NEWS 2012               

29/11/2012 Last Saturday we played in Jette, Brussels, and I have to say each time we play in that area, I love the mix of Dutch and French (I used to work in Brussels during the whole of the eighties). This time the conversations were even mixed with English as I quickly made friends with the singer of the the other guys playing, the Irish band Hooligan (that singer loves good beer, you know). The Dirty Scums' set was played nearly perfect. During the set of the Thirsty Scums (our Tribute to Punk) there was a great ambiance in this nice pub with people all the time singing along and using our mikes. But because of that we lost a bit our concentration and didn't really play a perfect set at all ;-) .
19/11/2012 Good times yesterday. The Black Tartan Club had invited us doin' the backing vocals of some trax of their upcoming new album, watch out for this one. Good to see (these old bastards with) their pretty sexy ladies again !
14/10/2012 It was a very long time ago since our last gig in the Leuven-area, from the eighties to be exactly. And guess what, on 06/10 in Kessel-Lo there were quite some friends and relatives present from these oldschool eighties. The sound of our gig was nearly perfect (at least on stage) and we enjoyed very much playin' our gig for which we received a lot of compliments afterwards. As for the other bands, there was this band Stalker that had a guitaramp similar to my old Faylon 200, in the last 25 years or so I had never seen before someone else playin' on this amp. Furthermore worth to mention was Obnoxious Absurdities, punk with Dutch lyrix. Zjantie remembered he had at home even three solo-cd's from the singer-drummer of this band. And absolutely worth to go to Kessel-Lo was the amazingly one-time reuniongig of Triptych, with the same three brothers in their line-up as the eighties hardcoreband Heibel.
14/09/2012 After the enormous succes of our 30th Anniversary Gig in May earlier this year, one could say there was not that many people on this 12th edition of our Rock@Schuiferskapelle, but hey this is nothing but perception. To be correct, with about 180 people in the venue this was even the best edition of Rock@Schuiferskapelle we ever had ! Every band played very well, every band loved to play in Schuiferskapelle, and the audience, the bands, and the organization ;-) just had a great time.
04/08/2012 For the anniversary of local punx Sigrid and Dirk we played in this nice pub The Steeple in Waregem. A very comfortable stage made us feel on our ease and we played two good gigs. Indeed two, 'cause after The Dirty Scums' set, we played the première of our Tribute to Punk, a mix of old punksongs. At the end of the night there was this beautiful Bianca, whom I fulfilled her wildest dreams, at least that was what I dreamed about the following morning :-).
05/07/2012 Very satisfying gig last Saturday in De Platte Buzze in Koolskamp, small pub, not that much people, but I was in great shape :-). This weekendpub sells our beer, the music is always good (and loud), and it's always open till the early hours, so it's definitely worth takin' a visit. There also was a Christian Bikers-meeting at the neighbours in front of the pub, WTF ?
28/06/2012 Sunday we had the chance to play at the 10th anniversary edition of Rock Zulte. They expected about 900 people, but due to the rainy weather there showed up "only" 600 people, still a lot if you ask us ! I had already a busy day behind the back and l was quite nervous in front of such a crowd, but the good sound and the professional and very friendly organization made me calm down, however only after the gig :-).
03/06/2012 Yesterday we played for the last time our Tribute to the Sex Pistols in Richard's sympathetic English pub in Meulebeke. We played quite well and it was fun, although too many people were doing the standing still. But indeed the last time the Pistols-tribute, we've been playing it now for almost 5 years. Before we did the Ramones-tribute for 10 years, and in the eighties-early nineties we played our Sham 69-tribute for we don't know anymore how many years. Now we'll start a Tribute to Punk with a mix of the tributes we have behind the back and of course there will also be new songs in it. Our first Tribute to Punk will take place on 28/07 in Waregem.
27/05/2012 The day after was more what we're good in, even very good I dare to say. We played a satisfyin'  gig on our own gear in the rather small pub Elpee in Deinze. We met a.o. some friends from Tielt and the M*e*S-band from Deinze, our long-time compagnons on the road, and met of course the charmin' pub-owner Kat. Kat, if you're still looking for a real man, I'm your candidate, uh.
2705/2012 The Canard Weekend in Olsene was a definitely well organized festival, that took already place for the 16th time. We met friendly people, played in a professional tent, saw very professional equipment from the P.A., but however the sound was not what you may expect from this gear. As a consequence, on stage our playing suffered a bit from this, which may have resulted in a not 100 % gig. Still had fun, you know :-).
10/05/2012 It's been a long time since we wrote some news here, I know. Not that there wasn't any news, I only missed the time to keep up with it. Saying that we spent all our time in preparing our 30th Anniversary Gig would be exaggerated, but nevertheless already in the summer of last year we were busy with it. Last week finally it was so far, and ask everyone who attented it, it was an awesome success ! It even turned even out to be the biggest event we ever organized. A big thanx from the Scums to the people who helped during the day, to all the bands that played, and of course also to the public ! Organizing and playing is very stressy, so also a sorry to the people for whom we didn't have the time for a chat. Just come over to my habitual cafe and I'll take my time for you. Our 30th Anniversary Gig was also the kick-off of our 30th Anniversary Tour that now counts 10 gigs. We surely meet again.
29/10/2011 Nice and friendly pub last week there in Meulebeke, where we played a gig for the bartender's birthday. He's an Englishman, from London, which results in a small beercard with Belgian beers and an extended beercard of English beers of which not even one reaches the top 100 of Best Beers of the World :-). Nevertheless, although we experienced some technical problems and a mostly rather cool reaxion from the audience, it was fun playin' and bein' there and we are even promised that we can come back to play our Sex Pistols-tribute.
16/09/2011 The yearly festivities in our village Schuiferskapelle are now a week behind the back and thus also the 11th edition of our own Rock@Schuiferskapelle. A few days before the gig we had to change the suddonly splitted Dickson Batteries by the Dear Hearts, but apart from that everything went smoothly. Headliner Basics who weren't able to play on TieltRockt! cause their drummer just had a serious accident, now prooved for sure they can rock like the best !
08/08/2011 Due to a crash of a server from our provider, the website has been unreachable since 28/07. Now it's back online, fully reinstalled on a completely new server.
01/08/2011 First day of my holidays and I think I've been drinkin' too much on our gig last Saturday, and yesterday again in fact. It was a time ago since we played our Pistols-tribute with The Thirsty Scums, and it was good to play the set again. Especially in this cozy pub and with these friendly organizers, also present were some of our kids and boyfriends and girlfriends and an old schoolmate. No wonder that I've been drinkin' that  much ...
14/07/2011 What a disillusion last Friday in Zwevezele. One would have expected a full house for one of the seldom returns to our native village, instead it was nearly the opposite. Lack of publicity is often a problem, but it's sad when it concerns a cd-release in your native village. To end positively: for the first time in our 30 years, my mum (82) and dad (79) came to pay a visit, only for the soundcheck, but this was more than enough for them, I guess I will not see them soon again at one of our gigs.
01/07/2011 It was 8 years ago since we last played in JH Kontrabas in Ingelmunster and it was good to see some people again. Good gig, not that much folks, but it still is fun when everybody is having a good time, isn't it ?
19/06/2011 Hey, hey, great gig yesterday in that crowded pub in Zottegem, why isn't every gig like that ? We learned again that the sound is always better with our own P.A., but that was probably not the only reason why everybody had such a great time. Also a thanx to all those girls who entered the pub, a.o. in the middle of our song "I wanna hear you come", very amusing for everyone, haha.
04/06/2011 Lovely pub in which we played our 2nd cd-releaseparty last week in Deinze, not that much people, still some adorable chicks, and a good and much appreciated gig from our side.
27/05/2011 Everything was great on our cd-releaseparty in Wakken last Saturday: we played a good gig, we had an enthusiastic crowd in front of us and we sold quite a number of copies of our great new fantastic cd, thanx everybody !
06/05/2011 Finally I've got this website back on the tracks ! Due to computerproblems, since October I had no access anymore to the site. What have we been doing since then ? Well next Friday the 13th our new cd "Made to Last" should be delivered at my door !