MOTÖRHEAD
Le Zénith - Paris, France
November 4, 2009

What’s happening? Motörhead playing again at the Zénith in Paris not even a year after their previous show?
Here in the same city and the same venue?
On the same tour, without a new album to promote?

Well, that’s great news, and of course I wasn’t going to miss it!

When you go to a Motörhead show, you know what you’re into, and you can’t get wrong: 100% pure rock’n’roll. And that’s what tonight’s show was about.

Very few lights, only a backdrop with the cover of the latest album Motörizer.
Last time they had a giant screen showing images on some songs.

Sometimes Motörhead show up with the Bomber.
Sometimes they have some pyro.

There was nothing of this sort this time, just a loud guitar, a bass plugged to the Murder One, and a thundering drum.

Is that enough? Of course it is, it’s Motörhead, and it’s only Rock’n’Roll.
But thime maybe there was something missing. I don’t know what, maybe a bit of feeling.

After over a year touring, they haven’t changed the setlist that much. So the songs were perfectly interpreted, but there was no room for improvisation.

For the very first time, I had an impression of déjà-vu on a Motörhead show.
Hey, but this doesn’t mean that it wasn’t good!

Take KISS or Iron Maiden, they always do the same concert (regarding lights, setlist and pyrotechnics) once they start a tour, but it’s always great!
You don’t get the chance to see a legend like Lemmy every day, a totally unique guy, the incarnation of Rock’n’Roll.

And when he says that Mikkey Dee is the best drummer in the Rock’N’Roll, well, he might not be that far from the truth.

Lemmy also reminded us that Phill Campell has been in Motörhead for the last 25 years. They, that’s a lot, Motörhead had been around for 34 years at this time.

He’s the one that moves the more on stage.
Of course Lemmy is Motörhead’s frontman, but Phill to me is their showman.

So, I will say that this Motörhead show was “Another Perfect Day”.
Maybe too perfect for Motörhead. Yes, the concert was great, but it was just “one more Motörhead concert ”.

I hope next time they’ll do a few setlist changes, a few more lights, and it should be even better.

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Setlist Motörhead – The Zénith, Paris, France – November 4, 2009

01. Iron Fist
02. Stay Clean
03. Be My Baby
04. Rock Out
05. Metropolis
06. Over The Top
07. One Night Stand
08. I Got Mine
09. The Thousand Names Of God
10. Another Perfect Day
-- Drum Solo --
11. Just 'Cos You Got The Power
12. Going To Brazil
13. Killed By Death
14. Bomber
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15. Whorehouse Blues
16. Ace Of Spades
17. Overkill

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