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Ok, so there is a girl named Solveig that lives in Paris France who is our unofficial European correspondent for YRockonXPN. Here are a couple articles she has written about bands she has seen recently....
Brand New in Paris on January 24th 2007
- Solveig Werner On the 24th of January the New York Brand New, had their first ever concert in France. It was the first concert of their “The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me” tour, actually their Winter 2007 Tour. Even through they have been around for quite some time, they never came to France before. Here it is important to say that France only got one show where Germany got four, and Italy some more than France, and there were a ton of Dates in the UK. It is best not to talk about the USA, were the number of shows are more combined than for the whole of Europe. This concert took place at the Nouveau Casino, which is a venue for 400 people, and the show was not even sold out.
Well even if this huge band decided to only play in a small venue it was definitely worth it. At the concert there were a few French people, those who kinda accidentally came across Brand New by chance, there were some Americans, mostly students, that were over exited about being able to see Brand New live close up. I came across Brand New because I listened to yrockonxpn.org and the djs had mentioned BN a couple of times. On January 8th Brand New was the flavor of the week, one of the reasons why I went out and purchased a ticket for the concert.
Directly after school I took the bus to the train and took the next RER into Paris. I was at the venue at about 18h30, one hour before the concert was supposed to start. I waited close to the entrance, at one point I started talking to some really nice French people. We were a bit on the wrong side of the door the line was on the other side. I was the 5th person in the room, where did I go? I went straight to the microphone, then I asked the others to keep me a spot and I bought a tour shirt, it’s a really nice one!
There was no opening band, the concert started at about 20h30 and lasted till 22h something. I was really lucky, the singer Jesse was standing right in front of me, I could have reached out to touch him, really! I had my backpack up on the stage I do not think that that is a very common thing to be doing at a rock concert.
At one point Jesse dropped his pick in the middle of a song, I caught it just like that. After the show when they gave out the drumsticks, I got one of them! It is autographed too. I also took home one of the posters that were hanging outside.
I have never been to such a great concert before! I am happy to have a ton of great pictures of the show as well as some great great videos!
Now here is one about the Fratellis....
The Fratellis in Paris
-Solveig Werner
On January 30th 2007 the Scottish band the Fratellis came to Paris for a great concert. It was a show at Elyse´e –Monmatre, and for some strange reason it was not a sold out one. Already 5 in the afternoon a few fans were waiting outside on the steps of the concert hall, at least it was not a cold day, and the direction of the concert hall decided to open the doors quite early, quite some time before a big crowd showed up.
The early opening of the doors made it even earlier to go right up front. There was no need to fight for a good spot. Shirts were sold, they were more expensive than they are on the website, but well I did not know that. The Shirt with the blonde pin-up girl was more expensive than the ticket; it did cost 4,10 Euros more! Well it was worth it!
So maybe I should start writing about the concert. The opening band was Nelson, a French band that sings in English. They had a great bass, which sounded a lot like Joy Division and She Wants Revenge. The only little hiccup was that the drum set was a lot louder than the singer; it was almost impossible to make out what he was singing. But I do have to say that they are really good looking.
In between the opening act and the Fratellis I got to talk to a photographer, I am just mentioning this because I ended up on his website!
Once the Fratellis were on stage everyone started going crazy. Being right in the middle and in the front I became the main victim of the evening. I missed most of the song “Chelsea Daggers”, which is really too bad seen that it made my top ten list for the year 2006. The reason that I missed so much of that song was that everyone that was being passed forward seemed to be passing right over me. During about half the concert I was leaning over the barrier, I could still feel it in my stomach two days later.
The stage performance of the Fratellis was amazing, proof of that is the fact that everyone was definitely going crazy out there. Some people were a bit deceived by the fact that the drummer cut his hair. A special treat for all the girls’ ears was Jon talking in his heavy Scottish accent, it was just great how he said: “We are the Fratellis, and we are from Scotland...”
The concert ended quite early. But there was still no chance of meeting up with the band after the show, which is understandable seen that they are quite big. Now that I am writing this report ages after the concert I have a memory with a few holes, I know that’s a bad excuse seen that I am know for remembering every detail of everything. I can’t recall what the set list was, but it was a good one. If you have the chance to go see the Fratellis live, you should take that opportunity and go see them!