Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
23 April 2008 at 13:44 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

The May issue of German magazine Visions has an article about dEUS, and on the accompanying DVD you'll find, among other music videos, the video of Slow.

There's also a dEUS feature in issue 68 of Visions Weekly, the magazine's free "e-paper", with Elbow on the cover.

7 April 2008 at 15:05 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

Twelve years later, Die Zeit takes a look back at In A Bar, Under The Sea -- "ihr bestes" -- as part of their "Über die Jahre" music retrospective.

Als in den neunziger Jahren die Musikszene Antwerpens explodierte, gelang es nur der Band dEUS, außerhalb der Grenzen Belgiens bekannt zu werden. Ihr zweites Album war ihr bestes: „In A Bar, Under The Sea“.


4 April 2008 at 01:27 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

There's an interview with Tom on Radio Soundportal's website, in German. Quick summary by lovedeus:

  • Tom gets asked who sings "The Architect" so he answers Mauro
  • Tom sings too, but hard to recognize because of the many effects (on his voice)
  • You can't say dEUS is predictable
  • The album's easy to be played live, in your face & groovy
  • Popular Culture: slightly ironic song, wanted to have the same atmosphere as in "Give peace a chance" by John Lennon
  • Tom likes these psychedelic, nice sing-along-songs with a sarcastic undertone
  • In the mixing studio there is a snooker table and Tom beat everyone at first. Then they started playing for money and so Tom lost 250 Euro to Dave McCracken. He (Dave) played like a god and Tom said let's stop but it was already to late. So he paid for his arrogance.


28 March 2008 at 14:43 posted by Jean-Yves 1 Comment

Found on the Vantage Point product page at Amazon.de: this promotional video for the album, with the band rehearsing Bad Timing, a part of the Slow video, and a message to "girls & boys" by Tom.

"hello girls & boys! i'm tom barman, from deus. we're recording our new album, vantage point, in this studio, in antwerp, belgium. we're bringing it out on april 18th. we hope you like it as much as we do. bye bye!"


On that page there's also a review of the album in German, with some info about Popular Culture: there's a line that goes "If you don't come from the States you will always be late in popular culture", complete with a children choir.

[thx to britzelbeere]

Update: Bart put the video on YouTube
Update 2: dEUS put the video on their YouTube profile




27 March 2008 at 16:31 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

There's a very interesting interview with Tom on Austrian public radio FM4, in German. The ORF website also has an article titled "Die belgische Schule des Rock", about dEUS and Mintzkov. A summary of the interview, with my limited knowledge of German. Contributions welcome:


  • TIC/PR: 6 years hiatus, PR/VP: 2 1/2 years - Why? The band didn't want to start looking for a new guitarist right after Craig left (for the first time) in 2000, then Tom started his short movie project, which became AWTWB, then there was the 2004 debacle, and Pocket Revolution was finally released after the new line-up was gathered. Vantage Point comes so soon because the band started rehearsing right after the PR tour, and having their own studio definitely helped.
  • On producers: while Eric Drew Feldman (IABUTS) was a very arty and creative producer, and David Bottrill (TIC) almost had to act like a psychiatrist for a troubled band, for VP Dave McCracken had a much more song-oriented approach, which led to more compact songs. His work with Depeche Mode perhaps also fave VP a more electronic feel, even though it was recorded the old-fashioned way and with just a few synth sounds.
  • Tom loves Tool.
  • About Slow: the interviewer brings up the discussion we had on the forum about the Slow lyrics. "Slow Up" is a play on words, and it's also the name of the first album of X-Legged Sally, whose members Vermeersch & Vervloesem produced WCS. There's a whole part I don't understand, but apparently "Vantage Point" stems from the different ways Tom & Mauro look at things. Slow is very much the key-song for the album. It's also the very first time all band members sang together on one song.
  • About Mintzkov's Lies Lorquet, who sings on Eternal Woman: she's got that 90's Kim Deal kind of voice that Tom was looking for. Asked about the similarities between Mintzkov & dEUS, Tom thinks the new generation of Belgian musicians isn't looking for a dEUS sound, but for a dance sound, like Goose have.
  • He's happy that his band mates have side projects, but dEUS must remain a priority. He is very grateful to Rudy for all the things he learnt thanks to him. Mauro is working on new Love Substitutes material.
  • About the state of the music industry: even if Tom knows about Radiohead & NIN's experiments in digital distribution, he's not that interested in technology. From his point of view things aren't that different: they still record albums, he still gives interviews and tours with the band... But he's sad about the disappearing of the album as a standard, he regrets that today's youngsters don't rush out to get their favourite band's next album and play it from A to Z. He misses vinyl. VP has 10 songs: 5 songs for the A-side, 5 for the B-side.
  • They've listened to 10.000 days by Tool before each gig of the last tour

ORF also have a rather nice concert review from 2005.

[thx to lovedeus for the tip]

Update: a Dutch translation by Wouter Verschelde
Update 2: an Englisch translation by lovedeus