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NEWS:

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 2023 – new song/clip: –"RUSSIAN WARSHIP (Go F*** Yourself)"

 

 2023 – "Non Romanesque" – expo photos 1974-2000
12 January to 28 February – Maison pour l'Image et la Photographie – BESANÇON
www.instagram.com/theohakola

 

 2022 – 11 December, 5:00 pm – AVIGNON:

 2022 – 13, 14, 15 October – "AU BONHEUR DES DAMES"

with Bénédicte Villain, Zoé Hochberg & Delphine Ciampli Ellis
to hear it and see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxjBf-5Roho

 

  2022 – May – first book of nonfiction: NON ROMANESQUE – Les Fondeurs de Briques

récits autobiographiques, diatribes, cent photos argentiques faites par l'auteur, dessins de Mosner, CD compilation...
 

  2022 – March – new novel in French translation – ACTES SUD:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  2021 – 1 December – digital release of "Bye Bye" – album by THE FLYING FUCKS

for a taste: click here... or here and here for the lyrics...

VINYL edition
release in May 2022

 

  2021 – concerts – THEO HAKOLA and the WOBBLY ASHES:
– 2 October – BALLOON à la MIMO – RENNES – 20:00
– 5 June – Fondation Jan Michalski – Montricher, SWITZERLAND – click here for entire concert

  2021 – concerts – THEO HAKOLA – duo with Bénédicte Villain
for release of restored version of Patricia Mazuy's film (1989) PEAUX DE VACHES – (music by T. Hakola with Passion Fodder):
– 26 November – cinéma STUDIO 43 – Pole Marine DUNKIRK – 20:00
– 3 September – cinéma LA BALEINE MARSEILLE – 59 cours Julien MARSEILLE – 21:00
– 30 August – cinéma REFLET MEDICIS – 3 rue Champollion 75005 PARIS – 20:00

  2020 – concerts – THEO HAKOLA and the WOBBLY ASHES:

– 16 October – Centre Culturel de LESQUIN (near Lille) – 20:00

– 23 October – Centre Culturel Jean Gagnant – LIMOGES – 20:00

  2020 – concert – THEO HAKOLA – trio:
– 26 September – Médiathèque Marguerite Duras (festival BD6NÉ) – PARIS
 

  2020 – new single/clip – "SO BAD"

  2020 – new album: WATER IS WET

to order: CD – Microcultures / vinyl – Médiapop / digital – Kuroneko Media

for a preview listen and look:

"Who The Hell?" "So Bad" "Your Baby Blacks, Baby"

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"Bury Me Standing" "Never Bought a Bottle of Water" "In a Sauna You Sweat"
 
   

 

  2019 – concert – 18 October:

  2019 – lecture en musique/scored reading: DRACULA – Dans la veine de Bram Stoker
with JACQUES BONNAFFÉ (T. HAKOLA – guitar, piano, voice...)

  • 13 December – 20:00 – Paris (La Maison de la poésie)
  • 25 September, Manosque (festival Les Correspondances de Manosque)

 

  2018 –The Pig Song/La Peste porcine – (new video for an old tune – in English and French)

“The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart.” –– Mark Twain (1895)

  THE PIG SONG (1993) LA PESTE PORCINE (1993)  
   

“Quand les hommes bougent, c'est une émeute. Quand les femmes sont présentes, c'est une révolution. Libérez la femme et vous aurez la liberté.” –– Kamel Daoud (2015)

  2017 – lecture en musique/scored reading – IDAHO BABYLONE

with Dominque REYMOND, Bénédicte VILLAIN, Simon TEXIER, and the author.

1 July – FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU ROMAN NOIR – Frontigan la Peyrade
9 April – FESTIVAL LE PRINTEMPS DU LIVRE – Grenoble

  2017 – "CHICO MARXISM" – an essay on factophobia written in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan and July 14th attacks in France (and in the shadow of the 2016 U.S. elections) – published in French by La Règle du jeu – can be downloaded with a click here in English or French

Mrs. Teasdale to Chico: "But I saw you with my own eyes!"

Chico to Mrs. Teasdale: "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"
  2016 – new novel in French translation – actes noirs/ACTES SUD:

interview on French radio: Paso Doble-FRANCE CULTURE

  2016 – all covers album: I FRY MINE IN BUTTER!
available on CD & double vinyl through Médiapop Records, in French stores, and digital download in all the usual places

for a look and listen – three of the fifteen femme-qui-danse videos created for this album:
"BOURGEOIS BLUES (updated)" "SAINT LOUIS BLUES" "HEROIN"

 

 

  2016 – concerts – THEO HAKOLA and the WOBBLY ASHES:

14 OCTOBER – 20:30 – POINT EPHÉMÈRE – Paris

photo: Jérome Brody

2 JULY – 21:00 – Festival Litomericky, Litomerice – Czech Republic

  2015-18 – concerts – THEO HAKOLA (trio with Bénédicte Villain & Simon Texier):

– 22 JUNE 2018– FGO-BARBARA – festival WALDEN

– 21 MAY 2017 – LA HALLE AUX SUCRES – Dunkerque
– 26 NOVEMBER 2016 – PATCHROCK'S 20th – JARDIN MODERNE – Rennes
– 18 NOVEMBER 2016 – SILENCIO – Paris
– 4 JUNE 2016 – MÉDIATHÈQUE DON QUICHOTTE – Saint-Denis
– 27 JANUARY, 2016 – 20:30 – at LA MANUFACTURE CHANSON –– Paris –– (Soirées Walden de NESLES)
– 12 SEPTEMBER 2015 – 21:00 – at LES BRASSEURS (centre d'art contemporain) – Liège, Belgium

  2016 – ciné-concert – "AU BONHEUR DES DAMES" (Julien Duvivier - 1930)

with Bénédicte Villain (violin & accordion) Delphine Ciampi (bass & guitar) & Zoé Hochberg (drums)

  • 12 MARCH 2016–CONSERVATOIRE DE MUSIQUE, Besançon
  • 4 FEBRUARY 2016–LA NEF-RELAIS CULTUREL, Wissembourg
  • 6 FEBRUARY 2015–MAGIC CINEMA, Bobigny
  • 16 JULY 2015 –FESTIVAL NATALA, Colmar
  • 8 JULY 2014 – 20:30 – LA SALINE ROYALE, Arc et Senans
  • 14 MARCH 2014 – 20:30 – Cinéma Jean-Vigo, Genneviliers
  • 2013 – La Rodia/Besançon, La Maison du Peuple/Saint-Claude, Le Majestic/Vesoul, Pathé/Belfort...

  2015 – Salman Rushdie, 7 January:

"Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase for 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect."

And on that note, a new video for an old song: "NOWHERE"

  2015 – lectures en musique/scored readings:

"La Ballade de Carson Clay – or Stendhal goes to Idaho"

d'après La Valse des affluents de T. Hakola
with: NOÉMIE DUJARDIN, B.VILLAIN, SÉBASTIEN POUDEROUX, T. HAKOLA, RAPHAÈLE BOUCHARD

  • 28 May , 7 pm – Bibliothèque Elsa Triolet, Bobigny

"La Route/Kerouac" with Jacques Bonnaffé (T. Hakola guitar and piano)

  • 5 March, 19:00, Bibliothèque Elsa Triolet, Bobigny
  • 28 March, 16:00, Mediathèque Louis Aragon/Centre Jean Vilar, Rosny

"Lazare, mon amour" (Sylvia Plath/Gwenaëlle Aubry) with G. Aubry (text, voice), Leopoldine Hummel (voice), Maëva Le Berre (cello), Bastien Lallemant (guitar, voice) T. Hakola (piano, voice)

  • 2 April, 19:00, Bibliothèque Elsa Triolet/Bobigny, 31 May, Le Rayon Vert/Saint-Valery-en Caux (Festival Terres de paroles), 24 September, Manosque (Festival Les Correspondances de Manosque), 20 Novembre, Lille (Festival Escale des lettres)...

  2014 –– new concert album...

now available for digital download in all the usual places

or as a CD for 15 euros (includes postage to any country):

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photo: V. Lecouplier

  2014 –– concert: THEO HAKOLA & the WOBBLY ASHES

30 years after PASSION FODDER'S first noise and 60 years after Theo Hakola's...

12 DECEMBER –– 8:00 pm –– POINT EPHÉMÈRE – Paris – support: Fiodor Dream Dog –– PRODUCTION

THEO HAKOLA and the WOBBLY ASHES + GUESTS – 12/12/14 – photos by Cathimini:

T. Mladenovitch, L. Prod'homme, M. Texier, B. Villain

Lionel Dollet, Serge Teysott-Gay, Delphine Ciampi

Gabriela Arnon, Nicolas Magat, Claire Diterzi

 

  2014 –– concert: THEO HAKOLA with Bénédicte Villain (violin & accordion).........22 NOVEMBER, 6:30 pm – Bibliothèque Parmentier – 20 bis av. Parmentier – 75011 Paris – Festival MONTE LE SON

  2014 – lectures en musique/scored readings:

  • "La Route/Kerouac" with JACQUES BONNAFFÉ 31 May – 19:15 – festival La Manufacture d'idées – Chasselas
  • "Le Scandale Arthur Cravan" with KATE MORAN and LOUIS-RONAN CHOISY – 15 March, 20:30 – Maison de la Radio /FRANCE-CULTURE – 20:30 – to hear it: PODCAST

  2013– theater: "American Tabloid" (James Ellroy) – MC93-Bobigny – 9-22 December

directed by Nicolas Bigards – music: Theo Hakola

with YANN BERLIER, THOMAS BLANCHARD, CLÉMENT BRESSON, YANNICK CHOIRAT, BÉATRICE DEMI MONDAINE, DIMI DERO, NOÉMIE DUJARDIN, T. HAKOLA, JAN HAMMENECKER, JUDITH HENRY, MATHIEU SACCUCCI, GABRIEL TAMALET, PASCAL TERNISIEN.

  2013 – lecture en musique/scored reading: --------"RAKIA" with DOMINIQUE REYMOND – 8 June, Dijon, festival Clameur(s)

  2013 – concerts THEO HAKOLA and THE WOBBLY ASHES:

  • 17 February – Grenoble, Le Ciel
  • 30 January – Lille, l'Antre-2 (Université de Lille 2 )
  • 24 January –Paris, for THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND's vinyl release, Petit Bain:

  2012:

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THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND

On sale in French shops and in the USA at the Alternative Tentacles webstore

Also available for digital download in all the usual places (iTunes, etc)

for a look and a listen:

"THE ONLY CHURCH"

"THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND"

 

"THE WEST IS DEAD"

"ILMARINEN'S LAMENT"

"FOX NEWS IS MY MUSE"

  
     

THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND was recorded and mixed in Paris and Rennes with Hakola's live band THE WOBBLY ASHES:

Bénédicte Villain (violin), Tatiana Mladenovitch (drums), Laureline Prod'homme (bass) and Matthieu Texier (guitar)

Released on vinyl by Les Disques du 7ème Ciel in January 2013...

*DOWNLOAD THIS ALBUM'S LYRICS **FRENCH REVIEWS OF THIS ALBUM ***INTERVIEW HAKOLA IN NEW NOISE – 2012

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  2012 – concerts THEO HAKOLA and THE WOBBLY ASHES:

• 26 July, Paris –– LA FLÈCHE D'OR –– with Bertrand Belin and Arlt, 27 July, Grenoble – festival CABARET FRAPPÉ

  2012–lecture/reading 28 July: RAKIA by Theo Hakola – La Roseraie , Grenoble – info

  2012-13– lecture en musique/scored reading: "La Route/Kerouac" with JACQUES BONNAFFÉ

• 23 September, Vincennes, Centre Culturel Georges Pompidou – festival AMERICA; 10 May, Caen, le Cargö – festival PASSAGE DES TÉMOINS; 6 July, Vendôme – festival EPOS; 31 March, Grenoble – festival Printemps du livre; 14 June 2013, Rennes, festival Parcours tout court

  2012 – festival LE PRINTEMPS DU LIVRE DE GRENOBLE:

• 1 April – lecture: RAKIA, with NOÉMIE DUJARDIN, SÉBASTIEN POUDEROUX and RAPHAÈLE BOUCHARD
 

 2011 – concert:

 2011 – RAKIA

Theo Hakola's fourth novel published in France by Éditions Intervalles

translated into French by Annie Brigant in collaboration with the author
For an interview with the author in French: Radio France Internationale 's "En Sol mineur": part one part two
 

  2011 – 15 April – lecture en musique/scored reading d'après/from La Valse des affluents:

"La Ballade de Carson Clay – or Stendhal goes to Idaho"
with: NOÉMIE DUJARDIN, B.VILLAIN, SÉBASTIEN POUDEROUX, T. HAKOLA, RAPHAÈLE BOUCHARD

Festival Le Printemps du livre – Grenoble...
performance excerpts: PART 1, PART 2
 

   2011 –  ciné-concert: "The Wind" by Victor Sjöström (1928)

Hakola has created a new score for this silent classic featuring Lillian Gish. The first performance, with Bénédicte Villain and Manja Ristic (violin) took place July 21, 2007 at the Festival de Sédières in Corrèze. Second performance (with Bénédicte Villain): November 16th, 2008 – Cinéma Georges Méliès, Montreuil.
latest performance:
April 17 2011– 10èmes RENCONTRES DE CINÉMA EUROPÉEN in VANNES

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  2010 – theater and music, festival NANTERRE SUR SCÈNE:

  2010 – theater: "L'Invention du monde" – MC93-Bobigny – May 28-30

directed by Michel Deutsch – text Olivier Rolin
music: Theo Hakola

avec SÉBASTIEN POUDEROUX, LUC SCHILLINGER, FRANÇOISE SILWKA, PAULINE BARBOUX, SABRINA BEN HADJ ALI, JEANNE RAGU, AKAELA MICHELS GUALTIERI, MILENA OKSANEN, ALINE CHAPET BATTLE, BÉNÉDICTE VILLAIN, et bien d'autres...

 

  2009-10 – theater: "Chroniques du bord de scène - Hello America" – June 8-21 and October 16-20 in 2009, then "USA, d'après Dos Passos" April 9-18 in 2010

directed by NICOLAS BIGARDS at the MC93-Bobigny – music : Theo Hakola

avec THOMAS BLANCHARD, RAPHAÈLE BOUCHARD, CLÉMENT BRESSON, NOÉMIE DUJARDIN, ANTOINE GOUY, T. HAKOLA, MÉLANIE COUILLAUD, AURÉLIA PETIT, PIERRE-HENRI PUENTE, SÉBASTIEN POUDEROUX, GAIA SINGER, JALHIL TEIBI,...

REHEARSALS: "USA, d'après Dos Passos" – Répétitions-Chroniques-USA-Dos Passos

  2009 – "Le Chant des âmes" – at the Finnish Institute in Paris

"une lecture en musique" (scored reading) based on Le Sang des âmes and created by the author.
With Aléxia Monduit, Mélanie Couillaud, Sandrine Dumas et Bénédicte Villain.

April 23rd at 8 pm – 10 euros – Institut finlandais – 60, rue des Écoles – Paris 75005

 
  2008 – The Blood of Souls released in France as Le Sang des âmes
This book, Hakola's third novel, completes his "Blood Trilogy" and was translated by the author into French for publication as Le Sang des âmes by Intervalles on May 23rd, 2008.

 

  2007 - release of DRUNK WOMEN AND SEXUAL WATER

Fourteen songs coming together for 79 minutes of music and no filler (featuring Bénédicte Villain, Brice Pirotais, Cyril Bilbeaud and Lionel Dollet along with guests like Warren Ellis, Alexandre Margraff, Laureline Prodhomme, Aka de Kebnekaïze and Simon Texier), this long awaited work would have had to be a double album if released on vinyl.

download lyrics of this album

Recorded and mixed in Paris. WOBBLY ASHES RECORDS – distribution ANTICRAFT-MVS

CD available in the USA at ALTERNATIVETENTACLES.COM
and as digital download worldwide

 
  Concerts – 2008-2011:

festival Octoplus/Saint-Amand les Eaux – festival "Ni Vu Ni Connu"/Ancenis – MC93/Bobigny – La Bobine/Grenoble – Maison des Métallos/Paris – Le Bikini/Toulouse - La Maroquinerie/Paris–– review in French of this concert

photos – Richard Blandin

        

Le Krakatoa/Bordeaux – La Cave aux poètes/Roubaix – Le VIP/Saint-Nazaire – Le Brise Glace /Annecy – La Java/Paris...

to see photos by Cathimini of this concert...

Festival de Langlade/les Cévennes – Café provisoire/Manosque – Teatro de la Laboral/Gijon, Spain...

photos Gijón: Dani Carreterro

Moulin de Pontcey/Vesoul – Divan du Monde/Paris – festival "Dans la série des inaperçus" –La Carène/Brest – Les Rencontres de Chaminadour/Gueret

  2007 – theater:  "La Thébaïde" de Jean Racine, mise en scène Sandrine Lanno

French theater director Sandrine Lanno hired Hakola to compose and perform the music for her new production – Racine's La Thébaïde –  at the Centre dramatique national de Montreuil September 24th through October 26th, and at the Atelier du Rhin de Colmar November 15-16. With Anne Alvaro, Bruno Blairet, Nâzim Boudjenah, Selim Clayssen, Mélanie Couillaud, Vincent Macaigne, Mélanie Menu.


  2007 – Orchestre Rouge

RCA (Sony-BMG) released, in France, Orchestre Rouge's Yellow Laughter (1982) and More Passion Fodder (1983) for the first time on CD as a double album.