DF n°97, Interview with CHARLES HAYWARD, November 9th, 2009

Here again, we had an interview with another legend, Charles Hayward, known for his very influential band This Heat. We met him as he played in Carmaux during the Rock in Opposition festival. He is a very charming person and it is easy to understand why so many artists have wanted to play with him.

Here's the playlist:

TERRIBLE EAGLE, Warcrime
23 SKIDOO, G-2 Contemplation
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, City of Needles
SOL INVICTUS, Old Londonium weeps
FAITH & THE MUSE, Cantus
ONE STARVING DAY, Secret Heart
INADE, Abandoned Inferno
JEAN ROLLIN'S ROSE OF IRON, Bruits et voix dans un cimetière
CHARLES HAYWARD, Thick skin, paper thin, Not waving, No Bones, Outcomelt, Daddy needs a throne, S.P.Q.R, Time in Motion, Independence
CRASS, Poison in a pretty pill
TURBUND STURMWERK, Title 8
ATTRITION, What shall I sing
LAND, Die Andere Hälfte des Himmels
TRIBE OF CIRCLE, Psalms of Repentance
GAE BOLG, Death of the West
YOLK, Requiem
JACNO, Triangle


DF n°96, Interviews with DEUTSCH NEPAL & DER BLUTHARSCH, October 26th, 2009

This show was programmed just before the show of And Also The Trees in a beautiful chapel in Toulouse, so we started by playing some songs from this cult band, then we broadcasted two interviews we had in Paris with our all-time-hero Peter Andersson from Deutsch Nepal and Albin Julius from Der Blutharsch. It took place on September 21st at a venue called Le Zebre, in a kind of cabaret atmosphere. During this show, we also did a review of the film The Serpent's Egg by Bergman as this strange piece of cinema was just released on DVD in France.
The photos below were taken during the concert in Paris, except for the first one, taken on May 22nd in Leipzig as Deutsch Nepal was playing on the same stage as Nocturnal Emissions.

Here's the playlist:

CONTRASTATE, Virophilia
AND ALSO THE TREES, River of Flame, This Ship in Trouble, Slow Pulse Boy, A Room Lives in Lucy (acoustic)
THOMAS BEL, Die Linien der Herbstes
DEUTSCH NEPAL, Neris of Tears, Untitled 1 (w The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud), UR Blackhouse, Tender Lover, Scoria (w.Bocksholm), Chatrine I from Above, We are all prostitutes, Procession, M/S Elusive Pain, City of Stone, Bird of Steel
DER BLUTHARSCH, Time is thee enemy 2, First 12, Flying High 1, When did Wonderland end 8, The Smell of Blood and Victory 10, Flying High 2, Time is thee enemy 9, The Philosopher's stone 2, Flying High 4, Flying High 9, Flying High 8, The Track of the Hunter 15
LEWIS/GILBERT, Barge Calm
THIS HEAT, Makeshift Swahili, A new kind of water.




DF n°95, Interview with LEFDUP & LEFDUP, October 12th, 2009

In September 2009, we had the opportunity to meet Jérôme and Denis Lefdup at Le Snark, the place where they work in Paris. Their last film, Histoire Trouble, had just been projected during the Etrange Festival. These two guys are really geniuses of their kind, using images and sounds in an iconoclast way. In France, their work as graphic designers, musiciens and video innovators became famous with the TV shows Haute Tension in the eighties and L'Oeil du Cyclone in the nineties. It was a time when we thought that everything was possible with the TV medium. Unfortunately, TV became the insane absurdity that it is now. We talked about these TV shows, their last film and many other things during this long interview. It was a great sharing moment with these two brothers whose work has often been compared to The Residents.

Here is the list of songs we played:

AND ALSO THE TREES, The critical distance/The Saracen's head
DEUTSCH NEPAL, Drugmother
DER BLUTHARSCH, Flying High n°4
KNIFELADDER, Torn from Memory
PERE UBU, Watching the Pigeons
CINDYTALK, Debris of a smile
DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED, L'ultime quête
LEFDUP 1 LEFDUP, Tiviskrin, Nepla Relou (Lucrate Milk), Ze Tri (Ptôse), 15h38mn, Seeding the clouds (Tuxedomoon), Tripot, No Kods (Lucrate Milk)
UN DEPARTEMENT, Corges de Beauce/Une fée à table
PALO ALTO, Séquence 4
PHILIPPE PETIT & LYDIA LUNCH
BAKTERIELLE INFEKTION, The Hunt
DEUTSCH NEPAL, Tintomara-Thiudinassus
AVA GARDNER, Waiting wonder
HOROLOGIUM, De Caceria el Paraiso

DF n°94, Interview with BRUCE LABRUCE, September 28th, 2009

We met Canadian film-maker Bruce LaBruce as his film Otto, or Up with Dead People, was projected at the Etrange Festival in Paris. We had been following his cinema for quite a while, and this new film was among his best ones, exploring a melancholy neo-gothic vein we had not been used to in his films, even though humour is still present, and of course a lot of sex between males and artful creativity. Apart from talking about his work and broadcasting the interview we had with him, we also talked about the release on DVD of another film dealing with homosexuality, but in a much more classic vein: Victim by Basil Dearden.

Here's the playlsit :

FOETUS & MARC ALMOND, the universal cess pool
PERE UBU, The story so far
DER BLUTHARSCH, Flying high 9
DEUTSCH NEPAL, Jacques Yves Cousteau in memorandum
AND ALSO THE TREES, Feeling fine
JEAN-LOUIS HUHTA, Halfway between the world and...
OTHON MATARAGAS & ERNESTO TOMMASINI, Metalipsis
LA JOUVENC, Going home
ULTRA MILKMAIDS + V, Load
4th Sign of the APOCALYPSE, Ascending the river
EYES AND TEETH, Sonicize
BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS, His secret secretions
MINIMAL COMPACT, Morpheus Secrets
CINDYTALK, Playtime
YOLK, I want to fight
LEFDUP & LEFDUP, Seeding the clouds
OUT OF SIGHT, White rooms
MOMENTS PRESENTS, Tel
ANDREW LILES, A numbers game
INADE, A lefthanded sign
LAURENT PERNICE, Sur la terre...








DF n°93, INDUSTRIAL MUSICS & BOYD RICE, September 14th, 2009

For this show, we dealt with two important books as far as industrial music is concerned. The first one is "Industrial Musics vol.1" by Eric Duboys, the other one is "Standing in Two Circles: The Writings of Boyd Rice", as they were just published by French adventurous publisher Camion Blanc/Noir. Of course, we played many songs by NON and other early industrial bands.

Here's the playlist :

BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS, Time uncaptured
CARMODY, Sleep on mirrors
LAURENT PERNICE, Situation
CABARET VOLTAIRE, The damage is done
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Abfackeln!
TEST DEPT, Shockwork
SPK, Walking on dead steps
ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO, Necrosis en la poya
NON/BOYD RICE, Lucifer the morning star, Discipline, People, Abraxas, Total War, Everlasting fire, Let's keep it friendly, Theme from Pearls before swine, Cleanliness and order, Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Why did the feminists cross the road, Many hands
LUFTWAFFE, The cross of Lorraine, Kalki's Army (live)
AIN SOPH, Honorii Ponteficis
ANDREW LILES, It is now 1974
PAIN TEENS, Wot's de matter
DER BLUTHARSCH, The philosopher's stone 2
LYDIA LUNCH, Suicide Ocean


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DF n°91, Interview with DIE WEISSE ROSE, August 17th, 2009

This interview with Danish project Die Weisse Rose was directed in September 2008 in Barcelona, while the post-industrial band of Thomas Bojden was invited to perform at the Mediterranean Autumn Festival, but we had to wait a few months for the actual release of their first album, A Martyrium of White Roses, on Cold Meat Industry. During this same show, we talked about the second and last volume of the French translation of the book Looking for Europe, published by Camion Noir.

Here's the playlist: 

DEUTSCH NEPAL, Tender Lover
DER BLUTHARSCH, Pleasures received in Pain Track 10
HINT, Wu Wei
BAUHAUS, All we ever wanted
HUMAN FLESH, Tomorrow
THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION, Have you ever?
HOROLOGIUM, Towards the first circle
ROME, A legacy of unrest
DIE WEISSE ROSE, A martyrium of white roses, Im Nebel, At the doorstepf of our temple, Nicht Schuldig, The solitary volcano, Letzter Will, Unser Leben geht dahin wie ein Geschwätz
AGHAST, Call from the grave
BELA EMERSON & PHILIPPE PETIT
ARNICA, Tu Tierra
SIEBEN, Love's promise
CINDYTALK, Disintegrate
ANTICHILD LEAGUE, Germs of decay
DEATH IN JUNE, Touch defiles
NON, Scorched Earth
IN GOWAN RING, Kingdom of the shades
KAARNOS, Outermost oak
SKROL, Fall away



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DF n°90, Interview with NORSCQ / THE GRIEF, August 3rd, 2009

The Grief was one of my favorite bands as a teenager after I bought the Huis Clos box in a French cult recordshop named L'Atomium early in 1988. I find their music still as inspiring and original today as it was at the time. Norscq was one of the members of this trio and he went on in the electronic music field after the split of the band in 1992. Apart from being a legend, he is also a very lovable guy full of humor. We met him at his apartment in Paris a few weeks before the release of his Gelatinosa Substantia album. We talked extensively about this coming release. At the end of the show we talked about Ettore Scola's Brutti, sporchi e cattivi, which was released on DVD in France, but the very end of the show is missing.
Norscq's portrait was made by our talented photographer MySS. 

THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION, The fires of London
ALPHA SEQUENZ, The bitterness
ROME, Flight in Formation
ARNICA, Hijo de Deva
DIE WEISSE ROSE, As the last of the petals are shattered
NORSCQ, The Man with a Plan, The Holy Crow, Les yeux des calamars, En fait il était complètement défoncé, Il est étrange de voir à quel point, Il est vrai que les douces amertumes...
THE GRIEF, Kittystra, Fycazz on Bananas, Après Coup, Daedalus 2, (Whale) Dissas
SUNNO))), Aghartha
HOROLOGIUM & DER ARBEITER, De Caceria el Paraiso
DEFICIT DES ANNEES ANTERIEURES, Bonus 2
KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT, Superhimmel
DEFILE DES AMES, The banner of Vanity