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.

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.

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
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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.

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)

Balder from Norway sings Worst Case Scenarioooooooooooo!



[thanks to Via for this cute interlude]

Pukkelpop-organizer Chokri Mahassine talks about his record collection in De Morgen today. One of his favorite albums is Worst Case Scenario.

"In 1992 ging ik naar de groep kijken in Leuven en een dag later sprak heel Vlaanderen erover: kippenvel. dEUS heeft de Belgische scene ontvoogd, ons zelfvertrouwen opgekrikt. Sindsdien zijn onze ogen en oren niet langer uitsluitend op het buitenland gericht."

Two dEUS-albums have made the album top 100 selected by readers of Dutch popmagazine Oor. The Ideal Crash is on 19 and Worst Case Scenario on 31. Worst Case Scenario was the only dEUS-album in the same list selected by music-professionals.

(thx to Paul)

The Ancienne Belgique launches Rewind, a series of concert where Belgian artists play a key-album from their backcatalogue. Gorki and The Scabs have already been scheduled. Worst Case Scenario is also on the wishlist of the organizer.