30/12/2005 |
We arrived safely home on Wednesday morning from our
trip to Germany, tired but very satisfied. We played two very good gigs,
one in Hannover on Christmas and one in Dresden on 2nd Christmasday, drove 2.000 km in total, attended very
good gigs of other bands and met a lot of friendly people there. Very good
chance that we'll return to Germany in 2006. |
24/12/2005 |
Oh, I nearly forgot to tell that on 30/11 I
went to see for the sixth time already one of my all time faves, the
Hard-Ons ! In the mean time I saw an amazingly gig of Nashville Pussy.
Just wanted to tell you this was really a great evening ! |
21/11/2005 |
Again booze at 1 €, this time the day before
yesterday at El Bar in Moeskroen. We didn't have to play, so we could look
on our ease at the excellent gigs of our friends from The Fat Ass Fuckers
and our long-time companions Bad Preachers. In between and much to our
surprise (we had expected Hillside Stranglers (USA), with whom we played
two years ago at this place) there was a really superb gig of the Ashtones (FRA) ! |
19/11/2005 |
Thanx to Mise*en*Scene, we had this last
minute gig yesterday in Handzame at JH De Meeuwe. We played already two
times before in Handzame, but what a fuckin' long time ago ! In 1987 we
played there with the then rather unknown (and now completely forgotten)
Tröckener Kecks (NLD), and in 1989 we were on the bill of an outdoor
festival at the same place. Opening band this time was The Hellies, and
you have to believe me: this band is a sweet sensation for the ear and for
the eye. It was already some time ago since we saw Mise*en*Scene, but they
gave one of their most convincing gigs to me, chapeau ! Then it was our
turn, but on stage we suffered a bit from a sucking sound of the voices. Anyway, the price of the booze was 1 €, so I wonder if much people have
noticed our problem. |
12/11/2005 |
Our hometown Tielt is really fun to play for
the moment ! Two days ago we had another great gig in the pub De Keet. Not
that I remember that much, because I went totally out of order by the booze. |
29/10/2005 |
Last week we played in the beautiful
youthplace Twen in Aartrijke where the Ontwen-Festival took place. There
were six bands on stage and as many different musical genres. We
respresented of course the punk-genre in a more than honourable way ! |
22/09/2005 |
Great evening and night at the "late summer"-party of the bikers of MC Blue Angels last Saturday. We
first played an excellent and
appreciated gig with The Dirty Scums. And although it was already a bit cold
when we started after midnight it turned out to be a hot gig with The Thirsty Scums. |
13/09/2005 |
Last weekend we organised ourselves a
mini-festival with 3 bands of our small village Schuiferskapelle,
satellite town of Tielt. It was a lot of work to set up the whole thing,
but a lot of people showed up to see Blood Ravyn (black metal),
Frustration (Xperimental Rock) and of course ourselves. Thanx to the bands
and see you next year again ! |
09/09/2005 |
Saturday we had our first gig after the holidays and what a gig !
It was absolutely worth the effort to cross the Dutch border for this one
in the Netherlands. Great sound, great people, we played first, before two sisters and a brother
who sung the stars out of the sky (The Cool, the Bad and Bart), and a
coverband that played one of my all time favourite no-punksongs, Led
Zeppelin's "Since I've been loving you". |
01/08/2005 |
Another big party time festival behind the
back in hometown Tielt ! So much people havin' a great time, so much beer
around,
metals and punx united, yeah this one was great ! We don't have that much
pictures however due to problems with our camera ... |
15/06/2005 |
We had a great time in Sint-Niklaas last
weekend. The Starz was a beautiful place to play, the P.A. was excellent,
the frontman of the first band was a nice girl, our gig was very alright
and Funeral Dress was great. What more do we need ? Indeed, more girlz !
Watch the pictures, you know where to find 'em. |
30/05/2005 |
We don't play that often in our hometown Tielt,
but each time it is party time and so it was yesterday. The cultural temple of
Tielt exists 25 years and was not afraid to ask a punkband
next to the ballets and the choirs ! |
25/05/2005 |
Beautifil, beautiful girlz at the
Schwung-festival last
Saturday. According to Zjantie, there should have been bands on stage too
... |
14/05/2005 |
Friday the 13th it was yesterday and we drove
to Merchtem where we were scheduled as the headliner for the second
edition of the Riot del Mar-festival.
The gig was not 100% due to a little bit of a sucking sound
and a small but repetitive technical problem with the drums, still it was at least 90%. Furthermore we had a bit of a ska-indigestion (110%)
caused by the excellent punkskabands on the bill and nearly a real indigestion because of the beer that wasn't cold enough
later in the evening.
Friendly and motivated organisers (mum, dad, son (also a bandmember) and his
girlfriend !), some friends in the venue,
sympathetic members of the other bands and another great performance of OXL:
we survived
Friday the 13th for 200% ! |
03/05/2005 |
There's a new item in the Miscellaneous-sexion:
the complete list of
all our songs that ever appeared on Dirty Records, including all the info
you want to know about 'em. |
14/04/2005 |
Again two great gigs last weekend, this time
in Itterbeek, and again friendly friendly people there. If all of this
friendly people we met the last couple of weeks would live in our hometown
Tielt, I think I would give up my job and spend my time to the booze with
all of you. Talkin' 'bout booze: the beer of the month in this place was Rochefort, one of Belgium's beloved Trappist beers ! |
31/03/2005 |
We had to drive almost two hours to Lille,
near Turnhout, but it sure was worth the effort. We arrived in a very
crowded youthclub with a lot of enthusiastic people. Our two gigs were
very much appreciated and the audience kept asking for more. It was after
2 am when we could leave the stage. We really had a great
time, on stage as well as afterwards near the bar. The organisors promised us to
ask us back another time together with Bad Preachers, will be fun ! |
22/03/2005 |
Great gig last Saturday in Zomergem. The place
of the venue once was a recording studio and it happened that we recorded
our first two albums and our first single in this studio. Sweet memories !
Other bands were Mise*en*Scene (who continue to conquer the world by playing regularly abroad now) and
Capital Scum (great music from great people). There were a lot of people
of the eighties scene and it was good fun. And don't we forget to mention
the beautiful female bartender. You know by now where to find the pictures. |
15/03/2005 |
We have some new stuff in our merchandising
thing: new (free) stickers, buttons in different colours with the logo's
of The Dirty Scums, The Thirsty Scums and Dirty Records, and finally a
T-shirt of The Thirsty Scums, with a picture on the front, and the back
that says "in memory of the Ramones". Following sizes are
available: S, M, L and XL. There's also a Kids-size and a LongSleeve size
L.
You can find everything in the
mailorder-sexion. |
28/02/2005 |
I have a disappointing Saturday night behind the back. We went
to see WR3 together with 2 other bands, but had serious traffic problems
along the way. When we finally arrived at the place to be, the pub was
nearly empty, there was stupid music on the stereo, the gigs were already
behind the back and WR3 even didn't show up for the gig ! |
21/02/2005 |
Saturday we had our first Thirsty Scums-gig of
this year. It was a benefit for some local hospital-people who will give up their
holidays in order to help tsunami-victims in Sri Lanka during March. To be fully
prepared for the hell in which they'll soon arrive, they first had asked the Thirsty Scums-tsunami
to roll all over 'em. |
05/02/2005 |
Look wat this eBay-seller writes about our
first album: "Extremely rare one of a kind original 1st pressing LP by
Belgiums finest The Dirty Scums. This is way better than The Kids stuff by
far and by all means." This is a very nice guy if you ask me ! Look for
the auction
here. |
24/01/2005 |
More bands we went to see, this time in
Vorselaar: Vibrators (GBR), Funeral Dress and UK Subs (GBR) ! Watch more
pictures. |
17/01/2005 |
We started the new year in de Vort'n Vis in
Ieper last weekend to watch the bands R.A.T.S., OXL (NLD) en Mihoen (NLD).
Great place to be and great bands, watch the
pictures. |