Zita Swoon and Tom Barman - Rehearsal from Zita Swoon on Vimeo.

The dEUS-gig at Pukkelpop as broadcasted by Acht.

dEUS - Live Pukkelpop 2009 from LeRenard on Vimeo.

An official tweet by Zita Swoon about tonight's gig in Amsterdam

Tomorrow's Zita Swoon's last 'song' show for a while in Paradiso A'dam with guests Tom Barman & Klaas Janzoons of dEUS and Spinvis!

Tom Barman joined Stef Kamil Carlens with Zita Swoon on stage again tonight. With John Parish on guitar, they first played Great American Nude (again) in front of a packed Ancienne Belgique, followed by a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Temptation Inside Your Heart" (again).

Yesterday evening Tom joined Zita Swoon on stage during the first of three gigs in the Ancienne Belgique. And yes, they played a dEUS-song. If you want to see it yourself, tune it at www.standaard.be/zita tonight to catch a livestream of the 2nd gig.

Next thursday you can watch the 2nd Zita Swoon gig at the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels LIVE on De Standaard Online. Tune in at www.standaard.be/zita.

Lifted straight from Arthur's post on the dEUS forum: "Belgian TV station CANVAS will be airing the Manu Riche/Renaat Lambeets documentary 'Tempo of a Restless Soul' about dEUS frontman Tom Barman on Wednesday December 16th at 22h50."

Time is the state of my jeans reviewed by Cutting Edge.

4 songs from Pinkpop 1995 -- W.C.S., I Suffer Rock (introduced as "20 Something"), Let's Get Lost & Hotellounge.

Michael had the chance to see the Time is the state of my jeans-documentary. His review (in dutch) is available here.

Next saturday Acht will broadcast the dEUS-gig from Pukkelpop 2009. Here's the trailer (thx to Michael). The full schedule of the dEUS-week is available here.

The 5th and final promo clip for Time Is The State Of My Jeans - The making of Worst Case Scenario. Brian Molko (Placebo) talks about Worst Case Scenario and how he hopes the re-release will find a whole new audience. Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) makes a guest appearance.

Here's the detailed schedule of the "dEUS Week" on Acht TV:

Time is the State of My Jeans - The Making of Worst Case Scenario
Vrijdag 4 december - 21u30, herhaald op zondag om 14u30

dEUS: Live op Pukkelpop 2009
Exclusieve live-registratie van dEUS op Pukkelpop 2009
Zaterdag 5 december - 23u05, herhaald op zondag om 10u40 en 19u30, woensdag
9/12 om 13u15 en zaterdag 12/12 om 13u45

Early dEUS: MTV Live 1994-'95
Live-optredens van dEUS op MTV uit de periode 1994-'95
Dinsdag 8 december om 20u40, herhaald op woensdag 9/12 om 22u25 en zondag
13/12 om 15u00

Citate de dEUS
Reeks interviews met de bandleden van dEUS n.a.v. de heruitgave van hun 15
jaar oude doorbraakalbum Worst Case Scenario
Vanaf vrijdag 4 december iedere weekdag om 20u35 en de compilatie op zondag
13/12 om 10u50

Keep on Running - 50 Years Island Records
Documentaire die de geschiedenis vertelt van het prestigieuze label Island
Records
Zaterdag 12 december om 23u05, herhaald op zondag 13/12 om 13u30 en
19u00

In a lengthy, 5-page interview with Tom Barman and Stef Kamil Carlens, this week's paper issue of HUMO goes back to the early days of dEUS. Why now? Because this Friday, Worst Case Scenario, from the Tom/Stef/Rudy period, gets the deluxe treatment; because Zita Swoon are releasing a best-of album (To Play, To Dream, To Drift, An Anthology); because next week, Tom will be Stef's guest during several special Zita Swoon concerts (tickets still available for the AB one).

You can read excerpts from the interview on the HUMO website. It's all in Dutch, mind you.

Someone should translate it into English, cause it's frankly amazing to read all those stories about early-90's dEUS, 13 years after Stef left the band. There's stuff about why Stef (and Rudy, and Craig) left dEUS, how the band at first all lived together in Antwerp, how they coped with early success (and how very differently), ...

A must-read.

Tom Barman explains the link between Lenny Kravitz and Suds and Soda to Stef Kamil Carlens.
And Brian Molko (Placebo) talks about the keyboards in the middle leg of Suds and Soda.

The trailer for the broadcast of Time is the state of my jeans on Acht.



(thx to Michael)

As previously announced, Flemish TV channel Acht is having a "dEUS week" to celebrate the release of the deluxe reissue of Worst Case Scenario. Things kick off on Friday Dec. 4, to coincide with the release day, with daily items up to Dec. 12.
Here's the full schedule, as posted by Acht TV on the dEUS forum:

-Vrijdag 4 december: de Docu: Time is the State of My Jeans -
The Making of Worst Case Scenario
-Zaterdag 5 december: dEUS live: Pukkelpop 2009
-Dinsdag 8 december: Early dEUS: MTV Live
1994-'95
-Dagelijks: Citate de dEUS: groepsleden blikken
terug

Tom joined Stef on stage during a session for Radio 1 yesterday evening.

The second promoclip for Time is the state of my jeans, featuring Vicky Bruce of Island Records and Gary Lightbody(Snow Patrol).

dEUS will be posting 5 promo-clips for the Deluxe edition of Worst Case Scenario on the official Youtube-channel. The first clip is online and features David Gilmour (Island Records) talking about his first impression of dEUS.

From dEUS.be:

Universal Music and Island Records will re-release dEUS’s Worst Case Scenario on December 4th 2009. The album will be released in a Deluxe version, consisting of two CD and a DVD.

The original version of Worst Case Scenario has been re-mastered in London at the Metropolis Studio under supervision of Tom Barman (front man of the band); this is CD1. The second CD includes their first EP Zea (very rare) and a collection of B-sides, unreleased live tracks and demos.

The DVD is a brand new documentary ('Time is the state of my jeans') about the making of the album + Unreleased live performances recorded in 1994 and 1995.

A 24 page booklet with liner notes packed with new information, pictures and other memorabilia and liners notes from Mark Paytress completes the Deluxe edition.

Some more news on the Worst Case Scenario-reissue. As mentioned before the reissue will have 2 cd's and a dvd. One cd will contain the remastered version of Worst Case Scenario, the other other one will contain the b-sides (including Zea) from that era.

Some reviews of Temple of a restless soul:

• Cutting Edge
• Focus Knack
• Studio Brussel

Mixed feelings. That's what I have about Tempo of a restless soul, the Tom Barman-documentary that was screened for the first time wednesday evening at the Vooruit in Ghent.

Since it was the première almost everybody who was in the movie, was also at Vooruit. Tom, Stephane, Alan and Klaas (no Mauro), Christian Pierre, Tom's mother, Renaat Lambeets, Manu Riche, etcetera.

I didn't really know what to expect. To be honest, I was really looking forward to the movie, until I saw the trailer last week. It wasn't tempting at all. But it was only the trailer...

The prologue was rather original. Tom, his sister and his mother are discussing the documentary and his sister clearly isn't very happy with it (at that moment). The documentary itself gives us a nice view on the period between the release of Pocket Revolution and the gig at Werchter 2008. Since Manu Riche and Renaat Lambeets have recorded about 100 hours of material, they probably had a difficult job reducing it to about 90 minutes.

And probably that's the problem I have with Tempo of a restless soul. Ofcourse it offers us a nice view on life on the road. And ofcourse it's nice to see the little discussions about some errors played during Suds & Soda. But it's too fragmentaric. And we have to guess where and when the band is, since there are no indications of time and place in the movie. As a heavy dEUS-follower I was able to add that context myself, but I can imagine there's other people who can't.

Tom's bond with his mother is more or less the red thread of the movie, but again it lacks depth. Why is this bond so special? Since the working title was Portrait of a young man as an artist, I really was expecting a deeper glimpse into Tom's soul. A depth interview with Tom would ofcourse be a better way to discover that then the fly on the wall-style of filming.

The most intense part is probably the scene two days before the start of the recording sessions of Vantage Point where Alan turned out to be stoned as a monkey. At that moment we get to see Tom worried about Alan (as a friend), but also angry (as frontman) since Alan's timing is really bad. Alan was taken to rehab and they started the sessions with the songs where Alan is less important.


The big episodes of the last three years are all in the movie (first time at Vorst, touring the USA, 0110, Werchter 2008), but as a fan I'm still a little bit hungry. I would have been nice to see Tom's mother during the Vorst-gig. Or to see more of the preparation of 0110. And why isn't the Werchter-fireworks not shown? We see Tom talking about his plans during the final notes of Suds & Soda, but we don't get to see wether his plan came out.

The most interesting scenes for me were the dressing room scenes. The stress before the gig, the rituals before they get on stage, the exitement afterwards and the discussions about song X or Y being not that good as the other night. The backstage-meetings with fans and the frustration about a no smoking-sign in a dressing room in the USA.


I may sound a little negative, but that's probably because I really had high expectations. Don't be afraid to go and watch it if you get the chance. If you're a dEUS-fan you're definitely gonna enjoy it (and the demo-versions of songs in it). If you're no dEUS-fan you'll get a glimpse of the busy and energetic way of life of Tom and the band the past years. Let's hope some stuff from the 100 hours of recording material, finds its way to us through a dvd or the website.

About a year ago I posted the video where Beavis & Butthead are commenting Suds & Soda on the blog. It seems to have dissappeared both from Youtube and my harddisk. Is anyone out there who happens to have saved the file and is willing to send it back to me? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

There's a big article on the Tom Barman-documentary in De Standaard today. It gives some background on a couple of scenes. Most important thing may be the fact that apparently the movie is now called Tempo of a restless soul instead of Portrait Of A Young Man As An Artist.

The new title is taken from the lyrics of Slow.

Tickets are still available here.

A new episode of the dEUS podcast was published earlier this week. It contains nice stuff from Pukkelpop. Enjoy!

Tom Barman sings Le poinçonneur des Lilas (Serge Gainsbourg) on the Dutch TV show De Wereld Draait Door. This was an extra recording and not included in the TV broadcast.



(thx to Gainsnord)

Below is the trailer for the documentary about Tom by Manu Riche and Renaat Lambeets. Tickets for the screenings at the Ghent Filmfestival are available here.

(Source: Filmnatie)

Tom Barman will be one of the guests during the Zita Swoon-anniversary-concert at the Ancienne Belgique on December 9th. Other guests are John Parish and Arno.

Tickets are still available here.

(Update: Marc pointed me to the info about the Zita Swoon-gig in Amsterdam. Tom will also be a guest over there)

Last night, Tom and Guy played 'Le Poinconneur De Lilas' by Gainsbourg on Dutch TV.

Nice. The Barman and Van Nueten-version of Le poinconneur des Lilas will feature on Gainsnord, a compilation of Serge Gainsbourg-songs by a couple of bands from Belgium and The Netherlands. The album will be released on September 18th. More info here.

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A quick overview of last week's setlists

18/08/2009 - Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands
19/08/2009 - Atak, Enschede, The Netherlands
21/08/2009 - Pukkelpop, Hasselt, Belgium
22/08/2009 - Pukkelpop, Hasselt, Belgium

Check out older setlists here.

Tom and Mauro were interviewed by Studio Brussel saturday. You can watch the video here. They also talked a bit about the new album.

It will contain a couple of longer songs (The Ideal Crash-style) and they're trying to bring some jazzy feelings into the songs. Working with a backing choir has been a dream of Tom for a long time. They will probably work 6 more months on the album, but they'll only release it when it's 100% ok.

1. Smokers Reflect
2. Eternal Woman
3. Nothing Really Ends
4. Bad Timing
5. I Gave Love
6. What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)
7. Paper Bones
8. Pocket Revolution
9. Let's See Who Goes Down First
10. Instant Street
11. Fell Off The Floor, Man
12. If You Don't Get What You Want
13. The Architect
    ---
14. Oh Your God
15. Roses

Pukkelpop reviewed by Humo (day 2), De Redactie (day 2), Knack and De Standaard (day 2), De Morgen (Day 2).

1. Everybody's Weird
2. Favourite Game
3. Slow (with Karin Dreier Anderson)
4. Dark Sets In
5. Pocket Revolution
6. Paper Bones
7. Serpentine
8. Turnpike
9. Instant Street
10. Fell Off The Floor, Man
11. Morticiachair
12. Hotellounge (sung by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol)
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13. Sun Ra (with Younes Faltakh of The Hickey Underworld)
14. Suds & Soda (with De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig)

A new episode of the dEUS-podcast has just been published. Enjoy dEUS before Pukkelpop here.

Arthur on I Suffer Rock:

The guest musician's name is Tijs Delbeke (you should really check our Twitter account more often ). And he doesn't only play the guitar, he also plays the keys and percussion.

1. Everybody's Weird
2. Favourite Game
3. Slow
4. Dark Sets In
5. Pocket Revolution
6. Paper Bones
7. What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)
8. The Magic Hour
9. Nothing Really Ends
10. Bad Timing
11. Let's See Who Goes Down First
12. Instant Street
13. Fell Off The Floor, Man
14. The Architect
15. I Gave Love
16. Theme From Turnpike
    ----
17. Sun Ra
18. Morticiachair
19. Oh Your God
20. Roses
    ----
21. Suds & Soda

Marjolein Deckers will be on stage with dEUS this week doing the backing vocals. She's currently part of de Triplettes, a band who brings music from the 40's and 50's and is also performing solo.

In Het Belang Van Limburg she tells she wasn't a fan of dEUS, but she's starting to become it.

1. Favourite Game
2. Everybody's Weird
3. Fell Off The Floor, Man
4. Slow
5. Dark Sets In
6. Pocket Revolution
7. Paper Bones
8. Nothing Really Ends
9. Bad Timing
10. Smokers Reflect
11. The Magic Hour
12. Let's See Who Goes Down First
13. Instant Street
14. The Architect
15. I Gave Love
    ---
16. Theme From Turnpike
17. If You Don't Get What You Want
18. Serpentine
19. Oh Your God

(Source: Setlists.fm)

As you all know, dEUS will play 4 gigs this week. As I am going to Pukkelpop, you can expect reviews and a setlist from those gigs on this blog later this week. If anyone's going to Groningen or Enschede, please keep us posted on the setlist and other things. Leave a comment, drop me line or leave a post on I Suffer Rock. And above all: enjoy the gigs!

18/08/2009 - Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands
19/08/2009 - Atak, Enschede, The Netherlands
21/08/2009 - Pukkelpop, Hasselt, Belgium
22/08/2009 - Pukkelpop, Hasselt, Belgium

Tom announced a remastered version of Worst Case Scenario in a Radio 1-documentary about Worst Case Scenario. The remastered edition will include all B-sides from that era and a documentary about the album featuring the band, the producers Peter Vermeersch & Pierre Vervloesem and the people from Island Records who signed them.

It's not clear when the remastered version will hit the stores. You can listen to the complete radio-documentary here.

(thx to Kevin)

Pukkelpop has published the timeschedules for the festival. dEUS will be the closing act at the Marquee on Friday and Saturday. dEUS will perform on Friday August 21st from 23h35 till 00h50 and on Saturday August 22nd from 22h05 till 23h20.

Last.FM announces a dEUS-gig at Store Vega in Copenhagen on October 2nd 2009. Since there's no official confirmation at this moment, let's consider it an interesting rumour. ;-)

A new episode of the dEUS-podcast has been released, giving us another glimpse at the making of the next dEUS-album. I'm especially excited about the song-snippet at the end of the movie.

On Saturday 20, Tom Barman will make everybody dance in the Walloon town of Binche, as part of "La Fête de la Musique". All details here.

15h00 Lemon Straw- Acta - Straz
18h30 Karin Clercq
20h00 Stanislas (F)
22h00 Jeronimo
23h30 Tom Barman DJ Set

The Musickness-website has been updated with a nice overview of all releases by bands that were or are on Musickness. This 'wonderwall' is also hanging in the dEUS studio. You can watch a bigger version here.

Once again, Tom Barman will be deejaying at green party Ecolo's "Vert Pop" event. It's on Friday, June 5, at Brussels' newly reopened "Horta Gallery" inside the Central Station. Ex-Prodigy Leeroy Thornhill and The Rapture's Mattie Safer will also be behind the turntables. Doors 22:00, entrance €10.

That lucky bastard called Michael Illegems had the chance to visit dEUS in the studio. Luckily he shares some pics with us on his Flickr-page.

The first two try-out dates for the Pukkelpop-gigs have leaked on Last.FM.

Tuesday 18 August 2009 : De Oosterpoort, Groningen (NL)
Wednesday 19 August 2009 : Atak, Enschede (NL)

The websites of the venues aren't mentioning the gig (yet), so I have no presale info at this moment. I updated the tourmap and the tour-overview with the 2009-gigs.

The dates for the Pukkelpop-gigs have been released. dEUS will play the Marquee on Friday August 21st and Saturday August 22nd. It will be the only shows in 2009.

dEUS will headline Pukkelpop this year. The band will play two nights at the Marquee-stage. I have no information on the exact dates dEUS will play, but I'll keep you posted on that. Pukkelpop will take place from August 20th until August 22nd.

(Source: dEUS.be)

Two chances to catch a Tom Barman DJ-set:

• 15/04/2009: Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
• 26/04/2009: Rotunda, Krakow (PL)

A new episode of the official podcast has been released. A quite good one, including a video of the band working in the studio.

Cold Sun Of Circumstance is used in a promospot for the Wash-campaign of Unicef Belgium.

I just checked the two videos Vince recorded for the latest dEUS-podcast. I heard snippets of Dark Sets In and saw Tom and Mauro rehearsing another new song with the working title Piano Song.



I noticed only 200 people have seen the videos so far, so check them out please.

A new episode of the official podcast has been published. It's about the gig at Humo's Pop Poll. Check it out here.

Some interesting stuff on the 3voor12-website.

• De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (DJvT) and Tim Vanhamel will make a guest-appearance on the new Magnus-album
• The new dEUS-album will probably be released in 2010
• dEUS will play a couple of gigs during the summer

At the end of the Pop Poll-gig Tom shouted See you very, very soon. Will they announce some gigs in the near future. I've been checking Mauro's calendar and he will be touring with Creation 2009, a project by Wim Vandekeybus, from the end of april.

dEUS received three awards at Humo's Pop Poll Deluxe last sunday: best album, best group and best single (The Architect).

1. Favorite Game
2. Slow
3. Smokers Reflect
4. Instant Street
5. Suds & Soda
6. Oh Your God
7. The Architect

Tom will be deejaying at a benefit for Flemish newspaper De Morgen on Friday February 20th. More info here.

dEUS won 2 Belgian Music Industry Awards yesterday evening: Best rock and best album. A big disappointment since they were nominated 9 times. Milow was the big winner with 5 awards. Tom, Klaas and Mauro were present to receive the awards, but apparently they already had some champagne before the show.

A nice interview with Tom in a student magazine from Nijmegen (The Netherlands). A Google-translation is available here.

Tom will deejay at Café Capital in Antwerp on saturday January 10th.

(thx to Eva)

The first issue of A Shocking Lack of Copyright, an unofficial dvd with tons of dEUS-video-footage is being torrented on The Pirate Bay.

Ziggy, the guy who compiles this nice set, is still looking for a video-recording of the 0110-gig. If anyone can help him out or if you have other footage you're willing to share for this project, drop him a line: mailto:e-mail:polido@mail.telepac.pt

The Paradiso-Fabchannel-gig is concert of the week on Spiegel Online, one of the leading newssites in Germany.

(thx to Guido)

Another ghettoblaster-version of The Architect, recorded in Vienna on the roof of the Arena club. Pics over here.

5 dEUS-songs made it to De Tijdloze from Studio Brussel.

10. Suds & Soda
24. Roses
34. Instant Street
48. Nothing Really Ends
65. Hotellounge