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.