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.
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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 ! |