Pourquoi votre bande n’a pas de chanteur?
Kitten wanty da water
Today we played a house show in Flagstaff, AZ with a French band called Ed Mudhsi. We talked with them after the show while doing a ritualistic cd-exchange. The one who knew English the best had a pretty thick accent. So I tried to understand him as much as possible without returning the conversation with ‘speak-slowly-for-retards’ that Americans often do to foreigners. Dustin chimed in with something like “DO YOU GUYS HAVE WEBSITE? You, know, WEB-SITE?” while making rectangular gestures with his hands.
What I absorbed from the conversation is that bands in France are automatically liked less if they are French natives or sing in their own language, and English speaking American bands are well-accepted and treated much better than they are in America. That means the audience likes your band more, the venues feed you well, and you probably will choose not to lose money by touring the good ol’ USA for a while.
On we go.
