Dave

Mick Micheyl

Was that a G sharp, then?

Dave

Ah yes that was a G sharp.

Mick Micheyl

Had to do it, didn't you! Ok, I'm glad that you've heard Dave, I would now like for you to tell us about yourself.

Dave

Yes

Mick Micheyl

Dutch?

Dave

Not important.

Mick Micheyl

24 years old?

Dave

24, yes.

Mick Micheyl

So tell us, why did you, leave Holland?

Dave

Well, I was, I was fed up being there, I bought a boat to look for the sun. Because during the 21 years of my life, I wanted the sunshine which was missing at home. So with a friend, who I had the good fortune of meeting, I bought a boat, left, went down to the Mediterranean, and travelled round. And that's where singing came in order to eat, in order to buy oil for the engine, I sang. I sang in bars, that is, on the terrace, in winter when it was too cold, inside the nightclubs. And that worked very well, but one day, there was no reason to stop, but one day I returned to a little port next to Toulon, and I fell in love with a Breton.

Mick Micheyl

With a Breton.

Dave

With a Breton boat.

Mick Micheyl

Yes because otherwise he would have had a round hat, wouldn't he.

Dave

No, no, no, ah, not bad, but no, with a Breton boat

Mick Micheyl

Ok, ok.

Dave

And in order to buy it, well I bought it straight away, but I had to pay for it afterwards, when you buy something, it's a problem, and there was the problem that you perhaps know already, in any case, there are definitely some spectators who know about i

Mick Micheyl

Yes, we know about that.

Dave

I had to pay the bills. So, I couldn't do that by working in the street, you earned enough to eat, to yourself...

Mick Micheyl

For the oil but not for the bills.

Dave

But not for the bills.

Mick Micheyl

So what did you do?

Dave

But I had, I was late, very, very late and they wanted to take the boat, and I said: Ok, there's a solution, everyone says that I sing well, I'll go and see a record company and see if they can pay enough to keep the boat, and I stayed with that company.

Mick Micheyl

So you came to Paris to pay for the boat, the bills and the oil?

Dave

Yes, and it worked!

Mick Micheyl

If this boat hadn't existed, this boy would not be singing.

Dave

But now, I'm in the job and I sing.

Mick Micheyl

And you sing well.

Dominique Reznikoff

I wanted to ask him if he writes, composes and interprets?

Dave

Yes, yes, I write my own songs.

Dominique Reznikoff

That's very important.

Dave

Because I'm too lazy to learn other people's songs, I think.

Mick Micheyl

That's difficult though, it really takes a lot of time to write songs.

Dave

Yes but, I prefer to write songs on [not understood], it's a way of expressing yourself.

Mick Micheyl

You know he'll sing after he's been asked this question.

Jacqueline Joubert

I wanted to ask him something, Mick, a short while ago, you asked him his age, and sadly he responded 24. Why, is 24 too old or too young?

Dave

Ah me, I was happy when I was 14, I am already 10 years too old.

Jacqueline Joubert

10 years already...

Mick Micheyl

He started at 14 years of age.

Jacqueline Joubert

He started at 14.

Mick Micheyl

So he did, he sang from 10 years of age and in an unusual way really.

Jacqueline Joubert

He's an old man, a veteran of the job.

Dave

Yes, it goes quickly, yes.

Mick Micheyl

He's an old sea dog. Are there are other things in your life which interest you apart from the boat?

Dave

Love

Mick Micheyl

Mr. Amoroso, doctor Amoroso who is the most famous psychoanalyst in Europe I believe.

(Docteur) Amorose

I would just like to ask Dave, he just stated that he had a little emotional breakdown, he loves this childhood to which everything seems to hold on to. I would like to ask him, what's the key to this magnificent hair, unusual for people of your sex, for example, is it...

Mick Micheyl

Not that unusual.

(Docteur) Amorose

Not that unusual, in any case let's now say abnormal, is it to do with business? Is it a desirable opportunity or on the contrary is it an involuntary response to the male sex? In a word do you deny it or...

Dave

No, it's very easy, you don't have to, you don't have to look very far.

(Docteur) Amorose

That's what I wanted to say, in a word the character that we listened to a while ago, would he sing with as much talent, as much conviction, as much dynamism if he had, let's say, a shorter hair cut.

Mick Micheyl

Ok, that's a more than valid question, answer.

Dave

Well, yes, but I wouldn't be as happy because I very much like having long hair, it's important for me to like myself because I have to do my hair, shave, I see myself all the time. And I am happy like this, so there is no other reason for it.

Mick Micheyl

So basically, it's not to please the ladies in the crowd, but to please himself.

Dave

Yes but even so it's something very important.

Spectator

It's narcissism. And what if we prefer you with...?

Jacqueline Joubert

And what if I take some scissors and cut your hair right now?

Dave

You'll see, sometimes, there are woman of course, well girls, who want to try, so I put it back, you're not going to do it now, and it's, they'll say: no, no, leave it like that.

Mick Micheyl

Carry on, Mr. Lafargue.

monsieur Lafargue

I would like to know why you wear glasses?

Dave

Because I can't see without them.

monsieur Lafargue

That's a good reason, ok.

Mick Micheyl

And when you sing, do you need your glasses.

Dave

I'll tell you, I try, if I take my glasses off, I look as if I'm looking for something and in fact I'm not looking for anything at all.

Jacqueline Joubert

But you no longer see the audience, that way you could imagine...

Dave

In any case, you see the audience, you don't see the audience, if you have already tried to sing, it's too dark, you see nothing.

Jacqueline Joubert

Yes you do see a bit.

Spectator

I would like to know if you consider your accent a handicap or an advantage to your career in France. That is, in 10 years, will you still have the same accent or will you loose it? Because accents often bring success in France.

Dave

Yes, but... I would like to loose my accent, I don?t like it that much that you can tell straight away that I'm a foreigner, and besides when I sing, I have time to work on my accent, by not speaking naturally. So I hope to have less and less, in, on the record already, it's already more difficult to tell, you can repeat it and everything. Speaking, well, you say it's nice, I don't know, I really want, but I don't want to be so Dutch. It is necessary to say again because I have not been in France very long, but the fact that I am Dutch, for me is of no importance.

Spectator

And in Holland, are you well known?

Dave

Yes, that is, I go, I am, I'm taking part in the Eurovision final, for the Eurovision song there, soon, they'll know me a bit. They know me rather because of the boat, because of this story of the boat, everyone knows it.

Mick Micheyl

Because of the Breton.

Monique Loisel

I just want to ask him what became of "the Breton"?

Mick Micheyl

In what way?

Monique Loisel

What has become of "the Breton"!

Dave

Unfortunately it's always elsewhere, I have quite a long contract with my record company, but I can perhaps go into hiding before, I don't know.

Monique Loisel

I'd also like to come back to the glasses, and the fringe, I find that it hides your face and it seems to me that the two are too much! There, much better.

Mick Micheyl

We could ask...

Dave

I am going to sing in a moment

Mick Micheyl

You can ask Jean-Claude who is nevertheless err...

Spectator

He is much better without glasses.

Mick Micheyl

Good haircut, he can give us his opinion.

Spectator

But it doesn't offend me

Monique Loisel

Ah no, no, not the haircut either for me, but the glasses and the hair is too much.

Dave

It's too much yes, because you no longer see your face. I want to be a singer not to look pretty.

Monique Loisel

Without being pretty, you have very beautiful blue eyes, you don't have to hide them.

Dave

Yes, but I can't see with, it's very beautiful to...

Spectator

So you are typically pretty, that contradicts what you said.

Dave

No, no, no, that's not the case.

Spectator

What would interest me, is rather to know how Dave made contact with the record company?

Dave

I was on the metro, it was the 7th of December at 5 o'clock, and I had to pay before the post offices closed on the 7th of December, I went to Sablon and I found a record company. I sang 2 songs, one of which I gave to Nicolas [not understood] afterwards who recorded it, which brought in authors' rights and the other to [not understood] and the gentleman there said: good, I'll give you a contract. I said: yes, that's not all, I also needed "that", and he give that too.