Odgie était le batteur du groupe punk The Worst en 1977. Il a aimablement accepté de répondre à nos questions. Nous retranscrivons l'interview en anglais, telle que nous l'avons faite avec lui. Vous pouvez la traduire avec l'outil en haut de page. Interview. First of all, can you tell us where you come from ? Manchester ? No I'm from Lostock Hall, a little village just south of Preston – about 30 miles from Manchester How old were you when you started playing music ? I'd have been about 10 years old or so, I bought The Last Time by the Rolling Stones on a 45 single and played it on the old Dansette family record player. I cut a some circles out of cardboard and put them on the chairs and hit them with two pencils Was it drums first or something else? See above... ;-) Which band(s) did you like first ? Your first musical « crush » ? The Rolling Stones , in the very early 1960s. There was always music in our house, Frank Ifield , Petula Clark , Lonnie Donega

G'day!! My name is Ben & I'm from Melbourne, Australia and like all of you I'm a fanatic!! I'm a rabid record collector, avid music zine & book reader & constant gig attender. I have also thumped drums in a stack of independent bands for nearly 30 years and have recorded & self released original tunes as well. All of this keeps me busy as it is, and now I'm going to attempt to translate all of this mish mash of random info in my head onto paper for the kick arse Monstres Sacrés blog. Anyway now that I have been given the opportunity at Monstres Sacrés , I look forward to hopefully introducing you to the wild, guitar abusing, pedal crushing, tub thumpin', totally rockin', at times unsavoury & the flat out weird sounds of punk/garage/indie/noise and more in the Australian scenes past & present. Oh yeah why did I spell Australia wrong for the name of my blog? It's actually named after the great Saints song Orstralia from the Eterna

JJ Rassler , est un pilier de la scène de Boston. En 1975, avec Peter Greenberg il met sur pied DMZ un des groupes américains les plus influents du rock pre et post punk. Ensuite il rejoindra les Odds puis les Queers avant de refaire en 1999 son propre groupe the Downbeat 5 avec la chanteuse Jen D'Angora. Ce groupe existe toujours mais JJ s'est impliqué dans des projets parallèles comme sa participation à l'album Red Lite de Mr Airplane Man, et son groupe éphémère JJ and Thee Cuban Heels. JJ connaît toute la scène locale et américaine, il a vécu et engrangé mille aventures depuis des décennies. Il a décidé de nous faire partager ses souvenirs car il aime raconter et éclairer le monde du rock avec un point de vue original. Et c'est mon ami.                                 Jacques_B Aujourd'hui nous discutons Bootlegs   JJ : The first time I saw a 'Bootleg' LP, it was instantly recognizable by its stark white outer sleeve, and a cheaply stamped for