Fabian Geyrhalter:
Welcome to the show, Marc.

Marc Collin:
Thank you. I'm happy to participate.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
It's so good to have you here. I've been a big fan of Nouvelle Vague, I would say pretty much since day one, since the first record came out, which I think is like 20 years. 20 years now, something like that.

Marc Collin:
22

Fabian Geyrhalter:
22 years. Crazy. Crazy.

Marc Collin:
Yeah, I know. I can't believe it myself, but that's how it is.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
And the name New Wave in English obviously is about new wave music, but it's also about the French New Wave cinema movement of the '60s. But somehow I have not put together until last night that Bossa Nova is also a new way. So you put all kinds of puns into this one band name and all of that combined, all of these ideas combined created something completely fresh. How was this idea of the project born?

Marc Collin:
Yeah, when you're saying that, it seems very conceptual, even like a marketing project, but it wasn't really at all. It was just, I started to produce music and to have a label. I launched my label Kwaidana in 98, and I started to have some ideas because I knew that I could produce it. I got a studio, I could produce music. And I'm a big fan of New Way. Really, this is my first passion, really my musical passion. And in the '90s, people can't really realize it now and believe it even is that, but in the '90s, we were completely trying to forget all the '80s. It was really not the thing to say. We were really into the trip hop, the techno, the house, the German bass, all this new movement. And nobody was saying, "Hey, what about The Cure? What about New Order?" No, it was taboo.
It sounds weird, but it was like that. And suddenly around the early 2000s, people started to talk again about this and saying, "Hey, finally it was some really cool things in the '80s." So it was a kind of revival that was coming. And I had this idea that came through different ways because an idea is always coming from different things. And I remember I was in my car and I was listening to radio and they played Tainted Love by Gloria Jones, the original of Tainted Love by Gloria Jones. And I had no idea that Tainted Love was a cover.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Me neither, until right now, I have to say it. I have to admit.

Marc Collin:
So I was really completely surprised. I thought that what do I am listening to? Do I'm listening to the original song? And I've never knew that it was a cover. I never read or heard that Softsell said that Tainted Love was a cover. I've never said it, I think. I'm listening to a new version of actually a cover of Tainted Love Softsell, but in a way that you think it's vintage. I don't know if you follow me. But in my mind, I thought maybe she's doing it now because I never heard about this cover. So I thought maybe we can play with this idea. And on the other hand, my idea was that as a musician, I've always been told, "Oh, a good song is a classic. It should be played only with a piano or a guitar. If you take the songs from the Beatles, I don't know, Elton John, Stevie Wonder." And nobody's never saying you can take a song from the cure on the order.
I've never thought about that. We never saw these bands as songwriters really. In the early 2000s, now it has changed, of course. But in the early 2000s, nobody was saying that the guy from New Order was a good songwriter. So I wanted to prove that these guys, these bands have actually written classics for my generation. And I wanted to prove that they've really written beautiful songs that you can play only with a guitar. And so I thought, let's try to do that. Let's play Blue Monday. Let's play Guns of Brickstone. Let's play Forest by the Cure only with a guitar in a little bossanova rhythm, and we're going to see if it's working. And I tried and I thought, wow, this is working actually. So this idea plus the idea of soft cell covers that I didn't know how and when it was recorded, all these things made in my mind creating Nobel Vag really.
So I've imagined this travel, this time and space travel between London, Manchester in the late '70s, early '80s to Rio in the early '60s.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
So amazing.

Marc Collin:
It's a stranger way to think it.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
And I think your partner in the project, when you first brought up the idea, he thouht you're a little crazy. And then you guys started, I think one of the first songs you did was Love Will Tear is a Part of Joy Division, which is literally a song that you should not touch back in the day. It's like, this is holy ground. Don't go there. And that was the first Thing
You did.

Marc Collin:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I've always said to people, there's no songs that are sacred. It's only music. So I mean, people are learning music, doing covers. You're always starting like that, playing music that you like. I'm playing a forest when I was 15 with my first band. I was playing a forest already. So I think I'm not afraid of doing covers of music. The version is not interesting at all and nobody will listen to it and it will be forgotten, but it's just music.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah, I love that. What did you play in your bands growing up?

Marc Collin:
I was on the keyboard. I had a and I was a kind of UF band.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah, that makes sense. And I think back in the '80s, you also formed the band with Nicholas Godin of Air, right?

Marc Collin:
Yeah, absolutely. That's crazy. He was the bass player.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Amazing. Amazing. Well, fast-forward to 2026, and I think you're about to be on tour or you already are on tour through Europe and Australia, right?

Marc Collin:
Yeah, yeah. We are finishing the tour of 2024, and we are finishing it now. We have four gigs till September. In September, we are creating the new show and we are going to Australia. Yes.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Amazing. All of this is in support of the new album, which is coming out in October, which is fully dedicated to my very favorite band, Depeche Mode. I have amassed 489 Depeche Mode records to date. Oh, wow. So I'm super excited for your record to hit. Your love for the band has been no secret either. Your self-titled debut album, I think in 2004, it had Just Can't Get Enough as track number two. Then it was followed by the Tuxedo Moon song in the Manner of Speaking, which I only knew of Martin Gore's solo album, which is interesting too. It's like I didn't know it was a cover version. Then you kicked off your third Noel Bach album with Master and Servant, and you actually got Martin Gore to sing on it, which was super cool. And then the 2024 release, you featured People of People.
So what made you go all in on a full album dedicated only on Barcanova versions Depeche Mode?

Marc Collin:
It's a long time. I was thinking maybe that's the thing to have this project since 20 years now is that sometimes we need to change. We need to not always doing the same thing. And I thought it would be interesting to just be focused on one band, one repertoire. There are not that much bands from the post-punk era that we can find 10 really amazing songs. I mean, almost only hits. They're not that much. If you think about, I don't know, for example, I love a magazine or the sound, but you won't be able to pick 13 songs like that. And they didn't do that much album as well. But you can with The Cure, you can with The Clash, you can with New Order, you can with the Smiths, I'm sure. And of course you can with Depeche Mode because Depeche Mode is like, wow, it's incredible.
They have so much amazing songs, so much hits, and they are still performing. I saw them live two years ago. So I thought, okay, let's try this concept and start with Depeche Mode. And it was a pleasure to go onto all the discography and to pick up the songs, to try to represent Depeche Mode, not on neither hits, but some songs that I really like and songs that have been written not 20 years ago, but sometime 10 years ago as well, some things like that. So it was a great pleasure for me to listen back to all the albums and to do the selection.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
You have Beth Hirsch, who many of the listeners know from her collaboration with Air on Moon Safari. She's going to do, well, she did, A Question of Lust, which I'm so excited to hear that. Then you have Sky Edwards of Morchiba on Personal Jesus. I mean, I'm just like, for you, this is old news. For everyone else, this is pretty news and this is pretty exciting. I can't wait for that. In a Guardian interview from 2006, you said the following. People asked me, "Will you ever cover 1990s bands?" And I said, "No, never." And I will keep that in mind, Marc, when I'm going to listen to Only When I Lose Myself, which is a 1998 Dipes song, which is so down tempo. It's so '90s. I think Tim Simon of Bomb the Bass, I think, produced it. So I see.

Marc Collin:
Oh, yes. I never thought about that, but you're right. You're completely right.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Well, things change. Things change. Have you ever heard Royksopp's version of Ice Machine by any chance?

Marc Collin:
No.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Oh, you should. Yo should because I was so surprised seeing your album finish with Ice Machine. And then I remembered Roiksop did a really great electro version of it. What's your favorite track on the new album so that we can look forward to it? It's a tough one. I know it's your baby, right?

Marc Collin:
Yeah, it's a tough one. I'm very happy with what we have done with Halo. And let me think about -

Fabian Geyrhalter:
I think Goldfrapp. Didn't Goldfrapp do Halo once? I think so.

Marc Collin:
Yes. They did. Halo, and let me think, Behind the Wheel.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Oh, that is a holy one to touch. But like Marc Collins said, nothing is holy. It's just music. Exactly. Exactly. See, I'm a fast learner. I'm a fast learner. Do you remember when you bought your first record or which record it was?

Marc Collin:
The really first one, I'm not sure the really first one because when I was young, first I bought some singles, like the little format, you know what I mean? Yeah,

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah, the 45s. Yeah.

Marc Collin:
Yes, exactly. So I bought some of this, I think it was in 79. I started in 79, I was 11, and I started to buy. But what is incredible with this era is that I bought the hits from the radio. But the hits on the radio, I still have them. It's Blondie, it's chic, it's OMD. I mean, it's all amazing. Amazing stuff.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.

Marc Collin:
Yeah. So that was the thing. And I remember that I think probably the first album I bought, I'm not sure, but probably it's Madness, absolutely. In 80, I guess. 81, maybe. 80. I think it's 80. Yes. I didn't buy One Step Beyond. I bought the Caron Santour, the 45 thing, but I bought the album of Madness. Absolutely. Yes.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
I think there's something about that album that when you think about your musical career, it is interesting because it was very '80s back in the day. It was inspired, but it also had obviously sky and it had a lot of influences from around the world and it was intellectual. It was interesting. It was not very, very cool. How much of your musical taste do you attribute to your upbringing in your household? Did music play a big role or was it more

Marc Collin:
Like the

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Punk in you of going outside to.

Marc Collin:
No. Well, there was not really music in my house, so I can't say that. I don't know. I think as a teenager, I needed something probably to find for me to express myself. I needed something a bit different from what all the people at school were listening to. And I bumped into this post-punk thing and I became a bit crazy. The thing is that I really wanted to get all the albums and then the vinyls, but as well, the live. And there was a traffic at that time. People were going to concert and recording with a workman. Oh

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah,

Marc Collin:
I

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Did. I did myself too.

Marc Collin:
Yeah. So I did that and I was starting to exchange with people all over the world to get the concert of the Cure in Tokyo. And then I'm sending the one in Paris. So I started to have a huge collection of live version of the bands I like. And it was so big that I started to sell myself these cassettes. It was a big traffic that actually made me money to buy albums and buy after material to do music. So that was a bit how I made the economy to buy.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
So you and I both were secret bootleggers. That's what we were.
Yeah. It's so interesting. My father was a violinist in some of the best orchestras in the world. And so I grew up in a very music-centered household. And when he came back from tour in Japan back in the '80s, he brought this beautiful Walkman. It was an Iowa Walkman that had an amazing recording microphone on it. And he said, "Kids, you can never touch this device. You can never touch it." Sure enough, there was a band coming through town. I took it and I had to smuggle it into the venue. So I put it into

Marc Collin:
My

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Underpants. I put it in my underpants, I walked in, then I recorded the entire thing. And then the next day I started selling the tapes. And of course my dad never found out, but I mean, oh my God, guilty. Guilty.

Marc Collin:
I though I got the same Iowa, I think. I can't remember. It was a beautiful

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Machine. It was a

Marc Collin:
Beautiful

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Machine.

Marc Collin:
The song was not amazing, to be honest. When we were listening back to the tape, it

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Was

Marc Collin:
Incredible. But it was history. It

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Was a documentary. It was a documentary. And it was so funny because most probably we stood somewhere smack in the middle of thousands of people. So it wasn't at the soundboard.

Marc Collin:
Exactly, exactly. So the song was very bad. But when you are fans of music, at that time, fan, you wanted everything. You wanted to hear all the versions, all the different things. And it was interesting because as a musician that I became after, I was very disappointed because I just realized that the bands were playing the same show every night. True, true. And I didn't think about that. I thought that they were playing, I don't know, depending on the audience, depending on the club, they were changing a bit the same most of the time. No.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah. Well, and then you have someone like Robert Smith and The Cure that play very different sets for three hours straight every night, which Is Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

Marc Collin:
Unbelievable.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
So how many records do you own still? Did you ever get rid of them when the CD wave came in or MP3s? Or do you still have most of your original collection?

Marc Collin:
Yes. Yes. I sold and I regret it, but I sold some specific copies, like limited copies like special picture Ds called this kind of thing, a special limited edition. I sold them early 20s, yes. But I think 90% of my collection, I still have it. Yes. And on vinyls and on CDs. Yes.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
How many do you think?

Marc Collin:
It's difficult to say. Really, I don't know. Hundreds,

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Thousands?

Marc Collin:
Yeah, I would say more hundreds that maybe 1,000, but not more. I never count, but I get a lot. I get a lot for sure.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah. Some people are crazy enough like myself who put all their records into discox, into the app, and then they know exactly how many they have.

Marc Collin:
Yeah, no, no, I've never done that. One day, one day.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
One day. Which artist do you think you have most records of? Is there one artist that you're a completist or that you try to.

Marc Collin:
Good questions. I would say maybe, let me see, Madness.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Oh, yeah. It's always the beginning. It's so interesting. The first record I bought was a seven-inch two because we all didn't have money. We were kids. So it was a single, and it was Deoeche Mode. And I bought it because it was colored because back in Germany, they were colored back in the day. And then it just became this lifelong fascination with the band. You and I both picked the right bands. Madness and Depeche Mode is nothing to be ashamed of.

Marc Collin:
No, it's true. And I'm saying that I loved because Madness were very productive. There was a lot of EPs, singles, albums every year. There was a lot to buy. I had as well a lot of oldest cabins. I got almost everything on the specials from by three. And I got a lot from New Order as well. I think I got all the Maxi EP of New Order. I got some collection of, yeah, I don't know, all this Factory. I liked as well some labels. I was buying almost everything from Factory Records, Cramad Records, the Digital Capisco, this kind of thing as well.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
It's interesting because I did the same with Mute Records and both of them, Factory Records and Mute Records both are very interesting labels. They kept this entertained through the years. But Factory and talking about New Order, talking about the art direction of New Order's records, I mean, iconic. I mean, Blue Monday, the 12-inch and all of these designs. You with Noel Vach, I mean, if you look through the catalog of Nouvelle Vague, it is one distinct visual identity that you created over the years too. How did that come about? Did you hire the right person in the beginning and then it came from there? Or how did it come

Marc Collin:
About? Yeah, yeah. No, I really have to admit that this wasn't my idea.
I remember because the story was NouvelleVague is that I did this album. We did it with Olivier, and after I didn't know really what to do with it. And I started to see some record label in France and no one was interested. And unfortunately, I was working at that time with a DJ, French DJ, Ivan Maga, and he was playing in London. And he gave the little CD we've done, like a promo CD, to this label called PeaceFrog, that was a kind of techno electro label. And they called me and said, "Well, we want to license your album." And I was like, "Well, okay, but you are kind of small labeled and you are not really into this music." And there was a guy called Mark Kirby, to name it, very really, really good A&R person. And he convinced me. And I said, "Oh, okay.
We need to do some remixes and we need to have some pictures of the singers." And he said, "No, no way. No, no, no, no, don't do that. We are going to ask a guy to draw a feminine icon and it'll represent all the girls." And I said, "Oh, wow. Okay, why not?" And he asked this guy called Giles Ducon, a British fashion designer that drove these first pictures. I think he was inspired by La Calas and Anna Karina. And it became really the trademark. And after we changed the graphic designer, but we always kept this idea of having iconic emblematic woman.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
It's amazing how it became the entire design language. It's really neat. I had no idea that that's how it started. What is a record in your collection that you cherish the most? If you had to grab one and you run out of your home and you just grab one, which would it be?

Marc Collin:
Oh, I just forgot that actually it's not Madness I get the most. It's Julie London. I think I got almost all the Julie London's album in vinyl, which is probably 20 or 30, something like that. Yeah. You

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Would grab one of those?

Marc Collin:
Yeah, probably. Yeah, probably Lonely Girl from Julie London, maybe. Yes. Yeah, I really love this album, but there's a lot.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Oh, I'm sure. Is there one that you know is extremely rare that's very cherished or very expensive? Or it might even be a Nouvelle Vague test pressing or anything. Do you have something where you feel like that's something where it's most probably only a couple of people that have it?

Marc Collin:
Oh, probably, but it's difficult to know because I'm not following that. I got all the singles from this band, French bands, really cult band called Taxi Girl. I don't know if you know them.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
I don't.

Marc Collin:
Taxi Girl is amazing French band, post-punk band that did only one album. But there was two guys in Taxi Girl. There was one guy that became after a curt singer. And then the other guy became an international huge producer. And that's the guy that produced music with Madonna. Yeah, so a big story and it's a really, really interesting guy. And it's a really good band and I got all their singles, yes. But after, I don't know, I got really special edition of French music like Eldon, Richard Pinas, The Prophets, amazing bands with Bernard Sagner. I got some things. Yeah, I got some things, but I don't know if that's the value of it. I got all the Alice Coltrane, for example. But I mean, I was collecting music before internet, so it was completely another thing where you had to go to the shops. I was going to shop in Canada, I remember in Belgium, it was incredible.
In Tokyo, of course, you can find, but you have to research, you have to find time. But suddenly eBay arrived and you could find everything. So it has completely changed the thing.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
I think that's the beauty of your collection is that you can, I mean, at least I can look at pretty much every record. And I remember exactly where I bought it, on which trip or it reminds me of. There's so many memories associated with it. Is there any record that you think people would find in the $1,1 Euro bin, 99 cents really cheap that you think is amazing? Some guilty pleasure? Well, I mean, since you're into the '80s, there were a lot of guilty pleasures back in the '80s, but is there a specific band that you think most people would be like, "Ah," but you really, really like it?

Marc Collin:
I got an anecdote. Yes. I got this album. It's funny, I'll try to make it short, but I know a guy that was producing music in the '70s in France, and he did this project called The Droids. And The Droids was because he watched Star War and cinema in the '70s and he said, "Okay, let's do something with electronic and disco." And you make this thing with another guy. I don't remember his name actually, and it's a duet and they did this album called The Droids, May the 4th be with you. And this album didn't work at all, but two things. First thing, you can find now online a video of the performance of The Droids on Italian TV, and it's amazing. It's Daft Punk. It's Daft Punk before Daft Punk. Yeah. They have airnets, they have droids, they are disco thing with electronic. It's really, really Darfunk.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
How Cool.

Marc Collin:
Yeah. And the other thing is that I got. So the guy gave me this album, I don't know. I never even really listened to the whole album maybe, but I have it. And one day I worked with, not directly, but I worked with this guy, Lawrence from the band Felt, you know Felt, English band from the '80s, '90s. And the guy told me the album I'm looking for all my life, I can give everything to have it is a French band called The Duroid. And I said, "Well, I have it." And he said, "Oh, please sell Sell it to me because I can do everything you want. I can pay the amount of, tell me just your price." Incredible. So I listened to it saying, "Why? Why is that album so important?" And I listened to it and I was like, "Well, okay." I didn't see really the point, but it was a good album.
But yes, I gave it to him. Yes, I remember now. Because you know what? I had it for free. I will not like, I don't know. The guy wasn't really rich, so I said, okay, I'll just send it to and maybe you will, I don't know, you'll help me. It was on Sherry Red record. I don't know, we can maybe do something. That was the anecdote about something that got really amazing value for a very cult musician.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
I love the whole Daft Punk story and how does this inspire? I listened to one of. I do this thing where every month I go buy a record at a record shop and I ask them to give me whatever record that's like $80, $100 that they're really excited about. And then I give it away to people on the website. And this guy in San Antonio, Texas, he gave me a record called 666. It's by Vangelis with his prior. You know it, right? Oh my God. So that was the first time I listened to this record and I heard everything in there. I heard Primal Scream in there. I heard Fat Boy Slim in there. And it's so amazing when you go back in time and you're like, oh, that's where the inspiration came from. It's really nice. What are some of your favorite albums ever?
Some of the top five? I know it's hard to specifically point at it, but what are some of your favorite albums ever?
No Pressure, Marc. No pressure.

Marc Collin:
No, no, no. I mean, I would just say what I have in mind now. Of course,
I will say one album from The Cure. So maybe 17 Seconds of Face. I think that's really. I can just listen to it over and over. I'm never bored with that. The production is amazing that everything's incredible. And really I love these two albums. Maybe Face, maybe because Face is a bit less popular, but songs like Funeral Party, All Cats are Grey. It's incredible really. I would say maybe, let me think, let me think. One from Herbie Hancock, maybe Sexton or maybe Crossings. It's incredible, the production, the mook since it's either, the jazz, the freedom, everything. It's incredible. So I think it's a masterpiece.
Where else? I mean, you have so much. Well, let me see, think about something that I can really. There's a lot of albums I can really listen to from the first track to the end. The segment album of the specials, maybe. It's incredible. Really, really good. The left scarf or something completely original in a way. Maybe an album from. Let's see. I will say if you think about classical music, I will go to Erik Sati maybe. Erik Sati, Dance de Travail. It's incredible. Where I'll go to. A soundtrack maybe. Soundtrack from Quincy Jones or Michelle LaGron. Wow, I mean, it's difficult to name one. Yeah, maybe I'd say Portishead, the first album.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Oh, yeah, yeah,

Marc Collin:
Yeah. Yeah. That's something. Yeah. And same thing. And maybe let's say to be really like the first album of 808 State, it's incredible. Acid House music. I still remember when I was going into a shop in Paris and the guy was playing me this stuff. I was like, "What is this?" I never heard something like that. This kind of baseline, free or free, completely crazy, hipsicadelic Acid House music, but I didn't know Acid House music. So at that time, probably 88 or 89, I don't know. So I think it's an important album because it was so really. Well, LFO. Yeah, LFO, the first album. Incredible. Yeah.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
It's interesting, you talked about going into the record shop and they play you something. I remember there was a record shop in Montreux in Switzerland where I lived for a year and a half, and it was a tiny shop, and the guy started to get to know me because I went there once a week or so. And he's like, "Fabian, you have to listen to this. You're going to love it." And then they just put on a CD back then and you just buy it and they hand selected it for you. They're like, "Oh my God, you're going to love Tricky. You're going to really like Tricky." And then for the first time I heard Tricky and I'm like, "Oh my God, this is like, what is this?" And that was a time that is just. Yeah.

Marc Collin:
Yeah. It'll come back. It'll maybe come back. I mean, I think there's a nostalgia for all of this thing.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
I agree. I agree. And one thing that I do with this interview series is I always have a playlist based on every single artist and song that you mention. So the ones who are listening right now, they can afterwards, after listening to the podcast, they listen to the playlist and they can listen to everything from the specials to 808 State and everything, which is really interesting because you learn something new and I think it's awesome. Do you have a favorite record store? Is there one in your area or is there something or one that you remember from -

Marc Collin:
Yeah, I remember first I can say that in Paris, we got a lot of record store now with the vinyl. There are a lot. So especially in my area in the 11ths. Yeah, it's incredible. I'm always like, wow. Well, I will say that when I was young, the first. It was a record store called New Rose, and it was where you can find all the post-punk electro things, and you got punk skinheads at that time everywhere. And I was coming from the suburb near Versailles. So it took me one hour to arrive. So when you arrive, you just stay. You just stay there in the shop and just talk and listen to music. So there was this record store. Of course, after there was this rough trade, rough trade in Paris. I got some friends that were working there and it was like, yeah, all the French Touch musician were there as well.
And it was very interesting. And there was this people that it was like what you said, all the new things, the newcomers, and they were, "Oh, you have to listen to that. That's the new thing that's coming from Manchester, from Bristol, from New York." It was very, very incredible, intense period with music to exchange music and to discover music. And nowadays, I can't really say, I can't really name one, but there are really cool shops in Paris now. Yes. Yeah.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure. Is there any recent release, any new artist or someone from the last couple of years, something new that you're really into?

Marc Collin:
Of course, yes, unfortunately. Yeah.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah, I know, Right?

Marc Collin:
No. Yeah, I don't know. For example, let me see. I have to think about my playlist on Spotify now. I know

Fabian Geyrhalter:
It's difficult. It's difficult. For everyone listening, I usually send some of the questions to my guests prior, but I screwed up and I sent it to the wrong email to Marc. So he's totally on the spot here. Totally on the spot in the hot seat.

Marc Collin:
No, I bought recently in the vinyl of an artist, a Brazilian artist called Ze Ibarra. Very good, very good. Kind of Kate Noveloso feeling. It's really good young Brazilian singer. I bought some vinyl from time to time and just like that. And I have to admit that I'm listening a lot of music on Spotify.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Yeah, of course. Of course. Yeah. Usually you listen to it on Spotify and then you fall in love with an artist and at some point you buy the record or you buy the ticket to the show. Then you buy the merch, and that's kind of how it all works. Very exciting. So you're getting ready for the tour in Australia, so that's going to be a new show.
Is there a full tour after Australia for the Deepesh Mode album?

Marc Collin:
Oh, yes. Oh yes.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
All Right.

Marc Collin:
Oh yes. It's a big tour that it will really start in February 2027. And we are going to go everywhere in Europe, that's for sure. We have a two-weeks tour in UK, Italy, Spain, Poland, France, all this Scandinavia thing. I mean everywhere. After we're going to go to Asia and America in September, I guess.

Fabian Geyrhalter:
Oh, fantastic. Well, good. I'm excited to see you. Well, you're obviously going to make it to Los Angeles, so I'll make sure to see the show. I'm excited about that. Very good. Well, thank you, Marc, for spending almost an hour with us and peeling back the curtain of your record collection and your taste and how Noubel Vag came about. And really, really excited to hear that new record, but you already noted about me, so this is going to be very exciting.

Marc Collin:
Thank you very much. It was a pleasure. And yeah, but maybe see you in LA when we're coming in probably next year. Yeah, next year, September, October. Yes.