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Anarchist til Death (EP)

by Louis Lingg and the Bombs

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We released the 7 inch vinyl EP, Anarchist Til Death with a french label called Close Up Records. They had released one of the greatest french riot girl EPs ever. The IKU 7 inch is definitely one you should track down. (I just checked: it’s not sold out!). I booked Iku for my stag night! Best riot girl band I’ve ever seen. The guy who ran the label was Olimai from the band Yperite. We had played quite a few gigs with Yperite. Great lyrics and great songs. (I went on to produce their album, “444” by the way.) Anyway, Olimai was into the idea and we started working on a tracklist. We pulled songs from the album Lullabies for Mutant Monkeys. The record starts with one of our worst, long forgotten songs, Degage Gendarme but a legendary radio station called Radio Beton was playing it on their rock show so I felt that my hands were tied! My mother in law, Sophie Dargacha (aka Moricette) is an artist, she was going through her monkey period at the time and I felt that they were perfect for the cover art. Aren’t we all just monkeys? You should download the record on our bandcamp to see the back cover and the round sticker things in the bonuses. Every picture is great! Anyway, the 7 inch record sold out! That’s cool!

the chapter for our book:
Chapter 6 Anarchist ‘til Death

So it’ll come as no surprise that Arno Life became our new guitarist. I don’t remember even asking him. We’d asked him to play in London with us but he didn’t have a passport and all that shit at the time. He just appeared at band practice and concerts and it seemed completely natural and I never questioned it ‘cos why jinx a great vibe. He was the perfect fit for the band and I can’t imagine my life without him. He had played in lots of bands. Too many to mention here. He was also Axel’s old guitar teacher! Small world! Anyway, needless to say that he’s a great guitar player… almost as good as Axel! I can’t remember exactly what his first concert with us was but it certainly could have been at the Miroiterie!

Arno says: “Well you called me and asked me to come and play with the band in London at the gig in Cross Kings but I didn’t have any papers at the time so I said “yes” straight away and then called you back to tell you that I didn’t have the right to leave the country because I didn’t have a passport or ID. So you asked Franck from King of Conspiracy to do it. I was a bit pissed off ‘cos I'd have liked to play with you. So I got my papers done and hoped you’d call back.
...And a few weeks later, you did! You told me that Ben had left the group and that you had a concert booked for the Pixie Bar the next week. You wanted to know if I wanted to come and play the gig with you. I said, “Ok” and we did one practice in Studio Bleu (one of the most popular practice studios in Paris).
...And then we went to play the gig. I remember that I had trouble understanding the songs,especially, Jiggy Baby, which didn’t seem to have any discernible rhythm that I could make out and it was the first song in the fucking set!
Between the songs, Axel explained what the next song was by making noises or by word association because I hadn’t learnt the song titles yet. So he’d say “it’s the one that goes like Welcome to Paradise” for Madonna is a Corporate Whore and “Welcome to Paradise again” for Princess Mononoke.
...And it seemed to work pretty well! It was a good system!
...And after that… we were off! You know the rest!”

The Miroiterie was an artist’s squat in the 20th arrondissement of Paris that had a pretty good sized central hall for concerts and events. I’d started organizing concerts there for bands while Ben was still part of the band. It was always a thrill walking up Menilmontant hill dragging amps and gear up the slope from the metro knowing that when I got to the top, I’d be welcomed by like minded people. I’d walk through the gate along the passage and say hi to the people at the outside bar. Usually Michel Ktu, Natacha, Iskander, Pat Dub or Elliot. I’d avoid the toilets though. Always avoid the toilets!

The Miroiterie was part of a network of squats all over Paris that, for me, really created an environment that was perfect for punk music. We’d started playing benefit concerts for causes that we believed in and these concerts pulled hundreds of kids sometimes. We played a great benefit concert in a squat for some anarchists that were being accused of being in an armed gang by the police… their weapon? Words written on placards and bed sheets! The cops showed up during our set. The audience went outside and hit the side of the van. The cops got scared and went away. When the audience came back in, our mediocre concert was suddenly fucking awesome and people danced. Yes! People were dancing more and more at our gigs. Thanks pigs!

Benefit concerts raised considerable amounts of money and helped people and really did change things. The Paris punk scene pulled together and it felt like this was the golden age of Parisian punk! The CICP organized some great benefit gigs and was really a great part of the scene. We’d get to play there a year or two later. The gigs were well attended and people were dancing! I mean, it was still fucked up from time to time. Like the time we played at the SPA squat and there were more dogs milling round than people. These dogs would get up on stage while we were playing our hearts out, look around and plop themselves onto the stage monitors. They were fucking loud so I suppose the dogs must have liked the vibrations! We also played at the CAES before the cops closed it down which was one of the most emblematic squat in french history.

Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, the Miroiterie! There were some fucking great concerts there. The amazing ones that stick out are gigs with Joe The Mouk, IMODIUM, Punk a Chier, Les Marie Salope, Yperite, Iku, Choking Susan, Les Becasses, Les Distortions, Klympt and many others. So many great gigs. I wish I could mention them all! I feel guilty for skipping over so many great shows.

When Joe La Mouk played, there were so many people crammed in there we thought it might be dangerous. But it was so magic when they threw confetti in the air and launched a hip hop beat so fucking massive that everybody jumped in the air with total abandon. I used to program beats on a sampler when I was in an electro punk band called Dummycrusher. My mind started turning… maybe we could do something similar… I still had the samplers and stuff… bring on the techno-rave, that’s what I say!


I mean what I say when I say it was a golden age but that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t a dark side. We played a gig in a bar called Le Rocher. The sound system actually turned up AFTER the bands had set up! Not the last time I’ve seen that happen unfortunately! We played a good gig and convinced the punks of our worth. They were being standoffish. The punk kids were much less welcoming towards us that they normally were. Towards the end of the show, some guy with a mo-hawk licked my face and told me I was alright. Yuck! There was a nasty vibe around that place. There were punk bands, oi bands and ska bands all on the same bill. The skinheads and punks wouldn't stop fighting in the pit. It came to head with skin head outside the bar armed with bike chains ready to fuck us up if we stepped outside (we’d been assimilated into the punks by this time in the night. They looked after us against a common enemy.) Well the solution was a simple one in the end. Just wait until they went away!

We’d often do shows around this time with a punk cheerleading squad called Tad Girl Squad on stage with us. It was pretty wild! People danced until they were soaked with sweat. They were LGBT friendly kind of squad and they moved into experimental and avant garde noise performances when the cheerleading had gotten a bit stale. There certainly were some strange spectacles to see on stage during those shows.

William from Wall Street Destroy (a DIY booking agency) said he had a surprise for me if I could tell him the name of the band that wrote the following songs. I didn’t really concentrate and got it wrong. It was The Stiff Little Fingers! Fuck! Inflammable Material is one of my favourite albums! He took pity on me and said he was still gonna book us to support them at The Elysee Montmartre! The Elysee Montmartre is a legendary venue in Paris where every great band that you can imagine has played. Cool! Supporting a legendary band is something we’d never done before! Bring it on!

We’d asked Clemence’s kid brother, Hadrien to do the live sound mixing for the gig. When we got there the head engineer shouted at me and said that he had mixed Blur, Metallica and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers so we’d be better off using him. I politely told him to leave us be and that Hadrien would do fine! I’m glad I did as we had the best sound of the night! The headliner’s sound was harsh and distorted. Hadrien pops up again in the next chapter!

We had a backstage area with a fridge with a banana and a yogurt pot in it. We briefly met The Stiff Little Fingers. They were getting a crate of Champagne delivered and were getting sleazy with some rich parisian girls. The kind of girl that must get backstage for a lot of big shows in big venues. Yuck! Fuck that. Never meet your heroes. They really do dissapoint! Ironic from the band that wrote Nobody’s heroes. The roadies were awesome though! Great guys full of amazing stories as you’d expect after having toured the world so many times!

We played pretty well considering that it’s a different experience playing on big stages and relying on monitor mixes instead of ambient sound. The venue seemed pretty empty. There must have been a good few hundred people that came in as we were playing though. When we finished, it was half full. It was cool jumping off the stage and singing in the crowd. Haven’t seen much of that hardcore style of stuff at big venues.

We met a sports photographer that night called Dave Winter. We became good friends and he’d taken some great photos; all energy and movement! You could tell he had sporting experience! He’d been on the London punk scene back in the day but didn’t know too many people here in the Paris scene. It was a pleasure to meet him and it still is every time I see him! If you’ve ever seen a good photo of us, chances are that he took it!

We released the 7 inch vinyl EP, Anarchist Til Death with a french label called Close Up Records. They had released one of the greatest french riot girl EPs ever. The IKU 7 inch is definitely one you should track down. (I just checked: it’s not sold out!). I booked Iku for my stag night! Best riot girl band I’ve ever seen. The guy who ran the label was Olimai from the band Yperite. We had played quite a few gigs with Yperite. Great lyrics and great songs. (I went on to produce their album, “444” by the way.) Anyway, Olimai was into the idea and we started working on a tracklist. We pulled songs from the album Lullabies for Mutant Monkeys. The record starts with one of our worst, long forgotten songs, Degage Gendarme but a legendary radio station called Radio Beton was playing it on their rock show so I felt that my hands were tied! My mother in law, Sophie Dargacha (aka Moricette) is an artist, she was going through her monkey period at the time and I felt that they were perfect for the cover art. Aren’t we all just monkeys? You should download the record on our bandcamp to see the back cover and the round sticker things in the bonuses. Every picture is great! Anyway, the 7 inch record sold out! That’s cool!

The next record may be a huge chapter! There were so many crazy adventures in those days! How am I going to write them all? How can I get them all straight in my head? I worked a job where I had to wake up at 6am every morning and we were playing two or three concerts a months plus mini tours, festivals and even foreign dates. At that pace, my brain just didn’t record memories. Or was it the beer? Anyway, find out next time which stories I manage to get down. There’s so many!

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released October 2, 2010

Art by Sophie Dargacha
Recorded by Jean Phi Bionaz, Arthur De Barry and Joshua Hudes
Mixed by Joshua Hudes
Mastered by Spleenless Mastering

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Louis Lingg and the Bombs Paris, France

Louis Lingg and the Bombs are goddamn punk-rock-garage-electro-big beat-pop-anarcho saviours of the 2 and half minute pop song. The bombs they throw are musical, they come from Paris (they could only come from Paris!) and they'll grab you and demand your instant attention.
Their sound is a mix of ultra-political anarchic punk rock and fizzing children's nursery rhyme riot-pop. Formed in 2006!!!!
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