The official site announced a new tourdate today. dEUS will be playing den Atelier in Luxembourg-City on October 22nd. Tickets here.

Flemish webzine Sub::Ported had an interview (in dutch) with Mauro Pawlowski.

• He's working hard to finish his Otot-stuff. Otot is the reincarnation of Somnabula
• ,,The new dEUS-album is an ode to Roger Withaker''
• He thinks the new dEUS-record is fantastic
• The second album of The Love Substitutes is finished and should only be mastered.

(thx to Orpheus)

There's an interview with Tom in this week's Humo. Tom talks mainly about his appearance in Zomergasten.

• he calls himself a haphazard man: someone who is zapping his tv all the time
• Tom met Connie Palmen (who will present Zomergasten) at the birthday-party of Hugo Claus
• During the recording sessions of the new album they all watched Het Geslacht De Pauw on sunday evening. There could even be a piece of the program on the new album
• The new album is being mastered by the guy who mastered Hotel California by The Eagles.
• About the band: ,,I have a fantastic group. We look intercool.''
• dEUS will tour for about a year, so we can expect them on next year's summer festivals.

Tom Barman will be interviewed by Connie Palmen in a dutch tv program called Zomergasten on July 31st.

It's kind of exceptional that someone of Flanders is invited for the program. The show is aired since 1988 and only four Flemish people were invited before Tom: Hugo Claus, Lieve Joris, Kristien Hemmerechts and Tom Lanoye.

Tom was interviewed on Portuguese national radio Antenna 3 today. The main items

• Tom would like to fill the gap between dEUS and Magnus. He's gonna ask the band to rehearse Assault on Magnus.
• Tom confirmed dEUS will be touring the US and Australia
• About Danny and Craig leaving: the new line up is good and it feels right
• Tom is single at the moment
• After the tour Tom will do another movie. He'll be writing during the tour.
• The new album is back to basics.
• He hopes the album after the new one will not take so much time
• He's not worried about record sales because people visit more concerts then 10 years ago. He hopes to earn from the touring, not from the record.
• Tom didn't mention any new tourdates

(thx to Ziggy)

Flemish tv-station Canvas will broadcast the concert Tom Barman & Guy Van Nueten played at the Bourla Theatre in Antwerp back in november 2003 tonight. Shows starts at 1 o'clock.

In case you've missed in back in march 1999: Flemish weekly Humo has published a review of The Ideal Crash on their website. The Humo-reviews of Worst Case Scenario and In A Bar, Under The Sea are also online.

Tom Barman will dj in Fake Bar Extra City (Mexicostraat, Antwerp) next saturday. Tom will play at an after party from the defilé from the Antwerp Fashion Academie.

Tom has been selected to present his favorite movies to in the Arenberg-cinema in Brussels during the Ecran Total-festival.

Tom selected The Exorcist (William Friedkin), Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai), M (Fritz Lang), The Servant (Joseph Losey) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Joseph Losey)

below is the text Tom wrote about his choice.

“If you existed, I would divorce you.”Het dialogenvuurwerk van Who’s Afraid, de provocerende politieke moraal van M, de psychologische terreur van The Excorcist en The servant of de verdwaalde romantiek vanHappy Together, een duidelijke lijn is doorheen deze gekozenfilms niet echt waar te nemen. Of het moest zijn dat ze stuk voor stuk beladen thema’s aanpakken op een bijzonder spannende manier en geijkte clichés droogjes onderuit halen.

Want ondanks de rotzooi die ze over elkaar uitbaggeren, houden Martha en George wel van elkaar. En hoe pakkend is het, dat net een priester die met een geloofscrisis worstelt, de duivel uit suburbia moet gaan drijven ? En is M geen ordinaire moordenaar waar je op de duur bijna medelijden mee krijgt ? Het zijn existentiële nagelbijters, niet bepaald gemaakt om het door allerhande media opgelegde wereldbeeld te bevestigen. Er is hoop, maar deze staat niet gecreditop de generiek. Er is licht, maar dat komt waarschijnlijk vande projector achter u.

Het zijn 5 klassiekers uit 5 verschillende decennia die moeiteloos overeind blijven en mij nog altijd doen lachen en huiveren. 15 jaar geleden speelde ik geregeld in de Arenberg galerij voor ongeïnteresseerde voorbijgangers. Deze zomer mocht ik dit lijstje voorleggen.

Dank u Arenberg. Enjoy !

Tom Barman

The full program of Ecran Total can be found here.

Tonight U2 will kick off the European leg of the Vertigo-tour in Brussels. De Morgen organised a little poll and asked musicians for their favorite U2-song.

One came out as the number 1 and this is what Tom has to say about it. ,,One is a classic. The song is so good compared to the other U2-albums.''

"Die song heeft het mooiste brugje ter wereld, net na het tweede refrein, als het drama tot de spits gedreven wordt. De tekst is ook wondermooi - een tijdloos nummer, quoi. Voor mij heeft het niet enkel emotionele waarde, maar ook waarde op songschrijversvlak: technisch is 'One' schijnbaar onevenaarbaar. En het feit dat Johnny Cash 'One' coverde, vergroot alleen die waarde. (lacht) 'One' lijkt wel zowat een ongelukske in hun repertoire - die song is zo goed in vergelijking met de rest van hun platen."

Tom also talks about New Year's Day (number 3 in the list). It brings him back to his youth when he frequented 't Varken in Zwijndrecht. ,,New Year's Day is a pure dance classic''.

"Dat nummer leidt me terug naar mijn adolescentie in Zwijndrecht. In 't Varken gingen we elk weekend dansen op de Sisters of Mercy, The Stooges en deze song van U2 sloop er ook altijd tussen. Op een bepaald moment besloot U2 om de jaren negentig in te trekken met dansmuziek, maar laten we eerlijk zijn: in het begin van de jaren tachtig swingden die toch al meer dan behoorlijk? 'New Year's Day' is een pure dansclassic."

Tom will be one of the dj's on the Vertpop-event this saturday (11/06). Vertpop is organised by Ecolo, the green party of the french speaking part of Belgium.

Magnus (Tom and CJ Bolland) will do a dj-set @ the Lokerse Feesten on the 6th of august. Other summerdates include Couleur Café (01/07), Kneistival / Uitblazen (30/07) and Feest in het park (27/08).

Craig Ward on his blog:

,,What with a combination of fine weather, Rudy being completely knackered and Mauro finding himself catching up with the rest of his life during his first Deus-activity-free week in ages (I refuse to further acknowledge typeface conceits), every day just kind of got abandoned.''

(thx to Jyves)

Flemish radiostation Studio Brussel aired a couple of songs from the concert dEUS played at the Pukkelpop-festival last summer.

1. Theme from Turnpike
2. Instant Street
3. Magdalena
4. Nothing Really Ends
5. Roses

You can download it here.

Tomas De Soete from Studio Brussel had a phonecall with Tom today.

You can listen to the interview (in dutch) here.

For those of you who haven't noticed: the two dEUS-shows at the Ancienne Belgique are completely sold out. It took only 90 minutes to sell 4.000 tickets. An extra show on october 13th was added and sold out immediately.

If you didn't manage to get tickets for one of these shows, you can always try eBay or consider a trip to The Netherlands or France.

Probably the news we've all been waiting for so many years. The new dEUS-album will hit the shops on september 12th. The album will be released by V2-records worldwide and by Universal in Belgium.

After the release dEUS will hit the road. The first leg of the tour (France and the Benelux) has also been announced. The second leg will features dates in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.

Presale for the two Belgian concerts will start tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Lift your lazy ass and grab a phone or surf to the Ancienne Belqique or the Goformusic-websites. Back in 1999 the three dEUS-concerts at the Ancienne Belgique were sold out within a few hours.

• 08-09-2005 Patronaat, Haarlem, Holland (try-out)
• 21-09-2005 Festival, Thionville, France
• 22-09-2005 La Coopérative de Mai, Clermont Ferrand, France
• 23-09-2005 Transbordeur, Lyon, France
• 24-09-2005 Dock des Suds (Festival Mars Attacks), Marseille, France
• 26-09-2005 Exo 7, Rouen, France
• 27-09-2005 L'Astrolabe, Orléans, France
• 28-09-2005 Olympia, Paris, France
• 30-09-2005 La Vapeur, Dijon, France
• 01-10-2005 La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
• 03-10-2005 L'Olympic, Nantes, France
• 04-10-2005 Aeronef, Lille, France
• 05-10-2005 La Cartonnerie, Reims, France
• 07-10-2005 Le Krakatoa, Bordeaux, France
• 08-10-2005 Salle des Fetes de Ramonville, Toulouse, France
• 09-10-2005 La Nef, Angoulême, France
• 11-10-2005 AB, Brussels, Belgium
• 12-10-2005 AB, Brussels, Belgium
• 16-10-2005 Tivoli, Utrecht, Holland
• 17-10-2005 Oosterpoort, Groningen, Holland
• 18-10-2005 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
• 19-10-2005 Effenaar, Eindhoven, Holland
• 21-10-2005 Nighttown, Rotterdam, Holland