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guidzie
- FB Fan -
France
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 Posted - 03/02/2007 : 08:05:12
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| TOTY pour la couronne "royal(e)" ? |
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
France
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fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2007 : 09:29:22
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Oh, and the ticket says Frank Black. Not Black Francis or...
moi excited. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 03/02/2007 : 09:35:10
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| C'est magnifique! |
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fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2007 : 09:37:34
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| Don't you start. I'm lost like ten posts ago. Being a unilingualist sucks like someone over 15 using the word suck. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2007 : 10:00:10
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| As you know, I'm fluent in French phrases, Soren. Zut alors! Faux pas! Etc. |
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edisdead
- FB Fan -
France
4 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2007 : 13:33:11
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I've already got tickets !!!
See you there |
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
2462 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2007 : 11:43:18
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| So it's a full band show? |
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Frog in the Sand
-+ Le premiere frog +-
France
2715 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2007 : 12:41:03
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I don't know, but I'd say solo.
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
2462 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2007 : 13:13:43
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Yeah, I did wonder. The listing on the front page suggests otherwise.
Still, even a solo show would be bloody marvellous. |
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guidzie
- FB Fan -
France
44 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2007 : 00:26:23
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| as i just read that Frank will go to Werchter Festival(Belgium)with Joey S. on 29th june, maybe the show in Lille will be a kind of "warm up". So we may have the chance to see M Joey S. too. Just speculation. |
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Frog in the Sand
-+ Le premiere frog +-
France
2715 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 07:34:04
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Originally posted by guidzie
as i just read that Frank will go to Werchter Festival(Belgium)with Joey S. on 29th june, maybe the show in Lille will be a kind of "warm up". So we may have the chance to see M Joey S. too. Just speculation.
Thanks. What's your source, please?
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guidzie
- FB Fan -
France
44 Posts |
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Frog in the Sand
-+ Le premiere frog +-
France
2715 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 11:47:49
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Thanks, I can't believe I missed the Werchter thread....
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fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2007 : 09:22:46
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enjoy the Blur song 
waaa-hoo! |
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
France
4233 Posts |
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Atertus Coveni
- FB Fan -
France
16 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2007 : 15:32:12
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Just come back from the concert, a really great one IMO, but I'm not sure the whole audience will agree: a lot of people looked very disappointed after the show, probably because of the length of the show. The band played something like 1 hour and 20 or 25, don't know exactly, which is not so short especially compared with some previous shows of the tour. But on the front door of the Aeronef it was written: Frank Black : 21h30 / 23h25, and maybe people thought naïvely (does this word exist?) it will go like this.
Anyway, no surprises in this show for who had already read the last shows reviews. Frank didn't play guitar (execpt on the last song, the Albarn cover I think) but offered us an amazing frontman performance, with some incredible highlights. On Treeshold for example, he sung main part of the song on his knees, and then lying on the scene (sorry if I don't explain very well, but I have some linguistic limits...).
Someone will soon have a fantastic photo to show (I think it was you, Jediroller)!!
The setlist was very close to the last shows'. Some songs sound really different played by this band and with only one guitar. Sometimes I missed a little bit the second guitar, but for some other songs, the "new versions" more basic, direct and agressive (it is probably not the wright word here) sounded really great: Freedom Rock, Ten Percenter, Thalassocracy for example were really fantastic.
For the Bluefinger songs, Tight Black Rubber and You can't break... were for me the highlights.
I couldn't say how was the crowd reaction, because I was in the front row and the only thing I could see or hear was ..the Man himself. But behind me there was a little group of fans really reactive and knowing almost every song, included the new ones, so in this part part of the public I can say the audience was really reactive. But once again, I don't think the rest of the audience really enjoyed the show. But I have to say I don't really care about this.
Sorry for being so confuse in this review, that's only first impressions from the show.
Setlist (not in the wright order)
Los Angeles
Robert Onion
Thalassocracy
Freedom Rock
Tight Black Rubber
Threshold Apprehension
All My Ghosts
California Bound
Old Black Dawning
Massif Centrale
Manitoba
The Rockafeller Skank
Captain Pasty
You Cant' Break a Heart & Have It
Lolita
Remake/Remodel
Dead Man's Curve
the "albarn song"
Fred
"La morte non è nel non poter comunicare ma nel non poter più essere compresi" Pier Paolo PASOLINI
"Death is not when you can not communicate, but when you can no longer be understood" |
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Czar
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
321 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2007 : 15:36:43
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Waaaaah.
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Do you think the Pixies were a brouillon of Black Francis? |
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fumanbru
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1462 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2007 : 20:50:23
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ditto! i want to see this!! how can anyone be disappointed!!
thalosocracy, freedom rock.... and then the bluefinger tracks!
how many people are turning out to these shows? any merchandise? anyone get a chance to frank or any of the band members?
thanks for the review!
go frank!
 "I joined the Cult of Frank/ cause I'm a real go-getter!" |
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1718 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2007 : 02:05:40
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Yeah, at some point Frank seemed to want to stick his head right into my lens!!!! I hope the pic turns out okay.... I'm not used to taking pictures in low lighting.
There might have been 300 or 400 people in there, I'll try to check with the venue later.
As for the show, the performance totally made up for some technical problems (Charles Normal's amp was acting really weird), which I did notice at one point but really didn't mind.
As someone else here (sorry, can't remember who) already pointed out, "the Albarn song" is actually "History Song" from The Good, the Bad & the Queen's self-titled record.
Missing from your list: "Ten Percenter", "The Black Rider", and Frank doing "666" a capella. Really great, but certainly drew some puzzled looks from the crowd... I wouldn't know, I had my nose practically stuck to the stage and couldn't see the audience.
What I did notice was that the whole front row knew "Threshold Apprehension" but didn't seem to recognize the other "Bluefinger" tracks. I bought the best of album here yesterday, I guess I was not the only one...
There will be more later on Blackolero, we got to spend some time with the boys (but not Frank, who had his family to take care of) and will publish an interview with the musicians. Jason, Charles, Ding & crew are the loveliest people you could ever want to meet! If any of them ever reads this, thanks again guys, you are too cool for words.
Gotta go now, I have 340 pictures to sort... :-o
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averell
- FB Fan -
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Posted - 06/23/2007 : 12:03:36
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| We were at the concert, and we were rather disappointed, because of the length of the show (1 hour 15 minutes what is that ??), the poor balance of the sound (guitar way too loud, FB's voice sometimes barely audible), no encore, and not the least contact with the public from the entire band. So YES we were disappointed, quite mad at FB who made much greater shows in the past, we really hope it will be better in two weeks in Rock dans tous ses etats festival. One good point however for the musicians who had a drink with the audience after the show ! |
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1718 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2007 : 12:25:02
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Actually, Frank's musicians specifically wanted to address this point (length of the show) when we talked to them, because they've seen complaints... this will be in the interview we're going to publish soon (going through the recording right now), but in a nutshell (and in Charles Normal's words): "Absolutely no filler."
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2007 : 12:33:36
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Sounds like the great old Catholics shows. Bam, bam, bam. No filler. No chatter with the audience. Just one rock song after another.
Looks like about 20 songs. To me that's not much to complain about. |
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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remig
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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Posted - 06/23/2007 : 13:26:39
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2O songs is alright as long as they play dead man's curve
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
2010 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2007 : 18:51:55
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Originally posted by remig
2O songs is alright as long as they play dead man's curve
I kinda agree.
Too bad they didn't play it in Bordeaux !
Still crossing my fingers for wednesday night... |
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toeknee
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
281 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2007 : 19:43:52
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| I imagine the shorter shows is because of his voice, y'know, doctor's orders and that. |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2007 : 19:49:44
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| And the band has only rehearsed for short time (I'm guessing) so they don't know that many songs (I'm guessing). |
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Atertus Coveni
- FB Fan -
France
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 01:02:03
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the interpretation of Dead Man's Curve was very great. When Frank annonced the song, he asked the band to play it "not too fast", and gave the tempo snapping his fingers.
I don't know how it was in the previous shows, but in Lille the guys didn't have a setlist, and it was Charles who told them which song to play. Sometimes he told them directly while they were playing, but often he said it directly in the microphone, which (don't know why) sounded pretty good to me. For example I really enjoyed Charles screaming "Thalassocracy, thalassocracy, thalassocracy,...!". Don't know why I enjoyed it so much. Maybe because it announced one of my favorite song, or maybe because I loved the serious and determination in his voice prononcing the word. Anyway, it's strange but I loved it!
I 've never been a huge fan of 666, neither in the band version nor in the a capella version. It's always my "less favourite moment" in the shows, but I have to say the friday version sounded good.
Last thing: Charles Normal sang the "whooo ooo!" on the intro of Freedom Rock, and it sounded pretty good. I can't remember a live version of this song with the band singing the chorus, can someone tell me if it 's been a "first time " or if it has already happened on a previous tour. (maybe it's not a fondamental question, but i'm just curious!)
Fred
"La morte non è nel non poter comunicare ma nel non poter più essere compresi" Pier Paolo PASOLINI
"Death is not when you can not communicate, but when you can no longer be understood" |
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
3426 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2007 : 02:23:55
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this one is absolutely brilliant....
all i can say, thank god for polio! brian |
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guidzie
- FB Fan -
France
44 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2007 : 02:27:37
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la critque de Nord Eclair parue le 23 juin
des photos : http://www.nordeclair.fr/site/albums/?Qwd=./images/Les%20concerts/22-06-2007%20Franck%20Black&Qiv=Aucun&Qis=M
FRANCK BLACK REVEILLE L'ESPRIT FRONDEUR DU LARSEN
"Ô my ghost". Ô mes fantômes. C'est le cri qu'a lancé FB, en plein concert, comme un appel à ces trentenaires débonnaires et bedonnants venus profiter de l'éclat lumineux et un peu nostalgique de "l'ex". "Ex" chanteur et leader des Pixies, celui qui a bercé nos années 90 de ses mélodies cassées et de ses cris de rages renfermées. "Ex" figure de proie du tonitruant et subversif mouvement indépendant tout droit sorti des USA qu'on croyait alors perdu. "Ex" père spirituel de tous les grunges de la terre. La voix brisée, mais puissante, les mélodies chaotiques et les solos de guitare torturés, gonflés à la distorsion et au feeling bancal. Toute la magie y était. Certes, les premiers morceaux n'étaient pas vraiment habités. FB est monté sur scène, cuir serré et lunettes noires ajustées, presque trop calme. Copie conforme de "Vic", le flic ripoux héro de la série TV The Shield, il a commencé le concert d'un air distant, presque appliqué. Mais trés vite, le vrai FB est revenu à la charge. Le cuir tombe, l'adrénaline grimpe. Dans le maelström sonique et distordu, ce fils croisé de Joy Division et Sonic Youth offre un set à la hauteur des attentes de ses fans, pourtant fort peu nombreux. Mais les fans du "nouveau rock" qui déferle aujourd'hui sur nos ondes savent-ils que FB a été le leader des Pixies, influence majeure des groupes qu'ils écoutent ? Plutôt que de passer leur temps dans les magasins de fringues à la recherche du dernier jean's "Slim", certains devraient peut-être réviser leurs classiques. |
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1718 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2007 : 02:48:59
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Leather? Frank didn't wear no leather.
And he had no socks on. Rebel style!
Thanks Benji. Frank was litterally singing in my face (well, my lens...), it was impressive.
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Frog in the Sand
-+ Le premiere frog +-
France
2715 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2007 : 04:48:49
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Some pics fer ya guys. The best ones (those taken by Jedi) can be seen here.
Jason Carter, Charles Normal
"Ding" Archer, Mr. Jedi in person :)
I'll never forget this moment...
The sacred sanctuary - Frank's dressing room
After the show: Jason and "Ding" chatting with the guys of Malibu Stacy
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FB in Lille, France, June 22
