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François Banholzer

A ukulele playing librarian huh? I'm kinda hooked ;) x

About Me

Pioneer of the Saint-Lo rock scene who was playing the guitar in 'Septembre Noir' during the late 80's (a cold-wave oriented french band, featuring the amazing Kiki Lapouze from 'Les Elles' and Bruno Drag ). produced various 'home-made' recordings during the 90's with some Tuxedo Moon and Syd Barrett influences. Produced and played various instruments on Lucy Isoardo unreleased and 'mythical' LP 'How do you sail the ship from the bottle'. Composed some music for the Thierry Weyd's project 'Les planetes' (released by ' Les Editions Cactus '). Now playing the ukulele and working as a librarian. Also a member of the Koenig' Sisters as a ukulele player and sound engineer/producer/arranger and Tukedomoon as ukulelist and singer. Please check out my ukulele blog here : http://populele.ouvaton.org Youtube page : http://youtube.com/profile?user=fbalno Playing with the Koenig Sisters. Caen, le Cargo 12.10.2007

My Interests

Politic, human being

It has been my long held opinion that most organisations work in spite of their management rather than because of it. Brother Ray

I'd like to meet:

Craig Robertson, Alli Bee, Arturo the ukulelist, and many others... From Scorsese's Mean Streets :
Plus souvent mes amis Thierry et Astrid
Monsieur Ayers, évidemment...

les copains de la C.U.L.


Ceux qui ont fait ça :
Not a pound in our flat
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Music:

David J.
Apartments
Johan Asherton
Kevin Ayers
Craig Robertson
Kaleidoscope
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Steve Kilbey
the Church
Pascals
Pere Ubu
Peter Blegvad
Nick Drake
Velvet Underground
Marie et les Garçons
King of Luxembourg
Monochrome Set
Left Banke
Zombies
Robert Wyatt
United State of America
Pretty Things
Beach Boys
Robyn Hitchcock
Colin Hare
exotica
spaceage pop
Martin Denny
Les Baxter
hawaian music
Pavement
Julian Cope
R. Stevie Moore
Tuxedomoon
Steven Brown
Bertrand Burgalat
the Kinks
Syd Barrett
the Go-Betweens
Flat Earth Society
the Strawberry Alarm Clock
July
John Cale
Modern lovers
Jonathan Richman
Paul Roland
Billy Bragg
Colin Blunstone
Mojave
Arlo Guthrie
the Sneetches
Johnny Thunders
Opal
Kendra Smith
the Rain Parade
Kevin Coyne
Caravan
Stephen Duffy
the Lilac Time
the Pastels
Felt
Van Dyke Parks
Pierre Bastien
Annabelle Cocollos
DDAA
' Les Editions Cactus '

Movies:

Lost horizons / Capra.
Last life in the universe / Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Suzhou river / Lou Ye
Festen / Thomas Vinterberg
Le tombeau Hindou. Le tigre du Bengale / Fritz Lang

Books:

Le libraire et son pygmee / Cyrille Cahen. Richard Russo, David Lodge, Gerard de Nerval, Philip K. Dick

Heroes:



My Blog

Concert au Peekaboo à Lille, le 14 Juin 2007

Quelques photos du concert dans la Galerie photo des Koenig' Sisters .Ce fût vraiment une très bonne soirée... Que du bonheur.
Posted by François Banholzer on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:35:00 PST