| Saturday 29th December | Lots of new tour dates - check out the diary. |
| Saturday 22nd December | Portugese tour dates - 4th and 5th of March. Check the diary. |
| Thursday 20th December | ENGLISH tourdate!! 28th February at the Borderline, London |
| Monday 26th November | News from SKC. He is designing some clothes for Assyrian weavers, writing music for 'Carmen' with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, touring (currently very hungover!) and planning a showcase in London during early 2002. |
| Sunday 16th November | Review of last Friday's alter-8 show from Eeva |
| Saturday 3rd November |
Lots of new tour dates added... November 14th
-Nighttown, Rotterdam/November 15th - Paradiso, Amsterdam |
| Friday 2nd November | Review of the Paris gigs by Stefania |
| Thursday 25th November | Zita Swoon were mentioned in Mojo. A reader wrote in to say that Zita Swoon were the best Belgian band. |
| Monday 22nd October | Review of the concert in Milan by Giuseppe |
| Friday October 19th |
SORRY - I've been away for a long time and before that my computer died (it's still dead and I have another on order). Thanks to spam on the account for this website I haven't been able to retrieve any of your messages, but will do as soon as I can. In the meantime, I've updated the diary as Zita Swoon are currently touring with Muse and have some solo dates scheduled too. BTW - anyone have reviews of SKC's exhibition? |
| Tuesday October 16th |
Stefanie has sent
in booking details for the 2nd December gig |
| Tuesday October 2nd |
Zita Swoon have a new album coming out!! Live at the Jet Studios - you can listen to previews on the TMF site Low bandwith: mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0102.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0202.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0302.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0402.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0502.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0602.wma High bandwith: mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0103.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0203.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0303.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0403.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0503.wma mms://streamchick.planetinternet.be/3rd/tmf/zitaswoon/jetstudio/track0603.wma The tracklist
is |
| Wednesday September 26th | Tom Pintens will produce Boo! new album to be recorded in February 2002 shortly after their Europe 2002 winter tour. |
| Monday August 13th | Read Wim's review of Lokeren |
| Sunday August 5th | Tonight Studio Brussels (from 17.00 till 19.00 GMT+1) will air live recordings of Zita Swoon, Das Pop, Vive La Fête and Hooverphonic. |
| Thursday August 2nd | Tom Pintens is writing a festival diary for Mine.be |
| Friday July 27th |
On 23 sep , ZS will be playing in les nuits botaniques From Wolf "if you wanna know how ZS managed on the Montreux jazz festival, http://www.montreuxjazz.com/ gives you the opportunity to listen to the gig (i think you can even see it, but not on my computer)... check out the amazing version of spider grinder!!!! |
| Friday 20th July | Congratulations Tomas! Marcel has news about a new addition to the Zita family, explaining why he was not at the Kaaimen which was a try out gig "Since Thomas will become father very soon, so he was not able to do the shows in Switzerland, instead of him we had Mirco on stage to play the bass. It was an extremely good gig with Thomas in the audiance which was actually a bit strange to see. " Read Marcel's full review of the gig. |
| Thursday 19th July | Read Jess' review of the Montreux gig last night |
| Sunday 15th July |
Sorry to the Germans, Elsbe has this news "I just had an e-mail from the Forum in Bielefeld stating that both ZS dates for Germany have been cancelled. the reason given is that the German record company won't release the new album....anyway, greetings from hamburg, Elsbe" Please check the diary for up to date information including latest festival dates Koen has news of a gig in Antwerp "17 july 2001 Kaaiman, Antwerp full = full 20h30" Also, those who
saw Zita supported by Boo! might be interested in the news of a headline
tour.. |
| Thursday 5th July |
From Quentin..."Follow
this link and you'll find an 'exclusive' remix of the Banana Queen by
someone called 'DJ Wout'. It's available until july 12th, and it's a
windows media file, not an .mp3" |
| Wednesday 4th July | From Koen - "the Belgian net CANVAS is going to broadcoast zita swoon @ hallen van schaerbeek @ 1 december 2001" |
| Monday 2nd July |
From Quentin "Here's
a ram file of a zita swoon interview/session at Studio Brussel /TW yesterday.
SKC plays Hot Hotter Hottest on his own - very bizarre, but quite good
actually." |
| Tuesday 19th June |
Thanks to Wolf for this interview from De Standaard online that he sent quite some time ago. Let me know if you can translate it! I've been going through some old e-mails and Wolf came up with this information "according to De Standaard, ZSwill perform in Bielefeld (Germany), in some cultural exchange project between Flanders and Nordrhein-Westfalen; no date is mentioned though..." Does anyone know anything about this? Read also what Benjamin Boutreur has been up to. |
| Sunday 17th June | Koen tells us of another festival... "Zita Swoon will perform @ Rock for Specials, a benefit for people with a handicap it's 27th June in Evergem. More information +3292536352 also performances of k's choice" NB Only handicapped people or those helping someone who is handicapped can go to the festival |
| Monday 11th June |
So what has Aarich been up to? Wolf has done some investigating and this is what he has found on Via Viola, Jukebox Computer Game, Cedar Goddess (both from last year) and the recent Had I A Song (with Ivor Gurney) Tomas has also been involved in his own projects. Wolf and Quentin bring us news of the most interesting that he has heard " according to the great site de MuziekMakery (about think of one and related stuff, http://users.skynet.be/vanimpe/muziekmakery) Tomas De Smet will be this year's attraction at the Klinkende Munt festival ! He'll bring guests, but who they are is still a secret." The Klinkende Munt festival is an annual free festival held in Brussels, la place de la Monnaie/het Muntplein from 4 July untill 13 July; thomas will do his stuff on the 11th and the 12th of July at 24h00 on each day. More information : check http://beursschouwburg.vgc.be/programma/klinkende_munt/index.html |
| Saturday 9th June | "I heard that Aarich has got some project : in collaboration with Muziektheater Transparant (see also the 28 may news), he has written music for "Via Viola" which is called "a lyrical drama in the style of an operette". Performances include 8th-11th December, DeSingel Antwerpen, I-don´t know-when Vooruit Gent...? I also read some stuff about the ´Amsterdam Project`(see news update 9 March and 16th May); Idon´t remember all the details but it surely is another project than the `Gentle Ruddy Turnstone` exhibition. SKC will write the music for a play but he won´t play the music himself. As soon as I refind the article, I´ll tell more." and who is this news from? Why Wolf of course - you're a star! |
| Monday 28th May |
News from Wolf..." just read about a workshop, Institute for Living Voice'' in Bruges from 12 till 16 April 2002, where in SKC will appear as teacher (together with, among others, Blixa Bargeld). It is organised by Muziektheater Transparant, the company in which Aarich Jespers is the "residence composer" for more information about this workshop, check http://www.allsound.org/article.php?sid=323 (although on this page, nothing is mentioned about SKC)" From SKC - he's back in Antwerp, they're preparing for festivals (PinkPop up first). France was good - it seems that fans are becoming more aware of Zita there. |
| Wednesday 16th May | News about the 'Rotterdam Project' from Wolf - it may even have a name (the succinct "Gentle Ruddy Turnstone in an expanding collection of thoughts") |
| Monday 14th May |
Sorry to the Italians, but I just received news that the Milan date is not at the Tunnel and not at Binario Zero, it has officially been cancelled. In his news item (www.zitaswoon.com) on 24th April, SKC says they are considering doing a double bill in the UK towards the end of the year with Sandy Dylan. Nothing is confirmed. |
| Saturday 12th May | Thanks to Polido for his transcription of this article from Público and the review of LIASS from the same magazine |
| Tuesday 8th May | Themis has reviewed both the BlueBar acoustic set and the gig last week at the Rodon Club |
| Thursday 3rd May | Alison and Martin have put up some photos from De Nachten up at their site. Go and take a look at SKC and Tommy B! |
| Monday 30th April |
Themis has an update on the Greek situation "There is a big possibility that Zita will play acoustic at BlueBar on Wednesday (2nd May). I went at Blue Bar and even though there was a poster that said YES they told me No. I got my ticket for rodon, I'll certainly try blue and see you all out there." Not exactly a straight answer then. Please let me know if you hear anything more about this! |
| Friday 27th April |
For the Greeks, Rick brings us this news "For all you Greek people and all you that are thinking of maybe coming over here for the 3rd of May, this is going to be one hell of a Zita-Swoon-related week in Athens. The beginning was the day before yesterday with a very nice tribute-party. This Saturday there will be another tribute to the Antwermusicscene on Rock FM (17"00 to 20"00), on Wednesday, SKC will, most probably, appear on HACKERS TvShow round 17"00, the same night Zita Swoon will be visiting BLUE bar(halandri) and even though there arent any plans for some live performance rumours have been raging on, on Thursday round 16"00 Stef will be at Rock Fm for a short interview, and last-but certainly not least- thursday night ZitaSwoon will be in RODON club supported by Greek bands 'Bokomolech' and 'Stanfree'. The whole thing will start at 20"30 and tickets are can be found for 7000drh at RODONclub and recordstores Trust, happening, vinyl microstore, vinyl lust, zaxarias and disco queen. See you all somewhere." |
| Thursday 26th April |
Hi guys and girls - I have a big backlog of news for you, but in the meantime, straight from Lol B (in the past hour) we have the latest tour dates, including confirmed dates in Switzerland! Portugal and the UK - you'll have to wait until after the summer for your dates :o( BOO! |
| Friday 20th April |
The Leuven FNAC concert has been rescheduled from last week to tomorrow 1400 hr Leuven and also 1700 hr in Brussels. Entrance for both is free. |
| Wednesday 18th April |
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I was in a car crash and well, that explains that... Ann tells us that "tonight on the Belgian television channel VRT, SKC will be a guest on "DE LAATSTE SHOW", he will probably sing too... " |
| Tuesday 10th April |
Koen was lucky enough to win tickets for the private show today (40 tickets available via a Humo.be competition) - read his enthusiastic review. Rumours of a secret Belgian date for 18th April - not confirmed! |
| Sunday 8th April |
From Wolf "Maybe you heard this already, but I just read zita swoon will be in 'live request' on Jim TV (Flemish station, of course) tuesdaybapril 17th at 5pm" Greek news from Rick...another Belgian Music Tribute Night at the Blue Bar in Athens, Greece. Also, there will be a radio tribute on Rock FM, see the media index for details. There are also completely unconfirmed rumours that Zita will be supported by BOKOMOLECH at the 3rd May concert in Athens. I also have quite a few reviews of concerts and the new album. I'll be posting them soon. In the meantime, keep sending them in! |
| Tuesday 3rd April |
Lots of new OFFICIAL French tour dates in the diary. Koen says he's heard whispers of an upcoming secret gig - for around 30 people. Anyone heard anything? I don't know Dutch - but check out Humo.be for what I think is a competition to win tickets! |
| Sunday 1st April |
Better late than never! Themis has sent me a couple of review from the gig and secret gig in Athens at the beginning of 2000. Read the article from Lalibre that Wolf has submitted. Meanwhile, I received a copy of the album yesterday morning, so you can be sure that a review will be posted soon. |
| Tuesday 27th March |
Werchter is confirmed for 1st July - I can share Wolf's sentiments in saying "happy, happy!" Carine brings us news of a Paris date for 25th May, but this clashes with the scheduled Amiens concert. I'll try and find out which will go ahead! Also read her review of the concert last night, also in Paris. |
| Saturday 24th March |
See the songbook for some lyrics from Jintro Travels the Word in A Skirt There are also additions to the media pages...did anyone catch the interview with SKC last night (thanks Koen and Wolf)? |
| Wednesday 21st March | This site has more info about Motel Mozaique (thanks to Wolf) |
| Tuesday 20th March |
Sorry, I don't know about the Think of One concert on 29th March - I will try to confirm it. However the Zita Swoon concert on the same night is definitely official!! Read the review from De Morgen that Wolf has submitted. More updates to follow soon (hey, I'm ill!) |
| Monday 19th March |
Rick James' news from Greece "The new album's out and on Thursday there will be a presentation of it at recordstore "Vinyl Microstore" in Didotou 34 (?), Athens, Greece. Along with the new album, music from dEUS, Kiss My Jazz, Think Of One and all others, and MORE PRESENTS (big presents for those who come and buy the cd, smaller presents for those who come and don't) See you there from around 18:00 to around 21:00." Received news from Stef AND Laurence today - but unfortunately there is no update on the UK concert. Keep your fingers crossed! The new album was, of course, released last Friday and I hope to have a review for you soon. |
| Sunday 18th March | From Menno "Ullo, Zita Swoon was on a dutch tv show called "de plantage". I switched the tv on too late so I only caught the fading tones. The show will have a rerun on tuesday 15.00 ned3 so trigger your vcr's" |
| Saturday 17th March |
Think of One (Tomas De Smet's band) will be playing at a Belgian Music Night at the Theatre de Caen, France 'le Jazz Belge Fait La Fête à Toots Thielemans’ on Thursday 29th March 2001 The FNAC concert (today at 2pm) was streamed live on the Wanadoo Live site - I don't understand Dutch, but I think it might be availble to view from 19th to 26th March 2001. |
| Thursday 15th March | No news for today, but I have been doing a lot of work on the media index which should be complete by the weekend. Also have added some links to the resource page. |
| Wednesday 14th March |
An interview with SKC was published on the De Standaard website yesterday. Pedro brings us news that the Lisbon, Portugal tourdate is set for May 29th, but the venue is not yet confirmed. |
| Tuesday 13th March |
Wolf has come up trumps again - this time with a site with lots of Zita pictures hidden away on Pedro's website (once home to pictures of people from the dEUS mailing list http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pmp/picturesZITA.html and an excerpt from yesterday's Bonanza interview. Also, there will be an interview with SKC in Humo this week. |
| Monday 12th March |
Tracklisting for Life Is A Sexy Sanctuary from Kevin as well as a review of the album. Themis went to the publicity event at Bar Aitna last Friday. |
| Sunday 11th March | Wowee! Menno has scanned in yesterday's Oor article for us. Read it (in dutch) or just look at the pics. Thanks! |
| Satuday 10th March | Review from Kevin Moens of the video for Hot Hotter Hottest |
| Friday 9th March |
More news from Wolf..."According to Ivo Van Hove, president of ´Toneelgroep Amsterdam´ (a dutch theatre group) there will be a ´project´ next year with SKC (interview in de standaard today) he does not say anything more, maybe it´s music, maybe it´s dance, maybe it´s theatre... maybe (or hopefully) something totally new. Possibly this refers to the same news as found on http://www.rudytrouvee.yucom.be/" (The Rotterdam show, a reminder of which follows...) It is well known that SKC is exhibiting in Rotterdam in September this year, but according to fanzine Devor-Rock, it definitely doesn't seem like it will be a 'regular' exposition, as it will involve dancing by himself and a female Portuguese dancer. |
| Thursday 8th March | First festival date! Sunday 3rd June at Pinkpop |
| Tuesday 6th March | Wolf has submitted this Vooruit review from Lalibre.be |
| Monday 5th March | Read Bianca's review of Doornroosje. |
| Sunday 4th March |
Sorry, I only just got this translated, but it's some news about Flowers for Breakfast, Tom Pintens' side project! "On the 10th of March Flowers for Breakfast will perform after 2 years of silences at the Hof Ter Loo (Antwerpen) because of HoveLive Benefit. All the info is at www.hovelive.be Can you put it on your site please? Thanx Jeroen" Thanks to Kim who has let us know that Oor will be publishing an extensive interview with SKC in the upcoming 10th March issue. |
| Saturday 3rd March |
More whisperings of what FNAC, Antwerp have planned for the LIASS release. From Tom, "Tickets to be found in the first 80 ZS cd's... FNAC will open half an hour earlier on the release date (16/3 9.30 AM)" Check the diary listing for more info. Liesbeth has kindly transcribed Stef's interview on Studio Brussels in January. |
| Friday 2nd March |
There will be a second date (April 6th) at Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels. Review of the Vooruit concert from De Standaard. Thanks Wolf! Also a review of the same concert from Kristien. Maarten has mentioned that some of Stef's recent work with Tom Barman might be featured on Tom's solo album, due later this year. Read his short review of the concert last Saturday. |
| Thursday 1st March | News about a FNAC concert on 17th March. Apparently, tickets will be available in CDs purchased (thanks Bert). Dirk also brings us news of live webcasts of the set on 16th March. |
| Tuesday 27th February | Rick has confirmation of the promotion event in Greece. |
| Saturday 24th February |
Liesbeth has sent us the lyrics for Hot Hotter Hottest which were published recently in Humo Zita Swoon will be heard on Belgian Radio waves on March 19 - see the media pages for details. Thanks Quentin! |
| Friday 23rd February |
Finally, finally the official site is open www.zitaswoon.com - go and see, there's lots of exciting bits and pieces to see there! Read the thanks from SKC to Paul and Marie in the thanks section!!! Oh yes! |
| Thursday 22nd February |
Bram has news about the album, "Life=A Sexy Sanctuary will also be available in a limited luxury edition." He has also sent a scan of the cover for 'Hot, hotter, hottest' I'll post this tomorrow. |
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Wednesday 21st February
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Official concert dates! Please check the diary for the very latest news including confirmation of a Greek date and three concerts in France. Vooruit is already sold out, so don't be tardy! Please note that the Paris date was previously listed incorrectly, and Zita are now playing Rotterdam on 30th NOT 31st March... Thank you to Quentin who sent in scans of some promos as well as Michael who sent in the artwork for the new album! A bumper crop today...small additions to the media pages and the diary archives. |
| Tuesday 20th February |
Rumours are circulating about a Greek date. I have put unconfirmed dates in the diary, but will let you know when I hear something concrete. Laurence has been in touch with the BBC. All people in England - cross your fingers! |
| Monday 19th February |
A new date for the diary from Carine. The boys will play at La Maroquinerie, Paris 20° (France) on 26th May. I have also added a rough review of the show on Saturday at De Minard and a scan of the invitation. |
| Sunday 18th February | The guestbook is now fixed. Please send your messages flooding in. I came back from Belgium today - will soon put a review online of last night's show and the new single. |
| Saturday 17th February | Zita Swoon have been invited by the BBC Radio 3 to play in London. Maybe they will return at the end of April (before you e-mail me about this, I have no confirmation of whether they will play and will post it here if I do!) |
| Saturday 10th February | A new diary date from Bianca. Tuesday February 27th, Doornroosje, Nijmegen, the Netherlands |
| Monday 5th February | The private tryout on 17th February will be at a venue in Gent. Entry is by invitation only. |
| Thursday 1st February |
Joke van Beek has news for us! Stef's exhibition starts on the 20th of September and lasts for three weeks, taking place in TENT. (an exhibition area in the centre of Rotterdam). " Zita Swoon will also play at Motel Mozaïque nt.rs on 31 March 2001. Motel Mozaïque is a series of three (nt.rs is the first and the exhibition the third one). Motel Mozaïque nt.rs is a two-day festival on 30/31 March 2001 in Nighttown and the Rotterdam Theatre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Some other names: Das Pop, Etienne de Crécy, Fucking Dewaele Brothers, Atelier van Lieshout, Kung Fu's Discothèque, and more." Thanks to Majonne for letting me know the guestbook wasn't working. Doh! I'll get to work on it - hope to have it fixed by next weekend. Next time guys, let me know! |
| Wednesday 31st January | Stef was on Studio Brussels, the new single 'Hot, Hotter, Hottest' was played - go to zitaswoonmusic.com to download the MP3. He mentions plans for concerts in Greece. |
| Wednesday 23rd January |
More tour dates... Thursday February
22nd - Burgerweeshuis, Deventer, NL (tryout) Keep and eye on the diary for regular updates and don't forget to send in your reviews! |
| Tuesday 22nd January |
Tom Pintens has a website although it's looking outdated...http://users.pandora.be/tom.pintens/ Robert Lepetit whispers rumours of Greek concerts for May - can anyone help him and confirm? |
| Tuesday 16th January |
Slowly but surely,
concert dates are emerging... Wondered what the other kids have been up to? Read Steve's review of Tom Pintens' children's theatre side project... |
| Monday 15th January | Review of De Nachten in today's De Morgen |
| Friday 12th January |
News of Stef's
exhibition later this year have gone public. De Morgen published details
of the venue, Nighttown. Stef plays tonight at De Nachten. |
| Thursday 11th January |
From Dago through the dEUS list... 16/2 new single 'Hot, hotter, hottest' 16/3 new CD 'Life = A Sexy Sanctuary' |
| Wednesday 10th January | Tivoli, Utrecht make an announcement of a new gig for April 4. See the concert guide for details. Thanks to Karin |
| Friday 5th January |
From Laurence - the website will open around mid-February. The first single from the new album will be ready at the end of January, with an album release mid-March. Private try-outs will take place on 17th and 18th February. Alex reports that Zita Swoon were on Belgian TV over the Christmas season performing a new song. Unfortunately, he missed it. |
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