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The Riverside, Newcastle - February 9, 1995 thanks to Alexey Voronin for the following LIAM SHEILS - Kerrang! #535, March 4, 1995 THERE ARE two possible explanations for dEUS. Either Belgium has a serious narcotic problem, or they're just not playing by the same rules as everyone else over there. The big mistery was always going to be how dEUS would reproduce the kaleidoscopic patchwork that is the 'Worst Case Scenario' album on stage. But of course, they don't even try, and apart from a single violin representing exotica, they play it as straight Rock four-piece. This does not however, make dEUS any less bewildering for the people who saw 'Suds And Soda' on 'The Chart Show' and wandered along to check them out live. dEUS open with 'Shake Your Hips', a song that lasts all of five seconds; and in terms of sanity, it's downhill from there. They swerve madly from the rediculous ('Morticiachair') to the sublime ('Via') without a thought for anyone else's mental health. And when singer Tom Barman informs us that Klaas Janzoons is "classically trained", said violinist is at the time trying tosaw his unfortunate instrument in half with its bow. Lord knows what language it is they speak, but the way they mutter to each other in it between songs only adds to the surreality of the event - for dEUS defy explanation. They are the avant-avant garde. nothing will ever seem quiet the same again. |
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