It was after a sweaty concert given last March 13 at the St. Patrick, that I met Loran the Ramoneurs de Menhirs guitarist and former member of the legendary Bérurier Noir and Tromatism. A one hour interview, a bit short in view of what he has to tell. To begin, what did you think of the concert tonight?

I found it excellent. I thought it was excellent, we played not so long ago that it Glaz'Art in Paris, it was nice too. You see that were two sold out concerts before play, there was sold out, at Glaz'Art too, it was sold out. And so what I can tell the difference between Paris and the suburbs, is the warmth. So it is ok in Paris there were lots of people, it was nice it was really good too, but now you a little something more, you know what I mean. And it's funny because ... we can not stop us everywhere to believe otherwise, that the suburbs is the insecurity is the fear that Paris is the meetings ... But I feel that Parisian are jaded you see here in the suburbs there are people who know much simpler to take things as they are, and there was an exchange tonight at energy that I found very positive.

How do you prepare yourself before a concert?

In fact I do not prepare myself before a concert. I'm in a state a little ... Second, in hibernation. I'm here, but I'm not really there, as if I was very tired, like "damn he looks dead," I'm completely empty, filled , I store the energy you see . To be able to give their all. For me it's really an exchange .... terrible, terrible. Every time I do a concert I saw a really emotional time, very much! Simply ... and each time it is the same, yet it did thirty-three years, nearly thirty-four years that I play in concert and I feel that it is becoming harder. It is also sublime.

Can you explain how the adventure of the band began?

Well it's already a long story between one of the ringers, Eric, it's the crest, and me. We know each other since we were 16, they were young punks in the street in Luxembourg in Paris, already a great friendship that has developed between this little punk band that was. Then he went to Britain and in 85 it was "Vive Le Feu" and I wanted to do a gavotte at the end.
And suddenly we immediately thought of Eric, who connected us with another ringer, Jean-Pierre, who plays with us once in concert, playing the bagpipes, and they arrived. So there were a couple shells and pipes and ... is an old story and ... when we came back at our concerts in 2003, where the Trans in Rennes, was invited back all the people who participated in Bérus including Eric and Jean-Pierre, who had come on "Vive Le Feu", so they came and the connection was redone. They were invited back in 2005 at Astropolis, Jean-Pierre could not come at once it was Richard who came because Eric and Richard are ringing together for almost twenty years now, so he brought us Richard and they have their traditional music album in 2006 and they said, 'Here we would like that you participate in one of our songs because we did "Vive Le Feu", you remember that, and now we all love to kick it ....". It has not been one, we made two and you know when you play like that, you spend two hours to repeat you feel ... We felt that ... We felt in harmony and we said, "we do so good band now guys, because there ...". It happened really naturally and now, of course we said, "we will be called Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs. And now .... We rehearsed at home in the mountains for two weeks and we did our first concert. We boarded the Festival Interceltique. It was first banned, it has been in the press because it was banned and then the coup so it really brought the world the next day ago Louise Ebrel vocals that came with us, which is truly an icon of the gavotte in Brittany, is a singer, one of the Goadec sisters at the time she was 75 and I think that the slap shot off to everyone. And so after we were invited back the next day to play in official festival interceltic and since it was three hundred concerts in Britain and about two hundred other hand. In Brittany it is very hard what happens.

Can you explain what is meant by the title of your first album, "Dans An Diaoul"?

"Dans An Diaoul" it means "The Dance Of The Devil". So why "Dans An Diaoul" because the French when they heard a couple of ringers and people were dancing, they said, "but what is the Devil's music", so if you want it was a phrase to reject a bit this Breton culture and it has made us proud. Ok yeah it is the "Dance Of The Devil", because the devil is what it is .... One can imagine with horns but it is the criminalization of the Cornu, the king of the forest that is a very strong symbol for the Celts and Christians have to believe that this animal was the devil horns, while the animal with horns is precisely that which is in total connection with sky and earth, the king of the forest. "Princess Mononoke" You see, a superb movie, they defend the Cornu is the king of the forest that killed at the end, that's really important and so ... The big problem in Brittany it has been the infiltration of the Catholic Church has churches everywhere and completely destroyed the pagan culture and Celtic culture. Each sacred places they have made churches over. You know, the pagan culture, it's really important huh, people were not so taboo in relation to the touch, relative to sex, compared to ... The Catholic Church has frustrated people you see. We see, all priests are pedophiles, yes it is true, yes it's true but, frustration leads to the horror that is required. Why pagan culture has been oppressed, why sodomy is something that is wrong? Why you make love only to have children? It's completely insane what! It tells us what really crap! That I'm a pagan. It is an old tradition, it is very old. When was a farmer, we seed the earth, everyone made love in the fields together and there was no gene, no problem, everyone enjoyed in his head and just that, it was completely prohibited. It blamed people , you see a woman who loves to make love is a bitch, a guy who loves to make love is a sex maniac ... Finally we are led to believe that we are made to meet ONE person and that's worse. Not true! I mean, love is something alive again "love is a gypsy child who never knew laws!" You can not shut love is like the artistic You can not lock him up. Although ephemeral, even for one night, as long as it did with the heart and it is strong, why would constantly lock up everything? And that, that is part of this Western culture of confinement, they lock all the animals are locked, it locks up people ... I am a vegetarian for 20 years now because I can not stand to eat animals locked up, because I eat it, I eat that often, I eat it. It's terrible what they do to animals, if you see a battery farming is disgusting.

On your album, almost all tracks are in Breton. Why?

Well because ... we are in Brittany you see, it seems obvious. In addition to the Breton language is ... in resistance from the Jacobin system in which one is for a very long time, which for me is one of the first fascist. This means that imposing a single culture on everyone, by force, to create a unity, an artificial nation that is going to call France. So, I'm not against the federation of differents tribes, but i have a problem is when you prevent ... when it annihilates all other cultures into one. This repression of Paris which completely prevented the Bretons to speak Breton, who was prevented the Occitans to speak Occitan, which prevents the Basques to speak Basque, Catalans to speak Catalan. The word "dialect" still wants to say "talk like a foot," I think we a. ... It's the same with respect to Native Americans, we have allowed to slaughter the Indians and tribal cultures, because we said, "but they live naked, they are worse than animals, no matter!" You see, we can, we, Western Civilization constantly oppress all that is below us, all that is ... different.and the Jacobin system is really a beautiful image of that. Being in Brittany, I'm running as a political refugee in Brittany who fled the French government. It shows that I see a difference between Brittany and France and this difference is obvious, for example in the harmony between people. This means that when you're in Brittany, you're in a tribe. When you do a concert when we play fest noz everybody comes, children, grandparents, parents, older brothers, everybody is there and when we dance Breton everyone touch each other . Even people do not know but they touch the others persons.. To me the tradition is to gather the tribe and that's why the state oppresses the tradition, because the state wants to separate the tribe, it is there. Divide and conquer it appears may be an old method, but is still used today. Easily ... And this fight, sung in Breton, is to affirm a culture.

Hum so,you've actually answered to my next question, but which was: what do you think of the struggle for independence for the Brittany? (Laughs)

I reckon that it is .... You see, I like to say the separatist struggle. I like that word because Britain is independent, but separation is to say, okay, when Sarkozy said that those who do not like France, they have to leave the Breton respond, "ok yes allright "(smile). Separate us, you see. Let this separation, try to see if it is possible to live differently.

But I think it already been done, Brittany has been independent.

Yeah Brittany before it was under the yoke ... "La Blanche Hermine" is that eh ... Integrated to him, force ... Integrated by force to France to ... into believing that there was a unity, but they were completely oppressed. This means that Brittany shall have been part of France and that France fully complies with the traditions, cultures and France will be a federation of differents tribes who together form a large tribe, a nation calls France. That's not how it happened. France has prevented other cultures express themselves. While they speak to me, you know what I mean. The problem is that humans do not tolerate difference, while the difference is good, it's not at all a problem. By observing nature for example you can see a forest, a beautiful forest, a wilderness to a lot of difference and that is what makes its strength in this wilderness. A forest maintained by humans, the force no longer exists. Trees are planted in straight line, is the same species, one behind the other and you can see below these trees are not pushing, because that is the difference that makes wealth. When France began to kill the differences she has begun to close in a sort of country that has more soul, which is empty and we reach at the extreme with Sarkozy, for me, which is really a system .... I use that word but without overdoing it, I said tonight is a trivialization of fascism. For me it is crystal clear, it's Berlusconi and co. It's you see Bush and co. I really see, I have another idea of how we might live together. And especially not based on profit, because we have seen, profit destroys everything: is destroying the planet, destroys the relationship between us, destroys people, are people who are dying of hunger even in France, there are people who do not know where to live even in France a rich country, I think France is the fourth or fifth world power. When you go on the ring in Paris you see tents everywhere, that it bothers anyone, It's hurts me, this shit.

Where did you get the idea of blending punk and Breton culture?

This is not an idea, it just happened naturally. I've never been in a frenzy ... I have never been intermittent performer, I'm a bard, I'm an outsider, I'm a freak compared to a system. Being outside is better to be able, with hindsight, see things and can project the people. Uh ... What was that you asked me?

(Laughs) That was where thee ...

Here .... It was a natural thing! When we played together, naturally he had a magic, as if you could tell me "how little you got the idea of falling in love"? It happens like that, it's the heart that speaks and there is no ... afterthought. I've never done a band with a second thought, I never made a band thinking "uh-what shall I do?" It's not my way of thinking, if i like one thing i do that. that's all...

Well then, I'm sorry, I have a lot of questions about the end of Bérus. So, in retrospect what do you think of "Invisible"?

(Sign of weariness) So, "Invisible" it is exactly like all the other disks of the Bérus, the state of mind in which it was when we did. After people find it good or not that's something else, but for me "Invisible" is the disc of the band after forty years. You see each disc of the Bérus corresponds to a period of our life The first text, ie the first album was very dark, 17, 18 years old, has been said repeatedly in interviews, the Bérus for us it may be an alternative to suicide may be the oppression of the suburbs.

But that's precisely what was good because it brought together differents audiences.

After that, when we met again it was 19 years, began to gather around us. The chorus came first, "Vivre Libre Ou Mourir", the chorus tracks are sung in several now. "Abracadaboum" is the album of the troops, creating a "herd of rock", it is more, there is a rock circus. "Souvent Fauché Toujours Marteau" is the disc that closes the circle. It becomes three again, we made this album to three, they knew they were going to split a year later, it was known by advance , we took a year to say goodbye. So we made this album three ...
"Invisible" corresponds exactly to Bérus fourteen years later. After people find it good or not, that's something else, but it would not make the album ... an album, any way I can not do that, an album that will be ... an album that would have done when he was 20. I can not do that. Now I'm 45 years old, i do music as a man of 45 years, I don't make music like a man of 20 years because I'm 45 ... So after this, people they think what they want but must look at things in context. But what's crazy is that the pieces I played tonight, the pieces of Bérus, "Petit Agité" has still written in 84, "les bagnoles crament / la zone est en flamme / et la folie gagne..." i, sing the one in 2010 frankly is super actual and that's a little scary (laughs).

What François becomes now?

François himself, he is in the South-East Asia. It was clearly felt in Bérus his passion for Asia is tremendous. I think that all members of the Bérus, that all were fully into their thing: François was all the way to Asia, I'm from the bottom, I'm from the bottom ... in underground punk rock Masto is more ... he went all the way into the photography, now it's way into the theater, Tweety is the way into rock'n'roll, jojo the clown so he continues to make the appenings, the designer Laul .. . how to say ... is sculptor of thing, it gets stuff and he brings them in shape ... All the band is what it is with ... 20 years more so (laughs)! But really fully! Really fully! Anyway.... Bérus you see that's the idea of high energy ... ok? Do not confuse the violence and energy. I never wanted to release them from violence. Doin a big trade in energy. I do not support violence. I do not think any of the revolutions by blood, I think not, although I understand it myself but not my idea. If I took a guitar is that I did not want to fight with a Kalashnikov. I hate the system where it is, it hurts the children, our children suffer, the planet suffers, the animals suffer and man is speciesist. Man thinks his species is superior to all other species, so it allows anything. He wishes to kill all he can say "so these animals we will eat them, we will make it mentally, that they are useless they are destroyed, they are pretty oh this is going to keep it going put in zoos. " But why should the human species can manage all life on this planet? By what right? I have a great respect for tribal civilizations that were close to the earth, which were in harmony with our animal cousins and sisters the flowers. Hurts me no pleasure when someone offers me what cut flowers, it's like being offered a dead child you know what I mean. A cut flower, why cut it? The flower is beautiful when it grows. A child is beautiful when it is in a situation where he feels comfortable. Can a child feels at ease in front of TV to swallow bullshit, in front of internet make stupid games? They are completely brainwashed by an educational system that makes them believe that it is full of knowledge they will succeed in the life so. Hurts Me to the penalty. I have balls for children. I have five children and that is what makes i continue to fight you know, for kids. Because there is a proverb, I guess it's African "is not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we imprint the earth from our children." It is really important is to say that what we are currently doing is disgusting. We all miss enthusiasm. But openly, even when Sarkozy says nuclear power is a way out of economic crisis it's just dumb to say that because nuclear waste is what makes this shit, we did what!? I mean, there are buried all over the world, there in the sea everywhere, there is space everywhere is disgusting! All for what, to eat as ... like idiots and destroy everything. Honestly there is a way of seeing things differently, I am convinced. I've ... You see I can hardly see it has done so much harm to the Indians, as many civilizations that had hurt may be things to teach us. They were massacred on the pretext that they were not civilized. We are civilized we are destroying everything! You see what I mean, that's be civilized? It's horrible. I've never recognized myself in the Western system, it is fascism again, constantly oppresses even his own children, it's terrible. Again you see ... you know the ... This H1N1, all bullshit around has been done about it, all cramming. I mean that Madame Bachelot but where she comes out? She goes ... you see it ... a dealeuse. She comes from the pharmaceutical industry. You see you can not smoke marijuana in France, you smoke ganga and you're a criminal and you sell the dead, you sell drugs I mean, that's insane. It makes people believe anything! I mean, everyone knows that these vaccines were dangerous, but they did it anyway, by force if necessary. We do believe ... that's disgusting. You see, I have a short film about our site, showing just a little research on the origins of AIDS, they begin to question the origins of AIDS, it seems that it will be the polio vaccine might have experienced in Africa gone wrong. A vaccine made mandatory that a thousand or a million children of small African , they have been vaccinated by force and suddenly we saw everywhere homes of AIDS which have been raised. Everywhere, these children were ill. It's terrible. You know in Bérus singing "si c'est ça la médecine / j'préfère la guillotine" We were 17 years old had this consciousness. And it's funny, the youth must break the chains that are there, everywhere. I feel lobotomized by their mobile phone, lobotomized by their MSN, lobotomized by television, by reality shows, by all these bullshit.

But maybe she is happy in there, I'm agree with you but ...

But it's so empty inside! Although the simple-minded is happy, you know what I mean. Life is cool, we consume. They destroyed everything, but it's super cool. You see it as "Apocalyspe Now" when you see the American GIs who drop napalm, they listen to rock 'n' roll to the bottom, they smoke marijuana and balance of napalm, it is cool the Vietnam War! For me "Avatar", the film is a remake of the Vietnam war is really ... I found this really good movie. Yet this is a big commercial film, it just makes more input in cinemas, so that it fits in the budget, but what is right, what is interesting is that there is a message; message is clear. I really saw me ... You see it is there are two worlds which will the Western system controlled by the Americans is based on profit, the chemical destruction and submission by force by the army, which is exactly " Avatar "deal with, and people who are close to the earth. Well, that's what happens, that's what will happen. And there I found my camp is what. You see, I prefer to defend a tree that defending a banker. No but you see what I mean? Because a tree is useful when a banker it is useless (laughs).

And so there is no chance that you come back all three on stage for some shows again?

We know nothing ... No, but you know I like to say "love is a gypsy child who never knew laws. What's that mean, that means all the things I do, Bérus among others, is a love story and you never know what can happen tomorrow. Well, for now we are so broke that there, in smell with the nose I do not see how we could end up because we see each other more so ... To play we need a little to see each other anyway, you know what I say is an osmosis between people (laughs)! But it's not because we don't see each other more now that we will ever play together tomorrow. I see very well Bérus, if we are still there, 70 years, 80 years old singing "Lobotomie" in front of the old hospice. You see, in chemical straightjacket, you know what I mean, you know "Lobotomiiiie ahhhh" (laughts) and we will be there, but if it is the Bérus maybe, but in 40 years, we will see if it is still there. You know the really important thing in Bérus account, we're not physically what one is, it is the spirit and the spirit of Bérus is there, is feel alive, he constantly is everywhere, it is undisputed . The Bérus is much more than a band, make a band is a pretext. We're just ... as they said it is like a revealing picture, we're like the little spark, you know like saying Mao Zedong "will put the Prairie Fire." I'm not saying this because I respect Mao Zedong, who has done much pain to his people, but what I mean by that, the Bérus is just a pretext. It is not ... That's why we say "Petit agité / TOUS des béruriers". The Bérus it's me a bit but it is also the whole world. People who were there tonight had a bit of spirit Bérus dipstick felt. Energy level in full groups, even in different styles, I feel the spirit of Bérus in some rap band where I feel the spirit of Bérus, there are some filmmakers that I feel the spirit of Bérus at the level of dance, theater level, the level of the DB. The spirit of Bérus is ... the spirit of insubordination, it's not because you're told that's how you gotta do what they're told to you. Always ... You see, I have said tonight, "when a man is such, it has a duty of insubordination!" This is important! they make us swallow anything, they made us live a life that destroys everything, it destroys itself completely we are beating in the face one another, there are girls who are raped in trains peak nobody moves ... It's madness. You got couples who fight in HLM, everyone knows nobody move, you got violence everywhere nobody move, everyone is afraid of everybody, because we believe that ... Here we need a cop to live, I do not need cops to live, what is good! No need to Sarkozy, right wing not need anything! The right wing but ... is ... anti human is ... How horrible. So I'm not saying this because i find the socialist party is good. For me politics is a shit, but I do politics. The politicking is shit. Politics is important is the management of our lives, do what was to us, but I am not for a political career with people who have salaries, with people who pensions are incredible and ... conditions. I mean "The caste of 5OO", a book that was released not long ago, it 5OO French politicians who have everything ... all ... Who will have a lifetime retirement hallucinating parce'un day they have been minister. But he must return to policy of associations, field people, people who are there. If there must be a housing ministry, it must be given to collective housing need, not a stupid minister ... who spends his time in the lounges gorged and talk shit you see. I mean it's the same, the minister of culture, there are people who are on the associative field of associations fighting for the culture. Certainly not the Ministry of Education, Mr Darcos. It's really crazy, really crazy! I mean the minister of education, but it must be someone who fights for education for all, a guy from the street, which is struggling to swallow various things to kids, rather than constant lobotomy to make it profitable to our system. What is to be profitable in our system? Again it destroy anything. Basta! I mean, let's take the reins of our lives, the state is us, stop believing that the state is them. Them is shit, they are isolated, think no more, they dropped! In our view, these guys is they get richer, without the support of the people they no longer exist! When people say "no" these people what they no longer exist! It throws them, "Hermesse" in Breton, out! But now a few chance to control our life before it's nothing left .

So I had the opportunity to meet Franz Young Gods and j'voudrais how you met him at the time?

Franz, yeah well i well know Franz. So already the Young Gods are part of the alternative scene it is a band from Zurich. We know it well because it is super powerful. at the scene and was asked Franz of the Young Gods ... "Souvent Fauché Toujours Marteau" was mixed by Franz and Eric Débris from Metal Urbain. That the two references, it groups to machines that come from the industrial punk scene like me. I come from this scene there. The first groups in 75 as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing grizzle's industral groups, there is no guitar but it's punk. It ... We are the children of the industrial music and it uses this energy to show something else.

There was a time issue that your biography "Conte Cruel De la Jeunesse" is reprinted, where is this project?

If you want, as Bérus not see themselves is not easy to set up a project when you see nobody. You know what I say and as we are completely independent it is that we produce our books. It's very simple, it is invisible, it's completely stand-by. Here's how.

When you have returned you created your own label and it seems to me that you're not officially in any case separated from Univesal and it was experienced by evil ....

How???!

Well I read in P...

So you've understood nothing there! Then there shit hurts me!

Yes, but me too! (Laught)

So I explain, it has always been independent, it has never been on a major compagny, it has never been to Universal. Folklore de la Zone Mondiale (FZM) is our label for Bérus, we were on Bondage before, which was also our label but unless we are not occupying them personally. The Bérus have never signed a major compagny, Universal is fuck, we fuck the showbiz '.

No no, but I think it was for the distribution!

No, but never! It has always been independent in even distribution. Even in everything! And I don't understand that you're not even that!

No, but it reassures me then!

Universal already aptly named so ... It is loud and clear "Universe / Sale" is clear and it's shit, you know what I mean. (in english "dirty"="sale" so he played with the word-Note of the writer) Besides what to say is that all the major record companies, at the end, at the shareholders, it finances the American arms. So ... When Mano Negra are on Virgin, Virgin, which finances Matra Armaments, when Renaud is on Virgin which funds Matra Armaments ... When Renaud sings "Société Tu M'auras Pas"," you're a liar Renaud. (FZM productions are actually distributed by Wagram which is actually an indie compagny - NDR)

And in connection with this subject, have you heard the song "Major Lobotomie" anarchopunk band Pekatralatak?

I was very angry, very angry. Let trafficking FZM worse than I had major shit, we were spit on the face I was very angry. Then they spit in our face, I can understand but argues that something! This is exactly like what you just said, or saying the Bérus there is nothing worse in showbiz, hallucinating) When I hear it, really it's disgusting! Imagine, you're part of a movement against racism and people will say "damn this guy is a fucking racist" fuck you i have lot of anger! You fight against this for years and years ... Me since I was a kid I fight against the showbiz, I've never been locked up in showbiz and it's a political choice. And sign on a major is a political choice and be told that FZM this is worse than Major is disgusting. P4 and since then, I know the problem of P4 gonna tell you. The problem of P4, they're big fans of Bérus we were not able to cut the cord with their father! Except that I'm not their father!

There's lots of people who have been marked by your guitar sound, so I want to know what guitar and what gear you use?

So i explain something. So the sound of the guitar that has nothing to do with either the gear with the guitar, it's to do with how you play. That's it.

So, as you've always been someone hired, do you think that anarchist ideas have progressed in the heads of people?

I do not believe, no. Otherwise we would not be here (laughts). We'll be away and I even found that some anarchists, many people are saying anarchists are pretty closed. As for me ... Tell Me I'm a left libertarian and I in the word "libertarian" there is "liberation" ( for the) "learth", that's how I see it.(he plays again with words. In french "earth"="terre"-Note Of the writers) Not i find that openness is really important.One more time again the difference is good. The only thing I do not tolerate is intolerance. That is to say, ok for the differences but i do not mix with intolerant people . That is, Hermesse fascists, racists outside, outside sexist, homophobes out, the speciesist out!

You have lived many years in the mountains a little away from the world. Why did you come back then?

I have not lived away from the world, I was right into it. I lived ten years in the mountains, the mountains, right in the forest with no access by car, I had two of my kids. I left because my life is like that, is filled with lots of things, full of adventure, I felt a calling. I was already in liguria which is a figure in Celtic culture, I discovered all the Celtic culture over there in the mountains is the open temples. Because for the Celts what is sacred, unlike Christians, what is sacred is not locked up (laught). Christians spend their time confined to their God in a church, in a closed thing, a box. Not the Celts what is sacred is open to the sky. So ... what is sacred is nature, trees and animals and all other horned animals are vegetarians, very important! It is a rule on the planet, you can check in all directions. That's why there was a high respect for animals with horns. Among the Celts,the horn, horned animal is sacred because it is in connection with the sky and that's why he's a vegetarian, it is pure it is total connection between sky and earth as I said earlier. So ... if you want I've soaked the whole culture there, I felt the call. You know the Druids in Britain, there is a prophecy of the Druids, I know I just know this is a Breton who told me once, among the Druids said "is a stranger who comes in Britain. If it's me that's great. I am Greek, I'm a little Greek. My entire family was massacred in Greece and now, I'm from a family of Greek who managed to escape with those who remained and now I got that ... and I've get roots in Britain. The Britons welcomed me as one of them, I would fight with them now for freedom, there. Out of respect for this home that I found super cool.

I had the opportunity to interview Niko from Tagada Jones, who said he would like to make a musical project with you ...

Me, don't talking about that. (Laughts) Yeah Niko i know well, he mixed our last album and he recorded it too. No, I told him to Niko, he invited me many times.
(He returns after a phone call) You see you want me to say "yeah it takes a quarter of an hour, it takes less than a quarter of an hour you it is 1h3O we are here (laughs)! A quarter of an hour before playing said "yeah it will not be long"! (Laughs)

And then the now, there's other artists who you would like to collaborate except maybe for Niko Tagada Jones?

While collaboration is already not my thing, I'm not a collaborator. Hmm what I meant ...? Um, not me I know it's a love story you can not know in advance ! You see what I mean, I do not program in advance just what i see in yhe future. I am deprived of anything, when I feel it's good I do and that's worse. Niko, that's what I said, I plugged it often compared to "Bal des enragés", the only problem, the concerts are too expensive. I told him "excuse me, I can not play for 22 euros". So long as it will be expensive concerts I would not play with him (laughs) But apart from that I like Niko, Enrage is a good label the Tagada Jones is a band that I like. It's just me, for me it's all a bit expensive. let 'em but I manage I will not play in a concert at 20 Euros.

Now then, what are your future plans?

Well there you released an album "An Amzer Dispac'h" which means "The Time Of The Rebellion" ... I have many projects, they fight against Dark Forest, the forest, not that it became a landfill, this is a fight that takes me a lot of time, in full my fight includs of fighting schools in mainland Britain immersion in Breton,that's called Diwans, I have my daughter who's in, is the association schools where it speaks Breton, Breton children learn to speak Breton before to speak French, so I do in this. FZM doing, I produce other groups. This year I'm gonna produce the new album of Ethnopaire, we released a compilation in support of Leonard Peltier is the oldest political prisoner on the planet is an Native American, it has released an anthology of Black Fire is a Navajo group, is gonna produce the first album of Trouz An Noz is a punk rock band that sings in Breton, Gallo, French, I'll also produce the Artus Family is a group that Gascon they are little brothers Gojira, Gojira is pals with, and they themselves are playing metal with traditional instruments and singing in Gascon language I found it excellent, we played with them several times and now it's great. That is, that makes six outings this year it feels also it a big work to manage, I have five kids. You see I am constantly overwhelmed, but squarely on a level, you see I go head to get to breathe "huuub"

So this interview is over, so do you want to add something?

Hum ahhh! Here I think ... (Laughs) No no it's good! (Laughs) I think thee still have enough to do something what!

Yeah yeah! (Laughs). Thank you to you it is super cool! At an upcoming concert!

Well thank you again for you to move you ass with your wheels, it's not easy but it's good!

Interview conducted on March 13, 2010 at the CAC Georges Brassens Mantes-La-Jolie.

Interview by SPIKE (2010)

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