Maud Berthomier

Maud Berthomier was born in 1982 in Poitiers. After studying in Montreal, New York and Edinburgh, she wrote her first book, Encore plus de bruit: The Golden Age of Rock Journalism in America, by Those Who Invented It, published in 2019 by Tristram. This collection of interviews with the pioneers of the great American rock press (Nick Tosches, Greil Marcus, Peter Guralnick, Jon Landau, Lenny Kaye, Richard Meltzer in particular) launched her on the subject.

The same year, in the show Echoes-Jehnny Beth Tonight broadcast on Arte, Maud Berthomier was hired as an artistic collaborator for the preparation of interviews with guest musicians. The following year, she began writing her book The Clash: The Experience for GM éditions. Published in October 2021, this second book is the history of the group told by its biggest fans, an oral history in which 3D from Massive Attack and Joe Talbot from the Idles participate.

Today, in Very Good Trip: An Intimate History of Music, her third book, Maud Berthomier returns to interview techniques by interviewing Michka Assayas. Faithful to the portrait format, she pursues the questions that are dear to her: why music inspires us so much, what cultural transmitters are hidden behind it, and what power speech still has to make us relive this great individual and collective history.