A sunny and smokey saturday afternoon at Bernard's home.
Parents are away for the week-end, tall sister is locked in her room working hard on her future. 
In the living room, we the boys are rolling out "no future" in cold spleen of friendship.
2nd Thought is the first name we chose for the band. We are 15 and 17 years old.


Upright piano, Stratocaster, Steinberger stick bass, Casiotone 403, 
Roland sh101, Sound Master sr-88 drum machine.
Caught on a basic sony cassette-corder.

3 Changing Man

2 The Figure

1 In A Clear Room

1984 Club des Etudiants

Along 6 years of weekly rehearsal in various places, we only did a few gigs.
This one is the first significant one after a disastrous attempt for the
1982 first "Music Fest". We even had an opening act, a band called "New noble society" founded by Denis and Bernard acquaintances,  among them the son of a famous french Sci-Fi writer.
A drummer had joined our band a few monthes before. One of the two that played with us instead of drum machines we always prefered ("less talkative" was the usual joke to justify that tropism). William is important because he found the band name "18 brumaire" we
kept 'til the end. And he had that ability for advertising and negociating gigs dates.
This tape is the only concert recording I managed to get back in six years, from a guy in the audience using a cheap recorder (again).
The sound is absolutly awful. 
The girl you hear screaming all along the gig is that 'cliché' hardcore fan, in love with the singer, and also with the The Cure we were covering at the end of each performance. 
She moved to London a couple of years later. 
Hello Katty !

A Forest

Strange

The Figure

The Last Fall

The Changing Man

An Eye

Happy Song

Swiming Girl

oldies but crappies
from a young time
when we pretend to be
cold wave boys
in a french alps
mid-sized town

The point is not
"How good is this music
or not" but how sons
of boomers tried to start
their lives in the
ugly cynical eighties

Laurent
/ vocals, lyrics, piano, drum programming
Denis
/ bass
Bernard
/ guitars
Arnaud
/ keyboards, drum programming, lyrics

Wewereravens