"It was the last bottle in the sea": Miossec is still surprised by the success of "Boire"

INTERVIEW

"It's nice to see all these testimonies, these memories. To see how we were able, at one point, to touch the life of a certain fringe of the French population."

Twenty-five years after the release of

, the album that dedicated it and a remastered version of which is available this fall, Miossec still can't quite believe it.

On Sunday, the Breton singer left

with Pascale Clark in the streets of Brest, where it all began - and continues. 

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"I thought we would stay 'local'"

Initially, there is an "auto-reverse" cassette - of which you can play both sides without having to manually reverse it.

"I wanted to make music, to push the idea to the end," recalls Miossec.

"I was just doing that, I no longer had a job, no more heating. I had put all my energy into it."

Returned to live with his parents, he wrote the lyrics to

songs

"It's not autofiction, not everything is true", he slips.

"There was word of mouth, the tape was duplicated a bit in cafes in Brest, right to left. It's something that took, here. But I thought we would stay 'local'."

For the Finistérien, this cassette was "the last bottle in the sea" for a musical career.

Without "dramatic" dimension, he assures us.

"If it didn't work, it didn't matter. I had worked in the Indian Ocean before all that (as a journalist,

), I could go back there. (...) It wouldn't have hooked, nothing would have happened. "

"The job is done in Brest, in my kid's room"

Yes but here it is, something happened.

"It is JD Beauvallet (Jean-Daniel, then editor-in-chief of Inrockuptibles,

who put the cassette in 'record of the month'", in the magazine, smiles Miossec.

"It was a big surprise, to suddenly see the job that was done in Brest, in my kid's room, with Guillaume Jouan (his guitarist,

), find himself on the record of the month." 

Before that, the fame was existing, but Finistérienne.

"The first concert was at Vauban, in the first part of Divine Comédie", he recalls, seated in the cabaret next to Pascale Clark.

“The first memories in music, usually it prints. It's like all the great experiences we have in life. (…) There was a scary, monstrous fear. Especially not to show it, to go on stage like we go on the attack. "

"Doing my job without drinking is a huge pleasure"

Since then, the Brestois has rolled its bump.

“At the time, we were really on another planet,” he breathes with hindsight.

"It was a drift, with the drink, in the bars .. Accompanied by music. In fact, the two were intertwined."

The singer, who has completely stopped drinking, evokes a "first life".

"It's like with the Covid: it's a kind of experience that is offered. Do we follow it or do we not follow it? To be able to do my job as a musician without drinking is a huge pleasure. Even though I never thought it was possible. "