"I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman." Anais Nin
"I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another." Anaïs Nin
† 1st line-up :
Vocals, guitar : Olli Barbé
Guitar : Michel Angel P
Bass : Duff Barbé
Drums : Jay puis Mimi Beysset (pix)
photos: JG Orlandini click on to enlarge
(Line-up playing live on the demo, badly ripped off from a non-authorized CD.
Original sound : Laurent "Lolo" Sedes.
Roswitha played by the same line-up)
†† 2nd line-up :
Vocals, guitar : Olli Barbé
Guitar : Michel Angel P
Bass : Narbé
Drums : Fifi
†† 3rd line-up :
Vocals, guitar : Olli Barbé
Guitar : Mickey Finn
Guitar : Michel Angel P
Bass : Lolo
Drums : Alan Merlin
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Record Label
unsigned undead unholy probably D.O.A. but here ..
Catholic Boys, Olli (vocals, guitar) and Michel, at The New Moon, Pigalle, Paris, France Ph. : J.M. Goyhenex
This is the story of many r'n'roll resurrections and near-death experiences
The band was born in the declining eighties when Olli Barbé, former singer and guitarist of Belladonna, meets, at the Rex Club, in Paris, Michel Pourcelot, aka Michel P. and Angel Face, issued from bands of Dijon like Norma Loy, Alice et les Pickpockets, Sister Ray/Slow Dazzle (with François Huet from Snipers fame), DZ Lectric and NNEnd (with Christian Dezert, aka DZ, another legend of the burgundian town), a no named band with Bruce Witsiepe from the New York "No Name Band" (better known as Circle X...). Permanent members through the nights and the years, Michel and Olli launched the long and torn adventure of this band who has never really searched for record companies. Just playing the r'n'roll games 'till the edges, often bringing the band a little bit too far.
Ups and downs
One of the most forgotten french bands, The Catholic Boys, played their own compositions and occasional covers from The Velvet Underground and The Animals... Their influences range from The Stooges and The Modern Lovers, Neil Young and The Sex Pistols, The Troggs and DMZ, Captain Beefheart and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Leonard Cohen and The Sweet, Can and The Chocolate Watch Band, Young Marble Giants and Wasted Youth, Cabaret Voltaire and Jim Carroll, Wayne County and Gérard Manset, The Who and Richard Hell, Teenage Jesus and The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground and The Pretty Things, Psychic TV and The Real Kids, Patti Smith, Gang of Four and The Saints, Peter Murphy and The Flamin' Groovies, to John Waters and Jim Harrison... The Catholic Boys played, not to mention the infamous "Ascension Tour", here and there : from Rheims to Rouen (in a ... church), from Périgueux to Pigalle (the late New Moon, a longtime homeplace, The Elysées-Montmartre, opening for Midnight Oil).
Torn and frayed
The band has known many rebirths with three different line-ups but the same faith. In spite of mad managers (today dead or disapeared) and with a little help from their friends : Dogs,
Fleshtones,
Coronados, Saïgon,
Cherokees,
Philippe Almosnino,
Tony Truant and Kurt Cobain,
Michel's friend, who left France with a demo, wanting the band to sign in the USA, saying it was sounding something like Mudhoney. Song he prefered : "I Hate Love". Think what you want. Anyway, everybody knows how the story ended one month later. The Catholics Boys survived slow deaths and other fairy tales. They use to comeback sometimes, playing rarer gigs, with a new rythm section and a third guitarist, Mickey Finn,
(Heavy Metal Kids, Higelin, Nino Ferrer...).
The Catholic Boys have never broken up although they almost touched heaven and hell.
ph. : J.G. Orlandini
ph. : B. Schacht
This site is dedicated to all our friends in the r'n'r heaven especially to our former manager Boz, Jean-Paul N'Diago Pop (Electrodes, Bad Loosers, Chihuhaha, Paris), Olive (Lili Drop, Paris), BB (Porte-Mentaux, Paris), Marc "Jezebel" Police (Jezebel, Wampas, Paris), Bruce "Cry Baby" Witsiepe (CircleX, New York City), Kim (Fabulous Cads, Paris), Jean-Luc S. (Bootleggers, Marseilles), Elno (Négresses Vertes, Paris), Kurt Cobain (Nirvana, Seattle) and Dominique Laboubée (Dogs, Rouen).
(...) blog consacré au New-Moon. (...) Drôle de plongée dans le passé mais que des bons souvenirs, notamment LE fameux concert des Jewish Boys avec Stiv et les Lyres en spécial guest sans oublier le strip-tease de Sheena sur Real Cool Time... (...) Et Thunders, Henri-Paul qui me présenta les Fleshtones, début d’une amitié qui dure encore, les Too Much, les Mad Boys, les Catholic Boys... GaBBa, 6 avril 2008
"Des groupes de rock’n’roll, il y en a toujours eu en France, et durant les années 90 aussi, contrairement à ce que croient pas mal de gens. La seule différence c’est que tout le monde s’en foutait"
&dagger Nikola Acin Hellboys guitarist-singer, février 2008. (R.I.P.,
8 decembre 1973 - 18 mai 2008):
They're ok the last days of may, I'll be breathing dry air
I'm leaving soon, the others are already there
You wouldn't be interested in coming along, instead of staying here
They say the west is nice this time of year.
BOC, (Then came) The Last Days of May
Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died lyrics
teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old
fell from the roof on east two-nine
cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
on 26 reds and a bottle of wine
bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
he looked like 65 when he died
he was a friend of mine
chorus:
those are people who died, died
those are people who died, died
those are people who died, died
those are people who died, died
they were all my friends, and they died
g-berg and georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
so they died of hepatitis in upper manhattan
sly in vietnam took a bullet in the head
bobby od'd on drano on the night that he was wed
they were two more friends of mine
two more friends that died / i miss 'em--they died
repeat chorus:
mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
judy jumped in front of a subway train
eddie got slit in the jugular vein
and eddie, I miss you more than all the others,
and i salute you brother/ this song is for you my brother
repeat chorus:
herbie pushed tony from the boys' club roof
tony thought that his rage was just some goof
but herbie sure gave tony some bitchen proof
"hey," herbie said, "tony, can you fly?"
but tony couldn't fly . . . tony died
repeat chorus:
brian got busted on a narco rap
he beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
he said, hey, i know it's dangerous,
but it sure beats riker's
but the next day he got offed
by the very same bikers
repeat chorus; repeat song to eddie
Song lyrics | People Who Died lyrics
Hello ! Ca va bien ? C'est important de demander, sinon ça fait vraiment le mec pas poli. Bref. On fait un concert à Paris 12, à l'OPA, ce jeudi (c'est marqué sur le meeeeeerveilleux fly ci-dessous). Comme il y a beaucoup de monde à Paris - à ce qu'il parait - on s'y prend un peu en avance... (il est même possible qu'on l'envoie plusieurs fois, parce qu'on est vraiment des acharnés).
Bye ! Reno (ps : si si je répondrai aux mails ou commentaires en retour... promis !)
Do catholic boys have "mass appeal"? The Catholic Girls need to know! That was our former slogan! ; ) Our latest one is "From The Vatican to Your Garage!" And yes... we do exist! ; ) Keep rocking! The CGs
