An evening with Pain of Salvation featuring Anneke Van Giersbergen and Árstíðir

Trabendo, late April.

Big evening for more than 3 hours of acoustic electric show featuring many great voice.
In a recontructed real life living room, Daniel Gildenlowe offers us a small introduction about life and death and memory but in a subtile way. and then unto the show.
first icelandic Árstíðir.
Very much Sigur ros like with great harmony and voices, would work very much as music for a movie.
And starting with a Pos cover , they go through songs with Anneke who is up next.
Complete acoutic with some help along the way for the girl with the cough and the most beautiful smile ever to grace or cold country.
Quick and indeed lacking some electric power behind it but well.... She could sing Francis Cabrel with that smile, I would find it beautiful (thanks for the introduction Ian)

And after that, Pain of salvation , covering, reworking, slowing (Used ! how slower can it get ?) their body of work, providing indeed despite the change of style, the lyrics and the melodies work a lot live in many ways and form.

Hard to describe this concert, it was really a wonderful experience. thanks a lot and see you soon.

Set list if not mistaken :

 Árstíðir

•  Road Salt

(Pain of Salvation cover) (with Daniel Gildenlöw)

•  Á Meðan Jörðin Sefur

•  Heiðin

•  Ljóð í Sand

•  Everwake

(Anathema cover) (with Anneke van Giersbergen) (Gustaf Hielm of Pain of Salvation on bass)

•  (Unknown)

(A Capella hymn by full group)

•  Nú Gleymist Ég

•  Shades

•  Tárin

ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN

    

1.         My Electricity

(The Gathering song)

2.         4 Years

(Agua de Annique song)

3.         Time After Time

(Cyndi Lauper cover)

4.         Beautiful One

(Agua de Annique song)

5.         Locked Away

(The Gathering song)

6.         Circles

7.         All I Want Is You

(U2 cover)

PAIN OF SALVATION

1.         Falling Home

2.         Diffidentia (Breaching the Core)

3.         Linoleum

4.         Mrs. Modern Mother Mary

5.         Ashes

6.         Help Me Make It Through The Night

(Kris Kristofferson cover) (with Anneke van Giersbergen)

7.         To the Shoreline

8.         Holy Diver

(Dio cover) (Swing/Reggae/Jazz version)

9.         Stress

(Swing version)

10.       Disco Queen

11.       Second Love

12.       Spitfall

13.       Iter Impius

14.       The Perfect Element

  Encore:

15.       Dust in the Wind

(Kansas cover) (Accompanied by members of Árstíðir)

16.       Chain Sling

(Accompanied by members of Árstíðir)

17.       1979

(Accompanied by members of Árstíðir and Anneke van Giersbergen)

Spirituals Beggars Live report

Scene Bastille for a brand new addition to the ever growing list of label on music.
Stoner Rock.
Dunno exactly why it is called like that but you have to imagine blues rock crossed with hard rock.
Straight forward blusy stuff with and edge.

Introducing first Zodiac to put in the mood, we moved then quicly unto the spiritual beggars.
Their new album got a live second CD that pretty much make the full set list of the concert in it self.
Great energy and music, lyrics not very striking and the set preety much killed in anhour or so but in the end a great moment despite that and a nice dicovery.

Set list :

Inner Strength

Wise As A Serpent

Left Brain Ambassadors

Young Man, Old Soul

Turn The Tide

Wonderful World

Fools Gold

Dreamer

(extended intro)

One Man Army

One Man's Curse

Kingmaker

Throwing Your Life Away

Mantra

Encore:

Blind Mountain

(incl. jam and band introduction)

Euphoria

http://www.spiritualbeggars.com/


bonus singer from zodiac picture !

Run a mile (in the city of Lights that I love)

Put on my running shoes this morning again to try to reactivate the energy pump. The air is cold but a sun is shining down the street.
Running up the street up to the Sacré Coeur, bathing in the warm rays of a cold april morning.
Air is burning down in my lungs as I expelled heavy condensated clouds. Going up going up.
The streets of Paris are still half asleep and yet as usual a bit dirty.
Closer to the top of the hill, the sidewalks are still messay and filled with diverses pieces of garbage and dog shits.
As I run among the avenues, climbing up and down stairs, I see messages sprayed across the old walls of my city. Hard to decipher the elegant signature on a corner of an house or sometimes only sad to see some love thoughts filed with faults in violet rushed letters next to some street-art of old egyptian gods holding a kalashnikov.
Best of both world, dirt and beauty, cold and warm bathing light.
Still on the staircase running among tourists from all over the world taking pictures and looking up.

A couple in white wedding dress and black tuxedo are on the top under one of the lamplight.
He, a bit like Chow Yun Fat-emphasis on the FAT part., complete with sunglasses.
Her fragile and full of this grace that are always attached with asiatic women in a simple gown.
There is of course the photographer and the assistant taking a scarf from the girl, waiting for the good light to get the best pictures of Love.

She is cold and shivering in the arms of her loved one. I catch my breath and smile at them.
They are here for the image, for the legend, for the pictures, for a dream that I know does not shine as much as they think it does.
And yet they are also part of the magic that makes that city works, despite of all the rights, and thanks to all the wrongs. It is the reflection of the love burning in the eyes of others that remind you also of why you love her too.
My city.
Running throughout her arteries, in the sunlight.

Shrine of new generation slave tour

In a packed Divan du Monde (lounge of the world… love that name), we had 3 bands show of another great quality.

First Dynosis with suffered sadly of a bad sound, too loud, the bass vibrating way to much and the singer being a little short vocally speaking.

After that came Jolly. The Americans, survivors of the Hurricane SANDY that swept through houses and studio of the band were very glad to be on tour displaying their strange looks and great music (which thankfully sounded better even with earplugs). A discovery for me which makes me want to listen to their audio guide to happiness (part 1 & 2 )

The plat de resistance was of course the now 5 albums and 2 EP old polish band old Riverside.

Displaying the same and now recognisable sound of the floydesque guitars and groovy bass, the band lead us into a great long show focusing mainly on (of course) the new album SoNGS (or SONGS maybe) and the previous one (Anno domini HD) ,even indulging themselves a 10 minutes from the in between EP memories on my head.

Voice was clear; all instruments quite easy nice listening (though it seems they arrived late to do the sound checks). The band played a bit quicker than usual (or at least on the discs) as in a rush.

But overall another great night for prog rock metal fans.

SET LIST
 

New Generation Slave
The Depth of Self-Delusion
Feel Like Falling
Driven to Destruction
Living in the Past
02 Panic Room
(Epilogue)
We Got Used to Us
Egoist Hedonist
Escalator Shrine

Encore:
Left Out

Encore 2:
Celebrity Touch
Conceiving You 

 

Build a world EP tour

One more night, one more concert.

This time it’s the English based the Pineapple Thief.
The band of Bruce Soord is coming back to Paris after a small tour for All the Wars and now touring for the EP build a world.

Suffice to say the set list was roughly the same as their last passage (minus sadly warm seas and still no so we row….)

The sound was good and the band very happy to be there… Hopefully they’ll be back soon. Great band easy to listen to by the way… check it out.

Wake Up the Dead

3000 Days

Last Man Standing

Burning Pieces

Show A Little Love

Someone Pull Me Out

All The Wars

Snowdrops

Shoot First

Give It Back

You Don't Look So Innocent

Build a World

Someone Here is Missing

Reaching Out

Encore:

Part Zero

Nothing At Best

http://www.kscopemusic.com/thepineapplethief/allthewars/

http://www.pineapplethief.com/

 

The flood inside (Long distance Calling Live)

Friday the 15th was discovery time.

Two groups I did not know ( Solstafir and Sahg) plus one I barely knew.

If the two first group did their job, special mention to the guys of Solstafir with their strange prog metal complete with long beard, redneck and jack Daniels chants and braids headbanging.

After that came the pièce de resistance. And a big one. German based Long Distance Calling who are mostly famous for their quasi only instrumental albums (4 so far) with the latest being with half lyrics. Bright move ?

I was a bit afraid at first because I did not know much of the band previous work and well it is instrumental.

But being a mostly instrumental band does not forbid the band to interact with the audience and well indeed they did, apparently Paris is the best city to tour this March… Bet they never say that to the next town they play- , they really talk and seemed genuinely happy to play for The –yet- small audience of Le Nouveau Casino.

And suffice to say the already great instrumental songs on disc really take their depths and really shine, converting the final hour and an half in a great musical experience… with a bonus with guest stars on the new album Petter Carlsen and Vinnie Cavanagh coming on stage for a one off on the song Welcome Change (special for Paris)

You can listen to the new album here

http://www.progrockmag.com/news/stream-long-distance-calling-album-in-full/

http://www.longdistancecalling.de/