There's an interview with Nick Cave in Knack today. At the time of the interview Cave had just finished his interview with Tom Barman for Spraakmakers and he was apparently feeling a bit dizzy. Cave says he felt like he did three interviews at the same time.Wij vrezen het ergste wanneer we Cave, wiens teksten jarenlang heet van de heroïnenaald dropen, bij het betreden van zijn hotelkamer een pilletje zien achteroverklokken. 'Paracetamol', verzekert hij ons. Blijkt dat Cave voor het Canvasprogramma Spraakmakers net een uur lang met Tom Barman heeft zitten praten en dat zijn hoofd er nóg van duizelt.
Nick Cave: Een toffe en intelligente gast, maar ik heb het gevoel dat ik net drie interviews tegelijk heb gedaan. Als ik nog één fuckin' woord uit mijn mond hoor komen, schiet ik me voor de kop. Geloof het of niet, maar eigenlijk praat ik helemaal niet zo graag over mezelf.
Fabchannel.com, the award-winning live music platform, today announced a recording and multi-territory digital exploitation agreement with Universal Music Netherlands, a division of the world’s leading music company, for live recordings of Universal Music artists performing at the Paradiso in Amsterdam and other Fabchannel-venue (as Melkweg).
Since V2 (the recordlabel of dEUS outside Belgium) is a part of Universal, it's not impossible that the gig in Melkweg will make it to Fabchannel. In the meantime you can still watch this Zita Swoon-gig from 2005.
Apparently, the april 10th gig (Mannheim) was first scheduled in Heidelberg. Or did the German promotor made a mistake when he mailed the tourdates to Rockpalast?
(Source: Rockpalast weblog)
Update: Pollstar is also listing Heidelberg instead of Mannheim.
Quick note: it's great that you're all giving reactions on blog-items, but it would be nice if you try to leave your name instead of reacting as Anonymous.
Tom was interviewed on Studio Brussel tonight about the exiting announcements of today. Here's a quick round-up:
- The album will be released on April 18th
- The album was recorded and mixed in three months (a record for dEUS)
- The album is compact, danceable and recorded for live-performances
- Vantage Point contains 10 songs (about 47 minutes)
- They play smaller clubs first to warm-up for the festivals
- He thinks it's a pitty bands from outside Belgium usually skip the smaller clubs they're playing now and directly go to halls as Vooruit (Gent) and Ancienne Belgique (Brussel)
- They'll be making the video for The Architect next week
- Tom directed the clip for Slow. He describes it as a typical dEUS-video with dancers (5 young girls)
- The architect is about Buckminster Fuller and contains his voice (hidden under effects)
Update: you can listen to the interview here.
Nice story from Steven Adam in my mailbox:
Melt Festival is scheduled from July 18th to July 20th.Last weekend i did a little trip with my girlfriend to antwerp. It was the first time i visited antwerp. So, yesterday evening, the first day of ourstay, we went to a sushi bar (minato, vlaamsekaai) to have a nice diner. Ok, that sounds like an boring story, but here's the unbelieveable: guess who entered the restaurant? Right, tom! I was completly excited but i didn't want to disturb him during his meal. So i waited until he went out for a smoke. So i smoked a cigarette with him and talked with him about the new album. After reading your blog, i can give you interesting news: he told me that they'll play the melt festival in germany (near berlin).
The events-listing on Last.Fm is also mentioning a dEUS-gig in Moscow on May 14th. The gig was not mentioned in the list of official tourdates that was revealed today. Since it's not listed on the Club B1-website, I consider it a rumour until further notice.
By the way: the tourmap is updated with all new gigs. If you notice a missing one, just drop me a line in the comments.
Tom said on StuBru this afternoon that Slow would be the album's first international single, while The Architect is the single for Belgium.Besides the new single The Architect, the only new song listed in the keywords of the new home page is Slow.[...] The Architect,Slow,Vantage Point [...]
Does this point to Slow as a second single?
The Architect was aired for the first time on Studio Brussel. Click here to listen to a snippet.
There's also a message from Tom on the new website. He talks about the album and says they'll be touring the big cities in Europe first, then come back for the festival and do an larger tour in autumn.
About the album:
- Vantage Point was produced by Dave McCracken and mixed by Joe Hirst.
- One of the songs features Lies Lorquet from Mintzkov
- Other special guests include Guy Garvey from Elbow (on‘The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider’) and Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife (on 'Slow')
- The video for Slow is being finished as we speak and should be available on dEUS.be soon
dEUS.be has just announced a bunch of new tourdates. They play a lot in smaller clubs.
Check the tourpage on the brand new dEUS.be for more info. Ticketsale for the Belgian gigs will start next wednesday.
08/04 Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands
09/04 Roxy, Saarbrücken, Germany (tickets)
10/04 Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany (tickets)
14/04 Kulturkirche, Köln, Germany (tickets)
15/04 Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
16/04 Scala, London, UK
24/04 Trabendo, Paris, France (tickets)
29/04 Muziekodroom, Hasselt, Belgium (tickets)
30/04 Droixhe, Luik, Belgium (tickets)
01/05 Het Depot, Leuven, Belgium
02/05 Eden, Charleroi, Belgium
03/05 Cactus at MAZ, Brugge, Belgium
05/05 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
07/05 Elserhalle, München, Germany (tickets)
08/05 Magazzini Generali, Milan, Italy (tickets)
09/05 Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Switzerland
10/05 Linzfestival, Linz, Austria
11/05 Flex, Vienna, Austria (tickets)
Since The Architect will have its premiere next monday, we can already start voting for De Afrekening. Drop your top-3 here.