Bad Bonn May 12

Castanets (live)

Cool Slide/Surf guitar hypnotic music. Plus “nice” truck driver look.

Castanets~Prettiest Chain from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.

Sunday t-shirt

I’ve been doing some promo these last 2 weeks, it’s good to be back on tracks. Interesting questions on interviews, nice adrenaline because of live-on-air-bring-your-harmonica “paper cup” performances. And Couleur 3 making wordgames with my nickname, which is why we like them.
Plus a quiet sunday to rest.
Signé cat’s eye

RSR Radio Paradiso

Yesterday we went to Radio Suisse Romande la 1e for an interview and a song live. The program’s called Radio Paradiso and it’s always fun to go there. There’s a cool atmosphere in this big radio studio.

Fnac showcase from thu april 16

Pictures by Biscotte. It seems there was an erotic litterature week in the fnac the week we played. Look at the books behind us. Funny
From left to right (first picture): Jacques, Mary, Seb and me.

While my guitar gently weeps

Well that’s me weeping, wishing to own a 1968 Gretsch like this one. I was just lucky enough to try it and photograph it, that’s a start I guess…

Bashung

Interview de Bashung …

Promo and live dates

Hi all,
Cool things are happening in the promo field. I’ll be on RSR La Première for an interview and a song live on Thu April 9, 19h-20h, on Radio Paradiso.
The cd has just been reviewed on Radio Fribourg, here’s the link to listen.
On the live field, we’ll open for Marissa Nadler at the Bad Bonn on tue May 12. There’ll be a fnac in-store free concert in Fribourg on Thu April 16, 18h.

Checkpoint guitars, Berlin

To be a guitar geek or not to be. Sacha Love’s loving vintage guitars. haha.

Berlin

Spending the week in Berlin, visiting among others Sacha, the guy I made my record with. He and Kassette are recording there, they partly converted their flat in a rec studio. You can see my (rec) bedroom on some of the photos

The cat on the radio

Cool cool cool I’ve just discovered that “paper cup” – track one on my album – made its debut on the national swiss radio DRS3! I’ve set up a mx3 page last week (the myspace of swiss medias) and it must have been listened by these guys. Thank you very much, I’m so happy about it! Good night all!

Music, psychology, Shopenhauer

“ The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from pain…Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, as quoted in Oliver Sacks’ insanely good 2007 book, Musicophilia

Meldau

Wednesday: rehearsal day

I’m fucking delighted to play with my longtime best friends for the “cat’s eye tour” if I may call it like that. There are some gigs nearly confirmed. You’ll know when it is.
Anyway we’re already having fun rehearsing from early morning, even though I’ll bring some coffee next time.