REVIEW BY VINCENT K

Boom, shack, baby kiss my ass! Yesterday, I had the chance of going to the dEUS-concert in Brussels oh, man it was excellent! The father of a friend of mine works for the Flemish gouvernment, and that's how I got in - thanks guys.

My friend could grab a setlist, so here it is -for your eyes only-

Roses
Sister Dew
Sam Peckinaugh's daughter
Magic Hour (formerly known as God Of Small Things, but Tom said they had to change the title or they could get sued)
Weird G (pretty weird song, and Tom plays synth during this song!)
Fell off the floor, Man
Magdalena (my favourite new song beautiful!!!)
Instant Street (the new poppy single, very much arithmetics-like)
Little Arithmetics
Dream Song
Let's See (this song really reminded me of another song, but I still haven't found out which one...anyone got a clue?)

Turnpike
Freaks ( a great loud song)
Serpentine
Suds (but they didn't play this one unfortunately :(

Big surprise to see Tim -Evil Superstar- Vanhamel replacing Piet Jorens (who was also at the AB). Way to go Tim! Nice backing vocals with Craig. What's next: Mauro playing percussion? ;)
And what about Danny? Well, the "cool rocket" seems to get popular. A lot of people were shouting 'Danny' all the time - but you better change your hairdo.

For the first try-out it was a great concert. The band looked a bit nervous, but I guess that's kinda normal. Lot of 'famous' people there: Zita Swoon (except Stef and Bjorn), one of the flying Dewaele-brothers , Arno, De Schuur & Chockri, The new minister of popmusic Guy vd Brande, Frank Vanderlinden, and a lot of people who probably never heard of the band before yesterday, but went to see the gig because it was for free. That's why the audience really -uhm- sucked. I was standing in the front and shaked my ass and boogied around.

There were 1200 people invited, so I think you can't call it a "little" try-out anymore. Unfortunately I think there were few real dEUS fans but start counting the days: it will be March before you know it!

But for now I'm still in some sort of dEUS-trance, a liquid overdose after waiting so long for another dEUS-gig. But the GOdS went crazy and so did I!

Bye,

Vincent

REVIEW BY PIETER

Hello everybody,

Think I have some great news, but for some of you maybe also some bad news. Yesterday evening i was invited to the Ancienne Belgique for a unique concert by an Antwerp band, who's name starts with a d and ends on an s.

No, it wasn't De Strangers, it was dEUS. It was a concert organized by the Flemish Cultural Government. It was guests only and there were about 1000 people. Ofcourse the Antwerp music scene was also present (i have seen Tom Pintens, Aarich Jespers, Thomas De Smedt, Arno;...). I was invited because my father is working with the Flemish Government.

The concert was announced by Luc Van Den Bossche, which a speech on dEUS, doing their thing in Portugal and Greece and bringing their experiences to Flanders. I would love to give you the setlist, but some stupid roadie whom i asked, gave it to an (by the way, ugly) girl standing next to me. The bastard ! It was probably one of the few concerts, dEUS was using a playlist. I can remember almost every song, so i'll give it to you, but they didn't play it in this order.

It started with Roses, followed by Sister Dew, Magic Hour (formerly known as God Of Small Things). They also played little aritmethics, Magdalena ( a new one) and Instant Street (the new single). Also Fell Off The Floor man, and some other new song with a strange sample, but not so uptempo as Theme From Turnpike. This song was the last song of the normal concert.Then they played two encores, namely an magic version of Theme From Turnpike and a beautiful Serpentine. Then they left the stage. The audience was screaming for more, but some stupid guy put on the stagelights and the music, so they couldn't come back. An indeed, i saw the playlist and Suds And Soda was also mentioned. The girls next to me were talking to Tom afterwards and he was pissed because they had put on the music that fast, but after all he did also like the concert.

The band was apparently looking forward to this concert. Everybody did their best and tried to make it as good as possible. But it's not easy when half of the Ancienne Belgique is filled with employees of the Flemish Government.

Tom was waving to the minister and his wife, sitting on the tribune of the AB. He also adapted some lyrics, probably to shock this people. He was also making jokes about the concert, that the Flemish government was offering drinks to everybody after the concert.
Danny was cool as ever. I am beginning to like the guy. He played his bass very good, and the vocals he did where better than during the 'in a bar - concerts'
Craig is more and more influencing the band's sound, but in a good way. His second voice is fantastic and he's very quiet on stage, but you can see he's liking it.
Klaas had silver things in his hair, which had a strange effect. As always, he was the guy dancing and moving the most.
I didn't see Jules lot, but he was also enjoying the concert. He was laughing a lot.
The band was completed by a crazy guy, namely Tim Vanhamel, guitarist of the Evil Superstars. Perhaps the split of Evil Superstars made his totally bananas, the moves and things he did were crazy. He played guitar and did some percussion.
There are a few new song with a synth (could it be the Vive la Fete influence, let's hope not), but the new song are very quiet and long.
Average : 6 minutes.

Well, i think some of you would kill me not to have mentioned this on the list, but i'm only on since yesterday. so why blame me ? I was just an invitee. But don't worry, they will tour from March so, two more months of patience and ofcourse the new single An Instant Street will be released on february 22th and The Ideal Crash - full cd on 15th March.

Greets,

Pieter

SETLIST
(thanks to Vincent K.)

Roses
Sister Dew
Sam Peckinpah's Daughter
The Magic Hour
Everybody's Weird
Fell off the floor, Man
Magdalena
Instant Street
Little Arithmetics
Dream Sequence #1
Let's See Who Goes Down First

Theme from Turnpike
Put the Freaks up Front
Serpentine

INFO

Guest-only concert organised by the Flemish Ministry of Culture (remember dEUS were Cultural Ambassadors of the Flemish Government last year, they received 2 millions BEF for bearing that title)