Douche Froide

DF n°102, Interview with SOL INVICTUS, January 18th, 2010

We went to see Sol Invictus play live in Marseille in November 2009 and we came back with this interview with Tony Wakeford. The new album had not come out yet, but they played a lot of songs that were to be found on The Cruellest Month, along with older songs such as "Lex Talionis". The interview was held at the venue with shitty music in the background played very loud, so it seems that we are screaming at each other. And it was the case, indeed.

Here's the playlist:

KARL MEIZTER, The Process

JULIA KENT, Gardermoen

DENIS FRAJERMAN, Rivières de la nuit

DRAHOMIRA SONG ORCHESTRA, This famous somewhere

INADE, Genius Loci 3

SOL INVICTUS/Tony Wakeford collaborations – They rise to war, Lucifer before Sunrise, Black Easter, Michael, 5, Wolf age axe age, The thrill is gone, Lex Talionis, The last train, Thrones, O Death come close my eyes, Death's head, 6, From the wreckage, Raven chorus, La croix, Oh whistle and I'll come to you, The cruellest Month (bootleg), In hell's mouth

FRANCE

SAUVAGE, Cartilage Ihyroïde

SUSUMU YOKOTA, Distant sounds of summer

ANTLERS MULM, Shattered Pearl

http://www.4shared.com/audio/zWKuS96r/Douche_Froide_180110_Sol_Invic.html

DF n°100, Interview with FAITH & THE MUSE, December 21st, 2009

We met William Faith as his band played at Le Crock More in Perpignan for a very memorable show. The audience was hysterical, and it was one of those moments when you feel a real communion between the band and the audience. Their album :Ankoku Butoh: had just been released, so we talked a lot about that and the career of the band. During this same show, we made a review of the French translation of the American classic book of essays Apocalypse Culture.

The photos below were taken in Perpignan during their show at Le Crock More on November 28th, 2009, and at the Nuits Underground au Palais on July 24th, 2010. Thanks to Fred for the interview shot and to Jean-Sébastien for his recorder.

Here's the playlist :

FAITH AND THE MUSE, The Woman of the Snow, Twilight, When to her lute Corinna sings, In the Amber Room, Sparks, Battle Hymn, Bushido, Cernunnos, Joy, Elyria, The chorus of the furies, All Lovers Lost, Nine Dragons, When we go dark, Shattered in aspect, The birds of Rhiannon

ATARAXIA, The nine rituals

JAGERBLUT, Dornwald

TESTING VAULT, Tombstone part 2

DE MANGE MACHINE, Phénomènes vitaux

MONTE CAZAZZA, Sex is no emergency

RICHARD H. KIRK, Black honeymoon

BIG CITY ORCHESTRA, Sweet Potatoes

CONTROLLED BLEEDING, Voices of the Dead

PETER PRINCIPLE, A walk in Dinosaur Hill

EMPIRICAL SLEEPING CONSORT, Dream side 1

FRANCE SAUVAGE, Os hyoïde

BRUME, I did not remember my name/fire again!

JAC BERROCAL, Marie Antoinette is not dead ou dans quelle position je vous laisse

SPK, Alocasia Metallica

Doownload Link 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?3vv4m9whtimov7x

Download Link 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?ucilyiac0ulz9b2

DF n°98, Interviews with AND ALSO THE TREES & CINDYTALK, November 23rd, 2009

What an amazing show! With interviews with Simon Huw Jones from And Also The Trees and Cinder from Cindytalk!! We met Simon in Toulouse as his band was doing an acoustic show in the beautiful Chapelle des Carmélites, and we met Cinder in Bordeaux for the very first gig of the band in France. If you like sensitive, elegant and ice-cold voices, this show is for you! We also talked about the annual Extreme festival, which is dedicated to bizarre cinema and which is quite an event in our city of Toulouse.

Here's the playlist:

AND ALSO THE TREES, This Ship in Trouble (instrumental), Domed, Simple Tom and the Ghost of Jenny Bailey, The Untangled Man, Impulse of Man, The Street Organ (acoustic), Prince Rupert, So This is Silence, A Room Lives in Lucy (acoustic), Wooden Leg, There were no bounds, Slow Pulse Boy, Roulette, Needle Street

NOVEMBER, A part of me, A day of spring

CINDYTALK, In This World, Feathers Burn, Empty Hand, The ghost never smiles, Arrival, Janey's Love, Debris of a Smile, Traumlose Nacht, Dream Ritual, Spirit behind the circus dream, Old Jack must die, Transgender Warrior, Snowkiss

L'AU-DELA, Soundtrack of Lucio Fulci's film

FAITH AND THE MUSE, Elyria

THE MOON LAY HIDDEN BENEATH A CLOUD, Madhr Title 2

Part 1 / And Also The Trees : http://www.4shared.com/audio/LleMimX4/douchecindyaatt231109part1.html
Part 2 / Cindytalk : http://www.4shared.com/audio/CusEUBFY/douchecindyaatt231109part2.html

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

Part 1: http://www.4shared.com/audio/nr8N7KHf/hayward91109part1.html

Part 2: http://www.4shared.com/audio/64_z6bEv/hayward91109part2.html

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.

Download Link 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?8vqlql5b6hyv3ub

Download Link 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?81v7a51663qwk14

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

Part 1: http://www.4shared.com/audio/aiU0uc0B/lefdup.html

Part 2: http://www.4shared.com/audio/8etS46XK/lefdup2.html

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

4^th Sign of the APOCALYPSE, Ascending the river

EYES AND TEETH, Sonicize