It is a very singular promotion art that Nicolas Ker practices. We remember the disastrous passage of the leader of Poni Hoax, in an advanced state of intoxication, on the set of the show "We are not lying". It was in 2016. Before the release of his album Empire , the terrible child of French rock reoffended in an interview as lunar as annoying granted to the radio station Les Clochards célestes, shared online this Sunday.
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"I saw an unconscious zombie arrive in the studio, carried by his two press attachés, who laid him directly on my sofa ," explains journalist Simon Collin. There were 20 of us around him, facing an undead, with the same question "What do we do?". We decided to carry it to the chair and press REC. It gave the Mezrahi a hilarious mix of ascent and descent, fits of tears and giggles, and many silences lasting several minutes. ”
"For me, an interview is talking," explains Nicolas Ker at the start of this interview available on YouTube. And the singer to warn: "And so, you're going to take your head too." The interviewer is not at the end of his pains in this exchange where it is a question, among others, of prostitutes of the street Saint-Denis, of Angolan politics and ... of Arielle Dombasle.
"It's shit"
The actress and singer, who gave Ker a role of mad scientist in her film Alien Crystal Palace , considers her friend as a "figure of truth". "This is really bullshit ," explains the main interested party. I think she thinks that because she feels fake too. But in fact, it is not fake at all. And I think I am not the figure of truth. We must stop raving completely. I'm a complete asshole. "
"I don't give a damn about it, I say anything" , continues the singer, laughing a few moments later: "But I'm crazy!"
When his interlocutor speaks to him about the seventh art, it is the crisis of tears. His two favorite movies? Apocalypse Now , "the only thing that can make others understand what happened to me" , and La Dolce Vita , "that's what's happening to me right now" .
"Everything else is shit," he laments. What about Alien Cristal Palace ? "Not up to par," says Ker, for whom the film is not subversive enough. "This is not true psychedelic violence" , asserts this big fan of the punk group Bérurier Noir.
What about his Empire record? "We do not care in fact," says the singer who apologizes for being "always on the verge of tears" and claims to have "a lot of trouble living" . Words similar to those that this lively cutaway had held on the set of Laurent Ruquier, before being gently removed from the set ...