Steroid Maximus 'Seventy Cops' Live at Le Pompidou 2003

JG Thirlwell's Steroid Maximus performing the classic "Seventy Cops" live at Le Pompidou in Paris on April 12 2003. Some additional footage shot at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes on April 11 2003.

The personnel in this iteration of Steroid Maximus was: JG Thirlwell – composer / conducter / arrangements, Steven Bernstein – Trumpet / arrangements, Jan Orawiec – Violin, Faustine Orawiec – Violin, Guillaume Francois – Cello, Oene van Geel – Violin, Vincent DeBruyne – Viola, Renaud Pion –Reeds, Steve Arguelles – Drums, Noel Akchote – Guitar, Ashley Slater – Trombone, Didier Havet – Bass Trombone, Allie Delfau – Keyboards, Laurent Levesque – Keyboards, Jean-Philippe Morel – Bass Guitar, Double Bass, Xavier Mertian – Tuned Percussion, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Marimba, Chimes, Timpanis etc, Iian Pattinson – Latin Percussion, Antoine Rousseau– Trumpet and Noel Langley – High Trumpet.

The original version of this song appears on the Steroid Maximus album Ectopia (Ipecac Records).

The footage was shot and edited by Clement Tuffreau in 2003. It was enhanced by JG Thirlwell in 2025. The original video appears as bonus content on the DVD of the documentary film NYC Foetus, which is part of the Foetus "Limb" package.

Merci beaucoup a Kitty Hartl.

[ceef]

amazing - wish I could see more of JGT's conducting/swaggering. It's crazy that I saw Foetus in Dallas, I think 2002, pretty near this time. This is much more involved!

[DixiedevilTX]

So fuckin awesome. Don’t know if JG has heard Ado but for some reason my brain keeps thinking a collaboration would be insanely cool. Her vocals over JG’s compositions would be mind blowing.

[DeadSea]

I wonder whether this is played to a click. It has to be to be in sync with the arped synth, right?