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A Victory Awaits that he was 12 years old when he
A Victory Awaits
Max
ocalist/guitarist
VGoudard tells Black Velvet
decided to be in a band.
“I was playing piano before, but
my examples as rock stars don’t
play piano, so the piano didn’t bring
me to be in a band, but when I left
the piano to play guitar, that’s when
I said, ‘Yeah, I can be in a band with
that instrument’.”
His mother bought him his first
guitar. “When I learned guitar on the
Ramones record, I learned the
whole record and was playing in
front of my class, and, in my head, I
was on stage in a band,” he tells us.
“It was really natural. I always said
to myself, ‘I want to do this. I want to
be in a band, and, especially, in a
band’. I never wanted to be a solo
artist. I have to be in a group. I have
to do things with other people. I
have to share this with other people.
There is something so great in
Storm Orchestra, it’s that, when
you’re down, the others make you
wake up. There is always someone
in a band to say to the others, ‘Hey,
we can do this. We will achieve. We
will get this album done.’ There is a
real friendship environment. We are
always the three of us.”
Drummer Loic Fouquet was the
last member to join Storm Orches-
tra. Max tells us, “It’s quite funny, be-
cause he brought us a snare for a
concert, so we met him just to grab
the snare, and, a year after, we con-
tacted him and it was really natural.
We did a rehearsal to check if it was
cool and it was really natural. In two
rehearsals, he was in the band, and
he started with a big concert with a
giant crowd and I think he was really
thrilled to be in a band. It’s funny, be-
cause we all come from different
parts of rock. He’s more into pop
punk, I’m more into indie rock, and
Adrien is more into indie rock too.
We feed ourselves with different in-
fluences, so it’s been a really inter-
esting meeting of people.”

orking on ‘Get Better’, the
Wthree-piece made a more
conscious decision to make the
album more personal. Max says,
“It’s funny, because there is some-
thing different. When you compare
this album with the first one, we are
talking about the same things, but
with different pronouns. In the first
album, we were saying ‘we’ and
‘you’, and, on this album, we used a
lot more ‘I’ to speak about the same
subjects. So, it’s funny, because it
completely changes the way you
see the subject, and, I think, people
can relate a lot more to those sub-
jects, like global warming, or even
love.”
Max thinks the three musicians
worked better together on this
album release, and became more of
a unit with each other. “We are more
friends, we know each other more

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