Nous avons fait la connaissance de Christophe à travers internet. Ses publications régulières sur les disques Garage qu'il écoute nous ont amené à lui poser quelques questions sur sa passion pour cette musique.  Comment as-tu découvert la musique et quel(s) style(s) écoutais-tu au début? Surtout grâce à mon père. Rock'n’ roll, les Beatles , Bob Marley . J'adorais, de 10 à 16 ans,  Bob Marley . Ensuite vint Jimi Hendrix , Pink Floyd , Nirvana , Beck , les Stones etc… Comment es-tu venu au Garage ? Je fréquentais un magasin de disques à Genève. J'achetais surtout des rééditions de groupes 60's. Et un jour, j'ai demandé à la vendeuse si elle avait quelque chose de plus obscur. Elle me remit Nuggets . Une révélation ! Ensuite il y eu Pebbles, Back From The Grave et ma terrible addiction pouvait commencer ! Fais-tu la distinction entre Garage Punk et Garage Rock ? Pas vraiment, même si je pense que le Garage Punk est plus énervé que le Garage Rock As-tu u...

I got to know Gabor Nemeth through a web page dedicated to Bauhaus. At the time, I was looking for their TV appearances in good quality. At one point, it was planned to release them all on DVD. But, as is often the case in the music industry, this project fell through. So, as usual, enthusiasts helped each other out, and with his help I was able to get them. Since then, to my great pleasure, we've kept in touch. He was kind enough to share his passion with us. How did you discover BAUHAUS? I got a copied tape from a friend, it was just labeled as Bauhaus - Burning from the inside (but actually it also had The Sky's Gone Out on side A) and he told me it was sort of art rock music, although he had no idea about the art school roots of the band. Incidentally he also became an art school student later. I remember I described them to another friend as 'avantgarde'...I still like to think of their music that way rather then goth. And you know, Perry Farrell described David...

TV Smith Adverts painting on Tim's office wall by Carol Penny of The TUTS. Later became a popular t-shirt. Tim, we got in touch with you thanks to Hugh and the FAN CLUB dedicated to the Doctors Of Madness . Can you tell us before talking about the ADVERTS and TV SMITH what this band means to you ? Doctors of Madness are my favourite UK band of all time. MORE ON DoM… Richard Strange and TV Smith are my favourite two singer-songwriters. Prior to finding Hugh Gulland’s Doctors of Madness website, I was considering creating a joint Richard Strange and TV Smith website. As things turned out I instead led the creation of the two informal fan clubs via a top twenty fans favourite songs charts. The fan clubs were called The Afterglow for the Doctors of Madness (Richard preferred this name over the other option of The Sons of Survival) and the TUTS (TVSmith United Tour Supporters) . The TUTS name came from a tut I made about TV playing more gigs in Germany than in the UK. What started ou...

 Fan Club - Dr Feelgood We've done some reviews of Patrick Higgins brilliant books about Dr Feelgood and Wilko Johnson and thought it was high time we did an interview with him Thank you for writing the books about Dr Feelgood and Wilko.  I’ve thoroughly enjoyed them.  I notice you came across Dr Feelgood in the 70s  Could you tell us how you discovered them?   I discovered Dr Feelgood in September 1978 when I arrived in England from France, where I grew up, and went to a very liberal boarding school, Dartington Hall. It was with a "Live" LP I came across Dr Feelgood, but it wasn't Stupidity as Wilko had already left the band and had been replaced by Gypie, it was the album 'As it Happens'. It came as a shock! Man, that harmonica just blew my ears !!! I also discovered Wilko Johnson in the fall of '78 as his first solo album Solid Senders had just been released, it was simply awesome, with some excellent piano playing by John Potter. Then I made the ...