Portrait Olivier Caudron, rock survivor
Category: Music

Portrait Olivier Caudron said "Olive"


Press Review IARC Paris-class culture
Olivier Caudron, rescued rock (The World) (21/06/05 04:48)

Portrait

Olivier Caudron, rock survivor

Le Monde | 14.06.05 | 14:25 * Modified 14.06.05 | 14:25

It is a story very rock and roll, a story of girls, drugs,
Summits entraperçus, chasms inracontables, all against the backdrop of
Guitars énervées. The story not very funny Olivier Caudron, former child
French terrible rock of the late 1970's, under the nickname of Lili
Olimao, ex-espoir of French pop music , when he was called
Olive. The same who has chosen, in 2005, to rename Lovliv to form
A new version of Drop Lili, group disbanded in 1983, and back on
A scene in Paris at Point Ephémère, Wednesday, June 15, almost fifteen
Years after ceasing to give news.

Olive participated in the gestation TELEPHONE Group, launched when Enzo Enzo
It called again Korin, was percussionist for Valerie
Lagrange, made the bringue with Daniel Darc, ex-Taxi Girl and released
Three albums, two with Lili Drop (never republished in CD), the last -
1990-under his own name. Eponyme

Today, at 49 years old, he lives in a studio of 12 square meters, rue Fontaine,
In Paris, a few steps from the Place Blanche and Bus Palladium, between two bars
To hostesses.
It is a association of prevention, Siloe, which has found the bedroom.
"I can go at the association for my laundry, access
The Internet, receive support, "he says. Olive is HIV-positive since 1985
And lives of 500 dollards monthly Cotorep the (technical committee
Guidance and retraining). Sometimes-rarely -
A check it reaches of the SACEM, which provides yet another
Social security coverage, through its Committee of heart ", which helps
Policyholders can no longer contribute.

To ensure the training for the concert on June 15, Olive has
Brackets treatment against hepatitis C, which put the "
Earth. "I am anxious, stressed, I wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning
Rehearsal days, he says, but in substance it all makes me good, it's
Happiness and fun. "

His old friends have promised to be there, at this unexpected return:
Enzo Enzo and Violaine, accomplices of the time Lili Drop, Jean-Louis
Aubert, who has décarcassé to find him a guitar
Electro Francis Ravard, formerly manager of Telephone, Rita
Mitsouko, and now Marianne Faithfull, the one that Olive ago
Thirty years, leading to the rooftops of Paris to slide without paying
In the rooms where Patti Smith or the Stones performed in concert.
As if these children of rock, now adults, were taken
News of the craziest of them. Most were career, it was
Mislaid en route, merely brush success, as with On my mob,
First 45-tours of Lili Drop that sold out to 35000 copies and whose
The texts falsely gentillets spoke of a "white line" with double
Meaning.

"Perhaps it was not funny enough for the time, a little too
Complex "asks Enzo Enzo. But as" uncontrollable "and drugged,
Hooked since the age of 14 years. "Coke, Heroin: the total of rock star
Who deserves, right into mythology, quips today. I
Am a survivor. When Louis -Aubert- decided to make a career,
I was only thinking of me and laugh at me smash. "

Olive and the future leader met with Telephone
Neuilly-sur-Seine (Seine), where they both lived, had
Attending high school benches Shepherd and uniforms worn Scouts, "this
That -leur- allowed to have a local traffic and the mobs do
Music. "They had set up their first group, Masturbation.
"Louis taught me to play the guitar, I relied on her smoking his
First joint, "explains Olive.

In 1976, he participated in the development of the first pieces of
Telephone, before seeing the group would be without him. "It was
Clear qu'Olive did not take the blow, testified Francis Ravard. It
Was so complicated, hysterical, nervous and smashed permanently ... "
Olive does braqua not, and that is going to concerts
Telephone he met the future Enzo Enzo, who worked as
Lightman, and offered him becoming the bassist Lili Drop (for drop
"Powder").

"He had one hand endearing, childlike, hyperfragile, and played on it,
Raconte- she added. It's a mad, a dreamer: it needed to mount an
Group with two girls who did not know play and write texts
Talking about sex and drugs but it is under way. "If he admits having
"Harbored jealousy in relation to the success of others," Olive
States have mostly suffered from being rejected by his own in the middle
1980's. "We looked at me as one who never did come out. HAS
From 1985 and the arrival of AIDS, many have stopped. Daniel -Darc-
And me, it was the last rebels. There were times when I
Toxic to others, when I was scared. I suffered from being
Scarecrow, the guy indécrottable ... "

Born of a Vietnamese father "a little barbouze," which has known only 20 years
As for the lose of view, high time by his grandparents
Maternal, notable rémois, Olive plunges into a childhood chahutée the
Roots of this penchant for self: "To have been separated from my
Very young mother, it made me jealous, violent, excessive. The rock,
Junky attitude going with that. "His solo career lost it. In 1991,

We lived in the Basque Country (south of french country) . I rode in Paris to weaning then
Center aftercare. "

The period was not really pro-pice to the establishment. Olive no longer
Makes about him. Until his return to Paris in October 2004. Still
Cabossé sentimentalement, slightly damaged physically, he acknowledges having
Drop reassembled Lili "because it might trigger something." Since
One month, he took singing lessons. "It's therapeutic," he says.

Biography

1955
Born in London.

1976
Creates the group Masturbation

1977
guitar for group Diesel

1979
Creates the group Lili Drop.

1985
The company that he is HIV positive.

2004
Creates the group Lovliv

2005
Reform and Lili Drop back on stage, Wednesday, June 15.

Gilles van Kote

Article published in the edition of 15.06.05

________________________________________

Olive

OLIVE / LILI DROP

Olive at the end of the dream

The kid cursed  rock french

Jean-Louis Aubert had dedicated his last album. Without Olive, died on the night of January 17, 2006 of tuberculosis at the Pitie - Salpetriere, Telephone singer would not have the same career. Neither took the same risks. Olive had begun to travel, communities hippies, drugs and all the crap that can make two former Scouts. Together, they had discovered the Who (Tommy, on the Champs-Elysées theater), crossed into the United States stop, known for girls and sects, the group mounted Masturbation, repeated with Antoine de Caunes (drummer) and launched the Telephone Group bases.

"Child and hyperfragile." Born on December 4, 1955 in London, Olivier Caudron very early danced on the brink of collapse. It said unmanageable. He was a strong link of the French rock, a kind of gateway. And his voice, smooth, innocent child was just like his pale: close to him. One boy raised by his maternal grandparents, who crossed in just 20 years his father, a Vietnamese seem slightly barbouze. Her mother was étalagiste designer at Hermes. On weekends, they were leaving their banks of the Seine in Neuilly (Bagatelle). She took her son on a barge friends with rifles and guitars flamencas. She taught piano. But it is the guitar that has prevailed.

The best friend of her sister showed her first striked at Olive, lefty thwarted on guitars to right. "I learned in this way and I always played like that," he explained in June. "He had one hand endearing, childlike, hyperfragile, and played on it remembers at the same time Enzo Enzo in the World. It's a mad, a dreamer: it needed to mount a group with two girls who did not play, and write texts which spoke of sex and drugs but it is under way. "


Paria. In 1979, with the future Enzo Enzo on bass and Violaine on drums, Olive founded Lili Drop by combining the diminutive of his first name with the contraction of powder slang. Eye and hair gominés, he has a nice touch of modern boy. A dandysme that has no competition, or Starshooter Bijou. In five years, Lili Drop publish two 33 towers (World animal, N) and some haunting refrains (T'oublier, Tartine Breakfast, and especially the tube generational "new wave" On my Mob). A concert scuttling the Printemps de Bourges précipitera the end of the trio.

After participating in the project for Ethiopia Singers his girlfriend Valerie Lagrange, Olive discovered HIV in 1985. It began when a solo career, albeit erratic but far from dishonorable, with the 45's Fine Bronzés produced by Richard Kolinka. Others followed simple (1 +1), an album (Phew) kod tjrs production and JF and a tribute to Jad Wio (Vivant, on the album Between collective smile and tears). As Daniel Darc after Taxi Girl, Olive, to get close to the power outlets, has become a sort of pariah for show-business.Et share for the Basque country for 10 years. When Olive increases in Paris, it will be to wean. "I did not want that name is even more Olive, absolutely hear about it."


Studio. In recent years, the crossing at concerts Marianne Faithfull (managed by his old friend Francis Ravard) or price Constantin (in tribute to her discoverer Philippe), while deleted in its large French coat. He lived in a studio near Bus Palladium with little. Twenty years after the dissolution, he had decided to re Lili Drop. Under the name risky Lovliv Reload, a concert was held on 15 June 2005 at Point Éphémère. Pending the reissue albums the band?


Iinterview olive granted on June 5, 2005.
Ludovic PERRIN
Liberalization of Thursday, January 19, 2006