Bolis Pupul has announced that he’s on paternal live, his girlfriend Bieke Depoorter gave birth to their first newborn: Ziggy Zeebroek.
But he did manage do to an interview with Belgian magazine Humo, where he and Dave & Steph look back at 2024.
Here are a few quotes from the article:
HUMO The year started with a series of sold-out Soulwax concerts – from the Ancienne Belgique to London’s Roundhouse. We hadn’t seen you live in so long that it seemed like a comeback.
DAVID “It was the start of a journey that continues to this day. The fact that that concert series was so successful and resulted in a lot of festival bookings was a pleasant surprise. We were able to go to America twice with the band in 2024, which was a challenge in terms of time management. was quite a challenge. We are still looking for a healthy work-life balance. I am happy that there was so much interest in Soulwax’s return and that it allowed us to work on new music.”
STEPHEN “We then played five or six brand new songs that we had never recorded, but had made especially for the live concerts. Funny enough, people who had seen us in the spring referred to those same songs in the summer, as if they had been in the meantime You can imagine that we were a bit confused when we went into the studio with those songs.
HUMO On March 8, Bolis Pupul will release his solo debut ‘Letter to Yu’, which ends up high on many end-of-year lists. Boris, you explore the roots of your deceased mother and therefore your own background. How do you look back on that, now that you’ve been on the road with that record all year?
STEPHEN “What I want to know: were you relieved that you could finally share that record with everyone?”
BORIS “Many journalists asked me whether that is now a closed chapter in my life. Then I could never answer that. I also don’t like the word ‘closed’: that sounds as if everything is okay again. But the whole history has now come to an end. got a place.”
STEPHEN “I was especially curious about what your dad thought about it. Because the plan to come out with that chapter of your life is no small feat, is it?”
BORIS “I don’t really know what my dad thinks about it. I haven’t asked him yet.”
STEPHEN (surprised) “No?”
BORIS “I know he likes it, but not what it does to him ‘in depth’.”
STEPHEN “What about your sister Sarah?”
BORIS “I chatted more about it with her. In the last song of the record I use a sample of my mother’s voice. I wanted Sarah’s approval for that. Because it is such a super personal composition that I was not allowed to decide on my own. We’ve been through a lot together and shared a lot of sadness, it was important that she was by my side. I also traveled to Hong Kong with her to shoot a music video. It was Sarah’s first time there, so it was great to see that city through her eyes. I had to see her because she would have appealed to almost everyone. She wanted to blend, make a connection. At the end of every day she was exhausted.”
HUMO Halfway through March, Despacio, your renowned DJ project with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, finally played in your own country: at the Wintercircus in Ghent.
STEPHEN “De max, both for James and for us. Even though Despacio is actually a vanity project: we don’t make any money from it because it is such an expensive production. I was just afraid that the police would shut down the party: we were going to do something where we didn’t know how loud it could actually be, how fast we could go, let alone what it would sound like in the hall.”
BORIS “Have you been bothered by the neighbors?”
STEPHEN “Not as far as I know. Of course they had been talked to beforehand.”
HUMO On June 11, French pop icon Françoise Hardy, associated with giants such as Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Dutronc, passes away.
DAVID “Steph once made a music video for her.”
(check out: TBT (8): Francoise Hardy)
STEPHEN “Which Dave plays guitar in. I had directed the video for K’s Choice’s ‘Not an Addict’ and apparently it was very popular in France. She had come across Hardy, who wanted to hire me for the video for ‘Mode d’ emploi’. When she saw the final version, she was shocked by how old she looked: because we had developed the film extra hard, the end result looked very rough and brightly lit.”
HUMO That same month, during Paris Fashion Week, you provided the music for the very last runway show of the famous Belgian designer Dries Van Noten.
DAVID “We have been working with Dries for more than 20 years and have reworked ‘Sound and Vision’ by David Bowie especially for that show, mixed it with interview fragments, a piece of Philip Glass… Very intense. You know we are huge Bowie fans. That We received carte blanche from the Bowie heirs, it was really a dream come true. A very charged event, even though Dries did not want his farewell to be too obvious. And yet everyone was crying.”
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