Bagdad Rodéo will be at the Maison Bleue on Saturday October 8 for a rock concert that smells of testosterone and the punk rebellion of the 80s.
In the puritan air of the time, the existence of Baghdad Rodeo sounds like a form of resistance and that’s good because it’s exactly their domain. These five musicians met in Paris at the time of the (first) invasion of Iraq by the Americans, before scattering all over France. The singer and the author of the texts, Ludo, lives in Pfulgriesheim:
“When we saw the war in Iraq launched on a gigantic lie, we wanted to respond to it and that’s where the name of the group was born, and the whole concept for that matter. In our songs, we constantly denounce the veneer, the lies and the compromises. There is not yet a song in our repertoire about the invasion of Ukraine, but we see that the world has not changed so much since the 90s, we always present a war as a confrontation between good and mean guys… “
All in their forties, the musicians of Bagdad Rodéo have not changed either and faithfully perpetuate a form of nervous and rough rock, obtained with great reinforcements of hoarse voices, effective riffs and sweat, in the tradition of the black Béruriers, the Sheriffs or Wampas. In their very committed songs against capitalism, we talk about idiots and motherfuckers without a “trigger warning” and that’s beneficial.
“We didn’t want to leave the field of protest to rap”, explains Ludo:
“There’s a fairly polished, smooth rock… Well, that’s not our thing. We are filthy leftists and we want to keep this form of protest against the march of the world in the world of rock. We already denounced Éric Zemmour in 2013, four albums later we still haven’t calmed down. »
All the texts of Bagdad Rodéo are very direct and attack almost everything that exists (priests, bosses, but also old age…). The whole oscillates between a radical political manifesto and a sum of soaked counter remarks. Ludo admits to spending “between one and two hours a day” getting information, which gives him unlimited inspiration and enough nervousness to write rhymes as if they were boxing sequences.
We therefore find themes experienced by everyone in most of the songs. Thus, Ludo has apparently found the year 2020 ” long and boring and “preferred the world before.” Fortunately, with bands like Bagdad Rodéo, the world before is still very much alive.
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Baghdad RodeoSaturday October 8 from 8 p.m. at the Maison Bleue, 3 rue de Guebwiller in Strasbourg – Neudorf.