align= center I Love Bilbo for his Aste Nagusia, Barcelona for her nights, Roma for her architecture, Praha for his zoo and Bohemians football team, Brest for his beautiful weather,Toulouse for the rugby, Genoa for her autopiste,Firenze for his bridge , Bastia for my clan,Strasbourg my mates, London for the memory and Ivry sur Seine for his exotical indigens...)I also my neighbourhood despite the upper middle class wankers' invasion!! Make my radio show!! tourism and history , cinema, drink rhum (but i nearly stopped it) , beers and art history, going to find records on stalls, dancing Ska & Soul , eating (all type of cooking from French traditional to vegetarian through chinese), Kayak , bicycle have a laugh
Old friends, people who play in some bands or make labels to send me their sounds for my weekly radio show. So if you feel concerned and want to add me as a friend, i really enjoy to receive vinils, Cd's (originals or copies) but i don't play downloaded music ! My radio station refuse it! Please don't add me if you just want to have your link on it and don't want to contact me for promo...
Myspace shoudn't be a "virtual friends collection" website it's just a way for me to make the "alternative" ,"indie", "D.I.Y" music (call it what you want!)exist here in my city and region (ok! you could tell me that myspace is certainly not a D.I.Y firm and you're right , but sorry i don't have time to dig my computer science deeper...
Feel free to contact me if you love these subcultures soulfull peoples, trad-skins (understand "class" black music lovers despite my little retirement from the scene ), Mods , rudeboys and girls, music fans in general.
One last important thing i do not add people with racist/fascist/sectarian/close minded views or friends (take it or leave it)...
Please don't also try to add me if: you don't play these kinds of music described on "Music" .
I'm not interested at all by Heavy metal, "big balls Oi! bands", New realistic french folk, Lo-Fi Pop, Dark electro, Neo Metal,stupid todays rednecks that think they're punks when they are just a new version of 70's rock, bastard fusion so called "festif ska"
All "real" ska music , from originators to Modern néo Sixties band (even i, now prefer soul sounds) ,(no melodical ska-core poppy Mtv so called ska, or French "ska" festif"!!!)
Skinhead and Early Reggae, Rocksteady, D.J Style and early Raggamuffin,Latin Soul & Boogaloo, Easy listening and other 6t's and 7 t's soundtracks or musical library stuff, British pop & beats, euro Yeah ! Yeah ! music, Mambo , Mento music , old School Hip hop , N.Y Hardcore, Oi! & and Street punk,Punk 77 and power pop, some Modern ragga Dance hall...
So to sum up a bit i like (without particular order):Angelic Upstarts,Kortatu,Hot Rod Allstars, the Vulcans, Sick of it all, The Jam, Rupie Edwards, the Versatiles, The Inciters, J.J Barnes, Les Rats, The Thugs, Fugazi, Sugarman 3, Blow Up anthologies, Major Lance, Keith and Tex, Bob and Earl, Charlotte Leslie, Spencer Davis Group, The Yarbirds, the Stage Bottles, The Impressions, Dobie gray, Shirley Ellis, Serge Gainsbourg, Infezione, Georgie Fame,Toot's Hibbert, Berurier Noir (my great "teenage sensation"!), Alan Stivell, Soeurs Goadec, Chieftans, Brenda Wooton, Dr Calypso, U-Roy
Motown 45, Skindeep
Harry J Allstars, Sick of it all
R.I.P, Mango santamaria, Aggrolites, Bad Manners, Mephyskapheles, Hepcat , Slackers, Camera Silens will always be the best 80's french band (no Bordeaux kid in the era could forget them! R.I.P) Cock Sparrer, Protex Blue, S.L.F, Guitar Gangsters, Prince Buster, The Flirtations , Gloria Jones, Edwin Star, The 4 Tops, Fabullosos Cadillaces, Alton Ellis , Ken Boothe,Blaggers, Beastie Boys, Granadians, Small Faces, The Who,Joe Gibbs, Laurel Aitken (R.I.P), Dick Dale,Sepultura, Crucial youth, Bad Brains, High tone, That's what i call real mates (if you need an excellent Soulful ska band check me!!!) Aspo , Juanitos,
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and a lot more...
I Support:
In no particular order, all the movies of "Monty Python"Snatch, Mean Machine, Take it or leave it, .. .. .. ..El Dia de la Bestia , Accion Mutante, 800 Balas,Robert De Niro & Al Pacino Films , The Party, Austin Powers, James Bond, Hong Kong Cinema, Marx Brothers,
No a lot!
From:Maupassant , Orwell, Stewart Home Norman Spinrad, Jean Yanne, Zeev Sternhell, Hunter Thompson, Nietzche, Georges Pelacanos, a bit everything about Philosophy, religion and Politics, i'm also a big fan and collector of fanzines of every kind...
, , Jean Rochefort, Dad & Mum,Cartman , Kermitt the Frog,Malcom X, Dalai Lama, Lumumba, Joe Strummer,Coluche, Sandino, Zapata, Achile Zavatta, Luigi Lavazza, Jacques Vabre, Maïté, Luis Mariano, Claude François , Eddy Mitchell , Jean Yanne,Lee Perry ...