NEWS 2005               

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.