User:Le Jeune Extreme

I'm Fred, 42, french, living near Paris, "married 2 kids" like sang The Fall, editorial-webmaster for a website.

I played for fun in some experimental and noisy-pop bands (on synth and bass) without releasing or recording anything. But mainly, I've been involved in underground fanzines since 1989, starting with a fanzine dedicated to The Cure (a band I used to love, a long time ago...). Then I issued 2 numbers of my own fanzine called "Decades", its purpose was talking about forgotten/disappeard bands, analyzing old press articles, etc.

Then I worked for what was at the time probably the biggest fanzine in France, called Premonition (distributed in all "Fnac" (same as Virgin Megastores, but bigger). We talked about all indie stuff, from the brit Shoegazer scene to the last grunge bands, including new-wave, goth, electro and more classical pop-rock bands. I had the chance to make interviews with Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, Gavin Friday, Therapy?, New Order, etc. Premonition stopped in 1998, before recreating only on the web in 2001. I wrote a book in 2005 called (I translate) "Generation Extreme, 1975-1982 from punk to cold-wave", covering all styles born during this period (punk, industrial music, ska, post-punk, cold-wave) with the point of view of french people.

Then, being really fed up with classical rock magazines, record industry, people, politics, and everything, I decided to laugh a bit with a stupid fanzine called (I translate) "Punk-Post-Punk and other insignificant phenomenons", at the beginning of 2007. It's made on virtual paper (it has to be downloaded and printed, in order to be readable in your toilets, because you can't read a website in your toilets), it's totally free, totally DIY, I do it on my own writing everything, except when nice people give me articles. I make interviews of unknown underground french punk/goth/pop/metal/etc bands that never released anything except self-productions, but also of "bigger" bands, and of english bands lije The English Victorian Gentlemans Club, Kurt Danielson (from TAD) or Order of The Keys (I kept the original text so that english people can read it, and that's why I'm writing this on Wikipedia in english language). And also because I want the whole world to love me.

With the fanzine I have issued a free compilation of french punk bands at the beginning of 2008, too ("Punk Post Punk 2008"). My fanzine is at http://pppzine.free.fr, I hope you'll enjoy it.