Here are the main items from the Deng-interview

• Tom has a very good feeling about PR, he's feeling relaxed
• Last year he said the new album would be very Velvet Undergroud, but it isn't so
• He repeated his statement about Sister Dew from Zomergasten. He thinks he doesn't sing it good enough. Nick Cave or Kurt Cobain would do a better job.
• Craig described Tom once as a born tune smith. According to Tom it's one of the few positive things Craig had to say about him
• The album is produced by dEUS. First Craig was going to do it, but it didn't work out. Tom spent most of the time. Stephane attended a lot of the mixing part and Mauro and Klaas gave some very good remarks
• Breaking up with Craig was hard
• ,,Mauro saved me"
• Tom is proud of all dEUS-line-ups
• ,,The new line-up is the first conflictless one. But it's not less talented."
• Stef and Rudy didn't leave only because of Tom's ego, also because of their own ego's
• The first dEUS-gig was in the Paradoks on November 20th 1989
• The riff from Fell Off The Floor, Man has inspired Blur for Song 2. Damon Albarn admits that
• Tom hasn't played as much guitar on a record as on Pocket Revolution
• 3 tracks are about women
• Producing Magnus was fun. Producing dEUS was hell
• They rehearsed 25 songs for the tour including : all songs from Pocket Revolution, the classics, one song (from WCS) they have never played live before, one cover (Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac) and probably two Magnus-songs (Assault on Magnus and Jumpneedle)
• They are planning shows from about 1,5 hours. If the atmosphere is ok, they can go up to two hours.
• Tom will be disappointed if not all shows are sold out
• Tom doesn't think the public interest in dEUS is less than before
• About the Vlaams Belang-concert: it will be one big party with good bands and (hopefully) a lot of people. Don't expect political statements whatsoever.

BTW: The Deng-website has the cover-pic with Tom as a background. You can download it here. And if you subscribe Deng you get Pocket Revolution for free