War ... and escape (Saw, guitar, chains)

Rude Awakening

Taken from Gareth Liddiard's debut solo album Strange Tourist out now on iTunes, physical release out January 17th (UK) / January 25th (USA. More info at www.atprecordings.com

It seems we're all in for a treat
Staring up, out of the street
And you can tell that Joe is really glad he came

Though downwind of him trails
A fog of alcohol
He fails
To do his best to be indifferent
All the same

'Cause there ain't no shaking the smell
Like there ain't no shaking the spell
As Blondin, Wirewalker
Braves the screams

Well, Joe is
Obvious impressed
Though he has something to confess
Above the sound of ten thousand creaking
Necks all craned

Joe says,
"Alone amongst the beasts and freaks
I dreamed of tightrope walking
While I tended Blondin's
Percherons and trailers

I'd see him
Training in the evening
There was no point trying to speak
You see, I doubted that he'd have
Time for the strangers

Who'd be there hoisting his big tents
Who'd be spying him from their naves
Staring down at them
Like batshit in a cave

Well, we hardly even met, but see
I worked for him, I thought I'd
Fill the space he left
But no, I was naive

Just another sideshow slow, I thought
He knew something I don't
But it would seem, all these Wirewalkers have
Is just the means to make you feel so bad

Man, no one
Cared for him at all
Until he crossed Niagara Falls
So you'd all feel
A little lower down the scale

And then his fame shot straight and fast
Right through a gloomy, narrow pass
He chanced through darkness, lightning storms
And into day

But I ain't here because he's tall
I'm only here to see him fall
If I get on the wagon now
It'll only be to run him down"

It seems we're
All in for a treat
Staring up out of the street

And you can smell that Joe's been drinking
On his breath

And then the clouds part overhead
And I make out a silhouette
As though I'm staring up through a trapdoor
And I'm waiting to be fed.

Gareth Liddiard - Blondin Makes An Omelette

Einstürzende Neubauten - Stella Maris

Je suis musicien, compositeur, multi-instrumentiste, dans des groupes, pour des pièces de théâtre, occasionnellement pour des documentaires et films publicitaires. 
I am a musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, in bands, for theater,  occasionally for documentaries and commercials.

Batterie/Drums 
Guitare/Guitar
Basse/Bass
Chant/Vocals
Scie musicale/Musical saw
Chaînes, perceuse et autres/ Chains, drill and others...

Depuis 1989,  j'ai joué et/ou enregistré avec :
Since 1989, I have played and/or recorded with : 

#FRENCH ARTISTS : 
the Groovers
Dimi Dero INC
Chatterbox
Ghost Train
Tulla Larsen
Youpi Youpi Yeah!
Color Book
Black Luna
dDash
Joe Hell (Oberkampf)
Delphine 13 Ciampi
Beatrice Demi Mondaine
François Lebas (Fixed Up, Backsliders, Urban Touaregs)
Freddy Lynxx (Jetboys)
Jerry Spider Gang
Gil Rose & Les Hydropathes
Chloe Mons & Yan Péchin (Alain Bashung)

#AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS : 
Warren Ellis (Dirty Three, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Grinderman)
Mick Harvey (Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey)
Brian Henry Hooper (Beasts of Bourbon, Surrealists, Rowland S Howard)
Ron S. Peno (Died Pretty) and the Superstitions
Kim Salmon (Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Surrealists, Antenna, Salmon)
Ash Wednesday (Jab, Models, Einstürzende Neubauten)
JP Shilo (Rowland Howard, Hungry Ghosts)
Charlie Owen (New Christs, Beasts Of Bourbon, Tex Perkins)
Burn in Hell
Penny Ikinger
Rob Younger (Radio Birdman,New Race, New Christs)
Loene Carmen
Noah Taylor
Kim Volkman ( X , Love Addicts)
Pete Ross
Megan Bawden
Garry Gray (Sacred Cowboys)
Louis Tillett (Wet Taxis, Laughing Clowns)
Spencer P. Jones (the Johnnys, Beasts of Bourbon)
Rosie Westbrook (Mick Harvey's band)
Gaz Liddiard (the Drones)
Bertie Page Clinic

@EUROPEAN ARTISTS : 
Tex Napalm 
Nikki Sudden
Wreckless Eric
Teamforest

#AMERICAN ARTISTS : 
Theo Hakola (Orchestre Rouge, Passion Fodder)
Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman, New Race, Visitors)
Anthony S. Malat (Love Life, Bellmer Dolls)
Jerome Smith (the Divinyls, Keith Richards)
Jeff Dahl
Mark Steiner


>>>>>>THEATER :
-Music for "Chroniques du Bord de Scène, 5.2" (J.Ellroy) directed by Nicolas Bigards, MC93 Bobigny, with Bea Demi Mondaine.
-Music for "American Tabloid" (J.Ellroy) directed by Nicolas Bigards, MC93 Bobigny, with Theo Hakola.
-Music for "The Color Book" (B.Wrighston, P.Seuling), MC93 Bobigny.
-Music for "Les Derniers Jours de l'Humanité" (K.Kraus) directed by Nicolas Bigards.
-Music for "Lettres de Guerre" (various authors) directed by Nicolas Bigards.
-Drums for "Hair, le Concert", Compagnie En Passant/MC93.

>>>>>>SOUNDTRACKS :
-Une Autre Route (Sabrina Malek/Arnaud Soulier).
-Un Monde Moderne (Sabrina Malek/Arnaud Soulier).
-Les Gueules Noires (Marianne Tardieu, Rodolphe Bertrand, w/Laurent Petitgand).

>>>>>>COMMERCIALS : 
-Hermes (website) with Delphine Ciampi.

War ... and escape (Saw, guitar, chains)

Dimi DERO

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