Saturday, September 09, 2006

Draguignan (F) @ The Derrock Night


Let’s start it all over again. Tonight show: The Derrock Night 2, a fine mix between inspector Derrick & some Rock ‘n Roll... nice evening to go!!
Aiming for Draguignan (south of France), we are optimistic as we’ll meet again with old friends “Les maskes feuillus”...( the association that put up the show)
And they’re not going to prove me wrong, as soon as we arrive they got us into one of their (in)famous “pastissade” ( basically a drinking bout). After that we unload the van and soundcheck without that much of motivation...
Diner time: we discuss about thongs with the parisian band G-STRING and that’s when we got to know about a local legend which tells the story of a kid who’s been half eaten by a kinda giant fish.... truth or fiction ??? we don’t know but just let Totof answer to that, ‘cause when it comes to aquatic beasts issues he’s a super genius .
This is the kick-off of the evening, the “SINGES VERT” ( a local band) opens, they sound like a crossover between old French punck bands ( the Ludwig Von 88 cover won’t make a liar of me ) & Guerilla Poubelle ( a band from Paris ) maybe they remind me of them because both bands have painters..... who knows??!!
Then, the youngsters from the “Singes Verts” leave the stage to the older “WALEGUEN AGAINST”, I have to confess I watch their live performance from one corner of my eye, all my attention’s on Totof actually trying to pick up Franky’s mom ( one of the guitar player of Walleguen Against).
Then we get on stage, tonight is going to be good, the 150 kids or so are here to have fun and party and they’re showing it... Great show!!!
Last but not least, G-STRING end up the Derrock Night vol.2 with their Rock’n’roll/ Rancid-like
punk-rock music, and they are doing fine...
Here it is, the end of the night, we’re exhausted, we don’t fuck around too much, we say a cheeringful goodbye to “Beru” ( one of the “maskes feuillus” guys) who actually passed out in the kitchen; his forehead against the table, and then we’re gone .

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