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Sabotage, bon vivant – Many Moods of Ben Vaughn
ALL OTHERS WILL BE TOWED
Strange. None the less he has been started his career in the early 80s I have been never heard about BEN VAUGHN before. His 16th album is the first I have listened. And I am impressed.
The album Piece de resistance has been released recently on French label KIZMIAZ RECORDS. It’s full of good old frenchy western swings and moods. Easy and elegant as this verse from the title song is
„sabotage, bon vivant, nouveau riche, je ne sais quoi, s’il vous plaît, c’est la vie, femme fatale, repertoire”
He made an album Cubist Blues together with Alan Vega and Alex Chilton in 1996. Chilton started his career as a teen star in Memphis in the 60s, then formed the band Big Star, moved to New York and played often at CBGB in the 70s, then in early 80s went to New Orleans at Louis XVI Restaurant to dish wash. Sabotage, bon vivant.
MONSTERS, LOVE SONGS, MONKEYS
Do you know that comrade Stalin was chosen two times as the Man Of The Year by Time?
One, in 1939, because of his pact with Hitler; and two, in 1942, because of battle of Stalingrad.
And what do you think who was the Man in 1938? The Devil’s organist
BUT MORE IMPORTANT here are some humans of our times
a great little rock and roll band VAGINA TOWN from Nantes
from debut album 11 LOVE SONGS on KYTHIBONG RECORDS (France)
Anyway there was a research recently at Leiden University in the Netherlands which found out that just as humans recognise faces, chimps recognise each others’ butt. So now imagine the cover of the The Monkey Time’s Chimp of The Year.
The Countdown has begun, The Drug Train is coming
We’we Got The Magic from a Black Hole, so I Call Your Name Satan. And I Wanna Be Your Puppy. But Need Money for Chicken Space Pie and Milk. Hvala.
There was a crazy summer day/night when French band VAGINA TOWN played at RNR666 10th Birthday Party in Budapest last year. At that time their just released one single. Now here is their first album 11 LOVE SONGS by Kythibong Records
Zsófi said: Jeeeeee
Pali said: Good! First song like Pixies, third like Movie Star Junkies. They recovered from The Cramps infection.
I say: Hard rock and roll psychedelia turns into country, blues, jazz’n back. Very playful and funny. My favourite moment when the easy rock and roll song I Wanna Be Your Puppy turns into Deep Purple’s Space Truckin’
Pink Slip Daddy Does It Again
„Tell young teenagers the news, we got good hard rock”
Mick Cancer, Sal Mineo’s Only Son (aka Ben Vaughn), Barb Dwyer and Palmyra Delran are together
PINK SLIP DADDY
was a psychobilly punk band in Philadelphia from the late 80s up to 1995. Next year 12 Golden Country Greats was released by Ween with Ben Vaughn as producer.
The band was reformed in 2012, and in 2016 they have „returned to rock action with a vengeance, having recently played a string of calamitous live shows and a new 7” EP, a rollicking, raucous heartfelt celebration of the music of teen pop idol Fabian Forte, and the golden age of Philadelphia rock ‘n’ roll.”
Fabian’s music career lasted exactly so far while Elvis Presley as a sergeant of US 3rd Armoured Division served in Western Germany between 1959-60. A short film about Fabian, the manufactured idol.
But more important that here is a 7″ vinyl with 3 new songs on French label Kizmiaz Records. The first ones after 22 years
so PINK SLIP DADDY is a psychobilly punk band in Philadelphia again. And you can find some old songs on their soundcloud free to download
Rough Sex with Pure Heart – Vagina Town Interview
On the 10th birthday party of RNR666 there will be a French ultrafuckin’hot rock’n’roll band, VAGINA TOWN. They’re so amazing like The Cramps.
Lavór: How did you got together?
Jeremie: Gina and I met in high school at respectively 17 and 15 in 98. We got together something like a year after and kept being stuck after each other ever since. We started to play music in bands in 2007. Vagina Town started has a duo beatbox bass guitar in 2009. We’ve been playing trio from 2010 to 2011. Then the band has been in stand by, until we started all over again in 2013 has a four pieces with Patou (drummer), and Rachouchou (keyboards).
Szabó: What represent your name?
We found that name during the first days of the band. It could have been Ravachol Crack* or Sex Minute. We were much more in some high speed energy at the time. Beat box guitar wolf… Anyway, we caught „Vagina Town” by watching an episode of Californication. Which is not a so funny series in my opinion… But some good jokes I admit. „Vagina Town” is also a real porn movie shot in the 90’s .
Now, talking about the band, Vagina Town can represent sex, energy, energy of sex… repressed and just about to blow everything up if you don’t let it out. Or having rough sex with a pure heart. … I’m not really sure actually.
*Ravachol (1859-92) was a French anarchist. He tried to make a better world with bombs. After some experiments he lost his head.
Zsófi: How often do you get joking questions about the influence of cramps on vagina…. town?
Not so much, because in France people are quite lousy at speaking foreign languages. So if you’re lucky enough to meet someone listening to the Cramps, he’s maybe not totally aware of the meaning of it. But we got many many comparison with them. Whereas I don’t think our music sounds like the Cramps. We love the Cramps for a long time. But we also love …. the Beatles (and know every songs) for example. Patou and I are listening to a lot of old rnb soul stuff… And many more things combined…
I think our Cramps thing is… in the clothes, girls playing music, some live energy and the sex references. We had the luck to see them once, performing in Brussels in 2003. I’m dreaming one day Poison Ivy would lend a hand on a Vagina record!!!
Lavór: Is it sexism or not if a band has boy and girl members too?
Jeremie: I’m not sure to understand the question. There’s probably some sexist attitudes in the band, it depends a lot of what you call sexism. I like to think we’re just people playing music. But I really like to play music with THESE special girls.
Gina: I don’t feel any sexist attitudes in the band. But sexism appears more often during the shows in the public or among the other bands we are playing with. I like to play with girls, I had a few girl bands, but it’s not my main concern to play with girls only.
Lavór: 1st is the Sex, 2nd the Drugs, 3rd is the Rockandroll. Is this proper order?
Jeremie: Sex 1, Rock n roll 2, Drugs 3 for all of us. As drug is an upper for exploring other things, or a way to stand the world. As you know, drugs can be very destructive and leading to poorness and diseases. So drugs! Yes! But as an improvement of something. I’m not so excited about taking legal happy pills, working in an oxygen factory in 2072. Luckily, I’ll be death by drugs then.
What’s your opinion about the legalization of ecstasy and MDMA?
I’m not sure I’m pro or anti drug legalization. As I told you about drugs before: what are you looking for by taking drugs? When you’re depressed, poor, if you got any problems… drugs won’t solve any of them. But drugs do feel fucking good. So yes if legalization means: avoiding cops, jail, money problems, providing state care… If it’s about taking money from the drug dealers to offer the market to big companies of the (not always)legal economy, with the same cynicism: it’s not a matter of excitement. But boy, I love so much to listen to music, watch gigs on MDMA!
See you in Budapest!!!!!!
in the centre of the city under the starry sky on the rooftop of Corvin Store
on 19 JUNE at CORVINTETŐ from 7 pm!
with the incredible LOUIS PANTHER (H)
cousin of Gustave Tiger
The concerts will start soon after 7 pm because it must be end up to 10 pm on the rooftop. The party continues with 6 DJ girls until dawn. It will be a crazy night.
Le Feu, Le Eau
Jonathan Kingsley Seilman, musician, arranger and producer from Nantes, known for his previous project, This Melodramatic Sauna, and its collaborations with The Patriotic Sunday, Birds Are Alive, and Sieur & Dame, etc. His brand new band is Le Feu, a collaboration with My Name Is Nobody, Binidu and Fordamage members. The most simple phrase is: indie pop, but French, because I like it better
Is This Love?
from the album Playgrounds and Battlefields
Okay, but what the hell does Kythibong mean?!
KYTHIBONG, French independent record label, Nantes.
Records from electro-pop to arith-metal.
They have sent such well-known artists as
Pneu, Kommandant Cobra, Piano Chat, Sieur & Dame,
Vagina Town and Binidu in the direction of world fame.
Is it a one man label or are there a bunch of fanatics?
We’re three people, Mric, Anthony and Marion.
How does it started and when?
It started more than 10 years ago, in 2002, because Room 204, one of Mric’s band, needed a structure, for administration, stuff and, of course, a first disc. Room 204’s drummer had this band that should be released for the world to hear, so we had a second release. Then this other friend had a musical project and, it’s not all so complicated to release albums, isn’t it . In a few years, without really deciding it, we were a label. The real decision was to go on with it.
What was the first release?
Room 204 (minimal jazz rock) is the first album with the name Kythibong on it, but it’s a co-production. Argument (noise rock) was the first release we did alone, as grown-up assuming themselves.
What were the big (or little) surprises, disappointments and mistakes?
Mistake and disappointment cannot really happen the way Kythibong functions. When we release something there is always good-enough reasons for it, a mixture of human-music complicity and, if we’re happy when a lot of other people agree with us that an album is awesome, we’re also fine when it’s not the case. And we love pile up CD boxes to play stronghold and knights. As for surprises, let’s say we’re always a bit surprised that people still want to work with us.
Can you play on any instruments? Have you ever been in a band?
Mric is the only one of us who can play on a guitar with some efficient results. He has two bands, Papaye and Room 204 (math rock/arith-metal), both on Kythibong, because we have no other choices if we want to avoid any big family drama. But actually, they are super great bands, so it’s ok. We’re lucky.
What do you do beside the music business?
Kythibong. And beside Kythibong, Mric is a musician, Anthony has a record shop and Marion is a screen-printer.
What are your upcoming releases?
Up coming next: an EP from The Healthy Boy and the Badass Motherfuckers (always raining)
a new LP from Gratuit (electro-pop) and somewhen soon a super surf album by a newcomer on Kythibong Les Agamemnonz.
Kythibong? What or Who is it?
We forgot, it was too long ago.
