Michael Butler and his band from San Francisco American Heartbreak (the new album is realeased !!), Adam Becvare from Chicago and the LustKillers (a new song not still released and an interview in tour after The Black Halos‘ concert in Nice), Manny Montana from Belgium with the Ones (an old song) who is with TeenageHeadMusic a passionated European tour manager for rockers ONLY !!! : I met Mike and Adam in spring 2001 in Marseille and a few months later the three together with Manny at Wild at Heart-Berlin : I’m happy to have those guys as friends and introduce to you now their new and old songs. Without forgetting to mention Mike with his podcast “the Rock and Roll Geek Show” is the male companion of Meltingpod !!!

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Adam with the Lords of the New Church, Mike with American Heartbreak and Manny with the Ones (pics I took in Marseille; click to enlarge).
  
Mike and Manny in tour, Billy and Adam (pic S.Smith), Adam and me in Nice

Meltingpod Connections :
Sandra Smith was the photographer who took our pic with Billy in Nice ! She found me through myspace : funny coincidence, she was at the Lords of the New Church’s show in Marseille in 2003 and Adam posted her pics beside mine on his site. BTW : If you want to check how was the Black Halos’ success among the hottest girls from Europe, have a look on Billy’s myspace site : in fact the situation was not as hopeless as he said !

The Black Halos, a band from Vancouver-Canada (every Meltingpod faithful listeners know for months !!) was playing for the first time in France last Sunday in Nice at the Volume (well managed by la Source 001 : concerts every days !!) : I recorded a part of the show and I did at least a live interview with Billy Hopeless the singer, I only knew through phone conversations and e-mails until now; we talked this time about the lyrics’ stories which often are a good way to better know a musician ! it was a lot of fun to see them on stage with my “old” friend Adam Becvare their guitarist now. I did an interview with Adam too but I will give it in another show. Most of the songs you will hear come from their last album “Alive without control”. Run and check their European tour dates on Teenageheadmusic.com : THAT’S GOOD PUNK ROCK !

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      Billy and Adam, Denyss and Jay on the left side, then Billy doing
      every second a different show and a strip (he did it!), Billy and me !

Meltingpod Connections :
I’m at least accepted in the very closed Teenageheadmusic’s friends club with my new logo…:) what do you think about it ? Hey, I found today thanks to Technorati and Indymedia that Meltingpod was linked by “Oh, my Pod !” and a French Anarchist site “En dehors” : they seem to have appreciated my April 1st Podcast with the revolutionary songs!

The Cowboys from Outerspace will take you away until the end of this crazy night at the Balthazar in Marseille; they played their new fifth album “Sleeping with ghosts” (a nice programme) ; on their way you will heard The Mystik Motorcycles who tested their new third album (not still released, a premiere for Meltingpod) at the Poste à galène ; I did two interviews with the both bands…a lot of fun !

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The Cowboys from Outerspace and the Mystik Motorcycles

Meltingpod Connections : DKpod chose Meltingpod for their homepage in the French podcasts’ selection.

In the part 2 I ran to the machine à coudre to record LO a band from Marseille I already heard last year with pleasure opening for…the Saints !
I did an interesting interview backstage after the concert with Tom, Lo’s singer, then exchanged some words with Nicolas, Ask the Dust’s singer, a band from Paris who opened the show. Thanks to the both bands who gave me their albums to play on Meltingpod…”Black Kites” from Lo and “Anestesia” from Ask the Dust.

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        LO at the machine à coudre

Last week I met in Cannes Shane Chisholm from Melbourne-Australia one of my first Meltingpod listener : he supported me for a year, commented almost every shows…we never saw each other before…I met him virtually in Automn 2004 on the Rock and Roll geek Show’s message board: we supported both at that time this podcast very seriously ! Now Shane is the co-producer of Michael Butler’s podcast. At Nice airport, Shane tried to take the control of MY show and did an interview of me…!! We spoke about Rock and roll, Australian bands, memory about kangoroo, the music industry and the future of podcasting in the world…I play the Angels with “No Exit, Can’t shake it and Marseilles” recorded live in Melbourne in April 1980…a rarity I got for Christmas from my Angels French Connection !
PS : Shane is sending me the podcast title right now from Oslo-Norway !

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      Rick, Buzz and Doc from the Angels (pics Angels French Connection)

Meltingpod Connection : I’m very proud to see one of the nicest photo I took last summer live on stage at Oulala festival chosen as profile to their myspace website by…Nashville Pussy !! yeah !

Lola Spinner from Paris under the Meltingpod spotlight today with two songs from their last album Shadow : “Forbidden fruit and Make it yourself”, and two very new songs (December 2005) : “Secret to a silence and Ground Zero”. A few days ago I met for the first time Dave Hawkes, their guitarist and a Meltingpod faithful listener : we have fun together walking trough Paris by night, hearing, speaking, drinkink, eating only rock and roll…it’s a drug ! there is an short interview with him for you in a bar.

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Connections : Meltingpod got a nice recognition from the professional circle with 1/4 of the page N°33 in iCreate February 2006, a specialized magazine for Mac and iPod users which offers that month a big review about everything with Podcasting !!
A interesting analysis of the world evolution from 1960 until 2003 produced by gapminder (thanks Loïc for this info) : “China wakes up…”

I promised to myself, next stop to Paris, to go and visit Oscar Wilde in his grave at Pere Lachaise’s cimetery. A passion for this man grew after my interview with Chris Bailey from the Saints, last summer…I read almost everything from him like an obsession…this meeting in the graveyard was moving as you could hear in this short podcast…I chosen two texts to read there : his famous talk during his trial for homosexuality in 1895 “the loves that dares not speak its name” and a part of the poem “the Sphinx”…the giant sculpture on his tomb offered by a woman who loved him represented…a sphinx and it was covered with lipstick-kisses; a luck I had a nice red lipstick too that morning…I dedicate that show to Chris (thanks for the connection) and to Garfieldd (courage !).
Music : The Marquis of Queensberry and Edgar Alan Poe from Chris Bailey (Demons); Everybody loves you when you’re dead from Kitty Hudson (London).

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The French National Assembly’s deputy Frederic Dutoit is planning a meeting in Marseille February 9th at 6 p:m in his townhall (15ème/16ème) to work with the people involved by the DADVSI law’s project; he proposed to me to help him to invite artists, podcasters, internet surfers, labels (send a comment or e-mail if you want to come) and do the podcast of the meeting : obviously (with a thought to Oscar Wilde’s mother) I accepted !

Hilary is the drummer, a talentuous and beautiful woman, Christopher is her great and lucky bass guitarist; both formed a drum and bass band Sabot in 1988 in San Francisco, have been living for twelve years in Tabor-Czech Republic and are touring around the world the whole year…look at their website at concerts in 2005 !!
They played in Marseille a few weeks ago and I recorded their concert live with their agreement, did an interview backstage after the show (very nice people) and played a song “Tracking” from their self-made last album “Doing it ourselves” ! (click to enlarge the photo)

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Podcast N°20 ! Meltingpod invites you to jump in the Orient Express to an unknown destination talking with Chalmi (Michel Augier) about his band from Marseille “les Balayeurs du desert” and about his musical creation with Royal de Luxe, one of the most famoust street theater company in France and in the world. He gave in world premiere to Meltingpod some of the new songs of his last album (the fifth) : “Jules Verne Impact” which contains a part of Royal de Luxe last show (la visite du sultan des Indes sur son éléphant à voyager dans le temps) music and a part of the own concert the band is playing after the street theater show. In a few days you could buy this album on internet.

The desert sweepers playing at Balthazar in Marseille.

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Meltingpod connections :
Simple Jok loves Meltingpod and he says it on his blog !
Meltingpod joined an association of rock and roll podcasters : Ass of Rock !
For the pleasure to share my pleasure with you : Lars Wallin:. “Tiwi Warrior” Luxemburg -05 : a real and nice Meltingpod music sent from Sweden by Lars Wallin, an Australia and Saints fan, who saw the Angels in Brisbane in 1989, and is a musician who likes rock and plays didgeridoo !
Audioblog still loves Meltingpod and continues freely to spread some of my podcasts. And a new fan (?) Critical World Blog supports Meltingpod now. Thanks to everybody !

I recommand you to read Oscar Wilde again specially “De profundis” if you find it before listening to my new podcast and the interview I recorded in North of Italy.The Saints and Chris Bailey will accompany you with some quiet songs during this curious ballad with the Vaudois of Agape in their wild valley of the Germanasca.
Why an interview of Agape ? in part because of Oscar Wilde. Why Oscar Wilde ? because of the Saints’ interview I did in July. Don’t be afraid here are some powerful witches met in Lithuania’s forest to protect you in this diving to the Paradise !

Special dedication to my father, to Myriam from Jerusalem, to the Irish people and to Pascal from San Francisco (fan of the Saints and various pagan deities) !

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BTW : A philosopher loves Meltingpod and my interview with Julien on France Podcast : Have a look at his blog and podcast Inter-Flou. Nice !

The festival Oulala at Saint-Bonnet le château-Part Two, with the Saints in concert (+ some songs from cds too refering to Chris Bailey’s talk about his lyrics in the festival Part One : 12/07/05), Tokyo Sex Destruction from Barcelone in a funny melting Spanish-English interview and a political call recorded backstage with a technician-artist, in this new podcast.
The electric girls of Nashville Pussy only for your eyes (pics below), giving a true American show the first night of the three days festival.

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Yes, it was good to to see the Saints and take holidays in hell with them in the hard land of France in Saint-Bonnet le Château at the festival Oulala ; a little far away from Marseille but I came back home with a precious noisy podcast with an interview of the band backstage and some live songs of the concert…special dedicated to the Saints’ fans and to the festival’s voluntary workers !

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Nota : I would like to thank the festival Oulala for the press accreditation to do this report (pics and interviews backstage) Chris Bailey for his agreement to record the Saints live on stage and the Saints & Huggy their tour manager (Pbox) for their kindness.