I will be offline until January 1st. I'm travelling to Barcelona. Jyves will probably keep you posted in case there's exciting dEUS-related news. Otherwise, I'll see you back somewhere at the beginning of next year. Enjoy the holidays!

Bart

That's Blue reviewed by Fileunder.nl.

Tom has given a name to a cocktail in Bar Lux in Antwerp. It's called Lazy Red Cheeks and it contains raspberries, sugar, ciroc vodka, creme de violette and limejuice. If you want to try to make it yourself, here's an howto.

btw: this article about the cocktails mentions a certain Sura as Tom's muse. Does anyone know more about Sura?

(source: Het Volk)

Magnus will be performing at Nijdrop (Opwijk) on February 9th together with Coca-Cola met God (Tim Vanhamel (Millionaire) and Eric Thielemans) and

dEUS had 5 tracks in the yearly 100 op 1-chart of Radio 1. It's a listener-chart about the best Belgian song. Here's the complete list.

5. Nothing Really Ends
10. Suds & Soda
28. Hotellounge
40. Little Arithmetics
42. Instant Street

Online magazine Cutting Edge has a special feature about Tom Barman's "That's Blue", including an audio interview, a review, and erh, they had a contest but that's over already.

The online version of free newspaper Metro also has items about the compilation, a small one in Dutch, and an interview in French.

La Libre Belgique interviews Tom Barman about "That's Blue", his new compilation for jazz label Blue Note.

Stubru's Music For Life is selling a platinum album of Pocket Revolution on eBay. It's for the good cause (against landmines)

(thx to Brecht)

Focus Knack also has an item about Klaas and his sister. Klaas renamed himself at school because there were 5 guys called Janssens in his class. He was planning to produce his sister's album, but he didn't had the time. Klaas took a one month break after the tour (he became father again), but in the meantime dEUS is rehearsing again. Mauro is also writing songs, but he has no clue where it will end. He expects the new album to hit the stores at the beginning of 2008.

Tom is Man of the year for Focus Knack. This week's issue has a 10-page interview with Tom. You can read it here. If anyone finds time to translate the complete thing, just let me now and I will post it on the blog. Since I don't have the time do translate it, I will only you give you some highlites.

• As a musician he regrets music has become a song-only thing due to downloading.
• They were namedropped a lot this year: Richard Ashcroft (Fucking ace), Serj Tankian (System Of A Down), Maynard (Tool).
• They bumped into Neneh Cherry backstage at ArtRock and Cherry outed herself as a dEUS-fan too.
• At the same festival Tom danced on stage with the Happy Monday. The rest of the band who were in the audience were thinking they saw a Barman-lookalike.
• His personal highlight was the gig at Sziget.
• Dutch writer Joost Zwagerman about dEUS: If their hometown was New York or Manchester they would have been a world-act (Tom's answer: we ARE a world-act)
• They asked Nicolas Roeg for the video of Bad Timing, but he was too busy.
• Tom says the Werchter-gig was their best one in Belgium ever
• Brian Molko was a bit jealous because dEUS was on a higher spot on the bill. He constantly called dEUS the co-headliner
• They almost had troubles backstage at Werchter. Ton, the tourmanager, hung up a Portuguese flag outside the dEUS-dressing room after England was eliminated by Portugal at the World Cup Soccer. Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys were really pissed off.
• dEUS has reached the magic barrier of 1.000.000 records sold
• He has only seen 30 seconds from their gig at 0110
• There will not be a dvd from the 0110-gig because a lot of artists are too uncertain about their performance
• He has no concrete movieplans

De Standaard had an interview with Tom about the Blue Note Compilation.

Update: another one from Humo. (thx to Frederiek)

The Blue Note Sidetracks-compilation is available on Proxis.be too.

It looks like there was a change on the tracklist too:

1. Fleurette Africaine - Duke Ellington with Max Roach & Charles Mingus
2. Backstage Sally - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
3. The Rain - Eddie Gale
4. Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
5. Home Is Africa - Horace Parlan
6. Hey Hey - Andrew Hill
7. One Cylinder - Lou Donaldson
8. Montezuma - Wayne Shorter
9. Artists ought to be writing - Jason Moran
10. Catta - Bobby Hutcherson
11. Soul - Jackie McLean

There will be a releaseparty for That's Blue, the Blue Note Sidetracks compilation by Tom next wednesday. Tom and Mauro will be behind the decks. If you want to get in, you better enter the contest on standaard.be.

Tom will be deejaying in the Muziekodroom in Hasselt on January 20th.

Here's an interview with Tom (winter 2005).

A newsupdate on dEUS.be announces that the 'Pocket Revolution Burnt - The Jagz Kooner Excursions will also be available as a separate release on iTunes somewhere next week. The hardcopy thing (Pocket Revolution + the bonus-cd) should be in the stores by now.

It's already available at Proxis.be

Some backstage pics from the gig in Ferrara.

Wouter discovered that if you play De Doorgedachte from the Nacht, De Soundtrack-cd, the display on the cd-player still says the song is called Mijn Beste Werk. They have probably changed the working title very very last-minute.

Magnus will be performing at the Music In Mind-festival in Bruges on February 27th. More info here.

(thx to Anthony)

Pocket Revolution will be re-released on December 8th. It will include a bonus-cd with 7 remixes by Jagz Kooner. Kooner worked with Massive Attack, The Aloof and Sabres of Paradise in the past). The tracklist for the bonus-cd (title: THE JAGZ KOONER EXCURSIONS) is below.

1. If You Don’t Get What You Want
2. Cold Sun Of Circumstance
3. 7 days, 7 weeks
4. Bad Timing
5. Sun Ra
6. Nightshopping
7. Pocket Revolution

On the Stubru-website there's also a different tracklist compared to the original cd. A newsupdate from dEUS.be has the same tracklist as the original cd, so I guess Stubru was wrong. The artwork for the album is already on the frontpage of dEUS.be too.

BTW: If you're interested in how stuff sounds like: the Cold Sun-remix was already published on the official dEUS Tourpodcast this summer.

(thx to Anthony)

Tom will be deejaying at The Mezz in Breda on December 16th.

CJ Bolland has just finished two albums: a compilation called CJ Classics '89 to '94 and The 5th Sign, a brand new album with 'special guest' Tom Barman. Both albums will be available on November 30th exclusively at The Wack Attack Barrack.

There was a small impression of Nacht in De Rode Loper (één) today. Here's the video. Henny Vrienten says he was impressed by Tom's Dutch song. He encourages him to make an album in Dutch. Tom replies he will seriously consider it...

(thx to Anthony)

Part two of the dEUS-gig at Novarock is available at the podcast.

Tom will deejay in the Antwerp based Joan Collins Club on December 7th.

There's a videomessage from Tom on Youtube to support the Red Het Zeemanshuis-campaign.

Tom and CJ Bolland will be deejaying in Olen tonight.

You can listen to a snippet of De Doorgedachte here.

Radio 1 is making its yearly 100 op 1-list, a list of the best Belgian songs. 5 dEUS-songs are on the longlist: Hotellounge, Instant street, Little arithmetics, Nothing really ends and Suds & soda.

You can vote here.

There's a small interview with Tom about Nacht, De Soundtrack in De Standaard today. He says he's planning to do more songs in Dutch in the future. The song he wrote is about two friends in a bar at night making big plans, but in the end they're wondering what they're doing.

Tom was a fan of Doe Maar (the band Henny Vrienten became famous with). dEUS had plans to contribute to a Doe Maar-tribute with a mashup of Pa and Da da da (Trio), but they couldn't clear the samples.

Tom is supporting a campaign from Oxfam Belgium. He's on a poster to promote fair trade together with Toots Thielemans (a Belgian jazz-legend). You can check it out here.

Cucamonga aired the first part of the dEUS-gig at Novarock yesterday evening. You can listen to it here. The download is available at the podcast. The second part will be aired next week.

Tom's Dutch song for Henny Vrienten was aired on 3voor12. According to the playlist of the show the song is called De Doorgedachte.

(thx to zjitnepoz on ISR)

Apparently If You Don't Get What You Want is used in a commercial for Pontiac's G6 Series. The video is available on Youtube.



(thx to Britzelbeere on ISR)

You can listen to an interview with Henny Vrienten from Neon (Radio 1) here. He talks about the first time he met Tom.

Cucamonga, a show on Flemish Radio 1, will broadcast the dEUS-gig at Novarock (Austria) next monday November 13th.

There's an interview with Henny Vrienten in Het Laatste Nieuws today. He's talking about his upcoming project Nacht in which he'll be singing a duet with Tom.

Apparently Tom was asked to do something for the album and he delivered the lyrics for a song (in Dutch). The working title for the song was Iedereen is anders, but Tom announced it as Mijn Beste Werk during his solo-gig in Trix a couple of weeks ago.

The album (with bonus-dvd) will be released on November 27th. More info about the album on the Dutch V2-site.

As already mentioned before there will be a live-performance in Bozar, Brussels on November 21st.

Tom will be interviewed about his musical inspirations by Ayco Duyster (Studio Brussel) during the annual Muzikantendag (November 25th) in the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels. Since he's bringing his guitar, there might be a chance he plays a couple of tunes. More info here.

Tom will be deejaying at the Bal Fatal in the Eskimo-building in Ghent on December 9th. Other names include Stijn, Billie King, Sioen and Think Of One.

The Studio Brussel Popnieuws had an item about the Blue Note-compilation by Tom. Title will be That's Blue. Releasedate is November 24th according to them. And this is the tracklist:

1. Fleurette Africaine - Duke Ellington with Max Roach & Charles Mingus
2. Backstage Sally - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
3. The Rain - Eddie Gale
4. Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
5. Home Is Africa - Horace Parlan
6. Hey Hey - Andrew Hill
7. One Cylinder - Lou Donaldson
8. Montezuma - Wayne Shorter
9. Catta - Bobby Hutcherson
10. Soul - Jackie McLean

Tom will deejay in Maastricht next saturday.

I mailed Christian Pierre about Tom's Blue Note Sidetracks-compilation. According to him it should be released on November 17th.

Tom will be deejaying at the Puppyclub in Utrecht on November 25th.

(thx to Matthijs)

dEUS has won the (Belgian) TMF-award for best alternative act. They were nominated 4 times: best album, best rock-act, best alternative act and best live-act. Zornik won best album, best rock-act and best live-act.

A nice interview with Tom fro Who's Next, a Dutch tv-show where the interviewer browses the newspaper with the interviewee. The interview is from last monday (the day after the elections)....

I fixed two broken links on the podcast: you can now download the AB-session (from 1999), the Update-session (from 1994) and the Studio Toots Session (from 1996)

Found this video from Instant Street on Youtube. I have no clue where or when? I think it's somewhere in Italy.

Here's the complete 0110-gig.

1. Theme From Turnpike
2. Instant Street
3. Fell Off The Floor, Man
4. Via
5. What We Talk About
6. Youth Against Fascism (with Tim Vanhamel)
7. Sun Ra
8. Nothing Really Ends
9. Bad Timing
10. Suds & Soda
11. The Real Sugar
12. Roses
13. België (with Koen Wauters)
14. There Will Be No Next Time (with Ludo Mariman)

(thx to Pieter)

Three interviews with Tom are available at the podcast

• Studio Brussel - Brussel Midi (29/09)
• Radio 1 - Het Beste Moet Nog Komen (29/09)
• Studio Brussel - 0110 (01/10)

32.000 have sent an sms to support 0110. And the 0110-movement will probably stay alive too. Talks about that will start shortly.

(Source: De Morgen)

Don Simonet, Nonkel Potrel

According to an article in De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad Renaat Lambeets will make a documentary about dEUS and the recording of the next album. The album will be released in 2008 (together with the documentary).

Update: it's probably the same documentary Manu Riche announced a year ago.

I have a deadline at work, so it's calm on this blog. I'll be back later this week. I will probably have to catch up some sleep and work on my family-life (I hardly remember how my children look ;-) )

• 0110
• Middelburg

You can download the complete gig here.

An interview with Tom from De Standaard. It says there's a big chance Koen Wauters will do something together with dEUS next sunday...

dEUS will play a couple of covers next sunday. Tom proposed 4 songs to the rest of the band, but since they think the 0110-gig should be a regular gig they've decided to play only two of them. They won't play War (Bob Marley) and België (Het Goede Doel). Which cover should they play according to you? Leave your suggestions in the comments.

• Hotellounge - 7" (limited numbered edition)
• Worst Case Scenario - LP
• Worst Case Scenario - cd (Bang!-version)
• Little Arithmetics - 7"
• Fell Off The Floor, Man - 10"
• Suds & Soda - 12"
• Sun Ra - 10"
• Instant Street - 7"
• Little Arithmetics - 7"
• Roses - 7"
• Pocket Revolution poster
• Pocket Revolution - cd (advance copy)
• Pocket Revolution - 2LP
• What We Talk About - cd-single
• Poster from a dEUS - Magnapop-gig in 1994
• Suds & Soda - cd-single (digipack)
• Via - cd-single (digipack)

Oaster iets scheelt, the 0110-song by Helmut Lotti, Roland & Sioen is available on iTunes too

Mauro has written a protestsong for 0110. You can download it at the Télémoustique-podcast.

You can relisten/download the 0110-special from Pure FM here.

You can watch the Telefacts-interview here. It starts after 12 minutes.

There's a two page interview with Tom in Le Soir today. It's mainly about 0110. Last question is about his plans on 0210. He says he'll disappear with the rest of the band to work on the new album. They already have 6 or 7 songs ready.

Someone has found time to make a couple of Wikipedia-pages about 4 dEUS-albums (in Dutch). English versions are available too, but they need some extra content.

• Pocket Revolution: Dutch - English
• The Ideal Crash: Dutch - English
• In A Bar, Under The Sea: Dutch - English
• Worst Case Scenario: Dutch - English

0110 is supporting the African moviefestival Cinémaf in Antwerp. Tom was one of the speakers at the press conference yesterday. Click here for a nice pic of Tom.

Telefacts (VTM) will broadcast an interview with Tom about 0110 tonight.

Tom and Arno will be on Pure FM tonight at 8 o' clock. You can mail your question using this form.

There will be a meeting of dEUS-fans next sunday during 0110. Meeting point are the stairs of the new palace of justice in Antwerp. If you want to join us, please leave a comment in this topic on ISR.

Tom will be on Flemish tv-station Ketnet tonight. Probably in the show 6teen.

(thx to Anthony)

It'll be difficult to miss Tom on the radio next friday. Not only will he be in The Best Is Yet To Come (Radio 1). He'll also be in Brussel Midi (Studio Brussel). Focus in both shows will be on 0110.

There was an interview with Tom, Arno and Sioen in Focus Knack last week. You can read it here (in Dutch).

• Worst Case Scenario - LP
• 7 days, 7 weeks - promo-cd
• Theme From Turnpike - 7"
• Little Arithmetics - 7"
• Hotellounge - 7"
• Theme From Turnpike - 10"
• Roses - 7"
• Pocket Revolution - 2LP
• Sun Ra - 10"

Tomorrow's Humo will not only feature the 0110-compilation. There's also a double-interview with Tom and Koen Wauters. You can read a snippet here.

Tom, Arno and Sioen will be editors-in-chief for 1 day of De Morgen next friday. They'll be making the newspaper of tolerance.

The setlist from Tom's solo gig yesterday evening in Trix.

What we talk about
Nothing really ends
The real sugar
Cold sun of circumstance
Mijn Beste Werk (the song Tom recorded with Henny Vrienten)
Bad Timing
One Advice Space
Roses

(thx to Wouter on ISR)

13.10 Abdel zonder gel
13.30 Wannes Van De Velde / Fikskes
14.05 Jan De Smet
14.30 Leki / Hadise
15.15 Sindicato Sonico
15.55 Zita Swoon + Guests
17.30 Scala
18.00 Douzi
18.45 Roland & Boogie Boy
19.30 Clouseau
20.25 Internationals
21.10 dEUS

Artists in bold will play the main stage, the other ones are playing on the second stage. Other line-ups are available on 0110.be: Brussel, Gent, Charleroi

If you want to ask a question to Tom (about 0110 or about something else) here's your chance: send an e-mail with your question to gvaachterkrant@concentra.be. The interview will we published in Gazet Van Antwerpen next friday. If you're sending a question, please post it in the comments of this blog too.

You can hear Tom on Dutch radio next tuesday. He'll be talking about 0110 in Move Your Ass on 3fm.

dEUS has been nominated for a MTV European Music Award. Apart from the main categories viewers in each country can also pick a favorite act from their own country. dEUS is present in the selection for The Netherlands and Belgium together with Anouk, Gabriel Rios, Kane and Pete Philly. You can vote for dEUS here.

The official commercial for the 0110-gig.

The release of the Blue Note Sidetracks-compilation by Tom Barman seems to be postponed to October 30th.

Apparently Tom was a guest on De Wereld Draait Door on Vara (Dutch tv) yesterday. You can watch it here. He's mainly talking about 0110. They showed the Jan Eelen-commercial too. Tom said dEUS will play a couple of covers (and of course some own songs) on 0110. And he talked about making videoclips too. He called himself an ex-videoclipmaker. He made about 17 clips, but he thinks only 3 are really good.
He also talked about the GDMW Festival in Rotterdam, where Tom will be deejaying on September 29th.

(thx to Dakjuh on ISR)

I added a recording of a short dEUS-gig at Humo's Pop Poll back in 1998 to the podcast. I hope you like it. It contains early version of Sister Dew, Magdalena and The Magic Hour. And Snuck Out of course.

1. Roses
2. Sister Dew
3. Sam Peckinpah's Daughter
4. Snuck Out / Magdalena
5. Fell Off The Floor, Man
6. The Magic Hour

I added a bonus track as well: Sister Dew, performed live at Oster Rocknacht in Düsseldorf back in april 1999.

If you missed me on Stubru last week, you can check out the interview here.

I recently bumped into this blogpost. The link to the Suds & Soda-version wasn't working anymore, but Richard, the blogowner, was kind enough to dump it in my mailbox. Check it out on the podcast.

Tom was scheduled to be on stage with Henny Vrienten in Bozar, Brussels on September 30th. Apparently the gig has been rescheduled to November 21st. I already told you that Tom has written a song for Vrienten's next album. The song is called Iedereen is anders.

• Giant lot of dEUS-stuff
• Roses - 7"
• Little Arithmetics - 7"
• Pocket Revolution - 2LP
• Fell Off The Floor, Man - cd-single
• Sun Ra - 10"
• What We Talk About - cd-single
• Via - cd-single
• Turnpike - cd-single
• Suds & Soda - cd-single
• Little Arithmetics - cd-single
• Pocket Revolution - press promo copy
• Instant Street - 7"
• Turnpike - 10"

Tom will play a short solo-gig next thursday (September 21st) in the new concertclub of Trix, a music-centre in Antwerp. More info on the Trix-website.

(Source: Gazet Van Antwerpen)

Some news from the 0110-website:

• Studio Brussel will air the gigs on October 1st in a special edition of All Areas.
• The location for the gig in Brussel has changed. Place to be will be the Paleizenplein
• There will be an after-party in Petrol, Antwerp
• New names for Charleroi: Loïc (Flexa Lyndo), Marka, Dave (Malibu Stacy), Aldo Granato,
  My Little Cheap Dictaphone, Soldout, Vincent Venet, Marie Warnant, Miam Monster Miam, Sophie Galet, Sacha Toorop, Ashanti 3000, Mika & Omar Perry, Sharko, Fabrice Lig & Dj Globul

Mauro will be choosing the music for Laika a weekly show on Flemish radiostation Klara.

Tom will be in Radio 1-show Het Beste Moet Nog Komen on friday September 29th. Check the website here.

All artists playing 0n 0110 will at least perform one duet. Some examples: Laura Lynn and David Bovée (Think Of One) in Brussel, Helmut Lotti and Sioen in Ghent. Other duo's: Nikolas (Janez Detd) en Jonas (Xink), Rocco Granata and Roland, Frank Vander Linden (De Mens) and Nicolas Michaux (Eté 67). Helmut Lotti will also a song in the Ghent dialect.

(Source: De Standaard, Het Laatste Nieuws)

Mauro will be performing at Recyclart on October 5th. More info at www.glasvochtrecords.com.

If you're reading this in time, you can try to catch me on Stubru tonight. I will try to introduce this blog and other dEUS-site to a larger audience in Hype Channel. More info here.

Hurry on over to eBay. There's currently an auction with a Bang!-version of Zea. It will end within a couple of hours. Price is only 40 euros.

I received a recording of the Warsaw-gig yesterday. It's available on the podcast. Enjoy!

1. Cold Sun Of Circumstance
2. Stop-Start Nature
3. Break
4. Instant Street
5. Fell Off The Floor, Man
6. Nightshopping
7. Magdalena
8. Sun Ra
9. Put The Freaks Up Front
10. Assault On Magnus
11. The Real Sugar
12. Little Arithmetics
13. What We Talk About
14. Via
15. Suds & Soda

PS: If you have iTunes, you can subscribe the podcast here. It's definitely worth a try, since there's more footage coming up in the next days....

Here's a torrent-file with an audience video-recording of the dEUS-gig at Sziget 1997. The Londen Astoria-gig that was broadcasted on MTV back in 1995 is also on Zombtracker.

In my mailbox today: Brecht Vaes asking me if I knew if anyone has written a book about dEUS already....

As far as I know there's no book about the band. Maybe someone has made a schoolwork about dEUS (I know Kevin Moens did something). And the Cucamonga-series from 2003 is also giving a nice overview.

Anyway, I think the idea could be great. But writing it is something else ofcourse. First of all, whoever wants to write something like this needs time. And money. And someone who's willing to publish the book. And there's loads of practical questions too: what language? which title? who should be interview? who are key-figures in the dEUS-history? etcetera. If someone writes a book about dEUS what would you want it to be like? Who should be in? Please give your opinion in the comments.

There's an interview with Tom about 0110 in Het Laatste Nieuws today.

• Tom thinks 0110 is important because it will show Vlaams Belang that a couple of the best know Flemish singers (like Laura Lynn, Clouseau, Helmut Lotti and Will Tura is not supporting them)
• He refused to react on the open letter from Filip De Winter because that would create a negative spiral
• There were some talks with the artists that received an open letter, but everybody kept supporting the basic-idea behind 0110.
• 0110 is already a succes because it brings together artists from different genres
• At the moment about 40 people are working on the organisation of the event (people from Rock Werchter and other festivals)
• About the venues: they can easily receive 30.000 people in Antwerp and 15.000 in Ghent
• Christian Pierre has been fundraising: 150.000 euro
• They have received 15.000 sms-messages so far
• They also received some cash from Fnac and the National Lotery
• Tom is aware of the fact that people will measure the succes of 0110 by the number of votes Vlaams Belang will get. He thinks 0110 will not stop Vlaams Belang, but it's important that Flemish artists give a positive signal.
• The open letter from Filip De Winter has encouraged a lot of artists to join 0110
• Tom has received some hatemail and he was threatened while walking around in Antwerp too
• From October 2nd, he'll start writing for the new album. They'll start recording spring 2007.

TMF is planning to broadcast he 0110-gigs live. There's no further information yet about the gigs they'll broadcast.

Update: according to this article on VRTnieuws.net TMF and Jim TV will broadcast the gig together.

(Source: De Morgen)

Studio Brussel aired Best of the best with dEUS and Millionaire yesterday. If you missed it you can download it at the podcast. If you understand Dutch, it's certainly worth a listen...

Some facts that were mentioned during the broadcast:

• dEUS played their first gig on November 20th 1989. Their name was spelled Dejus on the concertposters
• Tom's favorite popsong is Boys of summer by Don Henley

BTW: the mp3-file from Studio Brussel doesn't tell who the winner is. If anyone happens to know, please post it in the comments...

Turnpike
Stop-start nature
Instant Street
Fell On The Floor
Sun Ra
Via
What We Talk about ...
Real Sugar
Arrithmetics
If You Don't Get what you want
suds & soda
Nothing Really Ends
Bad Timing
Pocket Revolution
WCS
Nightshopping
Cold Sun
Roses
------
Assault On Magnus

(thx to Jan on ISR)

Turnpike
Stop-Start nature
Fell off the floor
Instant Street
Sun Rah
Via
Little Arithmetics
Suds 'n soda
If you don't get what you want
What we talk about
Real Sugar
Pocket Revolution
Nothing Really Ends
Bad timing
Roses
---
Cold sun of Circumstances
WCS
Serpentine

(thx to zjitnepoz on ISR)

Yesterday night in Middelburg was nice. Technically spoken it wasn't the best dEUS-gig ever. But the setting made up a lot. A beautiful abbeysquare and a very relaxed band. I was suprised by the number of visitors. The square wasn't packed at all. I estimate there were about 1.500 dEUS-lovers. A big part of the Abdijplein was totally empty. You could easily get in the front (even during the gig). Tom even made a joke during the gig (,,It's a long time ago we played in front of a terrace'').

The kicked of with Turnpike, Stop-Start Nature, Instant Street and Fell Off The Floor, Man and played mainly the regular set for this tour. Almost all songs from Pocket Revolution (except Include Me Out), Suds & Soda, Via and W.C.S from Worst Case Scenario, Little Arithmetics and Roses (from In A Bar). They added Nightshopping (on audience request) and played only one encore (Assault on dEUS). I'm really bad in ordering songs, so don't expect an exact setlist.

Tom dedicated Nothing Really Ends to Julien Schoenaerts, a belgian actor who died at 81 this week and father of Matthias Schoenaert (Chouki in Any Way The Wind Blows).

It was great to see them in this intimate setting and to see how much fun they had on stage. Let the countdown to 0110 begin!

Some footage from the gig in Ireland last week.

I've never seen this American-promo-cd of In A Bar, Under The Sea before. Anyway, it's for sale on eBay.

Other stuff on eBay:

• Zea (Bang!-version)
• Instant Street - 7"
• 7 days, 7 weeks promo-cd
• Pocket Revolution - 2LP
• Theme From Turnpike - 7"
• Sun Ra - 10"
• Little Arithmetics - 7"
• Hotellounge - 7"

Check the 0110-specials from De Standaard and De Morgen.

Vince has upped the 20th episode (and probably also the last one) to the dEUS on tour podcast. It contains footage from Hungary and Norway, including an interview with Colin Greenwood from Radiohead.

Found an interview with Tom about 0110 on Myspace.

• There will be an interview with Tom and Koen Wauters (Clouseau) in Humo
• Apparently, the Arenberg-theatre in Antwerp is the 0110-headquarter
• dEUS is rehearsing there as well
• He's very happy they succeeded in setting up a festival with a very broad line-up
• He thinks Vlaams Belang has overreacted on 0110
• He thinks 0110 is already a success because people talk about it and a lot of artists have joined 0110
• He refers to actions in the 90's in France against the Front National and in Engeland against the National Party (by Hard-Fi, Kaiser Chiefs and The Streets).

The Brussels Journal, a webzine at the right-side of the political spectrum, has an article about Microsoft sponsoring the 0110-event. The editor-in-chief from the webzine is called Paul Beliën. He's married to Alexandra Colen, a member of parliament from the Vlaams Belang.

A rather positive review of the Any Way The Wind Blows-dvd by Dvdtimes.

Some people at work discovered my blog today after reading an article in Knack this week. In the article some famous people were asked for their favorite website. One of them was Mauro and he also talked about my blog. He said the blog is made by a Belgian fan who works for De Standaard in daily life. Apparently he likes the blog a lot. Which is cool!

His other favorite website include: Mauroworld (his unoffical site, he uses it as a calendar), Volcanic Tongue (music mailorder company), Blastitude (an American musiczine) and Ubuweb.

Some reactions on the 0110-commercial: LVB.net, Hoegin, Brigant, Zatte Vrienden, Eskimokaka, Gypsy Eyes.

Vlaams Belang-politician Jurgen Verstrepen has made a movie in reply. He's using What We Talk About as soundtrack. And Bart Debie just doesn't get the point.

A short impression of the AWTWB-screening in Dublin by a Belgian expat.

Feel free to put it on your own site or blog too!

An interview with Alan and Stéphane backstage at Sziget.

On September 26th Humo will be distributing a 0110-compilation. It contains tracks from artists playing on 0110. Ofcourse dEUS will also be on it, with an acoustic version of What We Talk About. Check the tracklist on the Humo-website.

De Morgen has an article about the success of belgian artists in France. It includes a small part on dEUS. Pocket Revolution was declared Album of the year by Le Figaro. PR was in the top-3 from Le Monde and Télérama. They've sold 40.000 copies of Pocket Revolution in France (and about 50.000 in Belgium). Christian Pierre says they've worked had on the French market: dEUS did a lot of gigs and promo-work and it looks like it worked out fine.

• Apparently they've added a couple of more names since yesterday evening: Abdel & Young G’s, Joost Zwegers and Hooverphonic will also perform in Antwerp. There will also be a second stage with Jan De Smet, Scala, The Internationals, Sindicato Sonico, Roland & Boogie Boy.
• You can also contribute directly from your bank account. The account number is 853-800 0110-67.
• Location in Ghent has changed to the NMBS-parking lot close to the trainstation of Ghent Sint-Pieters.
• Check the commercial for 0110 on Myspace (very funny if you've followed the Vlaams Belang-controversy)

There's a new torrent on Dimeadozen: dEUS in Budapest, back in July 1999 (supporting R.E.M)

(thx to Neli on ISR)

0110.be has announced a whole pack of new names for the 0110-gigs.

• Antwerp: Leki and Hadise
• Ghent: Thé Lau, Abdelli, Dirk Blanchart, Bert Ostyn (Absynthe Minded) and Arid (with Maaike Cafmeyer). Janez Dedt-frontman Nicolas Van der Veken will join Xink!.
• Brussels: Viktor Lazlo, Dani Klein, Jean-Marie Aerts, Neeka, Bunny, Lange Jojo and Laura Claycomb
• Charleroi: Salvatore Adamo, Sttellla, William Dunker, Jeff Bodart, Priba 2000, Eté 67, Jeronimo, Girls in Hawaii, Hollywood Pornstars and Studio Pagol

Did anyone know Klaas' mother does also play in a band? The band is called Leonard, exists for about 15 years and they released their first album Fiesjt last year. Lief Verbeeck (Klaas' mother) does also play the violin. She's also running a sort of music academy for childeren in Borgerhout called Ward De Beer.

Found an alternative version of the 7 days, 7 weeks video on Youtube.

I will be updating my own dEUS-podcast a couple of times the next weeks. I started with one of the earliest live-recordings around: dEUS at Waterpop 1994. Once again, feel free to mail me other recording you'd like to share.

Someone is selling a nice lot of dEUS-vinyl on eBay.

Other stuff currently on eBay:

• Worst Case Scenario - cd (Bang! Version)
• The Ideal Crash - 2cd
• Humo promo-cd
• Pocket Revolution - promo-cd

dEUS has been nominated 4 times for the Belgian TMF-awards: best album, best rock-act, best alternative act and best live-act. You can vote here. The winners will be announced on October 14th.

Apparently Pocket Revolution has reached Platinum-status in Belgium. With more than 50.000 albums sold in Belgium, the album is the best selling dEUS-album until now.

(thx to duke on ISR)

The three dEUS-gigs in Turkey (scheduled for September 14th, 15th and 16th) have been postponed by the Turkish promotor. dEUS will head for Turkey somewhere next year.

(Source: dEUS.be)

Vince has upped another episode of the dEUS podcast. Worth a listen because it contains an acoustic version of What We Talk About (in Spanish), an early demo of the same song and Glovesong and Middlewave. Don't forget you can let the internet do all the work for you. All you need is iTunes and a (free) subscription to the podcast.

Antwerp bookstore De Groene Waterman will be setting up a literature stage at the 0110-gig in Antwerp. The following authors will be on stage: Fernand Auwera, Saskia De Coster, Josse De Pauw, Bernard Dewulf, Kristien Hemmerechts (tbc), Stefan Hertmans, Bob Mendes, Ramsey Nasr, Elvis Peeters, Kamiel Vanhole, Geert van Istendael, Bob Snijers, Annelies Verbeke, Peter Verhelst, Dimitri Verhulst.

Tom will be deejaying at Breakdown in the Fake Bar in Antwerp next saturday (September 2nd). Other deejays include Cj Bolland, Zohra, Monica Electronica, Nikolaï, Raphaël, De bende van Vijnel, Les Femmes Bioniques.

A short non-dEUS-related item: I saw Pearl Jam live yesterday evening in Antwerp. I was totally blown away. This was probably the best gig I saw... ever (and I mean it). Be sure to catch them somewhere else in Europe if you can.

Any Way The Wind Blows will also be shown at the Electric Picnic-festival next friday (Cinema Tent, 19.50h - 22.15h). According to the festival-website, an introduction and Q&A with Tom is to be confirmed.

The album Tom Barman has compiled for the Blue Note Sidetracks-series will be released on September 22th by EMI. It will the be the 7th Sidetracks-compilation. Other Belgian artists that selected their favorite Blue Note-tracks include Buscemi, Alex Callier, Mo & Benoelie, Sven Van Hees and Lefto & Krewcial.

(Source: Het Laatste Nieuws)

Time-schedules for the Electric Picnic-festival have been released: dEUS will play the Electric Arena-stage from 06.30h until 07.30h next friday.

Two new torrents on Dimeadozen: Novarock (15/06/2006) and Ancienne Belgique (13/10/2005). The AB-show is the Studio Brussel broadcast that is still available on my podcast as well.

People who are travelling to Dublin for the Electric Picnic-festival should consider a visit to the Irish Film Institute on August 31st. Tom will attend a screening of Any Way The Wind Blows at 22.45h. More info.

A musical tip from Tom: Squeezable Future, a jazzrock-band around Stefan Duym and Diederik Van Remoortere (aka Dmonkeyjazz). Their story is somehow compareable with the dEUS-story. Belgian recordcompanies and promotors are hardly interested. They're now working on setting up a tour in the USA later this year. Check them out on Myspace.

Here's what Tom has to say about the band.

'Het valt met niets te vergelijken. Een heel maffe band met ontzettend goede muzikanten en een funky sound. De nonchalance en de zelfverzekerdheid waarmee ze op het podium staan, heeft me nog het meest gecharmeerd.'

(Source: Knack)

Tom has been nominated for the Gouden Klaproos, an award from SABAM, the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers. Other nominees in the pop-category include LC Morais, Alex Callier (Hooverphonic), Ronny Mosuse and Miguel Wiels. The winner will be announced on October 2nd.

Antwerp authorities have granted permission for the 0110-gig on the Gedempte Zuiderdokken. 0110 will use facilities that have been provided for the student-event Studay a couple of days before. Magnus will be doing a deejay-set on that event.

(Source: Het Laatste Nieuws)

As I already mentioned before Tom has contributed to the new album of Henny Vrienten (Doe Maar). The album will be released in november and contains duets. Tom has written a song in Dutch for this occasion. The working title for the song is Iedereen is anders (Everyone's different).
Tom has always been a fan of Doe Maar and he didn't doubt a second when Vrienten asked him to sing a song on his new album. Tom dreams of releasing a one-off-single with Vrienten within a couple of months.

(Source: De Morgen)

The 0110-gigs now also have a Myspace-page. Please add them as a friend and put them on top of your friends-list!

A couple of Flemish moviemakers are joining the 0110-movement. They're planning to record a small movie about tolerance that could be used between the different concerts on October 1st. They're also planning a sort of tv-commercial for 0110. The movie will be directed by Jan Dellaert and will be recorded in Brussels on September 10th. If you want to act in the movie, send an e-mail to saskiaverboven@skynet.be.

(Source: De Morgen)

dEUS-sound engineer Vince Philippart keeps rocking. Check out the new episode of the official podcast. It contains footage from Paris Plage (Ozark Henry, Zita Swoon and dEUS) and a Stef and Tom-interview.

Subscribe to the official podcast through iTunes.

On September 30th there will be a sort of 0110-gig in Deinze (close to Ghent). For all info: check www.3009.be.

Magnus (Tom Barman and CJ Bolland) will be behind the turntables on Studay in Antwerp on September 28th.

(thx to Els)

Tom will be deejaying at the GDMW Festival in Rotterdam on September 29th. He will be there for two sets: the first one with Wilfried de Jong will be freaky-jazz stylish. The second one will be a classical dance-set. More info here.

Stijn will be the opening act for the September 8th-gig in Tilburg.

(thx to Chieva on ISR)

A new episode of the dEUS Tour Podcast: dEUS in Italy.

A wet-look picture of Tom and Stephane in Budapest.

16 octobre 2006
La Cigale, Paris
"Les Nuits Belges"
Venus, Sharko, Hollywood Porn Stars, Magnus DJ set

> Tickets

[source: Liability webzine]

Bad Timing tops this week's De Afrekening, the singles chart on Studio Brussel radio.

And for pure trivia purposes (but I love Google), former number ones were Hotellounge (best single 1995), Little Arithmetics (best single 1996), Instant Street (best single 1999).

Tom Engelshoven reports about the Sziget festival on the OOR website. dEUS played a "spectacularly good" concert, Tom Barman was as spastic as usual, he cracked some jokes ("Enjoy the rest of the festival, drink only water and avoid vegetarian food!"), and the band attracted a massive crowd despite the rain. There's a tiny tiny video of Stop-Start Nature, too. By contrast, the reporter found Radiohead's performance too long. [source: zjitnepoz on ISR]

In their Sziget 2006 special, Hungarian web magazine EST has an interview with Tom Barman (Aug. 13). If we have a Hungarian reader, feel free to give us a summary ;-)

The dEUS try-out at Patronaat, Haarlem (NL) from last year (7 Sept. 2005) is available for download here (it's a zip file). You'll need a password (in lowercase), but you should be able to find the answer easily - or you shouldn't even be here :-)

The Roskilde concert (29 June) will be broadcast on Irish RTE's 2FM Live this Friday from midnight to 2:00. The show is hosted by Jenny Huston and you can listen to it live on 2FM's website (you'll need RealPlayer). [source: Arthur]

Any Way The Wind Blows will be screened at the Irish Film Institute on Thursday 31 August. Tom Barman will introduce the film, which starts at 22:45. On the day after, dEUS will be playing at the Electric Picnic Festival in Stradbally, Ireland. [source: RTE]

Hidden in the depths of Vincent's dEUS podcast on the Télémoustique website (the Nova rock episode) lies a remix of Cold Sun of Circumstance by Jagz Kooner.

dEUS announced on their official website that today, they are starting rehearsals "for the writing and recording process of the next dEUS album". They will keep fans informed throughout the recording process. They also advise to check out their MySpace page.

(I'm not holiday, but I'm not Magic Bart, so don't expect 27 updates a day ;-)

No updates until next monday.

Send your news to bartvanbelle@gmail.com or post it on ISR.

Studio Brussel will be touring Flanders with a sort of popquiz between Belgian bands called Best of the best. The first episode will feature dEUS vs Millionaire and Shameboy vs Stijn. The show will be recorded in Tielt on August 23rd. You can get tickets here.

Tom was on Dutch MTV yesterday. He told he was currently in the studio with Henny Vrienten (ex-Doe Maar) recording a track for his new album. It's probably for the Nacht-project I blogged about earlier.

(thx to Tjeerd)