submitted by INA & DIRK HOUBRECHTS
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Just listened to it via the internet. There were quite a bit of dEUS-related interview bits (with German voice-overs): - Tom Barman "the thing in common of all the band from the Belgian scene is perhaps being open to all kinds of influences, and to look on them with a certain surrealism" - Frank van der Linden about him "discovering" dEUS at the Rock Rally : "in those days you couldn't sell dEUS to any record company, because they were too chaotic. But only a few months after, every record company wanted to have it's own dEUS" - Tom again "deus was like a sort of cork that came off a bottle. But it is not correct to think that all the bands after us came about because of dEUS. We just gave them a bit of confidence" - Stef Kamil :"we lived in one house, we made music all the time. I don't know what else to say about it, it was chaotic but beautiful." - Joost Zweegers of Novastar "I didn't think too much of dEUS, until i once saw a show where Tom Barman & Stef Kamil Carlens played a few encores, just the two of them on piano & guitar. There has never been and probably will never be a better Belgian band than dEUS. But it was not a typical Belgian thing. It was just the magic that happens when two individuals meet. Perhaps the comparison is a bit off, but it was like the magic that Paul McCartney & John Lennon had in the Beatles" - Tom Barman "I am glad there a still good bands about, but they are a bit "nice", you know. Novastar, Arid ... they don't have the sense of adventure like Soulwax, Zita Swoon, Rudy Trouvé ... us ... Novastar is just Crowded House with more guitars, K's Choice is Skunk Anansie or whatever ... but nothing new. I think it's very positive that they are here, but I want something more from art ... Like Beck manages to do. The next album of dEUS, for 2002, will be a more pop thing. It must be an album you can dance to and have a party with." - Tom Barman "I earn my money with DJ'ing now! Strange, not. Because I'm not a DJ. People think that because we take a year off, this means we can afford that. But they don't have a clue. When we're touring with dEUS, we can live from it. But now ... But we don't want to make a record because we need money. It has to mean something" music was of dEUS, Zita Swoon, An Pierlé, Hooverphonic, De Mens & Novastar. Dirk |
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