His name is Charlie. And his name is Lulu. They are on W9 for the hit-machine. This Tuesday, in the company of a crazy audience, they return to the air for an exceptional bonus devoted to the program which rocked Saturday mornings on M6 from 1994 to 2009. In mid-November, the two hosts were at the Dôme de Paris to record this program which sees the return of L5, Larusso, Tragédie, Willy Denzey, Worlds Apart and Yannick. Minutes away from hitting the stage, 20 minutes interviewed the singers of the tube The fire it burnswhich they will of course perform during the evening.
What state of mind are you in before going on stage?
Charly : Serene and happy. We are coming to a great period of nostalgia for the 90s and 2000s. We happen to have been part of it. We’ve been doing a few galas since this summer. What is very nice is that we go to cities, villages, there are a lot of concerts organized with artists that we have known well. There, we add cameras so it’s a different atmosphere but we are obviously delighted. We meet behind the scenes with the artists as in the great era. I could be wrong but I feel like there’s something weird that’s always been going on in the hallways of the hit-machinea kind of alchemy with artists, technicians, assistants, animators…
Lulu : I had not seen Obispo for fifteen years. We see it and we are friends again. The artists were happy to come to us.
Charly : We find the same thing. The L5s are as if we left them yesterday. Beyond the image of hit-machine and the set, which is extraordinary, is also what was happening behind.
What will we find in the show?
Charly : The idea is to find exactly all the markers of the hit-machinemeaning the artists on stage playing their hits, it’s great.
Lulu : And above all a high-level presentation!
Charly : I was going to come to that. We find the two zigotos who presented at the time. I think the viewer, when he turns on his screen, will say that it reminds him of something.
Lulu : We have always made television while having fun. What worked was that having fun amused others. We only know how to do that. To be boring, there are plenty of others. Besides, I have the names (laughs).
Is it surprising for you to find yourself on a TV show twenty years later?
Charly : Surprisingly, no. Finally yes and no. No, because it’s our job and it’s a program that we know well, so everything is fine. And yes, because television has changed a little bit, music has less place today. It’s good that a channel like W9 takes the risk of doing it.
How did you prepare this bonus?
Lulu : Charly is interested in the thing so he works a lot. But me, I do like when I was in sixth grade: I copy (laughs)
Charly : Our duo is not a fictional duo. It goes beyond television. I know him well, he knows me well. I know all his springs, which is much easier for the job. I try to think of small details, both with the production but also for him, so that he is comfortable for the duo to work. We are totally different but it takes real chemistry for the duo to work.
The “Hit Machine” returns for one night only. And after ?
Charly : In television, I don’t think you should predict anything. Television, it goes, it comes. We do not know. We’re having a lot of fun doing this show and we’ll see what happens. What is important is to please the public, the artists and try to please us. It’s like a birthday, you try to get it right but you don’t care about the next year’s one. You focus on what you’re doing and that’s what we’re going to try to do.
Could you find the artists you are hosting tonight as part of a tour?
Charly : Olivier Kaefer is working hard to set up a tour in 2022 called Totally 90. We had the chance to do a tour in 2011 and we loved it because it was our first. If we have the opportunity to do another, we would be delighted.