Belhom got a drum set for his 14th birthday. "My happiest moment in life." After living way too long with hippie parents and their circus friends, "I became sick of that. I became hardcore." Belhom moves to Paris, plays Hardcore forms a theatrical music group and starts working as pyro technician in the Catalan theatrum monstrum La Fura dels Baus. He experiments with "straight edge" and "being a scooter driving mod". He reads Lacan, listens to The Kinks, Hüsker Dü, Chet Baker.