12-11-14

BLOOD RED SHOES

Rock En Seine Festival - Parc de Saint Cloud - Paris - 24-08-14
1. Welcome Home
2. I Wish I Was Someone Better
3. Don't Ask
4. Red River
5. Speech Coma
6. Cold
7. The Perfect Mess
8. This Is Not for You
9. Black Distractions
10. An Animal
11. Light It Up
12. Je Me Perds

PURPLE

"Album De La Semaine" - Canal+ TV - Studio 104 - Plaine Saint Denis (F) - 12-11-14 (?)
13 - Leche Loco
14 - Beach Buddy
15 - Wallflower
16 - DMT
17 - Interview
BONUS :
18 - Leche Loco - Galapago Island UMS House Party - Denver - 01-05-14

Technical info  :

DVD Full Pro-shot

Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 70 mns
Size : 3,23 Go

Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

2 colours for a two-voice set this time.The initial idea was to put two "coloured" bands together who both nicely switch between the lady and the gentleman for their singing.The fact that they share an opposite cast for the instruments was also part of the fun ! As such, I couldn't fail picking a Blood Red Shoes' gig down the shelf ! The band has been one of my favourites for quite a while now (2009) and I never miss them when they come and play around. That was the case on this one again. As they often do in festival, they opened the main stage quite early. So, being an early riser (??!), on saturday again, I had to rush to make it in time. Laura-Mary and Steven showed up round 14:30 and I remember being looked at in a very puzzled way as I was running across the park not to miss "Welcome Home", their new loud opening track ! This was my first show of their great new album and I didn't want to miss a single part of it. It felt so good to see them back even if playing a festival stage always have a "too big space for just the two of us" feeling. But playing Reading the day before didn't seem wearing them out that much and the setlist was nicely shared between precious "oldies" and nice new stuff. A very enjoyable show that traditionaly closed on the blowing-off-steam punk "Je Me Perds", the ideal tune to make you go thirsty for a pint before the next act ! One regret though, shame on me, I just missed their meeting and signing session they set up through Facebook that very day. Grrrr !!! Shall I open a F.... account ?

Purple is a much recent band, from Beaumont, Texas. I'd already read about them through a review in a magazine but I must admit I'd forgotten the guys by the time of their first tour here. Their debut effort ("409") was often described as a kind of raw dirty catchy-poppy punk jam. Well... what is obvious here is that Hanna, the "lady dude" singer-drummer of the band, is just a ball of infectious energy, shaking, twisting, wriggling, cuddling, screaming, whispering ... "everything all at once" !
More, Texas' climate is hot. Evidence is here confirmed by Hanna's outfit !! Anyway, a very refreshing cool band, 100 % fun, who won't shake or reshape the holy tablets of rock'n roll but are definitely up to the excitement of discovering all the things they'd always dreamt of !

Enjoy !

Cheers !

Chac

NB : didn't mean it at all first but thinking over the last three posts, I guess it got to turn out this way :-) :

Freaking weird indeed ... !!

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL - "Sweat Muzip" - Pukkelpop Festival - Kiewit (B) - 17-08-12 / Studio 104 - Plaine Saint-Denis (F) - 10-06-15

Pukkelpop Festival - Kiewit (B) - Main Stage - 17-08-12
1. I Only Want You
2. Don't Speak (I Came to Make a Bang!)
3. Bad Dream Mama
4. Cherry Cola
5. Heart On
6. Now I'm a Fool
7. Secret Plans
8. English Girl
9. I Like to Move in the Night
10. Whorehoppin' (Shit, Goddamn)
11. I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)
12. Speaking in Tongues

"Album De La Semaine" - Canal+ TV - Studio 104 - Plaine Saint-Denis - 10-06-15
13 - "Costumes" Album Teaser
14 - Complexity
15 - Interview
16 - Got A Woman
17 - Interview
18 -  I Love You All The Time
19 - The Reverend
20 - Speaking In Tongues
21 - The Deuce
22 - Josh & Jesse Interview - "Back & Forth"

Technical info  :

DVD Full Pro-shot

Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 88 mns
Size : 4,10 Go

Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

Ahaa Ahaaaa said the Devil. He can. The two school's out buddies are back. And they just do what they're best known for, having fun, teasing girls and playing nasty and sweaty way down your spine. I must admit I don't think much of the new album. Too clean maybe, not enough flesh and lust probably. I need to listen to it again, I guess. But anyway, that won't keep me away from seeing them when they tour round here again. So I did earlier this year when I went and saw Jesse and his lads at the Eurockeennes, in Belfort. No surprise trick back then but, as usual, just a feel-good show full of fun and feedback, just like an offhand chat with a good old friend at the bar. As Josh said in their self interview at the end of this dvd, Jesse "has such an enthusiasm" about himself that it got to be felt by the people who watch him. Giving this, the Pukkelpop set featured here is no exception to the  rule. Jesse is going over the top again from the very start of the show,
dancing and swagging on Kool Of The Gang's "Jungle Boogie" and it goes on this  way down the line with quite one's share of banter and cheers to the audience. This show is not one of the best concerts, at least in terms of quality, I have from Eagles Of Death Metal but it does have a particular flavour to me. I drove all the way up to Belgium again that day. The 2012 edition was scorching hot and the bands playing mainstage in the middle of the afternoon certainly didn't have the amount of people they duly deserved, these ones being too busy to find a cooler "shelter" under the nearby "marquee" stages. I remember The Hives playing the day after right in the middle of the heatwave, Pelle's shirt turned into a tatoo half way the first song ! Anyway, the show was just the "get the rock'n roll beast out" party I expected and it was great fun to live it over again doing this dvd ! As I said, this is the only version I could lay my hands on when I came back from the festival at that time, if anyone had the chance to grab a hd tv version back then, please share !!

The second part of the dvd is filled with a sort of showcase the band made for promoting the new album in the early summer. The thing was held at a French TV's studios in front of 200 people, with Josh collectively on drums. I'd initially set the box to record it but obviously I got mixed up in the programming ! So again, this is the webcast version. I trimmed off the other stuff from the programme but kept the silly funny "costumes" album teaser :-) and the two subtitled interview parts. I topped it all with a deeper interview in which Josh plays the interviewer asking Jesse about the new "zipper down" album, the "Redemption of the Devil" documentary, their first recording sessions, their encounters with Iggy Pop and John Paul Jones, etc ...

Hope you'll enjoy !

Cheers !

Chac