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Thank you for being here. This is really a great moment for us. An important moment and an emotional moment as well because it was a really important thing to have you here, live in the studio both on radio and TV.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: Thank you. It's also a big moment for me. I was born in Brussels, that's why.
๐ฌYes. You announced this at Le Botanique gig on November 11th saying: "I'm moved because I was born in Brussels". We knew you had lived in Luxembourg.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: There is a little statue of me peeing everywhere. It's called the Manneken-Pis, they made it after me.
๐ฌThe big question is are we doing this interview in French or both English and French?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: In 'Frenglish'. In beteween the two.
๐ฌSteve is for French.
๐บ๐๐๐๐: More french than English please.
๐ฌI think this is your first live appearance in three weeks. Your last show was in Singapore three weeks ago. And you've had a bit of a holiday.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: Yeah. A holiday in Bali.
๐ฌA real holiday then, not just a day off. Something happened I think in Singapore. A positive thing: you got a gold record?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: From Singapore, no. From New Zealand, Ireland and also from England.
๐ฌThat's five in all.
In Singapore, there was a little problem because...
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: No, no. There's a law in Singapore against being a transvestite basically. To impersonate a female on stage. We said we never try to be women. We are men. What we do with our image is to create a new image for men. It's not about being a tranny. That's the difference and everyone thought I was going to wear a dress but Stef did it.
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐: Get away with it. No problem.Whatsoever.
๐ฌSo, he has no problem with it.Or any of the band actually?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: No. We didn't get arrested.
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๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: We've always thought that music videos, record covers are something that is necessary. But if it's necessary, it has to be art. It has to communicate emotion, it has to say something about the human being. We also think it's a bit of a clichรฉ, old-school to have our three faces on the cover of the record. We like to do things with a bit more imagination, more artistic.
๐ฌOn the first album, we see this little boy who represents both innocence and complete terror. His head is frightened so there's a kind of contradiction between the image...
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: It's the teenager growing up but afraid of the world, the big world out there.
๐ฌOn the second album cover, there are two twin sisters looking at each other. What did you want to say with this image?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: It was important for us to show an image that was a relationship between two people, but not a sexual one, but bigger than that. I think you can't understand the relationship between two twin brothers or twin sisters unless you are. It was something mysterious.
๐ฌIs that the case for any of you in the band?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: No, I have lots of clones but no twins.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: No. I've done photos for Calvin Klein. There was me, Shirley Manson, Melissa from Hole, Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth, Foxy Brown. They chose...
๐ฌAll together?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: No. Separately. They chose ten personalities, ten musicians for the new Calvin Klein line. I beat out hundreds and hundreds of American musicians to do it. I got a lot of free Calvin Klein clothes.
๐ฌDid you give them to your mates? You're from different sizes.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: Yes. I bought underwears for everyone. Yeah, I bought underwears for everyone who works for us. About 20 pairs of briefs, all extra large of course.
๐ฌFor Calvin Klein, was it photos or a fashion show?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: Photos. It's going to be in Vogue, it's going to be in all the fashion magazines. It's going to be on posters everywhere for the new line.
๐ฌWhen you started this American tour, there was of course a stop in New York..
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: We did 20th Century Boy. He sang on Without You I'm Nothing.
๐ฌAre there any projects that will continue with him other than on stage?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: We went into the studio, we did a little thing with him. We'll see, we're still waiting for it to come out. We want it to be a surprise
๐ฌIs it your song or his?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: It's our song. A kind of collaboration. It will be very interesting.
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๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: I don't think he's even heard the final thing yet. I'll have to talk to him next week to see what he thinks.
๐ฌYou can send it to us whenever you want. We'll be happy to listen to it and share it with everyone. I also think that when you're on stage, people are always asking you for '20th Century Boy'. You refuse to play that song because you don't like covers that you don't want to play on stage ? But you play covers !
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: We're playing a cover song today. A cover of Big Star that was written by Alex Chilton called 'Holocaust'.
๐ฌYou've already played it in Paris
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: At the Zรฉnith.
๐ฌWhat is the meaning of this song ?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: It's one of the saddest songs we've ever heard.
๐ฌIs it about suicide ?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: It's about death. It's about the death of the mother of the person in the song. It was Steve who introduced me to that Big Star album, 'Sister Lovers', and I've always loved that album. 'Holocaust' is a song that was one of our favourites. We always play it at rehearsals. We played it in Paris to have a little fun. But the thing about '20th Century Boy' is that we did it for a movie and that was it. The context became too big for what we really wanted to do with it. We don't have any T-Rex records at home. We must have listened to T-Rex together once on the bus. If we had chosen a cover song to make a hit, it wouldn't have been '20th Century Boy'. You have to try and avoid the 'Joe Cocker syndrome'.
๐ฌThere's no risk at the moment.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: The 'Joe Cocker syndrome' is when you become more famous with a song someone else has written than with your own.
๐ฌWe could listen to each other again for example or see, for those who follow us on TV, a video that we've seen a lot on the music channels on TV. A song we've heard a lot on the radio is 'You Don't Care About Us'. We see you diving with sharks in this video. Who made the video ? Do you have an anecdote about the shooting ?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: It's John Hillcoat who did a lot of videos for Nick Cave and Einstรผrzende Neubauten. He's an Australian. 'Ghost... Of The Civil Dead' and a film with Tchรฉky Karyo whose name I can't remember, his last film. The anecdotes, we filmed from 7pm until 7am and we all have a small pneumonia.
๐ฌBecause you spent a lot of time in the water.
Well, let's see it for ourselves. 'You Don't Care About Us'...
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: This is the last time we're doing underwater videos.
๐ฅYou can watch the interview here: https://bit.ly/3i2dbiS
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๐ถTeenage Angst
๐ถThe Crawl
๐ถEvery You Every Me
๐ถMy Sweet Prince
๐ถHolocaust
๐ถAsk for Answers
๐ถSummer's Gone
⭐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐พ ๐๐๐⭐
๐ฅ Teenage Angst https://bit.ly/3u6TCKS
๐ฅThe Crawl https://bit.ly/2XEl5aO
๐ฅEvery You Every Me https://bit.ly/3CCVqyo
๐ฅMy Sweet Prince https://bit.ly/2W6qqHs
๐ฅHolocaust https://bit.ly/3o2NGSc
๐ฅAsk For Answers https://bit.ly/3ABPXqR
๐ฅSummer's Gone https://bit.ly/3ogDfuH
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