Hans Gruyaert, Wio D'Hespeel, Jürgen De Blonde, Bert Lafontaine, Hendrik Dacquin
Influences
Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Guided by Voices ,ABBA, Pet Shop Boys, Slint, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Trans AM, Seefeel, Autechre, Hood, Built To Spill, Heavy Vegetable, Pan American, Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Jonathan Richman, Philip Glass, Beethoven, Shellac, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Codeine, To Rococo Rot, Schneider TM, Mark Hollis, Sentridoh, Rodan, Talking Heads, Dead Kennedys, The Postal Service, Trans Am, Wixel, Hitch, Stereolab, Rob Crow, Beatles, Fennesz, Bartok, Gorecki, Chopin, Steve Reich, Reily, Monk, Glass, Mertens, Frank Zappa, Jean Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Charles Mingus, Sebadoh, Europe, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Seefeel, Aphex Twin, The Cure, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, German Schlager Musik, Pierre Henry, Biosphere, Ryoji Ikeda, Pan(a)Sonic, Suzanne Vegas Solitude Standing, Nova Bossa , Sebadoh, Daniel Johnston, Snoop Doggy Dog, The Cure, Franklin Bruno, , Montgolfier Brothers, Ogüz Yilmaz, Manu Chaos Clandestino, Karate, George Michael,Wham! , Michael Jackson, Mark Hollis, rolling Stones, toman, mote, loobke
Originally de portables were founded as a kind of rock out outlet in 1996. Its a kind of motherband for lots of other projects. The current line up includes Wio, Jurgen Deblonde, Hans Gruyaert and Bertrand Lafontaine.
To make it easy for everybody they often been put into the postrock section. Which is more or less accurate but seeing their wide palet of styles a bit a tunnelvision. The dynamics from live-concerts are not comparable with their albums. Their songs are often soft, melodramatic and full of pop-melodies while the concerts can be very hard. Humour is a fifth member of the band.
19/9 forbidden fruit exists 3 years with Raresh, Kozo, El Cezere and Kia at forbidden fruit @ Silo Leuven - Saturday 19th September 2009 - Raresh (Arpiar Sunrise RO) . Kozo (Arpiar Sunrise RO) . El Cezere (Arpiar Sunrise RO) and Kia (Forbidden Fruit/La Pena D)
"Home", my first album is still available! :: 4 septembre 2009 :: Théâtre Royal de Namur (+Elysian Fields +Peter Von Poehl) :: 11 septembre 2009 :: MJ Chênée (+Brain Snob Or Sir +Co-Pilgrim) Check out all my gigs on my page.
