December 10th, 2004, exactly 10 months after the band's Zenith concert which was held here in Paris back in February of the same year, Blink-182 was back for what was to be their final live performance in France.
Getting two tickets for that show, me and my significant other managed to see what was, in my opinion, one of their best live performance, with some neat suprises from the band.

First part of the venue was Sugarcult which performed great. Nothing peculiar to mention about.

After Sugarcult were done, the real fun began. Big black curtains. Lights wear off! Thin spotlight pointing towards the middle of the curtains. A total stranger apears. He is holding the blink-182 flag (The smiley face from their last album engraved on it). He waves the flag up in the air as the crowd cheeeeeeers. May the show begin.

Action! or must I say Feeling This is the first song to be sang by the group, immediatly followed up by Easy Target and What's my age again. That's 3 songs in under 6 minutes within the concert start! All three perfectly mixed. I am missing the complete setlist for this concert and all the audio files you will find on related pages are just "some" of the songs they played and not a complete bootleg. Anyways at some point Violence kicks in, which was one of the best songs they atempted that night.

The band then sang I miss you, Asthenia and Dysentary Gary despite the fans shouting desperately for a Carousel. Fact is that Carousel was never ever sang in France. Why? At every venue the fans scream that song, they write it down on big white sheets of papers. But sadly this song was never and will probably won't ever be sang in France.

Back to the concert. Tom's birthday was 3 days away from the venue and Mark wanted to "Light up Paris" for Tom because, dixit, noone anyways wanted to "buy Tom a cake". That's when he asked everyone in the audiance to get their cell phones out. That was prolly the pretiest part of the concert.

At some point, when the concert was to be over, and everyone thinking "no encore??", one could hear Travis's crazy drums rythms but without seeing him. That's when he apears on his drumset at the very center of the hall, amongs the crowd, that was an amazing moment. The band then played Anthem Part II, Stay Together for the Kids and a medley sort of their older songs, Dumpwed, M+Ms and Josie (that's when the recording fades out).

The end of the show was near, and as Travis and Tom left the stage, Mark toys around with the crowd a bit more. He plays a bit of guitar pretending he wouldn't need anyone but himself to play in this show. He then takes off his shirt and... takes a sit at Travis's drums and shows some excise druming techniques. I managed to record but 45s of him playing although the file shows just how good Mark can play the drums.That's a picture of him on the drums on the left.

That was the end of the concert and the end of my review. Here are "some" of the songs the band atempted at this show. They are mostly bad quality and will most probably hurt your ears. But that was the best I could get off the files at the time. The best song quality wise is Stay together for the kids.

MP3s of the Show can be found in the media section

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