Hors Ducommun

Il porte un nom qu’on croirait inventé pour la scène. « Ducommun », un patronyme suisse, hérité de son père, qu’un jour même les Transports Lausannois avaient repris pour créer un personnage de pub : Monsieur Ducommun. Anecdote qui amuse Fabien Ducommun, chanteur revenu de loin et revenu chez lui, un peu, en Suisse, pour y présenter […]

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NBA : The European Dream

The NBA has always been a dream for me. I associate it with night shifts, with forbidden games watched between two and three in the morning on the control screens at Europe 1, where I presented the sports news in 2001 and 2002. Even earlier, in the late 1990s, there were the VHS tapes from […]

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A Dark Room Full of Light

Dirtbound13, LemanCapo, Astralproject1on, Erdem, Demain C Mieux et Maeve Chustar live at the Suisse Workshop, Lausanne, October 17. A dark coworking space humming with joy, excitement, and restless energy. I arrive early, wandering through the venue like an explorer before the crowd awakens. A smoking room. A game room. An arcade console on a flat […]

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Montreux Gets a Taste of Pulp

Montreux Jazz suits him well. Jarvis Cocker, the disjointed moonwalker, struts onto the Vaudoise Riviera like it’s a stage carved from his own daydreams. Here, in the land of Chaplin, he bends his lanky frame with the grace of a marionette possessed, throwing punchlines laced with that unmistakably British self-deprecation – the mark of an […]

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