AUSWEIS: jours de haine

This 12" has been out in 1986 and was a collaboration between Ediesta and Poupée Pat Production. For more informations about AUSWEIS, see older posts.

Jours de haine

EDITH NYLON: 4 essais philosophiques

This one is the only 12" EP by the band. It was out at the begginning of 1980.
For more infos about the band see older posts.

4 essais philosophiques

SEEKERS OF TRUTH: Transcendence

Seekers of Truth is a band borned in 1990 near Paris as Shit Happens. Under that name they have produced 2 demo and a 7" in 1993 and 1995. In 1996 Lost & Found, the well know german label, contact them. The label ask to them to change their name, Seekers of Truth is born. After that they produced an album (out of ignorance) and this MCD. In 1998 they played their last show in Beauvais (where I was). 7 years later they have decided to reform the band and have recorded the Timman CD in 2006. Their last CD was out in 2009 and it is called "2 Decades Shunning Masks".

Transcendence

Members are:
Xav.......................voices
Franck.................bass
Clem....................guitar
JP........................guitar
Sylvain................drums

PUNGY STICKS: Shadow earth

I met these guys when they have gigged in Amiens. During that gig I met their manager (Mad Rak), he gave me a good address in London to get pierced. At that time I Knew nobody in France who made good piercing, it was at the beggining of the 90's. The only thing I knew about this band is that a member had played before with the Trotskids.

Members was:
Denis Garnier
Gurvan Guellec
Marc Doyennette

Shadow Earth

HAPPY KOLO: Pochtron

This band is from Mantes la Jolie, near Paris. They have began in 1995. The roots of this band seem to be punk rock, ska and ragga, they call this sound: pure'pork'hate'roll. The guitar player is the tatooist Dimitri HK. We (Dimitri and I) were tatooed together for our first tatoo by Bugs Tatoo in London in 1987. For this record Happy Kolo was:

Nat.................vocals
Beck...............vocals
Schmarko......bass
Ludo...............guitar
Grignight.......drums
Dimitri...........guitar

Pochtron

ROCK ARMY FRACTION

This record is a Rock Radical Record/Alerte Rouge co-production from 1986. This is an anti-capitalist sampler.

Kid Bravo was a former member of the Brigades (see older posts). He left the band in 1985.

Red London are from Sunderland, they were born in 1979 and split a first time in 1980. After that the singer played with Red Alert. In 1981, he left this band an he re-formed the Red London with one original member and his brother.

Les Kamioners du Suicide, for those tracks, was just one guy: D'jah X. Those two titles are the first recorded tracks from this band. After that les Kamioners du Suicide became a band who played in squatt and other alternative places.

Haine Brigade was a french anarcho-punk band from Lyon. They were a part of "la Fraktion Rock Terrosiste" and they also edited a fanzine called Kanaï.

Richard III: the only thing I know about this band is that they have had a title on Bullshit Detector from the Crass Label, and they was french.

Vent d'Est was a french band. Two members of the band were involved in the fanzine l'Alerte Rouge.

For Nuclear Device informations see older posts.

Attila the Stockbroker is a well known poet/performer/punk from Great Britain.

As stated in their own website the Neurotics were the same band as the Newton Neurotics.

Rock Army Fraction

THE BRIGADES: ready ready go punk rockers

Another 12" from the Brigades. This one is from 1984 on Rock Radical Records.

For informations about the Brigades see older posts.

Ready ready go punk rockers