***NATHAN ROCHE is a poet and musician from Townsville, Australia. He played in a bunch of bands in his home country—MARF LOTH, CAMPERDOWN & OUT, HOME RUN, THE WENTWORTH AVENUE BREEZE-OUT, REDNECK DISCOTHEQUE, THe REVISIONISTS—and released a dozen albums. Not mentioning three solo records in the past 3 years, notably on his own book/music imprint Glenlivet-A-Gogh. He is a versatile artist and his music brings to minds Lou Reed, Kevin Ayers or early Brian Eno. It does not sound pretentious or uptight. On the contrary, there is a loose and warm feeling to most of his songs. Close to a number of great bands from the current Australian music scene, Nathan is now based in France—Villejuif in the Southeastern suburb of Paris to be precise—and he formed a new band with local musicians, fitly called LE VILLEJUIF UNDERGROUND. The band has already played with the likes of The Rebel, Ausmuteants, Bazooka, Buck Biloxi and the Fucks, Juan Wauters and Sea Pinks and recently toured in China.