REVIEW BY JOSÉ POLIDO

Aloha,

well, as i said earlier today last night was a great night. Tom and Klaas were there, Klaas didn't played but stood in the back listening and watching Tom's performance. The good mood was on and Tom was very funny, telling jokes, joking about the band and some funny situation that had happened to them the night before in Lisboa. I will not tell the stories because it would take a long time to explain and i can't do it right now but if you are able to get a recordingof the show you will listen to al the stories. Sorry. 2 members of the crowd were allowed to place 2 questions and Tom mentioned that the spliting rumour was never to exist. That the break turned into a mega mega break and now people are involved in other projects and that they are going to finish all of them and then get back to dEUS and do another record in 2003. I think this was already mentioned here but nevertheless Tom said it. Also talked a bit about the DVD. Blamed Klaas for the wrong notes played on his guitar and the long tuning moments he took due to new strings :-)))) told stories about turtles :-))) and gay bars and a black guy who said was famous in Italy and about the issue of being famous in Portugal :-)))) and took requests and was going to play Right As Rain but decided not to because it was a sad song and after the turtles stories. Oh ! there was a comment on a new return to Portugal but that is yet to confirm and that would be with Tom & CJ Bolland !! that would be great.

In the end it turned out to be a great evening and he played seven songs, Everybody's Weird, Magdalena, Instant Street, Luxury, Nothing Really Ends, One Advice, Space, Serpentine

In the end i was able to talk to them and that was when i handed them the cover cd. I had 5 copies ready for them. Klaas was very surprised and thanked everybody because that was a compliment that people would pull such an act on the band. He asked a few question about the project i explained everything. I also asked about if there was any problem on doing the record and playing their songs and he said no not at all it was nice that people could and wanted to play their songs. Then Tom came and he already knew about the project, Pedro had asked him the permission, remember and had also sent him an e-mail but he was interested in knowing more about the project so i explained everything again :-) and he was amused by the name of the record and told me he was curious on listening to the cd. Let's hope for a comment on the project :-)) Oh! they both know about the existence of the dML. Unfortunately they were in a hurry they were hungry and the guy from the record company were telling them they had to go. Anyway they were very nice and were please to receive such an offer. This is great, no?!! :-)) Finally all these year of waiting and working paid something :-)) Now, should we produce a Zita Swoon cover CD???? :-))))

Oh! I have a radio recording of the show.

Cheers POLIDO

REVIEW BY PEDRO MOREIRA

Last night show was very special. I know that for people from Belgium or Holland, is not that strange to have this, almost, "private" shows of Tom, but for us, portuguese, is not that usual! So, when I knew I had won the ticket, took the car and made the 350 Km to Lisbon to be in the show! Right now I'm a working zombie!:) (sorry for this introduction, but I have to do something or else I fall asleep right in my desk) So...as I was telling you, last night was fantastic. It was a Tom's solo, as expected, but Klaas Janzoons was there too. In the audience, just watching, but was there!:)

Tom was expected to play 4 songs but he played 7. Sorry for not knowing the exact order, but I can't remember it: He played Everybody's Weird, Instant Street, Magdalena, Sister dew, Luxury, Nothing Really Ends. The last one was, perhaps, the song that the public (or at least part of it) asked more often, Serpentine. He looked in a very good mood, and told us that the night before he and Klaas were denied entrance in a bar! Tom told the doorman that they were big stars here in Portugal, but he answered that he was also a big star, but in Italy!:) Then he told a stupid story about turtles, imagining the amount of information that a turtle must have, 'cause it lives for over 400 years and move very slow! Nobody in his perfect mind thinks in this kind of things!!:)

Before the show, Tom answered two questions from the audience. The first one was about his movie. He told that he was very frightened, because there is a lot of money involved, but that everything is going well. About the Single collections, No More Loud Music, he didn't looked very excited, so he preferred to talk about the DVD. When asked about the next album, the answer is already known: 2003. They don't even want to think about breaking up. And that, if we think that the return after so much time, and when every one of them has his own projects, is strange, it's because dEUS always act different from the usual!

Ah...and Tom promised to be here in Portugal, for a concert, in March!

Well...my very tired mind can't remember much more. I hope that my english is understandable.

See you,

Hugs,

Pedro