NEW 2008 LINE-UP: myself, of course, along with "The Astromen" front man Guillaume Martinez playing the guitar, and former members of "Khaban" Denis Hénault-Parizel playing the double bass and Rémy Kapriellan sitting at his drums. They currently play in CHK too (http://www.myspace.com/chktrio).
Influences
Too long to tell them all...but mainly good pop/rock/folk/(and a bit of electronica too) music from the past 50 years!
Do you only make love on weekends?
You may wonder who the hell this Brother Roger is. I sometimes wonder too, but hey, who doesn't anyway? All I know is that everybody would like to be some kind of Brother Roger. Oh, don't worry, nobody wants to be me, or in my stead, but everybody wants to let the other self which dwells in their minds pop out and live: thus I've become some kind of a hero to myself, expressing what my ordinary me cannot say without feeling uncomfortably awkward. Therefore I dare assert: everybody wants to be Brother Roger, in a way or another. Take Iggy Pop for instance, he is said to have once muttered "I would have liked to be Brother Roger"(Sic)! Well, it was long before he even got involved in rock history though. As to David Bowie, the rumour has it that he was once heard saying that "if Brother Roger wasn't already what he is now, he would have like to be [me]"(Sic)!
First, I was not born in a small hamlet in some secluded area such as South Dakota or even the north of Michigan, nor was I brought up by some carelessly ill-mannered redneck family from which I could have inherited enough despair and despondency to be able to write good songs. I didn't leave school as early as my 15th birthday and did not spend days on end working for an alcoholic mechanic who knew almost nothing about repairing cars but just enough to be able to recognize them from vans. Concerning my musical education, since it is what you most care about, I did not play blues or country music in smoky, riotous bars, nor did I venture myself to downtown, underground clubs in some East coast metropolis.
No, I just write songs, end of discussion. Are they any good? I don't know. Do I care about being listened to? Of course I do, but if you wonder what it's like to be in such a position when you have kept your work secret for quite a long time, I can tell you that it's not so secure a situation, because from now on I will have to stand on judgement in front of people. And what frightens me most are not the negative critics I will have to undergo, but the positive ones: what can you say to someone who tells you he really likes your music? "Well thank you!" If you think about it closely, we should both be thanking each other!!! I can be grateful to be truly appreciated, but I didn't do anything to achieve that on purpose but to please myself with recording the music I had in my head. Therefore it's kind of hard to accept congratulations from someone at whom your work was not aiming in the first place. Anyway, it will still be a pleasure to be hearing such stuff, and it will still hurt to take notice of bad things about Brother Roger.
P.S. as far as the religious make-up of my name, I used to go to church...and now I hate Sundays!
une bien belle soirée en perspective Laisy Daisy (LYON) Stolen Sweethearts (Pin Tower) et les locaux the Capucines + pour la modique somme de 5€ la possibilité de gagner (tirage au sort parmis le public ayant payé son entrée) une invitation(by Aderock) au concert de PLACEBO a LYON . c est pas beau ça !!
et le 6 novembre soirée on ne peut plus rock&roll avec nos amis FIRECRACKERS et ROSEMARY
6€ + des tee shirts a gagner !!
donc fish & chips le 23 octobre et saucisses frites (sic!) le 6 novembre ... pintes et demi !!
a bientot ! faites passer le message.
ps: si vous n aimez pas PLACEBO vous pourrez toujours offrir l invit et faire une heureuse (un)!
Shout it Loud est fier de vous présenter et de vous convier à ces 3 concerts gratuits de Dan Costello.
Le Folk singer New Yorkais sera de retour en France pour vous présenter son nouvel album "I will change for work"! Un
songwritting d'une simplesse absolue constitué d'histoires parfois
hilarantes , parfois morbides , le tout présenté dans un show qui ne
vous laissera pas indifférent.
Al Foul se consomme sans modération, avec excès et démesure. Il remplit les coeurs de joie, il rend meilleur, il est la vie!!! Accompagnez-le d'une Budweiser bien fraîche et d'un Jack Daniel's bien tassé. Si vous aimez la vie, l'insouciance et le Rock and roll Fifties, guettez le passage d'Al Foul près de chez vous, ne râtez pas une expérience humaine et musicale d'une intensité hors du commun, et ne privez pas votre corps d'une sensualité et d'une chaleur que l'on ne rencontre d'ordinaire que lorsque l'on fait l'amour!!! ( Headsucker chronique rennes 2009 )
Al Foul se consomme sans modération, avec excès et démesure. Il remplit les coeurs de joie, il rend meilleur, il est la vie!!! Accompagnez-le d'une Budweiser bien fraîche et d'un Jack Daniel's bien tassé. Si vous aimez la vie, l'insouciance et le Rock and roll Fifties, guettez le passage d'Al Foul près de chez vous, ne râtez pas une expérience humaine et musicale d'une intensité hors du commun, et ne privez pas votre corps d'une sensualité et d'une chaleur que l'on ne rencontre d'ordinaire que lorsque l'on fait l'amour!!! ( Headsucker chronique rennes 2009 )
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