Sound of contact-beardfish-spock’s beard.

Scene Bastille

Take 2

Sound of contact-beardfish-spock’s beard.

Once again in the Scene Bastille for another Triple thrill.

First is the band of Simon Collins (known as the son of Phil…. He’s no son he’s no son of miiiiiine ) which is singer-drummer as his father. Hard to step out his father ‘s shadow like that but anyway.

Sporting some good musicians including john Wesley, The SOC delivers a nice little show all about their debut concept album. Quite good  with a great instrumental part at the end, very proggy… Reckon the disc will have to go through the hearing test itself to see its guts.

Next was the ever crazy swedish boys of Beardfish. Small but powerful set from the guys with a great sound. Wonder when we’ll get the chance to see them with a full set.

And then the NEW spock’s beard, with the departure of drummmer/frontman Nick d’Virgilio, The beard (at least spock’s one) continue it’s Genesis stroll with addition of Enchant’s Singer (and guitariste too) Ted Leonard and welcome  touring  drummer  Jimmy Keegan as full time member.

The set is great and powerful. Ted singing goes great with the past songs and The new ones are very beardish (or spockish not to mix with fishy songs or beardfishy songs arrrgh) though the Ted’s one submerged sounds really popish…(get the single money Ted !)

Ryo did a bit of the show , having sold one of his hammond organ (15 years of his life… boy did he cried)

Great stuff, here is the set lists.

Sound of contact

 Mobius slip part 1 (in the difference engine)

Pale blue dot

Not coming down

Remote view

Closer to you

Omega point

Cosmic distance ladder

Beardfish

Destined solitaire

Ludwig & sverker

A point of view (new song !)

Note

Spock's beard

Something Very Strange
Crack the Big Sky
Hiding Out
Walking on the Wind
Submerged
Cakewalk on Easy Street
Afterthoughts
The Distance to the Sun
Waiting for Me

Encore:
Go the Way You Go  


http://www.soundofcontact.com/
http://www.spocksbeard.com/
http://www.beardfishband.com/

Whyzdom (concert review)

Whyzdom+ Asylum Pyre+Apparition

Scène Bastille.

Triple symphonic métal by three bands, (all in english though two of them are french bands).

First the english-based Apparition for a small set then Asylium Pyre who sadly suffered a major mike problem. The lead singer was totally unheard and had to finally share the microphone with the guitarist… that ‘s live music for you people.

Finally was Whyzdom presenting the new singer (Fourth and a half, nominating  whyzdom the Elizabeth Taylor  award for most  ever changing position of lead singer band ever :-p )

The new album (very good indeed) was tested by the fire of the crowd of the Scene Bastille.

Sadly here again the sound limitation killed a bit of the vocals of Marie Rouyer, the new singer which displayed a nice vocal range from high pitch to deep growl.

Not much to say as I was the merch guy, I could not see and appreciate much I would say but it  helped me much to see and understand how things are done before a show (though I had a pretty much good idea before but nothing beats first hand experience)

Hopefully the next one will be with less problems, thanks a lot to all of you guys (and vincent- for the beer  Ïa Ïa Cthulhu ftagh'n :!)

Bonus set list whyzdom

On the road to Babylon
The Spider
Atlantis
Cassandra's Mirror
The Train
Dancing With Lucifer
Cathedral Of The Damned
Daughter Of The Night

www.whyzdom.com

A nightmare to remember. Rip Ray Harryhausen

It is always sad to hear a passing but it is always a pleasure to recollect what we knew and love about the newly departed.
Tonight, I put on hold my DS9 run to put back the blu ray of the clash of the titans and to recollect the fright I felt at the sight of the animated skeletons of Jason and the argonauts.
With a smile I recall the magnificient scare of the kraken and pegasus, and djinns, and warriors shaped out of clay, moving slowly across the celluloid frames.
You go back to the days of yore where the magic of the beginnings of the special effects was still powerful and full of wonders.
Scary monsters indeed, nightmares to remember in these days of CGI.

thank you Ray for the memories.

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