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THE THERMALS - "Into The Wild" - Haldern Pop Festival (D) - 15-08-09 + KEXP Session - Bumbershoot Festival - Seattle - 06-09-10
BIG THANKS to "bug1408" for kindly sending me his TV master copy !!!!

Haldern Pop Festival - 15-08-09
1 - Returning To The Fold
2 - I Let It Go  
3 - How We Know 
4 - I Called Out Your Name 
5- Back To Gray 
6 - When I Was Afraid 
7 - Here's Your Future
8 - Test Pattern 
9 - Our Trip      
10 - 100 %(Sonic Youth cover)
11 - We Were Sick
12 -  It's Trivia
13 - I Can't Let Go
14 - A Passing Feeling
15 - No Culture Icons
16 - Goddamn The Light
17 - St. Rosa And The Swallows
18 - A Pillar Of Salt
19 - Now We Can See

KEXP Session - Bumbershoot Festival - Seattle - 06-09-10
20 - I Don't Believe You
21 - I'm Gonna Change Your Life
22 - Never Listen to Me
23 - Not Like Any Other Feeling
24 - Only For You
25 - Power Lies
26 - You Changed My Life
27 - Your Love Is So Strong
28 - Bonus Track : Basket Case (Green Day Cover)

Technical info  :
DVD full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

So, thanks to "bug1408" you can now fully appreciate one the best shows I have (at least, one of my favourite - top 3, no question !) THIS IS definitely the concert I've watched the most, about 30-40 times maybe and I never get sick of it ! Everything's tight and perfect here ! Hutch's clear-cut voice, Katy's bouncing round bass,Westin's hectic rhythm, too happy for joining the band ! All fired away at Ramones-like pace (19 songs in 55 mns !!) - Everybody seems to have a whale of a time. The band, who's nicely playing in the golden daylight of a late afternoon and the responsive audience, who even sings along before Hutch starts singing "Now We Can See" (much to his surprise and making him smile). As extras, the KXP session is still HD and goes round the tracks from their "Personal Life" album. The greatest news for the end : the new album, "Desperate Ground", is coming out april 2013 ... and it is definitely "loud and fast" again !!!!
Enjoy !
Cheers !
Chac

Webcast version (different songs) :

 

TRIGGERFINGER - "All these covers around" - Ancienne Belgique - Brussels - 04-12-10

AB - Brussels - 04-12-10
1 - I'm Coming for You
2 - All This Dancin' Around
3 - Short Term Memory Love
4 - Mario's drum solo & Little Teaser
5 - My Baby's Got a Gun
6 - Camaro
7 - Hunt You Down
8 - First Taste
9 - Is It
10 - On My Knees
11 - All Night Long (Ray Charles )

BONUS : «Covers corner» :
12 - Ballad Of  A Thin Man (Bob Dylan) - Radio 1 session (B)
13 - Get Free (MajorLazer) - Giel Radio (NL)
14 - Man Down (Rihanna) - Red Bull Soundclash 2012 (B) - Battle with De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig
15 - Sexy Beesten with De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Lowlands 2012 (NL)
16 - Interview - Therapy TV - Greenville Festival 2012 (D)

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

Another thundering set by our Belgian power trio, back home, at the AB, following the release of their "All This Dancin' Around" LP. In front of a packed supporting crowd, our shooters are on top form. Ruben's voice and guitar are still stunningly extensive, Mario's solo just before "Little Teaser" is one of the most devastating one I've heard from him and Monsieur Paul's bass sounds as well, particularly heavy here ! So does the performance of "My Baby's Got A Gun" when, after the sweet bluesy start, a pulsating electricity blitzkrieg falls upon you !!    

As the end of the concert closes in on the moving Ray Charles's cover from the album, I've tried to keep up the magic with a "covers corner" in which Ruben's voice turns the various-era songs into gold classics, provided they were not yet so. Particularly impressive on Dylan's "Ballad Of A Thin Man", lavishly delivered  in an incarnate version by Ruben The Voice. Thrills ahead !

Triggerfinger has always been terrific on covers (which shows well their openmindedness - see also their chart n°1 cover of Lykke Li's "I Follow Rivers'). Here, their second cover of Rihanna is again no exception. The video quality is lower than the other ones but I've chosen to keep it as I haven't found any other pro-shot video of the song. It is comfortably watchable nonetheless and the performance, with his Led Zep's Kashmir intro, is awesome (as you can hear it coming from the audience) !

The last section of the dvd is granted by a nice 2012 interview in which each members dig up their early years in life and in their budding starts as musicians. Really interesting and DON'T MISS Monsieur Paul's punchline at the end. Just hilarious !! :-)

Enjoy !

Cheers!

Chac

FIDLAR - "Cheap In Beerlin" - Bi Nuu - Berlin - 14-02-13 + Extras

Bii Nuu - Berlin - 14-02-13
1-Cheap Beer       
2-Stoked and Broke   
3-White on White
4-No Waves           
5-No Ass           
6-Max Can't Surf    
7-Whore           
8-Awkward           
9-Blackout Stout   
10-Got No Money 
11-Chinese Weed   
12-Carnivore Girls
13-The Punks Are Finallly Taking Acid
14-Wait for the Man
15-Cocaine
16-Wake Bake Skate

Bonus - «No such place like home» :
- Los Angeles - The Wiltern - 14-09-12
17 - No Waves            
18 - Max Can't Surf
19 - Whore
20 - Cocaine
(Thanks to "etherman" for uploading this one !)
- The L.A. Fort - 22-01-13
21 - No Waves

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

  

If The Struts (see previous post)  is undoubtedly the band to follow on this side of the Atlantic, here are the new comers you can't miss on the other side : Fidlar !! Promoting the "ride, booze and party" creed as a lifestyle, these L.A. Ramones-like punk rockers wipe out everything on their way (have a look at the second video below !). But they also have something more, as their first eponym album released in January hammers the point. The full speed electrical steamroller put aside, they also prove to be talented and eclectic musicians. A really great first album if you like the "headlong surf-garage-punk" side of rock, but not only ! Feels good to be in danger again. Looking forward to seeing them live (missed them at Pukkelpop, last year, ... shame on me !) :-)  
Enjoy !
Chac

THE STRUTS - Transmusicales de Rennes (FR) - 08-12-12

Transmusicales de Rennes - 08-12-12
1 - ?
2 - I Just Know
3 - Kiss This
4 - She Makes Me Feel Like
5 - Twist & Shout (Beatles)
6 - Rockstar
7 - ?
8 - Girls & Boys
9 -Jumpin Jack Flash (Rolling Stones)
10 - ? (rings a bell but couldn't find it back ... any help ?)

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

*********************  New new parts 6 & 9 are up again !!  *********************

Sometimes, you stand in front a band and this is just obvious. Right men /women, right place, right time ! So, here are The Struts ! A new vintage rock band that really sounds like the British bands we've learnt to love. Luke Spiller's voice is amazingly deep and powerfully smells the northern Derby's moors. It often challenges the other instruments and often won. Quite impressive ! As moving on the front, he's also a charismatic showman, not without reminding us of a still moving leader from the sixties-seventies ... ! At so an early age of their hopefully long career, the accuracy and the deftness of the other musicians are also quite outstanding !   Well, to cut it short, a band to follow in 2013 for sure ! Looking forward their first forthcoming album !!
Enjoy !
Chac

CULTS - Route Du Rock - St Malo (FR) - 13-08-11

La Route Du Rock - St Malo (FR) - 13-08-11
1 - Abducted

2 - The Curse

3 - Never Heal Myself (false start / guitar breakdown)

4 - You Know What I Mean

5 - Bumper

6 - Never Saw the Point

7 - Go Outside

8 - Rave On  

9 - Oh My God (+ drummer's birthday)
  

Spin Rooftop Session - New-York - 21-06-11

10 - Abducted  

11 - Bumper  

12 - Go Outside 

13 -  Most Wanted

14 - Never Heal Myself

15 - Oh My God

16 - You Know What I Mean

17 - The Curse 

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 4:3
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included  

BLONDE REDHEAD - Route Du Rock - St Malo (FR) - 13-08-11

La Route Du Rock - St Malo (FR) - 13-08-11

1 -  Here Sometimes

2 -  Dr. Strangeluv

3 -  Spring And By Summer Fall

4 -  Not Getting There

5 -  Messenger

6 -  In Particular

7 -  Silently

8 -  Falling Man

9 -  Spain

10 -  23

11 -  Equus

12 -  Penny Sparkle

Technical info  :
DVD Audience & Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 4:3
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

VIVE LA FETE - "Electric Make-Up" - AB - Brussels - 07-11-09 + Extras (Lowlands 2005 / Nouvel An Belge - Paris - 2011 / Pukkelpop 2012) - DVD x 2

AB - Brussels - 07-11-09
1 - Intro
2 - La Route
3 - Amour Physique
4 - Nuit Blanche
5 -  Hot Shot
6 - Machine Sublime
7 - Quatsch
8 -Tokyo
9 - Merde à l'amour
10 - Schwarzkopf
11 - Mon Dieu
12 - Naïve
13 - Liberté
14 - Elsangel
15 - La Vérité
16 - Assez
17 - Maquillage
18 - Noir Désir
19 - Attaque Surprise
20 - Touche Pas
21 - Everybody Hates me
22 - PopCorn (Cover / First Moog Quartet)
23 - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Cover / The Stooges)
24 - 2005

Lowlands Festival - Landgraaf (NL)- 20-08-05
25 - Liberté
26 - Assez
27 - Maquillage
28 - Jaloux
29 - Noir Désir
30 - 2005 

Nouvel An Belge - Paris - 24-09-11
31 -Tokyo
32 - La Vérité
33 - Assez
34 - Maquillage

Pukkelpop Festival - Kiewit (B) - 15-08-12
35 - Décadanse
36 - La Vérité 
37 - Assez
38 - Nuit Blanche
39 - Maquillage
40 - Noir Désir

Technical info  :
DVD Audience & Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 4:3
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included 

DVD 1 : 

DVD 2 :

********************* UPDATE - new links below : ********************

- Part 2 - DVD 2 (down) : http://www.filefactory.com/file/5mbqhirgqgpr/Vive%20La%20Fete%20-%20AB%20-%20Brussels%20-%2007-11-09%20(2).part02.rar
- Parts 5 & 6 - DVD 2 (corrupted) : - http://www.filefactory.com/file/7r6xclht43r/Vive%20La%20Fete%20-%20AB%20-%20Brussels%20-%2007-11-09%20(2).part05.rar
- http://www.filefactory.com/file/1yzo7e1yp9xj/Vive%20La%20Fete%20-%20AB%20-%20Brussels%20-%2007-11-09%20(2).part06.rar

Let's be poppy ! Ok, I can feel your dubious first reaction. "He just wants to feast his eyes with the gorgeous singer" Partly right ! (look at the shots in the Lowlands video ! The guys at the camera are definitely men !!) But, I must admit, I do also like "Vive La Fête" simply because they don't try to fool themselves and just are what they are. Initially formed by Danny Mommens (ex Deus) and Els Pynoo (God ! What planet does this girl come from ?!!!), the band produces a catchy pop electro that always sounds uninhibited and optimistic. It feels good sometimes ! Influenced by the 80s new-wave for him (see a typical recent cover from the heyday, here !) and by Serge Gainsbourg for her, the words are ... well ... let's say innocent and snappy but this is what brings charm to the band.

Unfortunately, I spend hours on this but I couldn't find any high quality (don't mention hd !) VLF concerts on the net. So, these are definitely 2 dvds that are a better watch on your computer screen rather than on your brand new hd tv. There are also some freezes and glitches at times. But, the music is still there !

So, if ANYONE, here, has a great quality full concert from "Vive La Fête", or even, the initial broadcast (on a Belgian channel ?) of these 2 shows please, let me know !! Even if it takes quite a while, I'm ready to start the whole thing all over ! Thanx and enjoy ! 
Chac

NB : some of the menus have been made from photos taken from my first visit to  "Vive La Fête" on stage, last year, at Pukkelpop. Great memory and persistence of vision ! :-)