Peter Lissens - Vocals Tom Berth - Guitars Philippe Gunst - Bass Stéphane Debacker - Drums
Influences
Errr ... We love Alan Vega, Fad Gadget, Rainbow (yes, Rainbow!), Queen, Chet Baker,
Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Don Henley, The Pixies, Cold War Kids, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Clifford Brown, Art Pepper, Mingus & Monk, Bowie, Front 242, The Commodores, Nirvana,
The Stooges, The Sonics, Leonard Cohen, Micah P. Henson, M. Ward, Ray Lamontagne, Blackalicious, A tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, The Cult, Lou Reed & Velvet Underground, dEUS, Evil Superstars, Chic, Killing Joke, Radiohead, Paul Weller, White Velvet, Soapstone, Tom E. Gunn (and especially Tom D.'s voice), Mark lannegan, Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, AC/DC, Mo Wax Recordings, Liquid-Liquid, Riton, The Chemical Brothers, Tom Petty, LCD Soundsystem, Rhinocerose, Tom Waits, Foxylane, Blocparty, Warren Zevon, The Stones, Wolfmother, The Stylistics, The Creeps, Laidback, The Grooms, Fleetwood Mac, Nick Cave, Johnny Dowd, Chris Whitley, Cheap Trick, Massive Attack ...
But influences ..? Naahh ...
(By the way, We hate Armand van Helden & Damien Rice. Correction: we dislike Van Helden and Rice. We hàte Rufus Wainwright. Especially for the unspeakable things he did to Mr. Leonard Cohen's work. We love Loudon, though.)
Sounds Like
Like maybe, we've been listening too much to some of the above, like we only rehearse 2 hours/week tops (which is true, unfortunately), like three of us were adolescents in the eighties, like we have our own style regardless (or thanks to) the lack of time and lack of practice, like our guitar player is the only one under 39, like nothing else we know.
Like Lou Reed getting drunk with The Strokes, Interpol, the Jesus & Mary Chain and Department 'S' (and what a cheerful lot they were!). Look up Department 'S' and their song 'Is Vic there?'. That is - almost - what we sound like.
Mind you, the soundbits that you can listen to here are not from a studio demo, they came straight out of our rehearsal cellar, recorded on a two-track. More low-fi than this, you die.
It started with Philippe, Peter and a Roland drum machine. Philippe being a three-time Humo's Rock Rally finalist, Peter being a rock journalist, scenariowriter and rookie singer. Then Philippe dropped out. Then Tom came in, picked up the guitar and saved the day. Then Philippe came back but didn't want to play the guitar anymore. So he picked up the bass. Then the three of us got tired of the drum machine. Enter Stéphane-from-France. Or Kaiser Söze, as he is known in some circles.
We play. A lousy two (2!!) hours a week. But we love it. It's just about having fun with our own music. Not about breaking through, making a record or touring. Just playing from 8 to 10 PM every Thursday night and blowing the fuses of a bar or a club in Ghent, Antwerp or Dikkelvenne, every now and then.
And that's just the way we like it.
But if given half a chance, we WILL blow the roof of your little club.
Salut à tous!! /// Vendredi 2 MAi, 19h! Vernissage de l'expo "J'AIME PAS PASSER POUR UN PLOUC" Concert electro-pop de SiM#6 dès 19h!!! Café Culture l'Ecart, 26 rue Jeanne d'arc, Lille
Nieuwe single "She is electric" + 2 exclusieve tracks van het in mei te verschijnen album zijn nu te beluisteren op onze myspace!
Laat ook niet na even je Afrekeningsstem te deponeren voor "She is electric".... Want deze week nieuw binnengekomen op 28 en met jouw hulp vast hoger genoteerd volgende week! :)
Driewerf hoera! Poppunt werd samen met de Hasseltse Muziekodroom en muzikant Wouter Van den Abeele genomineerd voor de Vlaamse cultuurprijzen die op 4 februari worden uitgereikt tijdens een feestelijke happening in de Antwerpse Singel.
Je kan Poppunt nu zelf een duwtje in de rug geven: stem via www.cultuurprijzen.be en klik op publieksprijs.
Wat gaat ie lekker jongens.... fijne nummers! En robert palmer bij de top friends. Terecht! Geniet verder van onze single... momenteel op 16 in de afrekening (doe gerust een stemmeke) en nog steeds helemaal gratis van onze site te plukken....
Allright juist terug thuis van jullie optreden in 'de nauwe zak'. Mijn ballen doen nog pijn van jullie retestrakke set. Heel mooi gitaar/bass geluid combo. Tom je kan echt wel op die gitaar rammelen. Tot de volgende gasten!!!! Oli4 & Saartje
Great MySpace page! Cool tunes. If you ever get a chance to check out the VdGG book we wrote (info at our MySpace page), please let us know what you think.
