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Compilation : Good time and Bad Time in Reims

Here's a player with a compilation of French punk/garage bands that has remained in my heart since that Reims' 1998 to 2009 good and bad times. Let's shut up now and play the music!                                                                       X

Moody Notes : Two stupid jerks in Reims...

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Holy shit ! 10 years ! 10 years have passed since my last punk garage gig's scheduling in Reims ! After that, things went on an other rock'n'roll way : a serious relationship, two kids, a dog, a cat, a parenthood on the shoulders and a huge move to La Reunion island in 2009 for the work and the cool sunny life ... Yet, the desire to get involved in garage/punk stuff has ever been there, the virus has never flown... I met Boris W. in the pub Le Tigre  at a gig in the early 00's. It was a few months after my arrival in Reims. I was kind of a skinhead-looking guy, he was a spiky street-punker involved in some local Oi band & punks' crew. Our first talk was a bit stretched. The atmosphere indeed was a bit nervy in Reims and around Paris at that time.... All those sharp/red/bonehead/skunk skinheads' things... All those stories about punks' crews fights which weren't my cup of tea - I had always lived my punk attitude on a pretty individualisti...

Sketches : The Vanities...

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THE VANITIES