A quick report of the interview with Christian Pierre and Bob Savenberg in Knack.
- Christian is happy about the success of the tour
- Musickness were a bunch of cowboy: they combined arrogance with risctaking investments
- As a manager you need affinity with the music your artists make
- It's the 10th dEUS line-up and every line-up had its problems.
- They only lose money on the gigs in the USA. V2 USA gave too little support
- Image is everything: covers, pics, ...
- Some marketingcompany wanted to use Bad Timing for an Aids-campaign. They refused because the song would lose it's original meaning. They offered Nothing Really Ends instead, because it contains hope, but it was rejected by the advertiser
Knack also published a powerlist of the Belgian musicscene. Here's the top-3:
- Herman Schueremans (Live Nation, Rock Werchter)
- dEUS
- Koen & Kris Wauters (Clouseau)
There's also a list of the best-selling Belgian artists of 2005. Laura Lynn tops the list (82.000 cd's) before dEUS and Belle Perez.
A nice set of pics from the gig in Prague.
(thx to Harry)
There's a double-interview with dEUS-manager Christian and Bob Savenberg (manager of Belgian popstar Nathalia) in Knack this week. I will report about it later today.
According to Studio Brussel Bad Timing will be the next single. They don't mention if it will be released as a cd or just as a radio only-single like The Real Sugar.
(thx to zjitnepoz on ISR)
Here's an mp3-interview with Tom from Austrian radio FM4.Tom Barman von Deus im Gespräch mit Andreas Gstettner über Metalbands,
sauna artige Interviewsituationen und eine beinahe Schlägerei mit Axel
Rose.
The gig in Middelburg is confirmed by the Zeeland Nazomerfestival-website. Tickets are available at 22 euros.
The Sziget-festival has announced time-schedules. dEUS will play the main stage on August 12nd at 18.00 hour.
A new episode has been added to the tourpodcast on Telemoustique.be. It contains footage from the gig in Leipzig.
- Suds & Soda - 7"
- Little Arithmetics - cd-single (2track)
- Sun Ra - 10" (more here, here and here)
- Roses - 7"
- What We Talk About - cd-single
- Suds & Soda - cd-single
- Via - cd-single
- Hotellounge - cd-single
- Little Arithmetics - 7" (another one)
- 7 days, 7 weeks - promo-cd
- Pocket Revolution - 2LP (another one)
- Instant Street - Spanish promo-cd
Mauro has made a new podcast. Check it out here.
(Source: Mauroworld)
A new episode of the tourpodcast: dEUS in Warsaw.
Focus Knack also has an item about tourmanagers. It features Ton Maessen, the guy who is currently doing tour management for dEUS and Steven Zwaenepoel, Ton's assistent. Really worth a read.
Tom has compiled his dreamfestival for Focus Knack. Here's the line-up.
12.00h: Dr. John (in his Gris Gris-period) . A perfect day- and nighttripper.
13.00h: Talking Heads (at the time of Remain in Light)
14.00h: Tool
15.00h: Nick Cave solo
16.00h: Pixies
17.00h: Iggy and The Stooges (2005-version)
18.00h: Don en Neneh Cherry
19.00h: JJ Cale
20.00h: My Bloody Valentine
21.00h: Kraftwerk
22.00h: The Velvet Underground (from '68)
24.00h: The Prodigy and tons of dj's
There will also be gigs against intolerance in Brussels and Ghent on October 1st, one week before the local elections in Belgium.
- Arno and Marie Daulne (Zap Mama) are setting things up for a gig on the Brouckèreplein in Brussels. They have already invited Adamo.
- Keremos, the management from Sioen and Absynthe Minded, is doing the same thing in Ghent. Headliner there will probably be Gabriel Rios.
- dEUS is headlining in Antwerp. There's still doubt about the Sint-Jansplein, since it's probably too small.
Line-ups will be announced in the beginning of July. Tom will announce it in Werchter, Arno will do it in Brussels (Couleur Café)
(Source: De Standaard)
Ziggy has upped some footage from Pinkpop to Rapidshare. Here's a big part of the gig. And here are the missing songs: Stop-Start Nature, Suds & Soda and Roses.
The April 26th-gig is now available on the podcast.
bad timing
stop start nature
instant street
fell on the floor man
nightshopping
real sugar
worst case scenario
sun rah
turnpike
put the freaks up front
nothing really ends
roses
rock chick (magnus)
little arithmetics
what we talk about
suds and soda
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pocket revolution
iydgwyw
via
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magic hour
Do you remember the Vrij Nederland-cover with the Tom Barman-painting? The painting was made by Marisa Polin and is part of a series of 4 paintings. You can read about it on her blog.
Stage times for the festivals next weekend
- 15/06/2006: Novarock, Nickeldorf, Austria : 18.05 (Red Stage)
- 16/06/2006: Greenfield, Interlaken, Switzerland: 00.00-01.30 (Zeitbühne)
Apparently the Super Bock, Super Rock-festival was also broadcasted on tv. Two snippets are available on Rapidshare: Suds & Soda and Via.
(thx to Registred on ISR)
The mystery around the Paris Plage-gig remains. The newsletter from V2 France mentions Zita Swoon and Saule et les Pleureurs playing there on July 20th, but it doesn't list dEUS (yet).
New episode of the dEUS-podcast at Télémoustique. It contains an interview with VJ Ann (TMF) and If You Don't Get What You Want (live in Abaton, Prague)
Bad Timing
Stop-Start Nature
Instant Street
Fell Off The Floor, Man
Nightshopping
Sun Ra
Turnpike
Nothing Really Ends
Via
What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)
Suds & Soda (Sabotage)
Tom said in an interview on Pinkpop that they'll be playing 30 festivals until the end of July. At the moment 23 gigs are planned from June until the end of July, so there's probably a couple of gigs that will be announced shortly. Check my tourpage for more info.
Found a description of the Lynch Mob-remixes on the Rough Trade-site. You can order the 10" there as well.
'sun ra' by deus gets the remix treatment by brendan lynch (aka lynch mob) - on one side he takes the track on a spaced out cosmic journey with huge sounding kraut rock drums and wild keyboard work whilst the flip is equally as spaced out but in dub form. these two mixes are can only be found on this 10" and only 500 copies were pressed.
Elsewhere on the Rough Trade-site the 10" is also mentioned. Apparently the releasedate was May 19th.
More about the upcoming remix-album: it will be a mini dub/remix-album. This site says the following about the Sun Ra 10": Limited edition 10" sampler from the forthcoming Deus dub / remix mini album. Includes the 'Lynchmob Dub' on the B-side. You can hear a snippet of the Lynch Mob-remix here. And you can buy the 10" here.
(thx to Wouter)
dEUS will play the Sotto Le Stelle-festival in Ferrara, Italy on July 16th. Entrance is free.
Last thursday, there was a phonecall with Tom in Studio Brussel's Antenna about Pinkpop and the other festival. It's not avaible online (yet), so I cannot tell you what was said.
(thx to Anthony)
Here's a small acoustic session backstage at Pinkpop. Tom plays What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
dEUS is scheduled to play the Super Bock Super Rock-festival in tomorrow. The gig will be broadcasted live on Antena 3. You can go to the Antena 3 website and click on Emissão Online or you can use this link. dEUS will play at 19.10 hours (Portuguese time) or 20.10 hours (Brussels time).
(thx to Ziggy on ISR)
Forgot to mention: this blog has just celebrated its 1st anniversary. It all started with this post.
More from the Vrij Nederland-interview: (click here to read the 1st part)
- Frank Vercruysse, one of the actors from Any Way The Wind Blows, told Tom there's an older feeling in everything Tom does, but he brings it in a younger, enthusiastic way.
- Tom agrees. It's probably because he grew up between older people. His father was 63 when he was born. A lot of his friends are older too.
- He thinks his mental age is 45.
- Duality young - old is also in dEUS-gigs: no nonsense-rock in Suds & Soda and a paranoid atmosphere in Bad Timing
- He likes to make complex music and live without complexed. Mauro describes it as Linking decadence to discipline
- Time Out Chicago described dEUS as ,former next big thing'.
- It hurts Tom because dEUS will never sell 20 million records. They've sold 150.000 from Pocket Revolution so far, so it will probably be their best selling album.
- He hates it when people ask him 'How come you're not bigger?'
- Tour will end on October 1st in Antwerp and they will immediately start working on a new album
- He's proud about the good relation between dEUS and The Netherlands
- About the gig in Antwerp against intolerance: the message is "we don't need intolerance over here", but they will bring it with positive vibes: no speeches, no left wing thingies
- Apparently they're having some problems with the location. Local authorities are not very supporting.
Some short words by Tom about Pinkpop and the festivalseason on the 3voor12-website.
- They didn't rehearse last week: they played 140 gigs the last months, so everybody knows what to do by now
- They played with Happy Mondays on Saturday: it reminded him how a festival should be: no nonsense, a party
- 3rd Pinkpop: first two Pinkpop-gigs with dEUS were bad. He's more a Lowlands-guy.
- Last week he worked on a new Magnus-track.
- He started playing squash again. He played in competition until he was 18. Then he started smoking and gained interested in girls
- They will play 30 festivals until the end of July. Festivals are fun if the weather is great
- He never was a festivalfreak. He went to Werchter one time. To sell shoarma.
A review of the Pinkpop-gig on 3voor12.nl. It also includes a live video of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. You can discuss the gig here.
The 3voor12-crew also made a feature about dEUS-fans (,,Real fans have Zea")
Bad Timing
Instant Street
Fell Of The Floor, Man
Stop-Start Nature
Magdalena
Nightshopping
Sun Ra
Turnpike
Via
What We Talk About
Suds & Soda
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Pocket Revolution
Roses
(thx to Ziggy and zjitnepoz on ISR)
bad timing
stop start nature
instant street
fell off the floor, man
nightshopping
magdalena
worst case scenario
sun rah
theme from turnpike
via
what we talk about (when we talk about love)
suds & soda
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pocket revolution
roses
(thx to Oli on ISR)
dEUS.be has launched the dEUS Photo Gallery today. A photogallery where every member of the I Suffer Rock-community can upload pics. Check the newsitem on dEUS.be for more info. You can browse the gallery here.
Forgot to mention that in last week's Humo Tom talked about his three favorite off the radar-records.
- Pre-millennium Tension (Tricky)
'A pure sex-album'. Tricky is one of the most underestimated songwriters of the nineties - Ege Bamyasi (Can)
Tom discovered Can late. This is his favorite album. - Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)
Tom would like to have John Hassel as the producer for the next album
There's a small interview with Tom in Vara TV Magazine this weeks. If anyone has an hard-copy version, can you please scan it and mail it to bartvanbelle@gmail.com.
(thx to Marco)
Tom and Mauro will join Henny Vrienten on stage at the PSK in Brussels on 30th September. Vrienten (Doe Maar) will play a live-soundtrack for a movie title Nacht (Night) together with Henk Hofstede (The Nits) Mauro will be one of the guest musicians of film composer, Henny Vrienten to contribute to a live soundtrack of a film themed around 'night'. Other people joining Vrienten and Hofstede on stage include Boudewijn De Groot, Frank Boeijen, Thé Lau and Solex.
(Source: Mauroworld)
De Morgen has a small interview with VJ Ann about the Ann Tour with dEUS (broadcast today at 16.30h at TMF).
- TMF followed dEUS in Italy and Poland
- They started in Treviso (where dEUS played football and Mauro injured his arm)
- Apparently Mauro got back from hospital only 5 minutes before showtime
- About dEUS-groupies: in Poland it looked like the local lesbian footballclub was after Tom
- Fans in Poland were top: they sung along each song and most of them had seen Anyway The Wind Blows
- Suds & Soda - 7"
- Instant Street - 7" (another one)
- Theme From Turnpike - 10"
- Little Arithmetics - 7"
- Fell Off The Floor, Man promo - 10"
- Roses - cd-single (part 2)
- What We Talk About - cd-single
- Theme From Turnpike - cd-single
- Little Arithmetics - cd-single (French 2-track)
- Instant Street - cd-single (1-track promo)
- The Ideal Crash T-shirt (ladies)
- The Ideal Crash - 2cd
- Pocket Revolution - poster