In the music video for the song “Demain, demain” which announces the Toulouse Con Tour album, were the bow ties of Art Mengo and Yvan Cujious compulsory? !

Magyd Cherfi : I found them very elegant! And we really told them they were fine with it! (laughs)

Art Mengo: The worst part is that I think they want us to take it on stage with Yvan! For the clip ok but for the scene I’m not really up for it! (laughs)

Why did you choose this title from the Fabulous Trobadors to announce the album?

MC: It’s an idea of ​​Yvan Cujious, it’s a song that we love, that we have already played live all three and it really has an absolutely enjoyable and festive side! And we wanted to record it in a more modern, almost electro way.

“Tomorrow, tomorrow” for the title of the single, “Le Temps additionnel” for the album, do you three have a problem with the passage of time?

MC: Well yes there is a problem, it is that our careers are behind! (laughs) We laugh about it with the boys but since it’s a story that starts and that we are at the end of the course, we play on this idea of ​​knowing if it is possible to be 17 at 60! This is the question that, perhaps, everyone is asking: “Damn, there is no way to go back ?!” (laughs) During the whole previous TCT tour we played around with it a bit without realizing it, we were in the logic of “Please, can we have a little bit of rab mister? Show biz ?! ” (laughs) And that’s where I got the idea of ​​extra time.

A M : Yes, we have a problem with that, like most artists who have only one obsession with the passage of time and which makes us say that old age is a shipwreck. But we are young and old so it’s okay, we can say that we are people of a certain age, we are not yet old people! And besides, we easily fit into these roles of three singers of a certain age who still believe in it. It’s a bit like the idea of ​​the clip, to get ready in a suit to go play in the street. So it’s kinda fun playing the magnificent losers.

What makes the mark of this upcoming album?

MC: The idea was to have original pieces to mark our mark. For the live, it could be good to do covers but then we could enjoy a production that suited the three of us so we went towards sentimental themes because I didn’t want to pull a militant rope in my own way. So I put myself in the shoes of the Toulouse Con Tour, in something more intimate.

Who worked on the texts?

A M : Essentially Magyd, on male / female, boy / girl relationships. He is still obsessed with it! (laughs) And then there are titles like “Mon Enfance”, “Des Mots tenderres” which have more to do with time and these songs are characterized by a certain sweetness. Magyd settles down… And I worked on two songs from the four unpublished songs that make up the album in addition to the six covers.

On the album cover, the merry-go-round in Place Wilson and the illustration that represents you refer to an unfinished childhood …

MC: That’s it ! When you look back there is always childhood like that wandering around. With the song “My Childhood” on draws a sum of assessments on our life, our childhood, love relationships. The illustration tries to bring back a kind of freshness with a pencil drawing …