THE DANDY WARHOLS



20 March 2001, Elysée Montmartre, Paris


Capacity : 1200
Concert length : 1 hour 45 mn

Setlist :

Be-In
Mohammed
Bohemian Like You
Shakin'
I Love You
Green
Good Morning
Minnesoter
Junkie
Horse Pills
Your Ghost (Kristin Hersh cover)
Intro + Godless
Get Off
Boys Better
Hard On For Jesus
Cool As Kim Deal
Solid
Country Leaver
Daisy Song
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Rave-Up with the Dandy Warhols 16 minutes


Excellent start with a druggy 11-minute rendition of Be-In. 4-minute intro + slowed down, spacey version of the song full of syrupy vocals and crazy keyboard loops.
Delicious Mohammed, great percussions, subdued singing, Pink Floydian atmosphere.
Some people were yelling very loudly in between songs which lead Courtney to say: "you guys are terrific yellers" and he invited us to yell about Boho.
Bohemian Like You really rocked. Top entertainment. Courtney's voice nearly drowned by the music.
Then he went on saying: "You guys we're not a football team! We are not. We would lose every fuckin' game!".
Staccato Shakin' full of ha ha ha's!
CT² introduced the next song by saying it's about NOT being a stalker and then we were enchanted with a series of 3 songs: an obsessive, powerful I Love You, a sexy, sublime Green with beautiful vivid green lighting followed with a delightful Good Morning, great trumpet.
CT²'s old story about Minnesota went straight into... well... Minnesoter of course.
"Classic rock hit" Junkie followed... real good!
Excellent intro to kick-ass Horse Pills, craziest ending ever, full of screaming and yelling and... "pills!" of course. Man, those guys really know how to rock it!

Then followed a short break. Someone gave CT² a cigarette and he offered us to introduce ourselves. He said : "OK, let me start this. Hi! I'm Courtney. Who are you?" My friend Soline who was standing right in front of him introduced herself to him and CT² went "Hi! Soline."
Then CT² made fun of the small size of Luxemburg where they were the night before saying we [the audience] could take Luxemburg if we armed ourselves. Finally he asked us to sing a French song that stirs our French souls and we all went : "Ils sont vraiment... Ils sont vraiment... phénoménal... la la la la la la... la la la la la la... ils mériteraient... ils mériteraient d'être dans l'journal... la la la la la la... la la la la la la..." ...the end of our singing being accompanied by the band! "Pretty good", Courtney said, which made everyone laugh of course.
Teriffic version of Kristin Hersh's Your Ghost nicely accompanied by part of the audience.
Mumbled intro to Godless, great trumpet job again, fuzzy harmonies.
Lively rendition of Get Off.
Ethereal intro to Boys Better, whirling atmospherics, hazy/noisy guitars... welcome to psychedelia!
Rockin' Hard on For Jesus.
From then on, they kept saying they'd play "one last song" but they went on happily playing poppy Cool As Kim Deal, Iggy Poppish Solid, and Country Westernlike Country Leaver. Finally Zia said they had no time for an encore even if they wanted to, sang her little Daisy Song but they did come back a few minutes later to play a fucking awesome 16 minutes. What a terrific end to a fantastic show!

On the whole, good audience, loud in between songs but pretty quiet as soon as the first notes of most songs were played and great performance.

Reviewed by Maryse Laloux


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