A cache of old photos
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imomusI discovered a cache of Polaroids taken in February 1996, when I lived in Paris -- surrounded, it seems, by some of the world's most beautiful women.
This first one introduces "the characters". Top left is my wife Shazna, next to her someone whose name I've forgotten, next to him is Vicky Bogle, my flatmate in London between 1990 and 1993. Vicky is talking to Edouard Baer, who's now one of France's most famous film actors. I'm in the middle, and below me Laila France is throttling Ariel Wizman, who's a pretty famous TV presenter in France (and was even back then).
I have to say it was fun pretending to be Serge Gainsbourg at this point in my life (and having big hits in Japan on the strength of it). Here I am with two of my "songbirds", Laila France and Kahimi Karie. I made a string of EPs with Kahimi between 1994 and 1999, and an album with Laila in 1997, Orgonon (which you can hear / download here).
Here's Shazna with Alain Gac, who'd just been put in charge of an indie record label distributed, I think, by Barclay (which was Jacques Brel's label, of course). I later heard Alain was running some pretty big label. Not sure what he's up to now.
Here's Shazna with Vicky. Shazna now has a high-powered media job in New York, Vicky is a secondary school teacher in Auckland, New Zealand.
Vicky and Kahimi, who, as I noted last week, is currently working on a new album with Jim O'Rourke.
Here's Laila ("50% Thai, 50% French, 100% funky girl" as she describes herself) in a state of orgasmic bliss. Laila now DJs in Paris under the name of Samantha Cru, and runs a party organisation called Crash Bandi.
Me (with 90s "curtain" hair and 90s "goatee" beard) being kissed by KK. I'm wearing a remade retro-70s suit from a shop called TGV, my "tailor" at the time.
Kahimi and Laila. They duetted, shortly afterwards, on the song David Hamilton, which is one of my best, but least-known songs (Kahimi actually covered the song recently with Jim O'Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M accompanying her -- it's on the Muhlifein DVD, but I've never heard it).
Kahimi in Index magazine in 1999:
STEVE: You have another beautiful song, "David Hamilton." What is that about?
KAHIMI: I made a t-shirt with a picture of David Hamilton on it. So I sent it to Momus. After that, he wrote the song for another singer called Laila France. And Laila wasn't interested in David Hamilton. I'm very good friends with Laila, but because of my t-shirt he wrote it. So I called Momus and said, "Why did you write that song for Laila?" [laughs] He said, "Okay, okay."
STEVE: I'm beginning to think Momus does his best work with you.
KAHIMI: He's a very strange man. A little like Mike Alway. Sometimes we have a catfight, but it's for fun.
Finally, here I am waiting to appear on Ariel Wizman and Edouard Baer's Radio Nova show, Cocktail Hour (La Grosse Boule).
This first one introduces "the characters". Top left is my wife Shazna, next to her someone whose name I've forgotten, next to him is Vicky Bogle, my flatmate in London between 1990 and 1993. Vicky is talking to Edouard Baer, who's now one of France's most famous film actors. I'm in the middle, and below me Laila France is throttling Ariel Wizman, who's a pretty famous TV presenter in France (and was even back then).
I have to say it was fun pretending to be Serge Gainsbourg at this point in my life (and having big hits in Japan on the strength of it). Here I am with two of my "songbirds", Laila France and Kahimi Karie. I made a string of EPs with Kahimi between 1994 and 1999, and an album with Laila in 1997, Orgonon (which you can hear / download here).
Here's Shazna with Alain Gac, who'd just been put in charge of an indie record label distributed, I think, by Barclay (which was Jacques Brel's label, of course). I later heard Alain was running some pretty big label. Not sure what he's up to now.
Here's Shazna with Vicky. Shazna now has a high-powered media job in New York, Vicky is a secondary school teacher in Auckland, New Zealand.
Vicky and Kahimi, who, as I noted last week, is currently working on a new album with Jim O'Rourke.
Here's Laila ("50% Thai, 50% French, 100% funky girl" as she describes herself) in a state of orgasmic bliss. Laila now DJs in Paris under the name of Samantha Cru, and runs a party organisation called Crash Bandi.
Me (with 90s "curtain" hair and 90s "goatee" beard) being kissed by KK. I'm wearing a remade retro-70s suit from a shop called TGV, my "tailor" at the time.
Kahimi and Laila. They duetted, shortly afterwards, on the song David Hamilton, which is one of my best, but least-known songs (Kahimi actually covered the song recently with Jim O'Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M accompanying her -- it's on the Muhlifein DVD, but I've never heard it).
Kahimi in Index magazine in 1999:
STEVE: You have another beautiful song, "David Hamilton." What is that about?
KAHIMI: I made a t-shirt with a picture of David Hamilton on it. So I sent it to Momus. After that, he wrote the song for another singer called Laila France. And Laila wasn't interested in David Hamilton. I'm very good friends with Laila, but because of my t-shirt he wrote it. So I called Momus and said, "Why did you write that song for Laila?" [laughs] He said, "Okay, okay."
STEVE: I'm beginning to think Momus does his best work with you.
KAHIMI: He's a very strange man. A little like Mike Alway. Sometimes we have a catfight, but it's for fun.
Finally, here I am waiting to appear on Ariel Wizman and Edouard Baer's Radio Nova show, Cocktail Hour (La Grosse Boule).
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Date: 2009-06-30 12:14 pm (UTC)Sally.
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Date: 2009-06-30 12:19 pm (UTC)Trite fucker.
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Date: 2009-06-30 12:25 pm (UTC)Thank you, Sally -- no comment (the Judgement of Paris led to ten years of war)!
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Date: 2009-06-30 06:26 pm (UTC)Amazon.co.jp sells Larme de Crocodile for a bit above 3,000 Yen. Hope I can find it on ebay or someplace else for a bit less, though. :)
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Date: 2009-06-30 06:40 pm (UTC)- Mazie.
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Date: 2009-06-30 06:56 pm (UTC)I think it all goes back to Granny Birkin!
But Laila really enjoyed shouty stuff too. I still really like Japanese Especially, the shouty "My Boy Lollipop" song where she yells about following Japanese lolitas into Agnes B hoping they'll "let their panties fall down on the street".
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Date: 2009-06-30 07:38 pm (UTC)my boyfriend looks better than the best looking man on the world (and also on the moon). and the best looking woman looks worse than him 8)
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Date: 2009-06-30 09:14 pm (UTC)aged..no dont think so
Date: 2009-06-30 11:45 pm (UTC).maybe im projecting my insecurities being only a few years younger,but i dont think so. so cut him slack and to those who slag .post a contemporary pic juxtaposed with one thirteen years ago. nuff said
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Date: 2009-07-01 12:18 am (UTC)wow, It was really like a dark age back in the days, everybody in black, thick velvet, furnished appartments, wizman...maybe the polaroid effect.
Though my favorite records of yours came from this era.
I didn't know you appeared on La Grosse Boule, it was my favorite radio show!
Florian.
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Date: 2009-07-01 11:22 am (UTC)Antonin
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Date: 2009-07-02 02:32 am (UTC)sorry
Date: 2009-07-02 03:46 pm (UTC)anyway, i really like you. and you look handsome. and you did look a little sad in those photos. and laila france is gorgeous.
i hope you're happy at this point in your life.
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Date: 2009-07-04 08:23 am (UTC)That isn't Edouard Baer with me...
Date: 2009-07-04 08:32 am (UTC)Ed wasn't there that night, or at least not in that photo... that was some nutter who I had difficulty shaking off... It's been a long time since those days, mos def.
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