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Dick Annegarn at the Petit Conservatoire

30 septembre 1972
05m 18s
Ref. 00072

Information

Summary :

Mireille welcomes Dick Annegarn to her show in his early days. After a short interview, Dick Annegarn performs extracts from several songs in English and in Dutch and finishes by a chorus from Bonbons by Jacques Brel.

Media type :
Vidéo
Broadcast date :
30 septembre 1972
Source :
ORTF (Collection: Petit Conservatoire De La Chanson )
Personnalité(s) :
Dick Annegarn / Mireille Mireille (hartuch, Aka) / Jacques Brel
Themes :
Places :

Context

Dick Annegarn, a Dutch author-composer-interpreter (he was born in La Haye on 9 May 1952), is definitely one of the most atypical and talented celebrities to appear in the last thirty years in the French musical landscape. Equally influenced by both Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens as well as American folk and blues music (Woody Guthrie, Pete Seger, Big Bill Broonzy), Annegarn decided to give it a shot in Paris when he was 20 years old. He was a success early on, with the release of his first record by Polydor in 1973. Songs such asUbu, Sacré Géranium and especially Bruxelles immediately imposed his singular, falsely naive, abrupt and sophisticated style, which had a great poetic force. Three other albums followed between 1975 and 1976 (including another great success, Mireille) before the singer decided to head for a more underground direction. He settled in the Parisian suburbs, became very active in community organisations and continued to record albums influenced by jazz and improvisation (Ferraillages, Frères ).

But it wasn't until the middle of the 1990s that he made a lasting comeback at the foreground of the scene, with his signature to the Tôt ou Tard independent label and a few exemplary albums (Approche Toi in 1997, Plouc in 2006). Today, he's considered to be one of the greatest references in the young French alternative scene (Matthieu Boogaerts and Thomas Fersen).

Stéphane Ollivier

Transcription

Mireille
Good, there is in the class, as you have seen just now, a sort of... I say "a sort of", because he is Dutch but he actually lives in Brussels, so you could say he's from Brussels, in short I don't know him very well yet. He's a "case", yes Mr. Dutch please, come on over. There you go. Are you hoping that I will welcome you sir?
Dick Annegarn
I am shy,
Mireille
Will that help you?
Dick Annegarn
Yes, very much.
Mireille
So he is 20 years old, for the time being he is called Dick, that is all I know, and... Ah! I forgot to ask you: what do you do in life?
Dick Annegarn
Music, for the time being it's music, lots and lots
Mireille
Yes for the time being, but what do you do... Not a lot
Dick Annegarn
Not a lot
Mireille
Someone in the class has a cold, have they! Does anyone have a throat lozenge? Ah that's [not understood] who's coughing, good! No, you said to me: I don't do anything, that's it, something like that.
Dick Annegarn
For the time being, apart from music, I do nothing.
Mireille
You do nothing. And what did you do before you did nothing?
Dick Annegarn
I studied for 3 months.
Mireille
You studied for 3 months, that's not very long, what did you study?
Dick Annegarn
Agronomy.
Mireille
Agronomy?
Dick Annegarn
Yes, yes
Mireille
Really?
Dick Annegarn
Oh yes.
Mireille
Are you happy?
Dick Annegarn
Yes, for the time being, very.
Mireille
For you are 20 years old, at the moment, I have the impression that you are happy. How did you come to us here, sir?
Dick Annegarn
By train from Brussels...
Mireille
No, that's not what I'm asking.
Laughter
Mireille
No, how did you come here to me, did you want to come?
Dick Annegarn
Ah I have, there is a friend who told me.
Mireille
Who told you: go to Mireille!
Dick Annegarn
Ah yes, yes, to Mireille, that's good!
Mireille
He said, it's good at Mireille's?
Dick Annegarn
Ah yes, yes,
Mireille
But it's not like at Lorette's, be careful eh! Good, show me Mr. Dutch a little piece of music, a song, whatever you do, whatever you like most.
Dick Annegarn
Whatever I like, yes
(Music)
Mireille
Thank you sir
(Applause)
Good, I would like a little piece in Dutch please!
(Music)
Mireille
In Dutch
Dick Annegarn
In Dutch? Of course, I have a very beautiful one, well which I find very beautiful since it's the only one that I know in Dutch.
(Music)
Mireille
That's sad...that's sad...eh! Ah!
(Applause)
Mireille
Good, can I have a little piece in French?
Dick Annegarn
In French, yes!
Mireille
Wait, I know that it's a famous song, and it's been rearranged for you a bit.
Dick Annegarn
Yes, yes, since that made me think a lot about the town where I came from a long time ago, which really has some special features, especially the language, and the way of it's alliteration.
Mireille
Because I have heard it sung completely differently!
Dick Annegarn
Yes, by another singer, yes!
(Music)
Mireille
Good, I wanted to hear a little piece, and I wanted everyone to listen.
Applause