Tom was interviewed in Move Your Ass on Dutch radio 3FM last friday. He talks about the recording of the new album.

• Slow was picked as the single for The Netherlands, England and Scandinivia by the local record companies
• The architect will be released in the other countries
• About the guest appearance of Karin Dreijer Andersson: Tom knew she liked dEUS and he just sent her an e-mail to ask her for Slow.
• Tom thinks Vantage Point is more open than Pocket Revolution

You can relisten the interview here.

(thx to Kevin)

If you're not on Myspace yet or you're not friends with dEUS yet, you might consider being added as the band’s friend right now since the band is announcing an exclusive gift very soon!

Chicago-based webzine Pitchfork reviews Slow, with (again) a strong emphasis on the contribution of The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson. I think the guys there are all secretly in love with her.

No dEUS-victory in Humo's Pop Poll this year. Tom was 9th in the category Best Belgian singer and dEUS made it to the 4th place in Best Belgian group.

According to a press release from Melt Festival dEUS' appearance on Melt Festival will be their one and only German festival performance this year.

I've made a summary of the tourdates so far. Each gig has a link to the venue-website and a link to buy tickets. You can also browse to it through the Tourdates-item in the navigation. In the future I will update that page with the latest info (new dates, support acts, setlists,...). A graphical overview of the Vantage Point-tour is available on the tourmap.

And by the way: don't forget to add the gigs you're going to to your Facebook or Last.FM-events and to make plans with other fans on I Suffer Rock.

In his Feb. 25 message, Tom announced that Vantage Point would contain a song called Smokers Reflect. But back in April 2005, he'd told us on deus.be that Pocket Revolution would contain a song by that very name!

The album is almost finished. Title to be confirmed.
It will feature 12 new songs, of which, at this stage, 9 are finished:
'Pocket Revolution', 'The Real Sugar', 'Firewinds', 'Sun Ra', '7 days, 7 weeks' and 'Smoker's Reflect' to name just a few of them.

Firewinds was eventually released as Include Me Out, but Smokers Reflect wasn't released. Will the "finished" version from 2005 find its way to Vantage Point?

Stubru will air a couple of snippets from Tom's interview with Nick Cave for Spraakmakers today. You can watch the entire interview next sunday on Canvas at 8.55 PM.

It's now possible to pre-order Vantage Point at Amazon.com.

Arthur and I have set up a separate forum at I Suffer Rock dedicated to the upcoming concerts. There's 1 topic for each date where you can discuss everything concerning that gig or make plans for pre- or after-show meetings.

As you have probably noticed I've pimped the layout of this blog. If you notice any problems on a certain browser, feel free to send me an e-mail.

Ryan did an attempt to write down the Slow-lyrics. Here we go:

Slow would be the tempo of the restless soul
You seem what a restless life can bring
Wait, and then wait until he's waiting for
They didn't see your everything
Slow would be the rhythm of the honey butt
Quick speed in the shatter of his eyes
And flowers you suppose will spread the words
Or how the world will slowly pass you by
Slow and tiredness of your control
And the moment is nearly standing still
And wait and not a second more
And face like a forbidden thrill

Gently behind the beat
We shuffle on ancient streets
The reverb of time
Is our vantage point
We slept for a million years
Lived through a million fears
We are not nervous
We will not ask for more
If you control I'm gonna slow too

Slow like the kissing of a lazy cheek
Like the minute and the deadline of the rush
And words, words waiting for you to speak
Or getting lost in your eternal crush

Slow would be the tempo of the restless mind
And see what a restless life can bring
And wait and then he waits until he's waiting for
Until the waiting can see your everything

Gently behind the beat
We shuffle on ancient streets
The reverb of time
Is our vantage point
We slept for a million years
Lived through a million fears
We are not nervous
We will not ask for more
Pawns of the troubled times
And kings of our petty crimes
The minds will function
With a small delay
See what the past has planned
The future's a beggar's hand
The more we understand
The slower our days
If you control I'm gonna slow too

I'm planning to build a sort of dEUS-quiz in the near future. The plan is to launch a new quiz every two weeks (or every month). I will probably need some help finding enough questions. So if you have ideas for good questions or I you have some dEUS-trivia, just drop me a line. It would be nice if you would also add the answer (and three other possibilities).

dEUS.be reports that White Lies is confirmed as the support act at the Londen Scala on April 16th.

Mauro has written a song (in Dutch) for the comeback-album of Flemish singer Isabelle A. Other people who contributed include Luc De Vos, An Pierlé, Sarah Bettens and Sioen. The album will be released somewhere in May and will be titled De Macht Der Gewoonte.