30 April 2008 at 17:45 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point reviewed by Clickmusic:


'Vantage Point' is a glimpse of dEUS at their best, their imaginative rock undeniably benefiting from a couple of new tricks. Best of all, their newly accessible songs do not compromise the sound at all - this is a record still more daring than a lot of modern rock records.


at 17:33 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

La Libre Belgique about the gig in Paris last week.

at 15:45 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

Next sunday Mintzkov is playing a secret show at the Ancienne Belgique (Brussels). The AB-website announced that they would bring a special guest. Since Tom sang a couple of songs with Mintzkov a couple of weeks ago in Leuven, it could be him...

(thx to Guido)

at 15:33 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

A couple of interviews with Elbow in the belgian press the last days. Guy Garveys words on the recording of The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider. Nothing special. Garvey said Tom called him a couple of weeks ago to record a videoclip for the song.

at 14:16 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Reviews of the gig in Hasselt by De Standaard, Gazet Van Antwerpen and De Redactie.

at 12:38 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

A short item on the gigs in Paris by Les Inrocks.

If dEUS was English or American, they would have the same status as R.E.M. and Radiohead.


at 11:33 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

There's an interview with Klaas "Tronic" Janzoons on the website of BrusselNieuws (in Dutch).

at 09:21 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

The first gig of the belgian clubtour. The first time I saw dEUS after the tryout in the Mezz. I should have been a great evening. And it was. I left pretty late at home and got stuck in a traffic jam around Antwerp. Luckily, I was just in time to catch the Blackbox Revelation. It was the first time I saw them live and they blew me away. They sure have a bunch of nice songs. I was really impressed by the energy that a guitarplayer and a drummer created. A superb support act.

Muziekodroom is a great venue, but it needs an airco. The room was packed with about 800
people and it was very sweaty.

dEUS started around 21.45 hour and they played about 1 hour and 40 minutes. The setlist was more or less the same as the previous gigs. They kicked of with When She Comes Down, the openingtrack from Vantage Point. A bit of a false start, since you couldn't hear Tom's voice during the first part. Sound was beter during Sun Ra (still a live-killer) and Favorite Game. First bigger crowd-reactions during Fell Off The Floor, Man and What We Talk About.

I had the impression that Tom had some problems with his voice a couple of times. Let's hope his voice can keep up with the hectic scheme of the next days (6 gigs in 7 days). Slow is probably one of the best songs on Vantage Point, but it still hasn't convinced me in the live-version. Is it because of the thousands of things Klaas has to do? I don't know, but for me it was the weakest song yesterday evening.

After that Tom announced The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider and he dedicated it to a certain Sabine who was celebrating her birthday. Apparently Tom was wrong, because they started Nothing Really Ends (with the re-newed intro). As usual the fade out/fade in with Bad Timing was great. Bad Timing was actually (until then) the song with the heaviest audience reaction.

Bad Timing was followed by The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider and an impressive version of Instant Street. Muziekodroom went crazy on The Architect. The live-version of Is A Robot much better (and longer) than the album version. After that I was time to cool down the room with Smokers Reflect and let it explode again with Roses.

They saved the best for last with a stunning encore-series. Turnpike remains one of my live favorites. Oh Your God sounded a bit like Age of Panic by Senser during the verse and I liked it a lot. Tom (and the audience) freaked out during an extended version Suds & Soda. At the end Tom was singing some lines from another song (it sounded like Red Sky Night) instead of the Supersharp-thing they played during the Pocket Revolution-tour.

Since they played in Belgium I was expection Eternal Woman, with Lies Lorquet, too, but they didn't play it. They ended the show with Popular Culture. After the first verse, 13 children came on stage and sang the chorus. A nice climax.

I'm really looking forward to tonight's gig in Liege. Since dEUS-gigs usually get better and better during the tour, I could be a fantastic night tonight. See you there!

(pic by Razzi, more pics here)

at 00:59 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

  1. When She Comes Down
  2. Sun Ra
  3. Favorite Game
  4. Fell Off The Floor, Man
  5. What We Talk About
  6. Slow
  7. Nothing Really Ends
  8. Bad Timing
  9. The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider
  10. Instant Street
  11. The Architect
  12. Is A Robot
  13. Smokers Reflect
  14. Roses
    ----
  15. Theme From Turnpike
  16. Oh Your God
  17. Suds & Soda
  18. Popular Culture (with the kids choir)


29 April 2008 at 07:39 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

I uploaded the Black Session to the podcast. You can listen to it here. Since the source is a mono real audio stream, it's not the best quality.

at 07:04 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

  1. Slow
  2. Favorite Game
  3. Fell off the floor, man
  4. The Architect
  5. Smokers reflect
  6. Bad Timing
  7. Is a Robot
  8. Instant street
  9. The Vanishing of Maria Schneider
  10. Theme of Turnepike
  11. Oh Your God
  12. Suds and Soda

(Source: dEUS-fr)



28 April 2008 at 20:53 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

This is probably the most hectic week of the year. dEUS is playing Belgium and I will cover it largely. Since I'm going to 5 of the gigs, you can expect reviews and setlists of those 5 gigs. (In case you're wondering: I'm skipping Charleroi for family reasons).

29/04/2008 - Muziekodroom, Hasselt
30/04/2008 - Droixhe, Luik, Belgium
01/05/2008 - Het Depot, Leuven, Belgium
03/05/2008 - Cactus at MAZ, Brugge, Belgium
05/05/2008 - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

If anyone of you is up for a meeting before or after the show, please leave a word in the dEUS Tourdates discussion. Could be great to see some faces...

at 20:47 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point reviewed by TF1.fr and a larger article on dEUS by Radio France Internationale.

at 20:30 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Tom has compiled a Hosted by for Austrian TV Go TV. He's presenting his favorite videoclips. Here's the playlist:

  • dEUS - Suds And Soda
  • Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
  • Klaxons - Golden Skans
  • Antony And The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
  • Tricky - Hell Is Round The Corner
  • Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
  • Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane
  • The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
  • Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You
  • Queens Of The Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick
  • System Of A Down - Chop Suey
  • dEUS - Slow
(thx to Lovedeus)

at 20:28 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

dEUS is playing a Black Session tonight (22:00) in Paris. You can follow it live on France Inter.

27 April 2008 at 11:42 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

For those of you who haven't read it in the magazine: Vantage Point reviewed by Humo.

at 11:37 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The Architect is on #8 in the Ultratop, on #2 in De Afrekening and still on #1 in Humo's Top 20.

at 11:33 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point reviewed by Strangeglue.com (6/10).
Cast your eyes to the right and you'll see what impressed us most about dEUS' latest album. It was not the lyricism, nor the varied pace, nor the experimentalism with sonic textures, but the humble artwork.


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26 April 2008 at 06:46 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

The second episode of the tourpodcast is online.

25 April 2008 at 14:56 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point is album of the day on BBC 6 Music.

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An interview with Stéphane from CJP.nl.

at 14:39 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A funny Mauro interview by VPRO (audio here).

at 14:37 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point reviewed in French by M La Music.

at 07:39 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

The gig in Paris reviewed by De Standaard

at 07:37 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

  1. When she comes down
  2. Sun Ra
  3. Favourite game
  4. Fell off the floor, man
  5. The architect
  6. Slow
  7. Eternal woman
  8. Instant street
  9. Is a robot
  10. Bad timing
  11. Smokers reflect
  12. Roses
    ----
  13. Theme from Turnpike
  14. Oh your God
  15. Suds & soda
  16. Popular culture


24 April 2008 at 10:44 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point will enter the Ultratop Album Chart on #1 next saturday.

(Source: Het Nieuwsblad)

23 April 2008 at 22:59 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments
at 22:48 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A rather long interview with Tom about Vantage Point and the artwork in Alternative on Flemish Radio 1. You can listen to it on the podcast.

at 16:34 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Swiss magazine Bands Magazine talks about dEUS 2.0., Rock Sound gives Vantage Point an 8, just as NME. And there's a review in ArtRocker Magazine too.

at 13:44 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

The May issue of German magazine Visions has an article about dEUS, and on the accompanying DVD you'll find, among other music videos, the video of Slow.

There's also a dEUS feature in issue 68 of Visions Weekly, the magazine's free "e-paper", with Elbow on the cover.

at 13:18 posted by Jean-Yves 1 Comment

There's an interview with Tom Barman on French website Evene, with a video in which he talks about Girls in Hawaii (he doesn't really know their music, but he's happy that they're breaking through, and they'll be playing at several festivals where dEUS play -- but not working with them, as the interviewer wrongly wrote), Zita Swoon (he adores Giving Up the Hero, thinks Stef is a great songwriter, but he wishes the music were a little wilder at times) and Jacques Brel (he's just too great to be covered).

In the interview, Tom stresses the importance of Klaas in the dEUS sound, because he plays the violin in a unique way, and also does keyboards & percussions -- which makes him the sportsman of the band when he has to juggle between all those instruments on stage. Tom loves playing Sun Ra and Oh Your God because they are very physical songs. He says The Vanishing of Maria Schneider took its final form when he tried to croon like Iggy Pop on his debut solo album The Idiot. He also claims that he'd love to sing in French, but he'd end up sounding like a bad imitation of Serge Gainsbourg. He's written a few songs in Dutch, but since dEUS is his "ticket to travel", he sticks to English with the band. He recently bought The Gutter Twins' Saturnalia, because he loves Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan, as well as the Beirut album.

Evene also reviewed Vantage Point: they give it 4 stars and think Oh Your God is the key song of the album.

at 12:44 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

Finally on Youtube: Beavis and Butt-head going crazy on Suds & Soda



at 10:05 posted by Jean-Yves 2 Comments

There's a nice article on dEUS and Antwerp fashion in the May issue of German magazine Intro (with Notwist on the cover). Download the PDF here, dEUS and de stad are on page 44. They also reviewed Vantage Point on their website.

In Austria, now! give the album 4.5/7.

Vantage Point is also reviewed in Swedish magazines Sonic (6/10) and Dagensskiva (7/10).

French musiczine "Sur la même longueur d'ondes" suggests Vantage Point are dEUS's own Kid A. Their latest issue can also be downloaded for free as a PDF file -- the review is on page 62.

Italy's Onda Rock give the album 7/10, XL/La Repubblica give it 4/6 and Nòva100 give it 6+.

at 07:21 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Gazet Van Antwerpen en Het Belang Van Limburg are giving away tickets for the first belgian club-show in Hasselt.

22 April 2008 at 21:36 posted by Bart Van Belle 5 Comments

Tom and Craig playing New Partner (Palace Brothers) backstage at Lowlands 1999.



at 20:50 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A small interview with Tom in Het Algemeen Dagblad.

at 20:40 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

dEUS will play at The Forum in London on October 15. Presales start tomorrow.

at 20:23 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

There's a three page interview with Tom in Italian magazine Rockerilla. I haven't seen it, so if any of the Italian visitors of this blog can provide a summary...


at 20:21 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point reviewed by French webzine Pinkushion.

(thx to Ludovic)

at 20:19 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Mauro interviewed about Vantage Point by Kindamuzik.

(thx to Johan Vrancken)

at 20:16 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Drowned in Sound about the gig in London last week:

They draw heavily from Vantage Point this evening with mixed results; Barman’s delivery rasps wonderfully menacingly and while impossible to begrudge the band showcasing recent wares, ultimately the sheer impact of road-tested material for the most part dwarfs anything else. ‘Bad Timing’ is awesome, layers upon layers of volume and release, though the aforementioned notion is most pertinently evident in the sole offering from that album of theirs I hold most reverent – introduced by Barman as some “lighter entertainment” while strapping on an acoustic guitar, ‘Instant Street’ is airier, looser than anything preceding and greeted with suitably huge applause.


at 12:19 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

There was a long feature on the VP Studio concert in showbiz-magazine De Rode Loper.



(thx to Gilles and Kevin)

at 12:16 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The new merchandise is now available on Popshop.be.

(thx to Matthijs)

at 11:47 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

... can be found here.


Veel liefde en passie houdt ook veel lijden in. Maar misschien heb ik wel bindingsangst. Ik wil gewoon doen en laten wat ik kan. Stel dat ik morgen naar Argentinië wil emigreren, dan kan ik dat. Nou ja, niet helemaal, want ik heb een band, ha ha.


at 07:31 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

Vantage Point reviewed by Podiuminfo.nl (4 stars).

21 April 2008 at 21:11 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The Architect is now on #8 in the Ultratop and on #6 in Humo's Arriba.

at 17:44 posted by Jean-Yves 2 Comments

What is really important to you? That's the question asked to Tom Barman by the people of the 99Matters website. In a one-minute video, Tom talks about passion and the word he hates: "Whatever."

at 17:39 posted by Jean-Yves 2 Comments

French newspaper Le Monde has an article about the press embargo.

at 14:42 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

There's an item on the dying art of record sleeve design on one of the blogs of The Guardian. The article mentions dEUS as follows:

The only really eye-catching album sleeve I've seen so far this year has been by dEUS - who got artist Michaël Borremans to give them a characteristically sinister painting for their excellent new album Vantage Point. The care they put into the music is reflected in the care they put into the packaging


at 14:18 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Just noticed that Het Nieuwsblad also had an article about the status of dEUS this weekend.

at 14:16 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Manu Lammens about the Vantage Point Studio Concert on Studio Brussel.

at 14:12 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

There was an interview with Tom about Vantage Point in Brussels Vlaams (Studio Brussel) yesterday evening. Nothing special, Tom talked about Mauro, the recording progress and reviews (he isn't interested in them). He also said there will never be a woman in dEUS because that would mean the end....

You can listen to the entire interview on the podcast.

at 14:04 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Another dEUS-contest in Belgium: win tickets for the gig in Leuven.

at 14:02 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The Melkweg-gig will be available on 3voor12-tv from Saturday May 3rd.

at 14:01 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point reviewed by 3voor12.nl.

at 11:29 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

Another enthusiastic review of Vantage Point, this time by LiveXS.

at 07:41 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Three gigs of the Vantage Point tour are already available on Dimeadozen:



at 06:38 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

Tom talked about his favourite album in De Morgen this weekend. He picked Sign Of The Times by Prince and tells how he occasionally met Cat and Mico on the street before the concert in Antwerpen (1988).

Tom beautifully describes some songs and tells us how he managed to get in to the afterparty where he was recognized by Cat and introduced to Prince.

at 06:37 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Jean-Yves has added the lyrics of all Vantage Point-songs to Hotellounge.com.

20 April 2008 at 20:37 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A newsitem from the Flemish national tv-channel about the VP Studio Concert.


at 20:33 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point reviewed by Steven Lemmens (Studio Brussel) for the newssite of the Flemish national tv-channel.

at 20:25 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A live-video of The Architect as played on Motel Mozaïque is available on the Jimmy Alter-site.

(thx to dakjuh on ISR)

at 20:21 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

  1. when she comes down
  2. oh your god
  3. eternal woman [with lies lorquet]
  4. favourite game
  5. slow [with the dancers of the clip]
  6. the architect
  7. is a robot
  8. smokers reflect
  9. the vanishing of maria schneider
  10. popular culture [with the kids choir]


at 20:06 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

You can watch one song of the The Vantage Point Studio Concert on Stubru.be. They announce the complete gig (and some backstage footage) to be available on tuesday evening.

If you can't wait that long, there's a recording available on Rapidshare too.

19 April 2008 at 14:45 posted by Bart Van Belle 3 Comments

dEUS will be performing at the Pont du Rock-festival in Malestroi (France). The festival is scheduled during the last weekend of July.

(Source: dEUS-fr)

at 14:11 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

There's also a nice overview of the number of albums dEUS has sold so far in De Standaard. In total they've sold more than 1 million albums.

  • Worst Case Scenario: 270.000
  • In A Bar, Under The Sea: 250.000
  • The Ideal Crash: 250.000
  • Pocket Revolution: 200.000
  • Vantage Point: ????

There are no numbers for My Sister=My Clock or the No More Loud Music-compilation.



at 13:56 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

There's a very interesting interview with dEUS-manager Christian Pierre in De Standaard. It also contains some old dEUS-pics.


Here's a short summary:
  • Christian and Filip (Eyckmans) were schoolfriends of Tom
  • They weren't musicians but they immediately started to manage the band
  • Christian stopped school and became their manager
  • They got loads of offers from recordcompanies after Zea, but they picked Island because they had Tom Waits and Bob Marley
  • They made no commercial compromises: Little Arithmetics nearly made it to the UK Top 40, but the noisy part probably ruined that
  • They started to make money independent from the recordcompany and copyrights at the time of the Ideal Crash-tour when they played all around Europe in rooms bigger that 1.000 visitors
  • They sell more albums than Queens of the Stone Age in France and more than The Raconteurs in The Netherlands
  • In the main cities in Europe they sell out venues from 2.000 to 4.000 places.They will go back to the States, but they're still looking for a good recordcompany that will support them 200%


at 13:49 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

According to Gazet Van Antwerpen about 20.000 people have pre-ordered Vantage Point in Belgium. That means a golden record.

at 13:44 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Tom was interviewed shortly on Studio Brussel by Tomas De Soete yesterday afternoon. You can listen to it here. He mainly talked about the webcast next sunday and said most of the guests will join them in the studio. They will play Vantage Point entirely like it is on the cd.

at 16:03 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Since Vantage Point has hit the regular recordstores today, it's now also available on the Belgian iTunes Music Store. Click here to order it.

at 15:25 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Strange: De Morgen has published two reviews of Vantage Point. One on April 11th (the day after the Heineken-incident) and one last tuesday. It even gets more funny as they were written by brothers (Bart & Dirk Steenhaut). There are some minor differences, but the Steenhaut-brothers clearly don't share opinions on The Architect...

(thx to Joost Peeters)

at 15:20 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

No tickets for the gig in Brussels? Try your luck in this contest from Nieuwsblad.be.

at 15:17 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

Two videosnippets with with quotes from Buckminster Fuller you'll probably recognize.

(thx to Wouter)



at 14:33 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Studio Brussel also lets you win a copy of Vantage Point.

at 14:29 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The Architect remains at the top in Humo's Top 20 and De Afrekening (Studio Brussel).

at 13:50 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

You can now relisten the interview with Tom in Mezzo on the (unofficial) podcast. Tom shortly talked about the embargo-riot and said people should read this article in De Standaard from last monday.

He talks about the next album and he announces more choirs on it. Tom has already one song ready called Back to School.

at 12:35 posted by Jean-Yves 3 Comments

Watch Tom Barman performing The Vanishing of Maria Schneider on VPRO's Café De Liefde. You can also watch Bad Timing, published last week. [thx to Jasper Koning]



at 08:07 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

  1. when she comes down
  2. sun ra
  3. favourite game
  4. fell off the floor, man
  5. the architect
  6. slow
  7. nothing realkly ends
  8. bad timing
  9. instant street
  10. smokers reflect
  11. what we talk about
  12. roses
  13. oh your god
    ---
  14. theme from turnpike
  15. is a robot
  16. suds & soda


at 08:00 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point is also cd of the day on Flemish Radio 1 today. Tom will be interviewed in Mezzo at 11.30 hour.

at 07:49 posted by Bart Van Belle 4 Comments
at 07:44 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A Dutch blogger on how Tom became the Belgian Bono.

at 07:39 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point is cd of the day on Studio Brussel. You better listen carefull because they will be giving away a tickets for the Vantage Point Studio Concert next sunday.

at 07:35 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

There's a contest on Standaard.be. You can win an autographed version of Vantage Point or the complete dEUS backcatalogue. Click here to enter.

17 April 2008 at 23:29 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

  1. When she comes down
  2. Sun Ra
  3. Favourite Game
  4. Fell of the floor, man
  5. The Architect
  6. Slow
  7. Smokers Reflect
  8. Bad Timing
  9. Instant Street
  10. Is A Robot
  11. Roses
  12. Theme of Turnpike
    ---
  13. Oh Your God
  14. Suds & Soda


at 21:43 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

There's now a dEUS tour podcast on deus.be, maintained by Vincent, live sound engineer of the band. He hopes to publish a new entry every ten days or so. The first post is the track-by-track commentary as heard on Last.fm, with an intro featuring Karin Dreijer's Slow vocals.

During the Pocket Revolution tour Vincent ran a tour diary in French, on the website of Belgian TV-weekly Télémoustique.

at 18:21 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

On the Télémoustique website you can win tickets for the sold-out dEUS concerts in Brussels, Charleroi and Liège, as well as the Vantage Point album.



In this week's issue of the magazine, there's also a 2-page review of the album - they give it 3 stars and think its sound owes more to The Ideal Crash than to Pocket Revolution. No interview, though: the Télémoustique journalist refused to sign the controversial embargo contract.

at 18:01 posted by Jean-Yves 3 Comments

The new dEUS album reviewed on the BBC's music website (you'll need a good English dictionary for that one), KindaMuzik ("een groeialbum bij uitstek"), "pre-reviewed" (with utter disappointment) on the Volkskrant blog.

Please get in touch if you read anything about dEUS in other European media which we can't easily cover, be that in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe or anywhere else vaguely exotic.

at 14:40 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The BBC 6 Music Session is now available on the podcast. dEUS were interviewed and they played Maria Schneider (acoustic) and the ghettoblaster-version of The Architect. Photo's and video will probably be available soon on the Hub-website.

at 12:54 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

Tomorrow at noon Tom Barman will be the guest of Belgian radio La Première's 'Culture Club' programme.

And right now you should tune in to the Beeb's 6Music website and listen to dEUS playing an acoustic session. So far they've done The Vanishing and they're now doing some sort of play-back performance of The Architect. I suspect the ghettoblaster's receiving some more love.

at 12:30 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A small interview (with nothing new) on Nu.nl, including another The Architect-ghettoblaster-performance.

at 12:13 posted by Bart Van Belle 4 Comments

Speculation on the place of the dEUS-gig in Antwerp has started. This blogger puts his money on the Stadspark.

at 12:03 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Rock Werchter has released its time schedule. dEUS will headline the festival and play as the last band from 23.45 hour until 1.15 hour.

at 08:43 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A great review from the gig in London yesterday evening.

16 April 2008 at 21:18 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The interview with Tom and Mauro from De Wereld Draait Door.



at 18:53 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment



(thx to Heinz)

at 16:47 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Dutch rockmagazine Oor about the gig in Amsterdam.

at 16:08 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

Interview with Tom on the website of French magazine Les Inrocks. Again, I'll only summarize any information not published in another interview.

  • First, the interviewer writes that Slow is a dark diamond that would make Radiohead jealous.
  • Tom feels that his "creative virus" is back. The idea now is to explore how far the current dEUS line-up can go, music-wise. He however still finds it hard to write new songs, and wonders about that "intervention", when you've been stuck for days and suddenly you write a whole song in just five minutes (like Eternal Woman, written right after seeing a Pixies documentary).
  • Prince's Parade album was his main influence for Vantage Point. He likes that album because it's short, pop, rock, it's got ballads and it's fun.
  • After the autumn 2005 concert in Lille (F), Tom wanted to call it quits for dEUS, but the Paris concert a few days after made him feel that "they were back". He quotes John Lennon to say that he just adapted to the new situation and decided to go on.
  • The at times "spoken word" aspect of Tom's singing comes from his love for the 90's "white man rap", à la Beastie Boys, Massive Attack & Tricky. Back then he also enjoyed A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy & Wu-Tang Clan.
  • He doesn't mind that dEUS has been labelled as "arty rock", because the brain is the sexiest body part. He also thinks that serious-looking artists are often actually the funniest and dirtiest people -- and the opposite is also true.


at 15:20 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A small dEUS-special on Entertainment.be, including an album review, a look back and a nice dEUS-quiz which shouldn't be too difficult for most of you.

at 13:11 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

A review of the gig in Amsterdam by Nu.nl

at 10:29 posted by Jean-Yves 1 Comment

Highlights from dEUS-fr's summary of the Tom Barman interview in French mag "Noise" -- just the stuff we haven't heard from other interviews:

  • It's still a mystery to Tom how Pocket Revolution had commercial success and allowed them to play in many major venues.
  • He doesn't like the idea that his songs have to grow on people, even the ones he feels are "too commercial".
  • The biggest challenge in songwriting is about being both direct and simple. He gives Beck as an example of someone who drew inspiration from Bob Dylan. The mark of great songwriters, besides their complex and ambitious work, is the ability to write songs which are like gifts to other musicians -- eg "Everybody Must Get Stoned" in Dylan's case.
  • Tom thinks what makes dEUS stand out is that most songs have structural breaks: toying with rock'n'roll clichés in order to better avoid them is critical to the dEUS sound. He thinks that Lenny Kravitz is the king of plagiarism.


at 09:20 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

The highlights from the interview in Focus Knack

  • A Dutch journalist described Vantage Point as testosteronrock
  • Tom admits that they've cultivated the conflict-model in the early days of dEUS
  • Mauro has influenced Tom to start working faster (Mauro released four albums between Pocket Revolution and Vantage Point)
  • Renaat Lambeets in one of his most important friends and Tom finds his opinion important
  • There's a cover of The Alcoholics by Jim Thompson on the back of Pocket Revolution
  • He thinks the concert at Werchter 2006 was one of the best ones they've ever played
  • There will be a gig in Antwerp in autumn, on a special date, on a special place
  • He would never uses djembés and he will never uses words like monkey and guitar in his lyrics
  • He hates to write songs about the songwriting itself
  • The Manu Riche-documentary will probably be released by the end of the year
  • He would like to ask James Gray for the recording of a clip
  • Tom is making clips for every song on Vantage Point
  • He thinks it's great that some fashion-designers use dEUS-songs at their defilés
  • Martin Margiela used Roses once
  • Dries Van Noten asked for a 13-minute version of Bad Timing last winter
  • about the capitals in dEUS: Tom thought Deus was ugly typograficly
  • Add (N) To (X) also has a song about Buckminster Fuller
  • He doesn't want to go in politics, making music and movies is what he wants to do
  • He mostly writes his lyrics minutes before they start recording
  • Tom thinks his lyrics are way too long most of the time
  • About the fans asking for old songs: Zea is too old, Right As Rain is too slow, but Great American Nude could be great
  • Klaas has been asking to get Roses from the setlist for years
  • There will be a day that they will only play new stuff during gigs
  • CJ Bolland's father helped them with the building of the control room in the studio
  • They also got help from Albi, a 74 year old guy who used to work in Abbey Road


at 09:03 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Shall I knock you down with another summary? Here's one from the interview in Humo.

  • He's a bit disappointed in the video for The Architect
  • The video was a testcase for a dvd they will be releasing next year
  • They don't know what sort of dvd it will be (but not a live-gig, backstage-footage or making of-documentary)
  • He finished the clip for Slow in 5 days
  • The next single will be Oh Your God and the video will be made in the studio
  • He toured Europe 11 days and did about 140 interviews the last weeks
  • He's tired of the soul searching-interviews
  • His favorite drug is XTC
  • The last time he played a gig under influence of Dope was in 1997
  • He's working on a new movie with a couple of friends, but we shouldn't expect anything the first three years
  • He got the feeling that the new members (Alan, Stéphane and Mauro) had too much respect for the old dEUS
  • There was a B-52's-bridge in the first version of The Architect, but the rest of the band didn't like it
  • He still likes to play Suds & Soda
  • He's in excellent condition, he's doing fitness, but never uses machines
  • He hasn't seen the interview he did with Nick Cave, because he hates to see himself
  • The daughter of Maria Schneider is living in Paris and Tom sent her an invitation for the gig next week
  • He bought a house in Antwerp, but he's still planning to move to the south of Europe
  • He can live from his music
  • Anyway The Wind Blows didn't make any money, except in Poland
  • Manu Riche is still following him for the documentary
  • He knows they have a lot of great footage, but also a lot of painfull footage


at 08:51 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A round-up from the interview with Stéphane in DaMusic:

  • Here's the video with the opening quote of The Architect
  • Stéphane saw Vantage Point (the movie) and thinks it's really bad
  • He's happy about the choices they made during the recording and the songs that made it to the album
  • When She Comes Down nearly didn't make it to the album
  • The next album will be more experimental
  • Dave McCracken was very important, although they had their doubts in the beginning
  • The choir in Popular Culture will hit the stage in Werchter
  • According to Stéphane Vantage Point was also inspired by Bowie (Heroes) and Iggy Pop (China Girl)
  • McCracken said the album should sound like the rehearsal place, so they almost used the whole building
  • CJ Bolland is currently mixing and recording a new album in the dEUS-studio
  • Stéphane says people are underestimating the important role of Klaas


at 06:58 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Tom said in De Wereld Draait Door that dEUS will headline Lowlands this year. Interviewer Matthijs van Nieuwkerk announced that they will be closing Rock Werchter this year and Tom added “and Lowlands too”.

Lowlands is scheduled from August 15th until August 17th.

at 06:45 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

dEUS performing The Architect around a ghettoblaster in De Wereld Draait Door.



15 April 2008 at 22:09 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The highlights from the interview in Het Nieuwsblad:

  • the songs that didn't make it to the album were too soft or too old school
  • they've never had a lot of outtakes
  • He's no longer interested in the achievement of dEUS in the past: he wants to move ahead with the current line-up
  • The stability in the line-up makes them more productive in all ways: they are inspired to do nice videos and other extra's, things they didn't do in the past
  • His sister is really important. She was one of the first persons that listened to the album
  • He wants the album to score with a broader audience than before
  • A lot of lyrics on the album are about Tom
  • He wanted to ask Luc Tuymans for the artwork too, but his work was too "flou" for Vantage Point
  • He's really hoping on a breakthrough outside Belgium, but they will need some luck for that
  • The choir on Popular Culture are all kids of friends
  • There's footage of the choir and it will be available online soon
  • About the documentary by Manu Riche: they're still following him and he's got no clue when it will be finished.
  • He thinks his mother will be the star of it
  • He's not so vain he likes to see himself back on tv


at 22:01 posted by Bart Van Belle 3 Comments

  • Tom thinks Vantage Point is a new beginning for dEUS
  • Tom says there's a sort of brutality in Vantage Point that reminds him of the early days, but they've got better songs now
  • Tom played a different role during the recordings. They've written more songs together (Slow and All You Got are real group-songs
  • Lies Lorquet reminds him of Kim Deal and Juliana Hatfield
  • The vanishing of Maria Schneider was the result of Tom crooning the song like Iggy Pop did The Idiot
  • Karin Dreijer Anderson saw dEUS live in 1998 (?) in Stockholm and screamed for Gimme The Heat
  • In Popular Culture he sings about being inspired by popular culture and asking yourself the question if it's ok to do so


at 21:52 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

The highlights from the interview in Het Belang van Limburg and Gazet van Antwerpen.

  • They had 20 songs they could put on the album
  • 10 songs didn't make it and they're probably gone forever
  • They are free of sorrows and are happy that things are all going good: a good website, a good band, a clip where he's proud of
  • CJ Bolland has contributed to The Architect
  • Tom hasn't played a lot on Vantage Point, most of the time he just listened to the others
  • It was Tom's idea to keep it compact and uptempo
  • They've recorded the album in 8 weeks
  • He had his doubts one second when he heard that The Architect reached #3 in the Ultratop
  • Tom thinks VP is a sexy album, but not in a Justin Timberlake-way
  • He's not happy with the 25.000 euro-thing, but he says it's part of the machine
  • A better example of the machine is a good organisation that make sure that the band can do what it should be
  • he loves the word professional


at 20:49 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A summary of the interview in free newspaper Metro:

  • The album Parade by Prince was a big influence
  • Tom says the setlist is a dream at the moment: at the end of the Pocket Revolution-tour they really had difficulties to find uptempo songs
  • He's really looking forward to the upcoming clubtour
  • He doesn't really care where they play as long as the room is full
  • Vantage Point is a rock-album but it's very dance-able
  • He likes The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand because they took the best of music from the seventies and eighties
  • They're only playing the old songs they love to play and they reworked some of them: Nothing Really Ends has a new intro and Instant street got a southern rock-feel
  • Currently he's crazy about Is a robot, Tom says it's vintage dEUS


at 20:40 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Flemish (economic) newspaper De Tijd published an interview with dEUS-manager Christian Pierre and Klaas Janszoons today. They're mainly talking about the whole marketing-machine behind Vantage Point.

  • They wanted to release a new album pretty fast after Pocket Revolution, so they could make profit from the things they built up with PR and the tour
  • Christian consideres himself as a peoplemanager
  • He summarizes the campaign (Slow on Myspace, two singles, The Architect on Last.FM,...)
  • Klaas says they still have ambitious plan
  • They have always been a healthy company although their results are depending on album releases and tours
  • Touring gets more important
  • The deal with Heineken crashed on a non-working IP-filter (they planned to make the pre-listen only available to Spanish surfers, but that went wrong)
  • Christian says it's still important to score one big international hit and he's convinced there is one on Vantage Point


at 17:52 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A small amateur-video ofRoses, live in Köln yesterday evening.


at 17:32 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Othin Spake, one of Mauro's sideprojects will release a new album titled Child of Deception and Skill on the 15th of May. Click here for more info.

(thx to Wim)

at 17:09 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point is now available on the French iTunes Music Store (and probably the rest of Europe too. It's not (yet) available in Belgium and the UK. Click here to download it on iTunes.

at 16:45 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

AFP, the leading French press agency, also interviewed Tom. Interestingly, they asked him about the recent political crisis in Belgium (we had no governement for about a semester). He doesn't want to talk too much about that, since it's such a sensitive issue, but he believes there were some paranoid reactions on the Walloon side, while most Flemish people do not want Belgium to come to an end, but think that the country needs deep reforms.

at 14:53 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Focus Knack will have an interview with Tom in the issue of tomorrow. They've already published some snippets online. The most interesting one is probably that Tom is negotiating to get the movie rights for The Alcoholics, a novel by Jim Thompson.

at 13:16 posted by Jean-Yves 1 Comment

Universal Music Belgium's marketing manager has warned that Le Soir and De Morgen's failure to comply with the press embargo will have consequences. (source: Le Vif/L'Express)

Update: According to Universal, if you didn't sign the interview contract, you still had the possibility of meeting Tom Barman on April 18. The contract was signed by 20 journalists, with just one person refusing to sign (source: De Morgen, via Kevin)

at 12:54 posted by Bart Van Belle 3 Comments

Finally some news on the Vantage Point Studio-concert.
Next sunday (April 20th), dEUS will play the entire Vantage Point-album live in their studio in Antwerp.
The gig will be broadcasted through Studio Brussel and will also be streamed to RTVSLO (Slovenia), RSR/Couleur 3 (Switzerland), PT3 (Portugal), RAI Radio Uno Redazione Relint Radio (Italy), RTBF/Pure (Belgium), NPB/3FM (The Netherlands), RTE 2FM (Ireland), Drowned in sound (England), LE MOUV (France)and EINS LIVE (Germany).

Tune in sunday afternoon at 3 PM here.
Still no news on any extra competitions to win tickets though.


at 12:44 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

dEUS will be in De Wereld Draait Door tonight.

(thx to Matthijs)

at 12:20 posted by Jean-Yves 2 Comments

Look at this still from Actu24's video in the Vantage Point Studio... looks like this white board has a list of the songs that dEUS have been rehearsing for this tour! All Vantage Point songs, plus Suds & Soda, Via, Roses, Theme From Turnpike, Fell Off The Floor Man, Instant Street, What We Talk About, Bad Timing, Nothing Really Ends, Sun Ra, plus a few more which we don't see. Serpentine, The Ideal Crash (!) and Let's See Who Goes Down First (!!) are on that list, but sadly they're crossed out.

at 11:15 posted by Jean-Yves 1 Comment

Tom Barman is again -- rather deceivingly -- on the cover of Le Soir, for a tiny quote in their special edition about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There's also a small article about the "embargo affair" in their "Swarado" kids supplement.

La Libre Belgique, another leading French-speaking Belgian newspaper, has decided not to publish Tom's interview, saying Universal Music's €25,000 fine was a "clunky, useless, inefficient and unacceptable measure". They strongly criticize Le Soir's very ambiguous position.

La Dernière Heure however didn't make a fuss: here's their short interview with Tom. Nothing new, except that Tom describes Alan as a "weird but great guy" ("un peu space, mais c'est un mec super").

The newspapers of the Vers L'Avenir group published the full interview in their paper edition, and excerpts of it on their Actu24 website. A few interesting bits:

  • During the Pocket Revolution tour Tom noticed that their drummer Stephane Misseghers could sing, so he thought he should sing on the Vantage Point album.
  • Even after Mauro & Alan joined dEUS in October 2004, Tom wasn't sure he would continue with dEUS, until their concert at La Cigale in Paris later that autumn.
  • He doesn't think that dEUS are facing competition from bands in Belgium, but abroad.
  • When (far-right party) Vlaams Belang scored lower in the elections following the 0110 concerts he helped organise, that was one of the best days in his life.
Vers L'Avenir also have an article about the Universal embargo, and a "blind test" with Tom - check it out in this video:



What Tom says in this video: Zita Swoon nowadays have many songs in French, but Tom says Stef Kamil Carlens couldn't say a word of French when he met him. He loves the voice of Mintzkov's Lies Lorquet, and wished she'd sing more in that band. He says their singer Philip Bosschaerts sings like Tom when he was 21, but that's his voice so he can't be blamed for that. He's amazed by the ease with which Admiral Freebee writes new songs. About Flemish-singing Will Tura: apparently he's going to collaborate with him. Tom was in love with An Pierlé "for about 2 hours in the 1990's." He likes the Arno song, even if he thinks he hasn't written many good songs lately. He also likes the Soulwax remix of The Klaxons, but he thinks their live set is too hard: "a lot of wax, too little soul". About Ozark Henry's Piet Goddaer: he admires him for deciding to live abroad in order to break outside Belgium. And he hasn't had the time to listen to the Blackbox Revelation's debut album, even though they are their support act on the spring leg of the Vantage Point tour.



at 09:03 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Interviews from De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad and DaMusic. I also noticed interviews in Gazet van Antwerpen and Metro. I'll try to make a summary later today.

at 06:35 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

  1. When She Comes Down
  2. Sun Ra
  3. Favourite Game
  4. The Architect
  5. Fell off The Floor, Man
  6. Slow
  7. Nothing Really Ends
  8. Bad Timing
  9. The Vanishing of Maria Schneider
  10. Instant Street
  11. What We Talk About
  12. Smokers Reflect
  13. Roses
    ------
  14. Is A Robot
  15. Theme From Turnpike
  16. Suds and Soda

(updated after Poison's information - actual setlist differed from the paper setlist)



14 April 2008 at 20:59 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

The highlights from the Oor-interview:

  • Smokers Reflects is about the 5-6 minutes of thoughts floating through your head when you smoke a cigarette
  • the title comes from David Hockney from the pro-smokerslobby
  • Tom considers Smokers Reflect as his State of the union
  • Smokers Reflect and Eternal Woman are representing his now, he couldn't have written these songs 5 years ago
  • they wanted an uptempo album that they could play live
  • Six songs didn't make it to the album, but we shouldn't expect these popping up on the next album
  • Maria Schneider is about eternal beauty and eternal youth
  • It's a song about the fact that you still haven't found love when you're 35
  • Vantage Point investigates the impact of what western media are presenting as a bad world
  • Popular Culture is about the impact American culture has on our lives. It's not our culture, but it influences us a lot
  • He wrote Eternal Woman after he saw a Pixies-documentary
  • The title is inspired by a painting he got from his mother, Hans Bellmer
  • Favorite Game was titled Re-fuck first
  • According to Tom the lyrics from the first version were more pornographical
  • Slow is a reaction on Oh Your God and Favorite Game
  • Slow is a song about Mauro. Tom admires Mauro for the distance he can take from things
  • John Denver also wrote a song about Buckminster Fuller (What One Man Can Do)
  • He learnt about Fuller when he had plans to rebuild his appartment. He contacted an architect and that guy started to tell about Fuller
  • Is A Robot criticises people who think they are alternative but in fact are as preprogrammed as the people they're reacting at
  • He liked the speech Marleen Vanderpoorten gave when he received his award from the Flemish parliament
  • Vantage Point is more a group-album than the previous ones
  • Tom wants to make the next album a real group album
  • He says Pocket Revolution was not their best album, but it sure is their most important one, because they survived it
  • He's aware of the influences and impulses he got from his mother and father


at 20:19 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The highlights from the interview with De Morgen:

  • Tom choose Michäel Borremans because he wanted to collaborate with a Belgian artist
  • Tom was planning to let Borremans make a videoclip after he saw a videoproject by Borremans called The Feeding
  • Tom is happy Borremans took the time to write all texts in the booklet
  • John Denver has apparently also written a song about Buckminster Fuller (What One Man Can Do)
  • Tom was attracted by the image of Fuller standing at the side of the river, ready to commit suicide after his girl died of tuberculose
  • There's a lot of smoking on Vantage Point too They've took measures to save Tom's voice from being influenced by the smoke: the backstage is smokefree and they're planning to make the tourbus smokefree too
  • Tom is doing sports again too (sailing, squash and recently skiing)
  • Tom has only seen two movies with Maria Schneider and the poster of The Passenger is his all time favourite
  • He wasn't amused by the fact a movie called Vantage Point was released almost at the same time of the album, but on the other hand a movie disappears after two months, while they will be touring for a year
  • Tom called Guy Garvey because he thought the song needed a bit more drama
  • They also asked Neneh Cherry to contribute to the album, but she will probably be on the next one
  • Tom and Stephane asked her for a photo in the backstage of a festival
  • He thinks they can still grow outside Belgium.
  • For the first time since WCS the album will be released in Australia and Japan
  • They will be touring the USA as well, but only the big cities: Boston, New York and Los Angeles
  • There were doubts around Mauro staying in the band, but that is no longer an issue: Mauro will also be on the next album
  • Tom wants to release the next album before the end of 2009
  • They'll start recording in september
  • dEUS has sold about a million albums in total
  • Tom is always pissed when other Belgian bands are minimalising the impact of dEUS outside Belgium
  • They've considered skipping Werchter and going to Dour because it fitted much better with the clubtour.
  • They will not be doing Pukkelpop because they'll be on the other side of Europe at that time
  • They'll perform in Antwerp in autumn, but not in the Sportpaleis or the Lotto-Arena


at 20:07 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The Architect wins one spot in Humo's Arriba!-chart (from 3 to 2).


at 19:35 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

The Knack-review of Vantage Point (3 stars):

Tom Barman alternately in the skin of a crooning rocker and balladeer, and Mauro Pawlowski as pathological saboteur: the fifth of dEUS is fabulous again.

(thx to Joost Peeters)

at 19:30 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point is now availabe on VPRO's Luisterpaal too.

(thx to Marc Cocquyt)

at 14:20 posted by Bart Van Belle 3 Comments

The website of Humo has some special features online: an overview of Tom Barman-quotes, a selection of dEUS-videos and footage from Humo's Rock Rally 1992. There will be an interview in tomorrow's magazine.

at 12:14 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The Architect remains in the top 10 of the Belgian Ultratop-chart. The single is still at 6 after 4 weeks.

at 11:54 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Tom will be in Brussel Vlaams (Studio Brussel) next sunday evening.

at 10:34 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

There's an interview with Tom in De Morgen today (but not online yet). Other Belgian newspapers are respecting the embargo. There's an article in De Standaard that explains why they are respecting it.

I'll summarize the interview from De Morgen and Oor tonight.

at 10:05 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

French-speaking, public Belgian radio Pure FM starts its dEUS week this Monday. They'll play the entire Vantage Point album over the week, giving their listeners several chances to win the record, and on Tuesday they'll air Sylvestre Defontaine's interview with Tom Barman.

at 07:16 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Tom played two songs yesterday evening at the Bourla theatre (Antwerp) during the Hugo Claus-tribute: Nothing Really Ends and Right As Rain.

13 April 2008 at 19:47 posted by Bart Van Belle 3 Comments
at 10:07 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

According to Metro, a Dutch free daily paper, dEUS will play at Lowlands 2008.

(thx to zjitnepoz on ISR)

12 April 2008 at 16:08 posted by Jean-Yves 4 Comments

Tom Barman is on the cover of today's De Morgen Magazine. DM photographer Charlie De Keersmaecker visited the Vantage Point Studio several times during the making of the new dEUS album. There are 9 full pages of photos and texts, including an interview with Tom De Keersmaecker. You can get a preview of the whole magazine on the De Morgen website.
[thx to Thomas for the tip]

at 16:04 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

  1. When She Comes Down
  2. Sun Ra
  3. Instant Street
  4. Favourite Game
  5. The Architect
  6. Fell Off The Floor, Man
  7. Slow
  8. Nothing Really Ends
  9. Bad Timing
  10. The Vanishing of Maria Schneider
  11. What We Talk About
  12. Is A Robot
    ---
  13. Theme From Turnpike
  14. Oh Your God
  15. Suds & Soda
[thx to Arthur]

at 13:53 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

On Last.fm you can now listen to the entire Vantage Point album, with track-by-track comments by dEUS members. [thx to lovedeus]

at 12:43 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

3voor12 reviews the gig in Rotterdam.

at 12:30 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Le Soir doesn't seem to care about the "embargo" and published their interview with Tom today. It doesn't really contain anything new, but ends with some allusion on Alan. Tom says he isn't ready for kids at this moment and he doesn't want to make children all around the world like the bass player...

11 April 2008 at 21:47 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

Zita Swoon have a new album called Big Blueville. In a February interview with French musiczine Froggy Delight, Stef Kamil Carlens talks about his past experience in dEUS, which he left after the recording of In A Bar, Under The Sea.

With hindsight, don't you regret you left dEUS?
Stef: Sometimes I do -- music-wise, it was a very cool experience.

at 20:55 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

Christian Pierre reacts on the Heineken-incident in the Belgian media on the Knack-website.

  • He confirms that Universal asked Co-Operative Music to disable the streams on the Heineken-website
  • He says they Universal doesn't know everything about the international deals
  • COOP is part of Universal so in fact it's one record company
  • They've done a couple of other actions with Myspace (the Slow-video), Last.FM (The Architect), Les Inrocks (Oh Your God in the podcast),...
  • dEUS thinks the internet is a very important medium to promote and sell music
  • The deal in Heineken wasn't that exclusive, they've done other things in the rest of Europe
  • They picked Heineken in Spain because their music site is the best way to reach the audience they're aiming at. It's not a marketing-website, it's a normal music site.
  • They're not promoting Heineken, they're just using a platform offered by Heineken to promote their new album
  • The embargo and the 25.000-euro thing for the Belgian media is just a way to prevent the media-battle they see each time the band releases an album. Three years ago they asked the media the same thing, but De Morgen broke it the day after.


at 13:38 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A review by Dutch webzine File Under.

at 12:51 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Vantage Point reviewed by Belgian newspaper De Morgen. (Google Translation)

Vantage Point will clearly need much listenings before it reveals all its secrets, but it's certainly a record that excites and intrigues.


Oor

at 10:39 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The May-issue of Oor Magazine (in stores now) has dEUS on the front and include a 7-page interview with Tom and some nice pics by Guy Kokken.


(thx to Brecht Vaes)


at 10:21 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

Vantage Point is no longer available on the Spanish Heineken-website. Yesterday all Belgian newssites (starting with Het Laatste Nieuws) reported about the pre-listening possibily as Heineken.es. Obviously Universal (the record company for Belgium) wasn't very happy about it.

The deal with Heineken was made by Co-operative Music (COOP), the late V2, the record company that is representing dEUS in the rest of the world. Universal didn't known about the deal.

Yesterday evening, while the news had been widely spread in Belgium, Heineken removed the album. It's still unclear if this incident will affect other (already announced) pre-listening possibilities such as the VPRO-luisterpaal.

(Source: De Morgen, Gazet van Antwerpen en De Standaard)

Update: dEUS manager Christian Pierre was interviewed by Focus Knack about this.

at 06:35 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

An video-interview with Tom from MTV Italy. Available in 7 snippets: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7.

I have no time to watch it now, so I anyone can, please post a summary in the comments.

at 06:26 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

  1. When she comes down
  2. Sun ra
  3. Instant street
  4. Favourite game
  5. The Architect
  6. Fell off the floor, man
  7. Slow
  8. Nothing really ends
  9. Bad timing
  10. Maria schneider
  11. What we talk about
  12. Is a robot
  13. Roses
    ----
  14. Turnpike
  15. Oh your god
  16. Smokers reflect
  17. Suds & Soda

(thx to Steven Adam)



10 April 2008 at 20:47 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

An interview with Mauro from Mijnnl, a Dutch citymagazine. Quick round-up:

  • if people say they hear a Mauro-influence in a song, they're mostly picking things that were Tom's idea
  • he says the Belgian music scene would be boring without Tom
Edit (Jyves): That interview made me laugh so hard I just had to share some bits from it - Mauro is the ultimate laid-back clown.
"Tom always expects us to come up with brilliant ideas, but there's never a shortage of ideas. That's a luxury. If I'm not inspired, because of the world situation or narcissic occupations, then the drummer will take care of providing ideas."

"dEUS and Evil Superstars were in the middle of the Belgian music boom in the 1990's, when suddenly anything from Belgium was great."

"I've played in ball orchestras, collaborated with extremely different people, I even made music for a doll theater. Anything is possible: I'm a professional."

"Vantage Point was named after our studio. Or so I thought. I've asked about that, but I still don't know what 'vantage' means exactly. I think it's something about a departure. So that, when the five of us are together, we are the vantage point. Sounds good eh? I just don't know if that's what it means. I've asked three times already, but you can't keep asking forever, so in the end you just make something up."


at 20:37 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A commercial from Belgian energycompany Electrabel that might have been an inspiration for the The Architect-video.



at 15:52 posted by Bart Van Belle 5 Comments

There was an interview with Tom in De Volkskrant Banen last tuesday. You can find it here. Here's a quick summary (or a Google Translation) :

  • About the studio: they named it after the album title
  • Vantage Point meens favorable position
  • Tom says they wouldn't have the same sound if they wouldn't live in Belgium
  • He thinks the recording of Vantage Point was a picknick compared with the recording of The Ideal Crash and Pocket Revolution
  • The handclapping on Oh Your God was Dace McCracken's idea
  • He wants to stop with dEUS on its top, but he doesn't think they have achieved that already
  • He wants to work harder in the future
  • (for the groupies) He is single since two years and he would like to have kids once.

(thx to Roy)



at 15:13 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Tom performing Bad Timing for VPRO's Café De Liefde. Next week theyl'll put The Vanishing of Maria Schneider online.



at 13:22 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

dEUS will perform at the Paléo Festival in Nyon (Switzerland) on July 22nd. Other bands on the bill include R.E.M., Manu Chao, Mika, Ben Harper, Massive Attack and Vanessa Paradis.

(Source: dEUS.be)

at 07:30 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

The Drowned In Sound-contest tells us more about the Vantage Point Studio Concert. Apparently dEUS will be performing for a webcast at 3 PM.

BTW: In order to win you have to answer this question: If Tom Barman, dEUS singer, was a type of sweet, what type of sweet would he be? So if you're not entering the DIS-competion why not leave your answer in the comments of this blog?

at 07:14 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

The video for The Architect is now also available on the dEUS-Youtube-channel. If you want to know how it was created, click here.



at 07:11 posted by Bart Van Belle 1 Comment

It's probably too late to enter, but German webzine Intro had a competition with tickets for the gigs in Saärbrucken and Mannheim.

at 00:24 posted by Jean-Yves 0 Comments

If you live in England, you may now enter the Vantage Point Studio concert competition on the Drowned in Sound website and win a trip for 2 persons to the dEUS studio in Antwerp on April 20! [thx to Jo]

And if you live near Mannheim, you can try to win 2 tickets for the April 10 gig on the Intro website.


9 April 2008 at 23:30 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Flemish music-channel TMF is broadcasting an episode of An Tour 2 featuring dEUS. It will be broadcasted friday at 20.00h and sunday at 11.30h. I have no clue if it's new stuff or the 2005-episode which is still available in two parts (1 & 2) on the TMF-website.

MCM

at 23:21 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

A small item on the return of dEUS on French musicwebsite MCM.

at 21:37 posted by Bart Van Belle 2 Comments

Next sunday Tom will be doing something at a tribute for Flemish novelist Hugo Claus, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. The events features the cream of Flemish literature and takes place in the Bourla-theatre. The event will also be broadcasted on radio Klara (live stream) and starts at 18.00 hour. More info here.

(Source: De Standaard)

at 20:33 posted by Bart Van Belle 3 Comments

There's a long interview with Tom and Mauro in Vrij Nederland. A quick summary:

  • Tom thinks this is the beste line-up ever, although the WCS-line-up was magic too
  • He thinks they're better now because to know how well things are going for them
  • Vantage Point is also about a struggle in his head the last two years about his and dEUS' future
  • Tom thinks Mauro saved the band by joining them in 2004
  • He thinks we'll hear the sound of the five current members on the next album
(thx to Renée Raeven)

at 19:56 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

According to Jyves the new t-shirts are made by Marcel de Bruxelles and they're black and containing the words dEUS and Vantage Point.

at 19:52 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Jyves' review of the gig in Nijmegen:

They started with When She Comes Down, sounding better than in Breda, and followed with Oh Your God, with Stéphane in top drumming shape. Sun Ra followed: what a start!


Read more here and download an mp3 of Slow and The Architect like it sounded yesterday evening.

at 18:48 posted by Jean-Yves 5 Comments

That is, basically, what journalists were told last Monday at Universal Belgium's big dEUS press event, according to Belgian newspaper Le Soir's Frontstage music blog. Before meeting Tom Barman, they had to sign an agreement not to publish any part of their interview before April 15, or they'd face a €25,000 fine. The journalist notes that such embargoes aren't unusual, but the financial threat is puzzling. Several journalists preferred not to sign such a document and declined the interview, and apparently some media outlets may decide to "boycott" dEUS instead.

at 17:43 posted by Bart Van Belle 0 Comments

Brecht Vaes will be interviewed in Volt (Studio Brussel) tonight about the gig in Nijmegen. A written version of his review can be found on his weblog.

Update: you can listen to Brecht on the dEUS Podcast.