ALICE NOT JOHN Episode 23: A Fictional Radio Transmission Guest: Laurent Gérard (Èlg & La Chimie)
ALICE NOT JOHN
Episode 23: A Fictional Radio Transmission
Guest: Laurent Gérard (Èlg & La Chimie)
Host: Joeri Bruyninckx
A conversation I overheard in a record store:
Customer: “Do you have Coltrane?”
Record shop owner: “In the jazz section.”
Customer: “I mean Alice, not John.”
Record shop owner: “In the jazz section.”
ALICE NOT JOHN is the name of a fictional radio show. The idea is this: for every episode, I ask a musician the same questions. The answers I receive are the “playlist” of my fictional radio show. The questions are these:
What song do you associate with your childhood?
Laurent Gérard: ‘Ancora Tu’ by Lucio Battisti. My mother is Italian, and we used to listen to it all the time.
What’s your favorite shower sing-along song?
‘The Stick Figure’ by David Garland, singing the melody as low in tone as possible.
What was your favorite song as a teenager?
‘Going Nowhere’ by Therapy.
What’s your favorite air guitar song?
‘Fracture’ by King Crimson was my favorite when I was 16.
What song do you associate with your adolescence?
‘Amorce des consignes’ by Dominique Petitgand.
Which song do you know the lyrics to by heart?
‘Ces Gens-là’ by Jacques Brel.
Which song makes you feel better when you’re feeling down?
‘Cayenne’ by Lawrence le Doux.
Name a song people wouldn’t think you’d like.
‘Sous le Vent’ by Garou and Celine Dion.
Can you name a song you think people should listen to if they don’t know it yet?
‘Everything’ by Micachu and The Shapes & The London Sinfonettia.
Can you tell me about a song that you didn’t like when you first heard it but now like very much?
‘The Past Is a Grotesque Animal’ by of Montreal.
What’s your favorite song right now?
‘Not’ by Big Thief
Which song do you quote most often? Which line?
The song “Envole Moi” by Jean-Jacques Goldman is an automatism for me, almost like an OCD developed since childhood.
Joeri Bruyninckx
Headline photo: Èlg & La Chimie
