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Cover photo : still from the "Someone stole my wheels" video,
shot by Marie Camus
This single is
taken from J.C. Brouchard's "Me
and Alan McGee" album
Some pictures
from Biff, Bang, Pow ! 's concert at The M.J.C. Claudel in Reims on October
25 th 1986 can be found here
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JC
BROUCHARD with BIFF, BANG, POW ! : Someone stole my wheels
series
: "Available"
ref : available 004
release date: august 22nd 2004
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Someone
stole my wheels (video, Quicktime,
4 Mb)
(Christine Wanless)
performed by JC Brouchard with Biff, Bang, Pow !
vidéo
directed by Marie Camus with JC Brouchard, Reims, january 1987
a Camuscope & lES rEDDITIONS pREMATUREES production
camera : Marie Camus et Francis Sellier
editing : Marie Camus
titles : Francis Sellier on an Apple IIe
digital transfer : Fabienne Mazay
with, in order of appearance (with or without their consent !) :
Biff, Bang, Pow ! filmed live at the M.J.C. Claudel in Reims, october
25th 1986 :
Andrew Innes : guitar, bass, vocals
Alan McGee : guitar, vocals
Dick Green : bass, guitar
Ken Popple : drums
Christine Wanless : vocals
and :
André Paillet
The postwoman
Amélie Hatté
3 young bike riders
Gérald Aubépart's puppet
Raoul Ketchup, Phil Sex & Pol Dodu
audio available originally on :
single A side (Creation Records, CRE 034 & CRE 034 T, 1986)
album track ("The girl who runs the beat hotel", Creation
Records, CRE LP 015, 1987)
2
Bébé
Tchernobyl
(MP3, 3,5 Mb)
(The Love Children / Saulfinger,
adapted into French by JC Brouchard)
performed by JC Brouchard with The Love Children
recorded at The Acid Factory, Isle of Dogs, London,
april 29th 1987
produced by The Revolving Paint Dream
JC Brouchard, vocals
Andrew Innes, instruments
Luke "Puke" Hayes, bass
Dick Green, guitar
Christine Wanless & unknown female vocalist, backing vocals
3
La bulle jaune
(MP3, 2,1 Mb)
(The Revolving Paint Dream,
adapted into French by JC Brouchard)
performed by JC Brouchard with The Formica Tops
vocals recorded at The Acid Factory, Isle of Dogs, London,
april 27th 1987
produced by The Revolving Paint Dream
instrumantal track taken from "Yellow ball", on the "Off
to heaven" album by Revolving Paint Dream
JC Brouchard, vocals
Philippe Roger, spoken voice
Andrew Innes, instruments
Luke "Puke" Hayes, bass
1986. Alan McGee has this idea
to release a Creation single under my name (I've been his «spiritual
advisor» for some time). The song is called «Someone stole
my wheels», written, sung and recorded by Andrew Innes and which,
according to certain sources, had at one point been scheduled to be the
second Revolving Paint Dream single under the title «Wheels on my
scooter».
The record is released in october 1986, credited to J.C. Brouchard with
Biff, Bang, Pow ! I won't tell you anything about the recording because
I played absolutely no part in it, my sole contribution consisting in
posing in front of Luke Hayes' camera, by the Thames, on the Isle of Dogs,
for the photos that are on the labels of the 7" and the 12"
single (both photos are slightly different from one another).
At the time, Marie Camus, one of my many friends from the
Radio Primitive crew in Reims, had just founded the Camuscope organization
to develop activities around the use of 8 mm video, which she had recently
taken a shine to. So the idea came quickly to us to make a video for "Someone
stole my wheels", to compensate for my absence on the record, and
most of all for a laugh.
On october 25th 1986, we took the opportunity of the second Biff, Bang,
Pow ! concert in Reims at the M.J.C. Claudel to film the band, especially
when they played "Someone stole my wheels". Like for
the whole film, these shots were made without professional equipment,
especially without lighting, which explains why the images of Biff, Bang,
Pow ! on stage are so dark !
For the rest of the shots, we elaborated on a few idiot ideas (show record
covers, turn the camera sideways, use the record sleeve as a guitar,...)
and we took the opportunity to make a gallery of portraits of our friends
in Reims, from the one year old baby, at whose home the Creation bands
used to sleep when they came to Reims, to my 92 year old neighbour, Monsieur
Paillet (who died a year later, in february 1988, right in the middle
of a Biff, Bang, Pow ! French tour), including some of the Radio Primitive's
top DJs !
The making of the video ended on a heroic feat : we managed to synchronise
the sound track with the images at the first atttempt, in the most primitive
way, by recording the vinyl record (no CD at the time...) so that the
music would start at the right time !
Taking into account the technical parameters (several generations
of 8 mm cassettes, transfered onto a VHS, a format that no TV would touch
with a pole), it's no surprise that this video has never been publicly
broadcasted, except for one night in a café in Tours, on February
3rd 1988, on the night of a cancelled Biff, Bang, Pow ! concert. Still,
I hope that you'll enjoy this document, a witness to the French adventures
of Creation Records and its improvised guru.
The two audio tracks that accompany this video were recorded for an intended
JC Brouchard solo single, which never came out. Alan hadmade one of his
greatest stunts by releasing "Chernobyl baby", a single by Baby
Amphetamine, a band made up for the occasion, and as I had explained to
him that I spent my time in class at university singing a French version
of the song, he set up a recording session with Revolving Paint Dream
on one of my trips to London. The instrumental track for "La bulle
jaune" is that from the song "Yellow ball" on "Off
to heaven", the first Revolving Paint Dream album...
J.C. Brouchard, août
2004.
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