I will be completely offline until next weekend. I'll update you about dEUS when I'm back. In the meantime, don't forget to check the new community and register to all dEUS-pages on social networks.

• Bebo
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A couple of Belgian music-photographers are exposing in Ghent. The expo Shooting Stars contains also a couple of dEUS-pics. Thomas Dhanens is talking about one of his pics in Het Nieuwsblad today.

Great news! The official forum will be back online later today. Be sure to check out www.deus.be/community and discuss all dEUS-related items.

If you're on Facebook and/or Youtube, be sure to check the dEUS-profile on Facebook and the dEUS-Youtube-channel.

dEUS now also has a profile-page on Bebo.

In case you didn't hear it: I was on Studio Brussel yesterday talking about Vantage Point. They are looking forward to 2008 and bumped into my first impression of the album. Check it out here.

There's a brand new theatershow touring around Belgium these days called Het zijn Belgen. It's a trip through Belgian popmusic including songs byNacht und Nebel, Schmutz, Vaya Con Dios, Brel, the Kids, Tom Helsen, Sioen, Arno and of course dEUS.

Found a small article about Ton Maessen, the tourmanager of dEUS, on Jobat.be, a Belgian jobsite. Not much about dEUS though.

Talking about Ton Maessen: I received a mail from Hilde Weygaerts today saying Ton is no longer the tourmanager. According to Hilde, dEUS and Nick Cave will be touring at the same period this year and Ton prefered to go with Nick Cave.

The new tourmanager will be Tim Collins, who has been working with Muse in the past.

This Dutch blogger bought Pocket Revolution for only 3 euros today.

I had a meeting with Christian Pierre tuesday and I had the privilege to listen to an unfinished and unmastered version of Vantage Point. Although they're still discussing the order of the songs and a couple of songs are still waiting for their final mix, I was really impressed.
The album continues on the path of Pocket Revolution and contains a mix of rockers, typical dEUS-ballads and more groovy songs. Trust me, it's gonna be worth the wait!

Nice. I just found an interview with Tom from 1999 (in Dutch). It's from the VPRO-series Naar eer en geweten by Leonieke Daalder. She still remembers the interview. Apparently Tom was in a bad mood and it only got worse when he got questions about his looks.

Het gesprek vond pas laat plaats. Barman leek ook niet echt zin te hebben. Toen er ook nog vragen over zijn uiterlijk langskwamen, ging het bijna mis. Dat moet je goed aanvoelen en iemand dan ook de ruimte gunnen om niks te zeggen. Een afweging die je keer op keer maakt: dram ik door en verpest ik daarmee mogelijk het hele gesprek of laat ik het lopen? In dit geval koos ik het laatste.

You can listen to the interview here.

Vantage Point is voted the most anticipated album of 2008 by the readers of Dutch weblog Alternative.blog.nl.

There's a two page interview with Rudy Trouvé in Humo today. He talks about the link with dEUS being mentioned in every single interview with him. He says he had some problems with that the first years after he left the band. And he also thinks the link with dEUS isn't that big either. Steve Albini once asked him if there was any guitarplayer in Belgium that hadn't played with dEUS...

Look, there's even a new message on the dEUS-Myspace.

Here are the result of the What's the best dEUS-video?-poll. About 220 readers voted. A new poll is available in the sidebar.

1. Instant Street
2. Theme From Turnpike
3. Roses
4. Hotellounge
5. Sister Dew
6. Via
7. Little Arithmetics
8. Suds And Soda
9. The Ideal Crash
10. Worst Case Scenario
11. Fell Off The Floor, Man
12. What We Talk About
13. Nothing Really Ends
14. 7 Days, 7 Weeks