Setlist Paris "A L'Olympia" tonight
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It in the site home page at the moment, but here are my comments :
At the beginning of the gig, Bernard introduced everyone on stage (but I didn't get neither the interim guitarist's name nor the band he came from; maybe s.o. here has a clue..)
1/ Crystal - album version 2/ Transmission (B. said just before starting the song: "I see a JD fan over here..") 3/ Regret 4/ Ceremony
These first four songs made the crowd move a lot, the next four calmed it down.
5/ 60 mph 6/ Your silent face 7/ Atmosphere 8/ Close Range - B. kept on reading the lyrics on his LCD screens for this one. He doesn't seem too good at singing it yet ;)
The third part of the gig was more dancey, with their 80s hits:
9/ TBTHOG (B. said the song was dedicated to the French football player Eric Cantona, for his time being in Manchester United team - best team in the world, ermm.. that's his opinion) 10/ BLT 11/ True Faith - with its now 'traditional' techno intro 12/ Temptation
And the show ended with: 13/ LWTUA (B. uses a very nice Rickenbacker guitar on this song - it was actually the only time he used it in the whole set)
The encore was:
14/ Rock The Shack (f*****g good song when played live) 15/ Ruined in a day - a bit poor 16/ Blue Monday (B. playing keyboards at the end was a surprise for me..)
To wrap up, it was good seeing them live back in Paris (Bernard knew it was 14 years after their last gig there, as he told the audience it was not their fault..!). However, the sound was set too loud, IMHO. Especially if you consider that the audience had to hear very noisy support bands (3 of them!!) before NO..
I sincerely hope the sound engineers will correct this tonight !
