Petit Bulletin SAINT-ETIENNE - Concerts Saint-Etienne: Julien Haro and Thibault Llopis, Baroque - article published by Cerise Rochet

Going down the stairs after leaving your jacket in the locker room, it is better to have your eyes in front of the holes to avoid the log and not waste the hours that will follow. Once down, well balanced on both feet, it's up to you. On the right, we make our way towards the red brick wall reminiscent of old factories, partly covered with concert posters and preceded by a large bar that makes you want to sit down to have a drink. . On the left, we try a swaying step towards the track, in a half-light barely broken by a few spots of color which encourages swaying without complex. Basically, three nights a week, Julien and Thibault take turns behind the turntables, to send sound made in another era, based on guitar squeaks, bass doum doum, and drums poom tchack.

This Friday evening, it was Julien who stuck to it. We are at the beginning of September, it is past midnight, and, while on the other side of the club, Thibault is setting the pace by serving coke rums with all his might, he has already taken a little heat and fallen high. In white tank tops, his eyes on the pit, his fingers on the machines and his ears wide open, the night owl has just decided to have barely thirty-somethings dancing on a piece of the Sonics, in a kind of back in a days that neither they nor he really knew, but which are probably good for everyone.

night owls

A few months ago, however, no one would have dared to throw themselves into this kind of evening where parties and good music intertwine in a great salvo of collective euphoria. Because here at Disorder, the doors closed in March 2020 almost never reopened. So, when you meet the two buddies at a less advanced hour of the day - or later, it depends - it's better to have a little time in front of you: now that the bulk of the storm seems to be behind them, Thibault and Julien have lots of things to say.

On their course, first of all. Both musicians, involved in many cultural initiatives, former bartenders of the Smoking Dog, their story is above all that of a beautiful friendship. “People often take us for brothers, it must be because of the beard and long hair,” they laugh. For many months, while working together behind the same counter, Thibault and Julien nurtured a common dream: to open a live music club in Saint-Etienne, Berlin or Manchester style, which would welcome the artistic middle class from here and there. elsewhere: "We really shared this desire to allow artists who have little visibility but who make very qualitative music to come and earn fees, while giving people pleasure", comments Julien.

stroke of luck

Petit Bulletin SAINT-ETIENNE - Concerts Saint-Etienne : Julien Haro et Thibault Llopis, Barock - article publié par Cerise Rochet

But while for many, dreams remain (too?) often confined in the heat of discussions, the two bartenders will have to deal with fate. In the winter of 2019, the former nightclub La Mine was put up for auction following bankruptcy. "We felt we had to get started," continues the 30-year-old. But we were far from imagining what awaited us. A takeover, a fanfare start, then 6 months of scarcity, the time to make mistakes, to get used to it, to adjust... On the razor's edge, however, at the start of 2020, Le Disorder is breaking even. And then… Bim.

“The global epidemic is the kind of thing you don't really consider when you buy an establishment. We missed 3000 bullets to be able to pay wages while waiting for partial unemployment. That was the most painful thing for us”. But it was without counting on the solidarity of Saint-Etienne. Ineligible for the first aid put in place, Julien and Thibault arrive at the commercial court in full confinement to file for bankruptcy… But it is closed. A stroke of luck or fate, again, since in desperation, they decide to launch an online kitty, to get everyone afloat. “And there, it was crazy. This momentum gave us incredible strength… And what people gave us saved us, above all”. Because, a few months later, the two friends are beginning to see the end of the tunnel. Other financial aid is put in place, they finally have access to it, and at the same time regain the taste for making projects.

Cultural diversity, social justice

After a long questioning, great reflections, and a lifting of the restrictions, Julien and Thibault therefore reopened Le Disorder full of passion, on July 9th. On the menu of their new formula: rock, rock, and rock, from every angle. “We come from there, and that's what people expect of us. This year, we are going to organize a concert every 15 days, by programming regional groups and by offering very low prices, even free for the unemployed and students under 22 years old. The rest of the time, we'll be in club mode. We both mix, staying in our favorite musical aesthetic, with the desire not to be a discotheque in the sense that we generally understand it, but a real cultural place. »

At this point in the discussion, we understand that, if Le Disorder is indeed a place of celebration, it is ultimately less an entrepreneurial project than an ideological struggle for the benefit of music, cultural diversity, and at the end of the account, of social justice: “The day I learned that René la Taupe had been number 1 in the French charts in 2013, I said to myself that we had a glitch, ironically Julien. The hype of commercial hits, the formatting, kills the artistic sensibility of those who make the music and of those who listen to it. We close minds instead of opening them. Our desire is to do just the opposite. We are convinced that it is possible to create a very strong cultural movement in Sainté, and which can concern everyone, by dint of links, bridges, proposals. In this city, culture is more about the party than the arts, and it's very beautiful, because it creates mixing, crossbreeding, encounters. It is up to us to know how to use it to develop a real cultural synergy”.

Julien, Thibaud, Le Disorder in a few dates

February 2019: the two former bartenders of the Dog buy the La Mine nightclub

Beginning of April 2019: opening of Disorder. In just under a year, the boys will organize 146 live concerts within their walls

Friday March 17, 2020: a last concert takes place at Disorder. The next day, night spots will not be allowed to open their doors.

Friday July 9, 2021: reopening of Disorder, after many twists and turns.

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