Tom talked about his favourite album in De Morgen this weekend. He picked Sign Of The Times by Prince and tells how he occasionally met Cat and Mico on the street before the concert in Antwerpen (1988).

Tom beautifully describes some songs and tells us how he managed to get in to the afterparty where he was recognized by Cat and introduced to Prince.

Strange: De Morgen has published two reviews of Vantage Point. One on April 11th (the day after the Heineken-incident) and one last tuesday. It even gets more funny as they were written by brothers (Bart & Dirk Steenhaut). There are some minor differences, but the Steenhaut-brothers clearly don't share opinions on The Architect...

(thx to Joost Peeters)

The highlights from the interview with De Morgen:

• Tom choose Michäel Borremans because he wanted to collaborate with a Belgian artist
• Tom was planning to let Borremans make a videoclip after he saw a videoproject by Borremans called The Feeding
• Tom is happy Borremans took the time to write all texts in the booklet
• John Denver has apparently also written a song about Buckminster Fuller (What One Man Can Do)
• Tom was attracted by the image of Fuller standing at the side of the river, ready to commit suicide after his girl died of tuberculose
• There's a lot of smoking on Vantage Point too They've took measures to save Tom's voice from being influenced by the smoke: the backstage is smokefree and they're planning to make the tourbus smokefree too
• Tom is doing sports again too (sailing, squash and recently skiing)
• Tom has only seen two movies with Maria Schneider and the poster of The Passenger is his all time favourite
• He wasn't amused by the fact a movie called Vantage Point was released almost at the same time of the album, but on the other hand a movie disappears after two months, while they will be touring for a year
• Tom called Guy Garvey because he thought the song needed a bit more drama
• They also asked Neneh Cherry to contribute to the album, but she will probably be on the next one
• Tom and Stephane asked her for a photo in the backstage of a festival
• He thinks they can still grow outside Belgium.
• For the first time since WCS the album will be released in Australia and Japan
• They will be touring the USA as well, but only the big cities: Boston, New York and Los Angeles
• There were doubts around Mauro staying in the band, but that is no longer an issue: Mauro will also be on the next album
• Tom wants to release the next album before the end of 2009
• They'll start recording in september
• dEUS has sold about a million albums in total
• Tom is always pissed when other Belgian bands are minimalising the impact of dEUS outside Belgium
• They've considered skipping Werchter and going to Dour because it fitted much better with the clubtour.
• They will not be doing Pukkelpop because they'll be on the other side of Europe at that time
• They'll perform in Antwerp in autumn, but not in the Sportpaleis or the Lotto-Arena

There's an interview with Tom in De Morgen today (but not online yet). Other Belgian newspapers are respecting the embargo. There's an article in De Standaard that explains why they are respecting it.

I'll summarize the interview from De Morgen and Oor tonight.

Tom Barman is on the cover of today's De Morgen Magazine. DM photographer Charlie De Keersmaecker visited the Vantage Point Studio several times during the making of the new dEUS album. There are 9 full pages of photos and texts, including an interview with Tom De Keersmaecker. You can get a preview of the whole magazine on the De Morgen website.
[thx to Thomas for the tip]

Vantage Point reviewed by Belgian newspaper De Morgen. (Google Translation)

Vantage Point will clearly need much listenings before it reveals all its secrets, but it's certainly a record that excites and intrigues.

De Morgen also has a dEUS-contest. You can win tickets for Amsterdam, London and Paris. Transport to the cities is not included. Click here to enter.

There's a small interview with Manu Riche in De Morgen today. He also talks about the movie he's making about Tom. He hopes to have it ready in September 2007. They've followed dEUS on tour last year and they will also be shooting footage from the band working on the new album