The John Venture

More than a simple fortuitous encounter, The John Venture offers a real fusion. A mad project that gathers two bands from Saint Etienne, Angil & the Hiddentracks on the one hand and Broadway on the other hand. The rule? To write, record, and mix one song per day without re-working it on the following day.The result? A record that destroys the musical boundaries between folk, electronic music and hip-hop, a perfect mixture between Angil’s high and strong voice and the skilled jazzy electro hip-hop of Broadway. Interview. http://www.myspace.com/thejohnventure

:: watch video The John Venture on OC-TV.net ::

Meeting with Jean Fauque, Music compositor, author, performer

He's one of the famous lyricist of the french artists : the man behind a bunch of songs sung by Alain Bashung, Jacques Dutronc, Vanessa Paradis and many others. In a public performance at the Festival « Le Marathon des Mots », he reads his own texts usually performed by the singers and exposes himself in full light. Emotional, funny and fragile, Jean Fauque invites us eto enter in his fantastic universe. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fauque

:: Video Meeting with Jean Fauque on OC-TV.net ::

Super Rail Band de Bamako

From the Locomotive d’or to the Chèvrefeuille barge of the Convivencia Festival, the loud voices and undulating melodies, colored brasses and hair-raising guitars of the Super Rail Band from Bamako travel from swamp blues to urban mandingue rock. This band of the Buffet-Hotel of Bamako station, will be to modern mandingue music what E.T.Mensah were to high-life (Ghana), Mahlathini to mbaqanga (South Africa) or I.K. Dairo to juju music (Nigeria). Its successive singers – the most famous in the West are Salif Keita and Mory Kanté – have been the undisputed superstars of the Malian scene until the birth of Wassoulou music in the nineties. Encounter on the edge of the Canal du Midi!
http://www.mali-music.com/Cat/CatR/RailBand.htm

:: Watch video Super Rail Band de Bamako ::

Gojira on OC-TV.net

Formerly called Godzilla, the guys from the Landes of Gojira are born under the wing of Richard Gamba. Close to a melodic death metal, these monsters offer us incredible atmospheres on their records and on stage, with a faultless technique. A French band that is sure to find some success abroad. Unique, impetuous, brutal and lyrical at the same time, Gojira is a reference of the French scene that cannot be ignored.
http://www.gojira-music.com/

:: Watch video Gojira ::

Hey Gravity, Summer festival

Londonian rock band created in 2006, HEY GRAVITY ! is above all the project of singer Justine Berry, ex-leader of garage-rock band M.A.S.S.With no claim to revolutionize the genre, here is a wild garage rock with no worry about conventions, which aim is to share a weightless moment with Risen. Full of energy and led by two female voices, the punk rock quintet Hey Gravity ! leaves no respite, going brutally from one song to another. They offer us an appealing meal that, from time to time, seems like mashed potatoes but never like soup. Encounter at the Summer Festival !
http://www.myspace.com/heygravity

:: Watch the video Hey Gravity on OC-TV.net ::

3 Amis, by Michel Boujenah

Directed by Michel Boujenah.With Philippe Noiret, Annelise Hesme, Mathilde Seigner, Kad Merad, Daniel Duval, Yves Rénier, Marie Bunel, Pascal Elbé, Sebastien Soudais, Constance Dollé, Yan Dron, ... The story: What is a friend ? Do I have one? Am I one? What is this strange relationship that we call friendship? Who are these people that we love but do not make love to them? Who are these people with whom it is never finished because it has never begun? How can I do good to my friends? Do I have the right to intervene in their life because we are friends? And to what point? And truly, what is this strange feeling that inhabits me when a friend needs me? Happiness or a need?It is the story of three inseparable friends who met in secondary school. But the band disintegrates after the marriage of one of them and will rebuild itself the day of the divorce.
Release on August 22, 2007.
http://www.3amis-lefilm.com/

:: "3 amis" on OC-TV.net ::

Léa Crespi, exposition 'Lieux”

A young artist, Léa Crespi, in the exhibition named « Places », shows us photographs in which body and place questions the humanity of these spaces full of memory and history. The blurred presence of the naked body which becomes an object is very far from all kinds of self-portraits. A work that looks like an initiatory quest.
Maxime Lachaud

http://www.boring.ch/lea

:: Léa Crespi, Exhibition « Places »::

Bat For Lashes, video music 'What's a girl to do'

The video “What’s a girl to do”
Coming from Great Britain, Bat For Lashes is a female quartet, made of Natasha Khan, Ginger Lee, Abi Fry and Lizzie Carey. The band was created around Natasha Khan, whose magical voice recalls singers such as Kate Bush, Björk, Chan Marshall or PJ Harvey. For their new single, What’s a Girl To Do, these four magicians of sound have added martial percussions to their fairy pop.
http://www.batforlashes.co.uk/

:: Watch Bat For Lashes's video music 'What's a girl to do' ::

Nik Cohn "Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom"

Established as the father of rock criticism, with Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom written at the age of 22 in the late 60s, Nik Cohn then has published articles, novels and music books regularly. He was born in London, raised in Northern Ireland, lives now in New York and was the past month in Toulouse to present and perform reading versions of twice of his books for the Festival « Le Marathon des mots »: the legendary Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom in the Chapelle des Carmélites with Eric Lareine and a more classic public redaing of Anarchy in th UK with Robinson Stevenin. Amazing
Marc Besse

:: Watch Watch Video OC-TV.net :: Nik Cohn "Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom" ::

Izabo on OC-TV.net

Izabo's music has been described as a "Brilliant, action packed combination of Psychadelic Rock, Disco, Punk and Arabic spices", or, if we are to name-drop, like an unlikely cross between Led Zeppelin, the Talking Heads, and Um Kultum. Featuring higah-to-ultra-high vocals, twisting and expressive arab-flavoured guitar work, powerfully funky basslines, arrogantly catchy keyboards and intense disco beats, Izabo have established themselves as one of Israel's most absorbing live acts. Izabo are currently working on their second full length - "Superlight", which follows "The Fun Makers" LP and "Morning Hero" EP (released via BMG-uk). The first album Fun Makers will be out the 5th of February 2007 in France (RoY Music / Discograph).http://www.izabo.co.uk/
:: Video Izabo on OC-TV.net ::

Koopa The Band on OC-TV.net

Koopa made UK Chart history in January2007 by becoming the first ever unsigned band to have a Top 40 hit with their autobiographic hit Blag, Steal and Borrow. After a few listenings and a few doubts, we are finally charmed by the trio from Colchester who is really good on stage. Influenced by Green Day, Nirvana, or the Beatles, Cooper brothers and singer Joe Murphy give a fresh indie pop yet punk-inspired made for success. They announced their second hit in the summer and ask all their fans to promote.Watch Koopa's interview at 1st Indie night at Havana.http://myspace.com/koopa

:: Video Koopa on OC-TV.net ::

Teki Latex, music video 'Les matins de paris'

Teki Latex and Lio, music video « Les matins de Paris »Teki Latex, ex-member of the hip hop band TTC, is back with a solo album « Party de Plaisir ». Vintage disco at the first level, futurist electro pop, indie rap, pop standard with all that makes 2007 the most exciting time in history. A great machine travelling in time. http://www.myspace.com/tekitek

:: Watch Music Video 'Les matins de paris' by Teki Latex and Lio ::

Persepolis, Meeting with M.Satrapi & V.Paronnaud

Persepolis, Meeting with Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

Autobiographic animated movie, Persepolis tells the dakest period of Iran history, tha fall of the Chah, the rise of the islamic republic, the war against Irak. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (aka Winscluss in the world of comics) shows us the daily life of a modern iranian family who can't help the rules that the Mollahs settled. Emotionnal movie wher we cry and laugh, simply a human movie.

:: La Video Rencontre sur OC-TV.net "Persepolis, M.Satrapi & V.Paronnaud" ::

Caroline Molusson, Gallery Ilka bree

Caroline Molusson, Gallery Ilka bree

Exhibit, it's first to take possession of a place. From the blotchy plan of the Ilka Bree Gallery to her video where an unidentified liquid invades every nook of the exposition room, Caroline Molusson fills space. Multigifted artist, the young plastician plays with balance and mostly unbalance, heritage of her past of dancer and trapeze artist. Dream-related drawings, unstable and changing installations, pictures fighting against gravity, Caroline Molusson's universe lies in the unusual perception of space around us. Meet Caroline Molusson before she goes to Montreal where new big spaces are waiting to be reinvented.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net, "Caroline Molusson" ::

Maxïmo Park, video clip "Our Velocity"

Maxïmo Park, video clip "Our Velocity"

Maximo Park "Our Earthly Pleasure" A Clockwork Orange look, a hypnotic synthesizer, Maxïmo Park come back with their second album "Our Earthly Pleasure". Newcastle guys are still surfing on the indie rock wave and make a good job after their great eldest Franz Ferdinant or Block Party. In this music video "Our velocity" the musicians of Maxïmo Park multiply to make more pop rock.

:: Video Clip on OC-TV.net, "Maxïmo Park, Our Velocity" ::

Meeting with Eté 67, Interview & Concert

Meeting with Eté 67, Interview & Concert

No serious kids at 17, I've been told.Yet, the six Eté 67 guys have been very concerned with music since their youth with a shared love for the Beatles, The Velvet Underground and Dutronc. They were bored to death in the suburbs of Liège and were dreaming of love and travels, recurring themes of their first album.
Today, 23, they are down-to-earth and became the heroes of their songs.That's a good belgian story! After a great number of shows in Belgium, Eté 67 attacks France now with a "war plan": shows to test the audience then signature by Wagram. In this Montpellier night, Eté 67 energy and sympathy fortunately made us forget the boorish Antirouille managers, or we could have had a bad night! Watch Nicolas Michaux's interview, who calls to our mind Bertrand Cantat...

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net, "Eté 67" ::

Meeting with Olivier Besseron, Author Comic strip

Meeting with Olivier Besseron, Author Comic strip, scenario writer, draughtsman

If his characters always have empty eyes, Besseron does have the eye and the manner to catch the daily situations and make a mockery of them to make us laugh at horrible things.Bred with rock'n'roll and fanzine (rock hardi, psikopat, le dernier neurone...), he started drawing in the latter ones. He kept from that time a short and efficient format. After his Comics period or "drawing without reflexion", Besseron built step by step his own universe full of simple and endearing people who are caught in a daily madness. That's the moment when Bess steps in, corrosive, black, horrible and yet funny.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net, "Olivier Besseron" ::

Mix Master Mike only on OC-TV.net

Mix Master Mike's interview-concert on OC-TV.net, the mythical DJ of Beastie Boys

Big Hip Hop night, mythical Dj of the Beastie Boys: Mix Master Mike, aka Michael Schwartz. The founding member of Invisible Skratch Piklz collective, three-times awarded at DJ World Championship (he was then asked to retire from the contest in order to let the others a chance to win), did not disappoint toulousan ears. Built on US rap standards, with soul, funk or rock classics (from Rage against the Machine to Cypress Hill to Bob James), Mix Master Mike gives a two hour energetic mix, at the border of reality, full of rhythm breaks and colliding scratches, acting like an electric chock on the over excited crowd: happiness for the ears and the eyes.

:: Interview-concert Video on OC-TV.net, "Mix Master Mike, the mythical DJ of Beastie Boys" ::

Norah Jones, video clip "Until the end"

Norah Jones, video clip "Until the end"

Who never dreamt of a walk in the forest with pretty Norah Jones? It's done with her last music video "Until the end" from her third album "Not too late" at Blue Note. The very gifted artist wrote herself all the lyrics and deals with more personnal themes.
So don't be too late to follow Norah "Until the end".

:: Video Clip on OC-TV.net "Norah Jones, Until the end" ::

"Murmures, murs,mûr", a short film by Léopold Joris

"Murmures, murs,mûr", a short film by Léopold Joris

The story is like an animated parabola of the writer’s block which all writers fear to have to face one day. It received the second price of the festival « concours de courts » in 2007

:: The short film on OC-TV.net "Léopold Joris, Murmures, murs,mûr" ::

Meeting with Sanseverino "Exactement"

Meeting with Sanseverino "Exactement"

He waited a long time, but he is today unmistakably one of the best-known singer on the french scene.
Upgraded to king of modern swing, Trenet's heir and whatever, San Severino remains modest and often remembers that he went through some difficult years and underground scene. Meet him during his spring tour, on top form, with his Big Band like on his last album "Exactement".

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net, Sanseverino "Exactement" ::

Bloody Mess, video clip and meeting with Cathy Naden

Bloody Mess, video clip + meeting with Cathy Naden

Forced Entertainment’s Bloody Mess defies description and categorisation. Marking the culmination of their twenty years work in theatre it is an epic for ten performers that creates a startling new logic from the collisions of disconnected characters, stories and performances. From the outset at which each actor confides in the audience about how he or she would like to be seen during the show, trouble seems inevitable – rivalries, contradictions and complete incompatibility seem to rule the day. But as disaster beckons and the ‘show’ crashes into energetic chaos Bloody Mess succeeds in interweaving its disparate elements to make a whole that is intelligent, darkly comic and unexpectedly poignant.
Meet Cathy Naden, one of the founding members of Forced Entertainemnt.

:: Video clip + meeting on OC-TV.net "Bloody Mess, meeting with Cathy Naden" ::

Music Video, Paul Personne, Il était une fois la route

Paul Personne, Live "Aphonie cérébrale", dvd "Il était une fois la route"

René-Paul Roux alias Paul Personne celebrates his 25 years of road shows, more than 4 millions kilometers on the roads and thousand concerts in France and abroad. Now Paul Personne is recognized like the French guitarist. He met the roads of the best: from Luther Allison to Johnny Halliday, and Eddy Mitchell, Nougaro, Higelin, Véronique Sanson, Jean-Louis Aubert, Bertignac, the listing is too long for enumerating it here.The last live, untitled « once upon a time the road", third live after « the luck road » in 87 and « road 97 », sums up the last 25 years of the French guitar hero. Some well-known titles "Comme un étranger", "Barjoland", "Ca va rouler", "Le bourdon", some unheard versions and one guitar is singled out!

:: Music Video on OC-TV.net "Paul Personne" ::

Meeting with Charles Mason

Meeting with Charles Mason

Charles Mason, in his works,deploys a deceptively minimal approach. Sculptural forms that are more
usually found in public urban spaces are brought into the gallery CORTEX ATHLETICO

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "Charles Mason" ::

Meeting with Sue & Mac : Pravda "à l'ouest"

Meeting with Sue & Mac : Pravda "à l'ouest"

Far from the new french scene, Pravda, duet which consists of Sue (bass, vocals) and Mac (guitar), have just released their first album "à l'ouest". Punk-pop or electro-clash, no matter, key word for Pravda is Rock'nRoll. Energetic Rock'nRoll well served by Sue's sultry voice and Mac's strong riffs. Pravda love to be on stage and the audience gives back, as in the Kleo, where the duet didn't want to leave the stage. Independant, sexy and energetic, Pravda gives us their truth.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "Sue & Mac : Pravda" ::

Faust : l'opera de Philippe Fénelon

Faust : the opera by Philippe Fénelon

Philippe Fénelon, prolific composer with more than one hundred pieces of music, gives us his own version of Faust. All the Faust themes are present in this new reading of Nikolas Lenau's work and are glorified with a wonderdul staging by Pet Halmen. Under the direction of Bernhard Kontarsky, the choir and the orchestra of the Capitole give life to Philippe Fénelon's brilliant master piece. Did he also sell his soul to Méphistopheles? We could think so when hearing these grandiose chords. Let's have a deep examination of the composer's soul in this discussion with Philippe Fénelon.

:: Opera Video on OC-TV.net “Faust : the opera by Philippe Fénelon” ::

Short film by Bruno Danan, "Bonne nuit Malik"

Short film by Bruno Danan, "Bonne nuit Malik"

Synopsis: Malik shares his bedroom with his younger brother Bibal. Each is preoccupied with his new job. Two brothers cross their point of view. Caméra d'Oc Prize winner, 1st prize at 2007 Concours de Courts in Toulouse.

:: The short film on OC-TV.net "Bruno Danan, Bonne nuit Malik" ::

Loïc Lantoine music video "Pierrot"

Loïc Lantoine, music video "Pierrot"

Loïc Lantoine and François Pierron, associate in poetry and words, are walking around from the train station to the bars. Musicians of the inside, they have the notes on the top of their fingers or on the verge of their lips. One is singing, the other is playing or maybe is it the opposite. they say they came late to the music. Loïc for the text, François for the instrument.
Loïc probably needed Allain Leprest's words to start writing and François, Christian Gentet's notes to leave the way of the Music Conservatory.

:: Music Video on OC-TV.net "Loïc Lantoine music, Pierrot" ::

Short film by Vasseur Stéphanie

"Sous mes yeux", Short film by Vasseur Stéphanie

Synopsis: a young girl on a summer day, on the beach. Her father gets in emotionnal trouble with his seductive sister-in-law. If the child is too small to tell, she's not too small to see and understand.This short film was given the first prize by OC-TV.net internet users and 4th prize of 2007 Concours de Courts Festival.

:: Short film on OC-TV.net "Meeting with DJ Moule and Set" ::

Meeting with DJ Moule + Set

Meeting with DJ Moule + Set in Garorock

In the microcosm of the mixing DJs, between Zebra and Missill, DJ Moule goes beyond the bounds of bootleg. In love with any music and fond of unlikely cohabitations, DJ Moule plays to take the text of a band and put it together with the music of another; the result is at least surprising, often brilliant. Winner of many prizes given by the audience or by other bootleggers, DJ Moule already married The Cure and The Beastie Boys or The Doors and NTM. Just before his set at Garorock, DJ Moule gives us his secrets for a good bootleg.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "Meeting with DJ Moule and Set" ::

Meeting with Thomas Fersen

Meeting with Thomas Fersen

After fifteen years spent on stage with a complete band on his side, Thomas Fersen reinventes his own songs in an incredible duo based on an simple ukelele orchestration. In a total artistic freedom, he plays his great singles and other songs of his discography with a new feeling and new forms. More on the folk or the blues side of the music, he brings a fresh thing in his own compositions and explores news musical landcapes with the french language.
So, is Fersen a modern « troubadour » ? Of course, yes. We met him for his gig at the Montauban (82) festival Alors Chante ! Interview.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "Thomas Fersen" ::

Meeting with Jean-Pierre Goux

Meeting with Jean-Pierre Goux

His paintings, strong, virile, sharp, angular, mostly square where the cardboard replace the canvas, reveal the subtle games, mysterious and almost cruel of the black and white. Black, the oblique lines, white, the background looking for a light, even better a silence. Shapes create a tense vocabulary, between the game of confinement and the will of freedom.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "Jean-Pierre Goux" ::

Interview Concert, Chck chck chck

Meeting with !!! Alias Chk, chk, chk [Interview + Concert]

!!! Aka Chk chk chk or chick chick chick are a band from New York with multiple influences from punk to funk and electro or disco. With their incredible performance on stage and their tracks made for the live, chick chick chick fired the Garorock public.
In the current ocean of pop rock productions, their third album, "Myth Takes", is a real dancefloor wave which always reaches its goal: make people dance. Meet Chk chk chk in the VIP corner at Garorock festival.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "Chck chck chck" ::

The Veebees "Crack un anotha!"

The Veebees, Video Clip "Crack un anotha!"

Brand new, second hand, fair-dinkum-rockOnOroll. Four blokes, three chords, two brain cells and one carton of beer.

:: Video Clip on OC-TV.net, The Veebees "Crack un anotha!" ::

Meeting with L'Enfance Rouge, Interview and Concert

Meeting with L'Enfance Rouge, Interview & Concert

L'enfance Rouge are a french-italian band which consists of François R. Cambuzat, Chiara Locardi and Jacopo Andréini. They claim their anarchism and are the worst enemies of powerful Ruppert Murdoch (News Corporation, MySpace...).
They love to meet people and exchange with them and they have no borders on the road and in their music. Their raw material, electricity, turns into a strong before-rock without concession. Self production, independance and freedom are their key words.

Meet the three musicians of l'Enfance Rouge at Garorock.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "L'Enfance Rouge" ::

Faust, Legendary band Alter, Rock, Psyche

Faust, Legendary band Alter/Rock/Psyche.

"Legendary band Rock / Alternative / Psychedelic / Industrial who has influenced a lot of musicians since the 70's, Faust goes on stage with a traditional formation and nothing let us imagine the sound earthquake that is about to happen.
When the cement mixer hidden at the back of the scene turns on and when Jean-Hervé Péron runs through the audience with a chainsaw, everything goes crazy. First inventors of industrial music, Faust creates a new contact between music and audience and explores new sensory ways. Guest stars at Rock in Opposition, Faust and his repetitive music offered an unforgettable experience to an expert audience.

Meet Jean-Hervé Péron and Werner "Zappi" Diermaier in a multilingual interview.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "Faust" ::

Deftones

Meet Video The Deftones

Deftones are a californian metal band but above all they have been friends since the school.
The five guys from Sacramento have skated together since years. Masters in nu-metal, Deftones always incorporate new sounds in their music and release successfully completed albums. They don’t hesitate to put calm tracks or electro touch and each new album is a discovery. After 6 records, Deftones are a reference for a lot of bands.
Meet Chi and Franck in the dressing-room at Garorock festival.

:: Meet Video on OC-TV.net "Deftones" ::

Stéréotypes "6 pieds sur terre"

Stéréotypes, Video Clip "6 pieds sur terre"

"A cosmopolitan musical identity dedicated to a conscious and energetic rap".
After 10 years and a lot of concerts, Stéréotypes, lead band on the Toulousan rap scene, release his first album, "6 pieds sur terre".Enriched by their commitment with K.M.K. association, Stéréotypes members dare unexpected meetings with "Les Motivés" accordionist or a lyric singer for example. Stéréotypes concerts can sometimes be embellished with video performances which give a new dimension to their shows.

:: Video Clip on OC-TV.net "Stéréotypes, 6 pieds sur terre" ::

Video Meeting with Zombie Nation, Aka John Starlight

Zombie Nation

DJ from Mûnchen, Zombie Nation, aka John Starlight or Mr Splank come on stage with a one meter disco wig on the head! More than the wig, Zombie Nation likes the 70's, old machines and synthesizers.
Even if electronics is sometimes flawed, no matter, good vibes are there. Hyperactive musician, Zombie Nation works on his own productions rather than remixing the others and he releases his records on his own label UKW. Don't be afraid of this Zombie, he just wanna make you dance.

:: Video Report on OC-TV.net, “Zombie Nation, Aka John Starlight” ::

Kalash, Video Clip "Qu'est ce t'attends"

Kalash "Qu'est ce t'attends"

Pigalle non conformist duo is definitely back with a double best of record "A l'aurore do come-back". The band consists in rapper Coup?K and DJ / producer Jack Mes.

:: Video Clip on OC-TV.net "Kalash, Qu'est ce t'attends" ::

Meet Adam Kesher

Meet Adam Kesher, in the VIP corner of Garorock Festival

Adam Kesher was born in Bordeaux, France in the year 2002, out of the creative friendship shared by Gaëtan and Julien, two brothers torn between various influences going from the ghostly eighties sounds of Joy Division, The Cure and Gang of Four, to more actual rock bands such as At the drive-in and Robocop Kraus.
Last minute guest at Garorock festival, Adam Kesher gave the audience an amazing over energetic live performance! See you in the VIP corner at Garo for an interview of this band made for live and indubitably on the road to success, Adam Kesher.

:: Video Report on OC-TV.net, "Meet Adam Kesher" ::

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas

Born in 1962, Sarah Lucas is a female artist, from the north east of London, who was one of the leader of the British Art movement for the years 90-2000, The Young British Artists or YBA, which reinvigorated the Art scene with formalin (Damien Hirst), childish malformations in epoxy (The Chapman bro') and messy bed(Tracey Emin)....
Adulated and bought by Charles Saatchi, (Huge Art collector, shopping addict and shark businessman for the CV) Sarah Lucas is distinguished with her pop collage from the streetwalker scum press, her funny and political self-portraits with fried eggs and plucked chickens, her sculptures with cigarettes and her crashed cars.

Meet with Sarah Lucas after a heavy night during the Printemps de Septembre.

:: Video Report on OC-TV.net, "Sarah Lucas" ::

A streetcar named desire

A streetcar named desire
Directed by Didier Carette

American playwright Tennessee Williams, who won twice the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, still inquire into the world of the marginal, desperate and unadapted people. Often alone, Tennessee Williams' characters hang around in a decadent universe. Blanche Dubois, Streetcar's hero between her will for purity and her screaming sexuality, can't adapt to her new life at New-Orleans.
She runs up against her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, who will make his possible to destroy Blanche. Tennessee Williams with A Streetcar named Desire wrote one of the XXth century master pieces where sex, loneliness and fake reality interlace.

:: Video Report on OC-TV.net, A streetcar named desire ::

Clip by Manu Dibango "Hommage à la Nouvelle Orléans"

Clip by Manu Dibango "Hommage à la Nouvelle Orléans"
Abum "Manu Dibango joue Sydney Bechet"

Manu Dibango

Today Manu Dibango plays Sydney Bechet "Hommage à la Nouvelle Orléans", 35 years ago it was Soul and Makossa."World Music", a two-word universe, was born in the early 70's.
For the first time Africa, in the form of Cameroon Makossa, nosed its way into soul, the heir to jazz and rhythm'n blues. As is often the case, this particular stage in musical evolution, which today is considered as capital, was at the time nearly missed, the b side of a single which should never have got further than the suburbs of Douala.
The grandpappy of Makossa Soul, Manu Dibango, plays a key role in our century.

:: Video Clip on OC-TV.net, Manu Dibango ::

Method Man "4 : 21...The day after"

Interview and concert by Method Man "4 : 21...The day after", Wu Tang Clan

Unthinkable event, who would have bet on the improbable coming of Method Man, aka Johnny Blaze (nickname of the human torch from the the Fantastic Four), citizen Clifford Smith, on the toulousan stage Havana Cafe.

Promoting his last record "4 : 21... The day after" on tour out of Paris, Method Man did not fall short of his reputation coming before him. Facing an over-excited audience, the most popular member of Staten Island, in spite of his 35 years, still has the good method to satisfy the fury of the audience: he works hard for more than one hour twenty, climbs on whatever can be climbed, raps and jumps in the crowd, covers Wu Tang Clan classics. Method Man is one of the rare living legends in rap still active and decided to stay at the top. But once the engine is started, it is very difficult not to say impossible to interview him.

And yet, after long and hard negociations with his manager, Method man in bathrobe receives us the day after in his "Bains Douches" room, "higher" than ever, for an exclusive discussion.

:: Video Report on OC-TV.net, Method Man "The day after" ::

Dran 'Humanidad Estafa'

Watch Dran's interview for his show 'Humanidad Estafa'

Artist from Toulouse initially involved in graffiti, Dran diversified his techniques in order to survive and progress.

His studies at the Fine Arts School allowed him to improve his drawing and according to his meetings, he is in charge of the visual identity of bands like Alif Soundsystem or Birdy Nam Nam, illustrator for magazine CQFD or drawer for the Nissan european campaign. Highly sensitive, Dran put together in his (already) third book, his brilliant illustrations on cardboard packaging.

Caustic but realistic critic of the society we are living in, his cardboards can be seen at GHP gallery until May,19th. Dran receives us in his workshop between silkscreen machines, old cardboards and paint sprays to tell us about his art.

:: Video Report on OC-TV.net, Dran 'Humanidad Estafa' ::

JoeyStarr

JoeyStarr

Who never heard about Didier Morville aka Joey Starr, emblematic figure of the french rap and pionner of the hip hop movement in France? Indivisible part of the band NTM that he created with Kool Shen, he gives a new direction to his career and puts a distance with his first band when creating his own label B.O.S.S.
Skinned alive and revolted by nature, his problems with justice are a treasure for the press. After many projects and many albums, we now can see him in TV shows or movies. In 2006, he delivers his discs My Playlist and Gare au Jaguarr.

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Pascal Tourain, Tattoo Man

Pascal Tourain, Tattoo Man

Pascal Tourain is a rare and unique artist of a kind. All-over tattooed artist, he is the director oh his body art and tells us about the tattoo in all its forms...
Meeting

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Ligne Verte

Video Art by Laurent Mareschal

A wall painting represents the landscape hided by the wall on which it's painted. A wall recently built in Jerusalem...

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Meeting with Adrienne Pauly

Meeting with Adrienne Pauly [Interview / Concert]

Not 30 yet, Adrienne Pauly already had three lives. Daughter of one of the most important partner of Claude Chabrol, she was naturally born for the cinema, but the movie cameras did not give her a good image of herself. After years of black hole and existential questions, she's back and writes lyrics and music according to her desires. Since three years, she has gradually reconcilied with herself in songs which have the double symptom of Gainsbourg and Brigitte Fontaine. Al last, Adrienne is here.

Marc Bess

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