Trade shows and festivals – Confined with … Alain Brochery, producer of festive motorcycle events –

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Confined with … Alain Brochery, producer of festive motorcycle events

Trade shows and festivals - Confined with ... Alain Brochery, producer of festive motorcycle events -

What are the main players in the motorcycle world doing during the lockdown linked to the Covid-19 pandemic? Alain Brochery, former stuntman and producer of festive motorcycle events (X-Roadster, national motorcycle festival, etc.), confided in the Journal moto du Net.

MNC: Where are you confined ?

Alain Brochery : I am at home in La Napoule, a small, tender and peaceful medieval village next to the sea, a stone’s throw from Cannes, where I was born. I am with my wife Brigitte. My son, his friend and our beautiful granddaughter Maëlie are a few meters from us. We have a rather nice, colorful green exterior with Provençal scents, it is a chance that makes perfect sense at this time and we thank life.

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MNC: How are your days going? ?

A. B. : Out of confinement, my mornings are essentially identical. The afternoon is according to my desires of the day, without being carried by an idea or a project. I do nothing and I can be a specialist in "doing nothing", I do not subscribe to this fashion of "I would work until my last breath", it is ridiculous … I "strip" and that cannot be the case permanently! In confinement, I get up at 7:30 am with my ritual: I take a cup of Ricore while browsing the digital press to find out about the "world". Then I prepare the real breakfast for my wife and I, not forgetting to deliver the croissants that I put in the oven to my son. I followed that up with 30 minutes of stretching and 45 minutes of brisk walking (cycling outside of confinement) in an attempt to rehabilitate my painful body which fell in love with shocks during its 35 years of cinema stunts. I can’t run anymore because it’s my legs and back that have suffered the most. Then I sit in my office, or outside depending on the weather, until around 2 p.m. First I go about my day-to-day business, then I manage what I have in common with my son. I am a persistent worry, I have always anticipated all possible scenarios that could impact our lives. This is a real flaw with me and this period of confinement is conducive to this excessive imagination … We do not remake! At around 2 p.m. it’s lunchtime (I always set the table, but never clear the table) and the opportunity to chat with Brigitte about everything and nothing. It’s time for the sacred siesta … I am from a southern family, only my granddaughter is allowed to disturb me! Around 3:30 p.m. I return to my office and have fun working. My works are "artistic", I am explosive by nature, I overreact immediately to the emotion … You did not know it I presume but it is my biggest fault in the middle of many others, it must come out at all costs, one way or another. For example, I finished writing a concept of races and atmospheres that I imagine "perfect", pushing everything to its climax, both the races and the festive spirit that this sport provokes if it is. titillates a little. The idea is not to produce this event but to have fun by letting my imagination run wild. Life will do the rest and either this project will remain virtual or not … The craft production of events has become exceedingly difficult but still very exciting. Despite everything, my virality rate for the "Envie" virus remains very positive. I am also working on a project for a major wrestling gala scheduled for 2021 with Ph. Cestaret and my friend Marc Mercier, eight times world champion in the 1980s, as well as on a sound and light that I have to present to our youngster. benevolent mayor, Sebastien Leroy, in which I submit the idea that the castle of La Napoule would be defended by the "little musketeers of Mandelieu", a squadron that I will form with the children of the city. I have trained a few already and it’s great. I reappear around 7 p.m. and set off for a brisk 45-minute walk, then it’s lunch. At 9 p.m. I lock myself in, I turn everything off, I put on my headphones and travel to read and music. My eyes flicker around 11 p.m. Around 3 a.m. I always wake up with, sometimes, a fixed idea anchored in my hat, something that never lets me go, sometimes it’s ridiculous to death, sometimes it’s nothing, but sometimes it’s fantastic and there I linger at the highest point! I have always thought that we had to build the present moment, the rest being just a complement…

MNC: What do you miss the most? The least ?

A. B. : What I miss the most is to immerse myself in the Mediterranean. I have been a fish since I was little, swimming is essential to me. I can also stay 2 hours in the water without doing anything, it is a creative and philosophical bubble for me. Sometimes I do fall asleep a little, but never drown myself apart in my thoughts, it’s better this way! I am a 3rd level scuba diver, it’s just before the 1st level of monitoring. My back made me stop this pleasure, but I am going to force myself to make one last dive to discover a battleship sunk in 1944, off the bay of La Napoule. In the end, not much is missing, except the most important: my mother who lives in Maisons-Alfort, this father whom I never really had, then my mentally handicapped sister, installed in a magnificent farm / home in Auxerre where benevolence is essential. I know when I’m by her side she calms down a bit. And then, of course, not being able to hug my granddaughter and the people I love, sentimental distancing requires…

MNC: What are you afraid of ?

A. B. : I am afraid for my relatives, my friends and me. I’m a coward, I’m afraid of everything and worried about everything, so right now I’m hugging the walls! But I’m also afraid to imagine that following the incredible, nothing or very little will change, despite what some seem to think … I imagine the economy will resume a semblance of normal course in some time, because how can we think that the lure of gain and power would suddenly become secondary, since in the end all have only these objectives in mind? And they have to, they have no other choice, the system implies that companies, groups, leaders are obliged to start again in the race for profits to unload their accounts. To establish a group, it is necessary to optimize its assets again and again in order to compensate for unforeseen events and the experience we are going through may well support this analysis. Everyone will find it in solid gold, making us believe that they will have to, "very very soon" change everything, they will even believe themselves! It would be necessary to redraw the outline of a future in which we would like to be part of to live there serenely, but this positivity seems to me rather to correspond to that of a three week old rabbit … I put a candle and pray because I would like deeply in error … See you very soon, we will see…

MNC: A book, a film, a series, a record to recommend ?

A. B. : I revisit my books and documentations on painters. I have always been interested in the Impressionist period, an unthinkable turning point at the time. I admire the popular works of Renoir, its velvety tones, and also of Berthe Morisot, the first impressionist woman. His exceptional touch for lace, veils and other fabrics is haute couture. This finesse, this lightness are deeply felt. My current reading is a superb book "Edward Hopper, His 100 Most Beautiful Masterpieces" about this innovative and spectacular realistic painter. I bring out my Joe Bar team albums, superb books by the great motocross photographer and personal friend Pat Bouland who passed away for a long time, and Jean-Louis Bernardelli as "Folies du motocross" (1985). Then I ordered David Dumain’s book "20 Extraordinary Biker Stories". For movies, I’m not a fan more than that. I just had a great time watching "Heat" where Pacino and De Niro engage in an actor duel with a powerful dimension. Robert Redford’s "The Man Who Whispered in Horses’ Ear" also and I love romantic comedies like "When Harry Met Sally". I’m not a fan of action movies whose "is" action storyline, which is uninteresting to me. For the music, a great title by Charles Dumont "Mon Dieu", whose text is overwhelming in this sad period … It is a tribute to all our dead. Marie Laforêt’s universe has always "reminded me", then Ten Years After and its legendary guitarist Alvin Lee, the solid Mark Knopfler … The aces for me are Rod Stewart and Led Zeppelin, but I am also anchored to the French variety: Johnny, Sardou, Stone and Charden, Françoise Hardy and. His talent was so rich and sensitive … I also adore Sheila, Herve Villard, Joe Dassin, as well as Jean Ferrat … I am rather "broad" on this side, a beautiful melody of Barbelivien is enough for me to escape … And all this takes place in the evening in the dark, headphones to the ears. I slip away and fly away.

MNC: Your Favorite Motorcycle Video ?

A. B. : I immerse myself in Alain Prieur’s videos. His emotions are so noticeable, his actions were of a depth beyond that of the stuntman. He was not a "stuntman" but much more, rather an adventurer of life, a pleasure-lover, a hell of a character. I also see footage of the world’s greatest movie stuntman, Dar Robinson, which anyone can find on Youtube and who killed himself in minimal action in 1986 … He made it all up. !

MNC: The first thing you will do at the end of the lockdown ?

A. B. : I would go swimming and resume the lunge, a sport that makes my back light and optimizes my cardio. I am also looking forward to discovering the museums in the region that I have not yet visited (Matis, Chagall, Fernand Leger, Villa Rothschild …) before traveling to discover others, then returning to the museum Renoir de Cagnes-sur-Mer, his last home of which I know a few corners. On display, among other things, is an oil depicting a magnificent child’s head that belongs to an actor in the motorcycle world. The curator of this museum, the Domaine des Colettes, did me the honor of opening the doors to certain secret places. It is moving to imagine and walk in the olive grove of this place, where the illustrious friends of the Master, the impressionists and other great artists such as Bonnard, Matisse, Monet, Rodin, have set foot on this land. Then of course, as soon as we are given permission to be able to resume hugging with the people we love, I will not fail, with my granddaughter and those close to me first and foremost. I wish everyone, without exception, to rediscover the joie de vivre that we are entitled to hope for and of course absolutely respect the confinement rules which, in the end, are not "inhumane". Do not be persuaded that they are, it would be useless: there is more unhappiness than to live and to fight! Then let’s never forget that "tomorrow will be too late, now is the time" !

Interview by Eric MICHEL

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