Jean Pierre EVERAERTS (Bass)
Stephane WILLOCQ (Guitar)
Thierry HEYNDERICKS (Keyboards, Vocals, Trumpet)
Etienne VERNAEVE (Drums) (Now in Babils)
+
1980
Nathalie BOURLARD (Vocals)
Eric VANHOUTTE(Guitar)
1980-1982
Anne KINNA (Nanou) (Vocals: Lamina Christus)
1982-1983
Sylvie HONNAY (Vocals: Absent Heart, A Request)
1983
Niki MONO (Vocals: only for the last concert)
Jerry WX (Guitar)
Influences
Friends: Gilles Martin & Peter Principle (producers), Marc Portée (fifth member, some text & management), Geoffroy De Volder (first manager), Renaud Paternostre (first rehearsal room), Théatre De Banlieue (second rehearsal room), Annik Honoré, Alain Hige, Pascal Stevens.
Bands: Digital Dance, 23 Skidoo, Tuxedomoon, The Cure, Joy Division, A Certain Ratio...
Labels: Les Disques Du Crépuscule, Factory Records...
2 records produced by GILLES MARTIN & PETER PRINCIPLE (TUXEDOMOON)
LIVE
Complete List Of Gigs:
-17/09/1981: Ancienne Belgique (Bxl-B) with UNIT 4 & The TOPPLERS
-18/09/1981: Plan K (Bxl-B)
-03/12/1981: Salle Rencontre (Nancy-F)
with DIGITAL DANCE & ITZA UCHEN
-24, 25 & 26/12/1981: Papaye Tropicale (Bxl-B)
-07/02/1982 Bloombido ((Bxl-B) with ANTENA, RICHARD JOBSON, BLAINE L. REININGER, CECILE BRUYNOGH, THE DURUTTI COLUMN
-27/02/1982 Papaye Tropicale (Bxl-B)
-21/05/1982 Papeterie de Genval (Org. MJ Rixensart) with NO LIFE, TWO TRACKS (JERRY WX)
-06/10/1982 Lido (Leuven-B) with THE PALE FOUNTAINS, 23 SKIDOO, CABARET VOLTAIRE & TUXEDOMOON
-08/10/1982 Studio 26 (Montignies/Sambre-B) with ITZA UCHEN
-15/10/1982 Plan K (Bxl-B) with THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
-06/11/1982 Kanal 30 (Mons-B) with SQUADRON 19 & THIS END UP
-13/12/1982 Vooruit (Gent-B) with SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
-23/01/1983 Effenaar (Eindhoven-NL) with THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
-18/03/1983 Ancienne Belgique (Bxl-B) with THE SCARECROWS
-01/05/1983 Oxygène Party (Molenbeek-B) with ODIEU
This is a collaboration with Bleiburg. It is part of a collaboration project which will be released as a 2CD "The grey years". This release is also featuring Parade Ground, Frédéric Truong - ex Leitmotiv, Second Skin, Die Puppe, Contagious Orgasm, Gerechtigkeits Liga, Dead Man..s Hill, Telepherique, Leaether Strip, Arcana Obscura, Obscure Descension, Asmodeus X, Shining Vril, Lonsai Maikov, Kenji Siratori, Batallion, MDMA and Disastrous Din.
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We love to make music for all who want to listen to our thoughts, feelings, desires and dreams.
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