RUDY'S
GREAT UNIVERSE
who else is out there?
| 2000 MONKEYS |
| The long awaited solo-adventure of Tom Pintens. He performed first at De Nachten 2000, followed by a handful of other small performances around the country. An album is expected for some time now, but seems to get postponed every time. Tom is live assisted by Roel Poriau on the drums. They are influenced by seventies psychedelic tunes and have an eclectic approach to their music. It sounds interesting to me. |
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www.2000_monkeys |
| A BEATBAND |
| aka SKC moondog and a beatband. Later renamed to Moondog Jr, and then to Zita Swoon. More on this seperate page. |
| ADMIRAL FREEBEE |
| Rising stars in the Antwerp music scene. They ended up second in 2000's edition of the HUMO-rock rally, and got away were the favourites of the audience. Tom Van Laere (guitarist and lead vocalist) played together with Tom Barman in Dranouter, and were support act a couple of times for Dead Man Ray in 2000. I'm not dreadfully fond of their brown roots music, but everyone else seems to be, so expect to hear more of them soon. |
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www.admiral_freebee |
| BARLOW, LOU |
| more here. |
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www.lou_barlow |
| BARMAN, TOM |
| He's
the leader of the band that started it all, dEUS. I'm sure you've
heard of them. In the mid-nineties, he was also involved in a project
called General Electrique, which grew out to be Cinérex. Together with
Kelvin Smith, he sampeled tons of old jazz records and transformed them
into new material, with an electronical approach.
Personally, I've seen Barman a couple of times at Gore slut gigs, so I
guess he likes them. Back in the old days with dEUS, he referred to Rudy as 'a skinhead full of shit'. |
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www.tom_barman |
| BASTIEN, PIERRE |
| One of the most creative musicians you'll come across in Europe. He builds his own custom instruments, exhibits them, and actually plays with them as well. He's for the better part influenced by old jazz and John Cage. His main goal with for instruments, is being able to play duets with them. Since the late seventies he's been doing his thing, and in 1999 he calloborated with Rudy Trouvé in the 110m² project. |
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www.pierre_bastien |
| BEIRENS, CARMEN |
| Carmen Beirens was an early member of Lionell Horowitz and his combo, playing mostly keyboards and doing vocals. If I'm not mistaken, she has left the band for some time now. Recently, she was part of a trio playing jazz themes. |
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www.carmen_beirens |
| BELMANS, DIRK |
| Dirk -or Bassie as he is also being called, is the drummer/percussionist of Lionell Horrowitz and Gore Slut, as well as Screaming Headache. He used to live with Rudy in the early nineties in the Heavenhotel. He’s also a graphical artist and has exposed his work along with Rudy and Albert Trouvé. He’s also responsible for the layout of the covers and artwork of the earlier dEUS releases. |
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www.dirk_belmans |
| BERTHET, PIERRE |
| Pierre Berthet is another extremely creative musician from Liège this time. There are lots of similarities between him and his French collegue, Pierre Bastien: they both build their own instruments and played together (with Rudy) in the 110m² project. Whereas Pierre Bastien experiments mostly with mecanno toys and trumpets, Pierre Berthet is mostly know for his experiments with water in instruments. |
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www.pierre_berthet |
| BETTIE SERVEERT |
| Bettie Serveert is one of the longest-serving bands from the Netherlands. They released their first record in the early nineties, and have grown to be extremely popular in their home country with their poppy rock ballads. In Belgium and even the United States, they've build up an impressive reputation as well. They have worked together with DAAU on the most recent Bettie Serveert album, and for some of their past tours they have taken dEUS and Gore Slut with them as support act. |
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www.bettie_serveert |
| BILLET, JACKI |
| Jacki's
the long haired guy in Gore Slut and Kiss My Jazz, sitting on his butt
and lurking a glass of red wine. He plays the bass, and is one of the people who lived at the Heavenhotel with Rudy, and went to the same school in Ghent at the same time Rudy went there. In their post-puberty, he and Rudy were together in an obscure, unknown -and according to Rudy crap band, before Kiss My Jazz saw the daylight. Jacki's also the author of a painting of which Kiss My Jazz took their name from. |
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www.jacki_billet |
| BLIJWEERT, ELKO |
| Rudy's
partner in crime in a lot of projects, Elko has been seen in a vast
number of bands. He plays (or played) the guitar in Kiss My Jazz (for
the first time at the age of 15), de Tramjeanetten, Dead Man Ray,
Screaming Headache, Heaven's basement, Rudy Trouvé & friends, guest
appearances with dEUS, and God-knows what else. Rudy and Elko also
performed once together alone in the summer of 2000. More Elko-occupations include Bad Influence, Star Club West, Franco Saint de Bakker, and even Front 242. Who knows, someone might get the idea to build some sort of a Elko's great ideas webiste. Puer technically speaking, Elko has enjoyed a classical education at the jazz-academy (or something), and is a far superior guitar player than Rudy. |
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www.elko_blijweert |
| BOENOX |
| Modern classical combo from antwerp n°2. They sound a lot more 'classical' than DAAU though. One demo and one album so far. |
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www.boenox |
| BROECKAERT, MATHIAS |
| Mathias joined Kiss My Jazz by the arrival of the second album, playing the trumpet and sax. He used to have his own (and extremely obsvure band) with Dirk DeHooghe and Rudy Trouvé, called Miles Ahead. |
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www.mathias_broeckaert |
| CARLENS, STEF KAMIL |
| Stef
is the man behind the pop/blues/disco band Zita Swoon, aside with
Soulwax and dEUS, the best reputed Belgian band across the boarders. He plays several instruments in Zita Swoon (piano/guitar/melodica/vocals), and used to play bass with dEUS untill he quit the band in august 1996. In Kiss My Jazz, Stef Kamil was a memeber from the first generation as well. In an interview from ’98, Stef says Rudy didn’t like the Zita Swoon album I Paint Pictures on a wedding dress. On Kiss My Jazz album ‘In the Lost Souls Convention’, there’s a track called Jesus, which was written by Rudy and SKC during a depression in a dEUS tour. Besides his music, SKC also designs clothes and likes to draw and paint. |
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www.stef_kamil_carlens |
| CINÉREX |
| Read
more of Cinérex here. On ‘Au Bain Marie’, on the track William, a sample is used of a dictaphone on which Kelvin Smiths, Sebastian Kalonji and Alissa Kueker from Cinérex can be heard. Kelvin Smiths also played the keyboards on one track on dEUS’ The Ideal Crash album, but of course Rudy had nothing to do with that cd. |
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www.cinérex |
| DAGGELINCKX, DIMITRI |
| Dimitri is the bass player and vocalist in Lionell Horowitz and his combo. You can often spot him after Dead Man Ray/Gore Slut/Kiss My Jazz gigs, selling lots of Heavenhotel releases. |
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www.dimitri_daggelinckx |
| DE BAKKER, KAREL |
| Karel de Bakker replaced Herman Houbrechts as drummer of Dead Man Ray in march 2000. He was introduced to the band by Elko Blijweert, and together they have a jazz-project together called Franco Saint de Bakker. He has also done the mixing and recording of a few Zita Swoon releases, including the Plage Tattoo/Circumstances album. Besides Dead Man Ray, Karem has also been drumming in the live band of Joost Zwegers' Novastar, and the semi-hip hop project De Barabassen. His brother Raf drums for the band Star Club West. |
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www.karel_de_bakker |
| DE HOOGHE, DIRK |
| An old classmate of Rudy when they were studying in Ghent, he’s the saxophonist/percussionist of Lionell Horrowitz and Kiss My Jazz, and used to be in 'Miles Ahead' as well. He was also the co-director of ‘Dave’s Great Idea’ He mostly does percussion and sax in the bands he's in. |
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www.dirk_de_hooghe |
| DEWEERDT, TOM |
| Tom DeWeerdt
(aka dj low) The man who runs the Belgian Lowlands label (Dubtales, George Smits, Fukkeduk, Think of One, Flat Earth Society...), was also involved in the '99 project ‘110m²’. |
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www.tom_deweerdt |
| DIE ANARCHISTISCHE ABENDUNTERHALTUNG |
| Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung (AKA DAAU) They recorded their version of dEUS’ biggest hit to date, Suds & Soda. It was released on the USA version of the single. Members Buni & Simon Lenski played in Kiss my Jazz and did some jam sessions with Rudy Trouvé and others. |
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www.daau |
| DUNCAN, STEPHEN |
| Stephen
Duncan is from (if I'm not mistaken) either Australia or New Zealand.
His (current) hometown however, is Antwerp, where you can often spot him
playing as street musician. His solo project is called Steven
Duncan's recipe hour, and he's also involved with Tom Pintens in one
of his projects. And, I've seen him once doing 'support act’ for Gore Slut once in Cartoons café, Antwerp. |
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www.stephen_duncan |
| EVIL SUPERSTARS |
| The Evil Superstars were support act for dEUS in 1995, when Rudy was still in the band. Members Danny Mommens and Tim van Haemel joined dEUS in respectively 1997 and 1999, and frontman Mauro Pawlowski was in Kiss My Jazz with Rudy. The Evil Superstars seized to exist in 1998. |
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www.evil_superstars |
| FLAT EARTH SOCIETY |
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www.flat_earth_society |
| FLOWERS FOR BREAKFAST |
| seperate page here. |
| FRANCO SAINT DE BAKKER |
| Antwerp combo, which plays nothing but covers and interpretations of jazz music from the sixties and before. Coltrane, Burell and Flanagan are the most quoted jazz heroes by FSDB. I must admit I don't know all of the band members' names, but Elko Blijweert, Karel de Bakker and Sigrid van Rosendaal are in it, as well as a sax player and a contrabass/piano player. On some of their performances, Rudy has participated on one song, in which he read some pages from an old cheap pulp/porn novel. Very sexy. Also, on a Gore Slut gig in november 2000, Almost everyone from Franco Saint de Bakker joined Gore Slut for an (excellent) alternative version of Crawling to Target. |
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www.franco_saint_de_bakker |
| GILLIS, HERMAN |
| He’s the inventor of the ‘Sherman filterbank’, and as an old fellow band member of one of Daan Stuyven’s older bands, he controlled the filterbank on some Dead Man Ray tracks. Follow this link to go to his own site about the Filterbank. |
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www.herman_gillis |
| GOLF |
| Golf Tiny, obscure band with among others Aldo Struyf and Bram Van Looveren, with just one release so far. They were support act for Kiss My Jazz once, in the A.B. 27/12/97. |
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www.golf |
| GROEP JEZUS |
| A fairly young band from Overijse, of which Rudy Trouvé produced their first single 'Please', and played the 'scheerbas' on one track. They were also support act for Kiss my Jazz in their final tour in 1999 and 2000, and did the aftershow once for Dead Man Ray in 1998. |
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www.groep_jezus |
| HOUBRECHTS, HERMAN |
| Houbrechts, Herman (NEMO, DEAD MAN RAY, MITSOOBISHY JACSON, MAURO & the INFERNO’S) He used to be the drummer of Nemo, and also used to be the drummer of Dead Man Ray until he quit the band in March 2000. Instead he went playing in Mauro Pawlowski’s new band, ‘Mauro and the Inferno’s’. He was already together with Mauro in Mitsoobishy Jacson. |
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www.herman_houbrechts |
| JANZOONS, KLAAS |
| Another shared dEUS past, Klaas was the roommate of Rudy when they toured with dEUS. In an interview, Klaas tells about a dEUS-tour when he found Rudy in the bathtub one morning, where he had fallen asleep in ice cold water. Additional comment by Klaas: 'he's a weird guy'... Klaas plays the violin and keyboards, as well in his solo project, ‘Seven deadly violins’, of which I heard nothing so far. (but very much would like to!) |
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www.klaas_janzoons |
| JESPERS, AARICH |
| He’s the drummer of Kiss My Jazz, and he also made some wicked 4-track recordings for that band. He’s also in Zita Swoon, where he is in a sample loop on their most recent album. The sample is taken from a rehearsal together with Rudy Trouvé, Daan Stuyven and the Lenski brothers. Aarich also made some 4-tracks and samples for Gore Slut. |
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www.aarich_jespers |
| JORENS, PIET |
| Piet Jorens appears on a few tracks of Kiss my Jazz releases ‘In Coffee we trust’ and ‘In a service station’. Shortly after Rudy left dEUS, Piet Jorens joined them for a while. |
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www.piet_jorens |
| KING OF WILRIJK |
| Another obscure Kiss My Jazz ‘character’. There’s a KMJ track named after him, and according to the booklet of the second KMJ album, he’s very notorious for his ability to vanish….Riiiiiight!!! Anyhoo- he could be an alter ego of Rudy Trouvé himself as he spent his childhood in Wilrijk, or another "theory" is it is in fact the great Mark Meyers, since he lives in Wilrijk as well… hmmmm... |
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www.king_of_wilrijk |
| LANGBROECK, HEYME |
| Langbroeck, Heyme (KISS MY JAZZ, LIONELL HORROWITZ, VACUUM CHILD) Joined Rudy in Kiss My Jazz and Lionell Horowitz and his combo, playing sax and the trumpet. Mandi Apple has a page wit Heyme Langbroeck pictures here. |
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www.heyme_langbroeck |
| LE JUNTER, FRÉDÉRIQUE |
| Le Junter, Fréderic Another one involved in the 110m² project. |
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www.frédérique_le_junter |
| LENSKI, SIMON & BUNI |
| On Zita Swoon’s 'Plage Tattoo' album (2000) there was a sample loop of a Rudy Trouvé rehearsal together with the Lenski brothers, Daan Stuyven and Aarich Jespers. The Lenski’s were also occasional members of Kiss My Jazz, and jammed with Dead Man Ray on Dour festival '98, as well as with Rudy Trouvé and some other musicians at Pukkelpop '98. Recently, Adrian Lenski joined DAAU as well, but so far he didn't do anything with Rudy Trouvé yet. |
| LIEVENS, ARNO |
| Rudy's nephew. He's a pretty young
musician (age about 14-15), and came on stage with Rudy once so far, in 'Heaven's Basement'. Rudy announced him as "among others from Luc and Sonia, Arno Lievens. Luc and Sonia are Rudy's sister and brother in law, who have their own website. |
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www.arno_lievens |
| MARIS, BART |
| Maris, Bart (FUKKEDUK, X-LEGGED SALLY, FLAT EARTH SOCIETY, JAUNE TOUJOURS…) Did some brass on two tracks on Dead Man Ray’s first album, and played along as well in 'de Tramjeanetten'. Was also on the Project Doos! CD-ROM. |
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www.bart_maris |
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| MEYERS, MARK |
| Meyers, Mark (KISS MY JAZZ, SUPERALMENDRADO, dEUS, and solo) Mr. Meyers was replaced by Rudy in 1992 when he left dEUS in the early days. He also used to be in Kiss My Jazz in their earlier days, and made a surprise appearance at one of the last Kiss My Jazz gigs ever, in Brussels. He's known for his 'outrageous', wicked behaviour when on stage. |
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www.mark_meyers |
| MITSOOBISHY JACSON |
| seperate page here |
| MOONDOG JR. |
| Moondog Jr. |
| MUSICKNESS |
| Musickness Nor a musician, nor a band, this is the management behind dEUS, DAAU, Cinérex and Vive La Fête. Until 1998, they also managed Evil Superstars, Moondog Jr. and all of Rudy’s bands, until they dropped all of them because they weren’t financially profitable. |
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www.musickness |
| NOPPE, TOMAS |
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Noppe, Thomas (GORE SLUT, BAD INFLUENCE, SCREAMING HEADACHE) He joined Gore Slut in 1996, where he plays the guitar, and also played with Rudy in 'Heaven's Basement' once in July 2000. He has occasionally been spotted live on stage with Kiss My Jazz too. |
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www.tomas_noppe |
| PAWLOWSKI, MAURO |
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Pawlowski, Mauro (KISS MY JAZZ, EVIL SUPERSTARS, MITSOOBISHY JACSON, Solo) He was also in Kiss My Jazz as a guitar player, and was also on the Project Doos! CD-ROM. In ’95, Mauro’s band 'Evil Superstars' were supporting act of dEUS for a couple of gigs. |
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www.mauro_pawlowski |
| PINTENS, TOM |
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Pintens, Tom (ZITA SWOON, FLOWERS FOR BREAKFAST, 2000 MONKEYS) Tom Pintens is known as prominent musician in Zita Swoon and Flowers for Breakfast, and 'producer' of De Bossen and Think Of One. He played the piano on a live version of ‘Jigsaw You’, a B-side of the dEUS-'Hotellounge' single. Rudy Trouvé isn’t on that track though. On the 'My Sister=My Clock' dEUS EP, Pintens plays the piano as well on ‘Little Ghost’, but again Rudy wasn’t really involved in that track. |
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www.tom_pintens |
| ROBERTSON, (VIKING) DAVE |
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Robertson, Viking Dave (KISS MY JAZZ, WALL OF SWEAT) Another companion in Kiss My Jazz. After that band’s demise, both of them were rumoured to be in a new band, ‘Wall of Sweat’. Viking Dave also co-starred in ‘Dave’s great Idea’, and a sample of that film is also featured on the Lionell Horowitz album. |
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www.viking_dave_robertson |
| RUMPLESTITCHKIN |
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Rumplestitchkin Hugely promising band from Brussels which ended up fourth in the 1998 HUMO Rockrally contest, they were support act for Dead Man Ray in 2000 at least twice. |
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www.rumplestitchkin |
| SHENEIK |
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Sheneik He’s a rather obscure early member of Kiss My Jazz, of which I know nothing at all- not even his true identity. |
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www.sheneik |
| SONIC YOUTH |
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Sonic Youth Sonic Youth invited Rudy Trouvé and Heaven's Basement, to do an aftershow on their gig in the AB in Brussels, the 5th of July 2000. For Gore Slut, Rudy claims Sonic Youth was a source of inspiration as well. |
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www.sonic_youth |
| STRUYF, ALDO |
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Struyf, Aldo (ALDOLINO, ORANGE BLACK, GOLF, SONS OF SINATRA,...) While being involved in numerous musical projects, he earns his daily bread by selling CDs in Antwerp record store 'Brabo', and doing some occasional DJ-ing. Two very distant Rudy links. Please do not read if you’re not a ‘hardcore’ fan of either. Aldo plays the guitar on the demo version of the dEUS track ‘Everybody’s weird’ on the Instant Street single. Rudy already left dEUS 4 years earlier, but (here it comes)-at the very beginning of the video clip of Instant Street, Everybody’s weird is playing in the club the video was recorded in. Later on in that same video, Rudy makes a brief appearance, disguised as a cop. What a link!! The second relation with Rudy, is he helped recording the 'Radionation' single of Golf, also a band Aldo is in. Oh- and Brabo sells Rudy Trouvé CDs as well of course. |
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www.aldo_struyf |
| STUYVEN, DAAN |
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Stuyven, Daan (DEAD MAN RAY, VOLT, RUNNING COW, CITIZEN KANE, SUPERMARX, DAAN…) Together with Rudy the most actively creative brains behind Dead Man Ray. Rudy plays the feedback guitar on one track of Daan’s solo-album ‘Profools’, and they were together on the ‘Project Doos!’ CD-ROM. Daan also did some (improvised) singing on ‘Diesel’ and ‘4-Children’, both tracks on Lionell Horrowitz’s CD ‘Au Bain Marie’. He also did some of the recordings on that album. Daan Stuyven said in some interviews he was a fan of Gore Slut, and he has also been seen at Kiss My Jazz gigs. Daan also did some cut-and-paste mixing on Kiss My Jazz album ‘In the Lost Souls Convention.' Together with Rudy, he also made a remix of Zita Swoon’s single ‘Disco!’ Terburg, Josefien (KISS MY JAZZ) She’s Viking Dave Robertson’s wife, and did some vocals on Kiss My Jazz’s ‘In a Ghosttruck’. Also in the live line-up in Kiss My Jazz’ last tour. |
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www.daan_stuyven |
| THINK OF ONE |
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Think of One Wicked collective from Antwerp, they were the support act for Kiss My Jazz at least once. Tomas De Smet, one of the 'core members' of Think Of One was in Kiss My Jazz from time to time as well. |
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www.think_of_one |
| VAN BELLE, WOUTER |
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Van Belle, Wouter (DEAD MAN RAY, SUPERMARX) Earning a living as producer of Axelle Red, Novastar and others, and years ago of Volt and Supermarx as well, Wouter is in Dead Man Ray as the keyboard player. He also does part of the mixing and recording, and can be held responsible for the ‘unusual’ remixes of ‘Copy of ‘78’. For Kiss My Jazz, he did some recordings too. |
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www.wouter_van_belle |
| VAN BEVEREN, GEERT |
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Van Beveren, Geert Geert did a lot of the recordings for the Kiss my Jazz and Lionell Horrowitz albums. Also, as well as Rudy Trouvé, he produced a single of Groep Jezus. |
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www.geert_van_bever |
| VAN CAMP, ROEL |
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Van Camp, Roel (DAAU) Apart from the Suds & Soda cover the anarchists did in 1994, Roel van Camp has also co-written one track (Les cheveux de Françoise Hardy) on the Lionell Horrowitz and his Combo album |
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www.roel_van_camp |
| VAN DER CRAEN, SANDRA |
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Van Der Craen, Sandra (LIONELL HOROWITZ AND HIS COMBO) She’s the bass player and does some vocals and keyboards in Lionell Horrowitz and his combo. |
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www.sandra_van_der_craen |
| VAN LOOVEREN, BRAM |
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Van Looveren, Bram (LIONELL HORROWITZ AND HIS COMBO, GOLF) Together with Rudy in Lionell Horrowitz and his Combo as a guitarist. The song 'Le Bram’ (on an early demo tape) was named after him. He’s also responsible for the artwork on the Lionell Horrowitz album. Also, Bram is in Golf, of which Rudy did the recording of their first single ‘Radionation’ ('99), and he was in the 'Heaven's Basement' line-up, in July 2000. Bram apparently also did the layout for the first dEUS single, 'Zea'. |
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www.bram_van_looveren |
| VAN ROSENDAEL, SIGRID |
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Van Rosendael, Sigrid (LIONELL HORROWITZ AND HIS COMBO, KISS MY JAZZ) Rudy’s current girlfriend. She also plays trumpet and keyboards in Lionell Horrowitz and his combo, and she played the keyboards on the last Kiss My Jazz tour. She also did a trumpet solo on a track of Dead Man Ray’s ‘Berchem’. |
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www.sigrid_van_rosendael |
| VERMEERSCH, PETER |
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Vermeersch, Peter (MAXIMALIST, X-LEGGED SALLY, A GROUP, FLAT EARTH SOCIETY, solo…) He’s the frontman of bands as X-Legged Sally, Flat Earth Society and A Group. Together with Pierre Vervloessem, he produced dEUS releases 'Zea', 'Worst Case Scenario' and 'My Sister = My Clock'. He also used to own an antiques store in Antwerp. |
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www.peter_vermeersch |
| VERVLOESSEM, PIERRE |
| Vervloessem,
Pierre ( X-LEGGED SALLY, A GROUP, FLAT EARTH SOCIETY, solo…) Together with Peter Vermeersch, the frontman of X-Legged Sally, Flat Earth Society and A Group, and co-producer of dEUS’ Zea, 'Worst Case Scenario' and 'My Sister = My Clock'. He also appeared on stage at least once with dEUS, where he played the guitar on some songs. |
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www.pierre_vervloessem |
| VRANCKEN, TANJA |
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Vrancken, Tanja She did some vocals on the Lionell Horrowitz album, as well as ‘united clock’ (whatever that may be) on a track on Dead Man Ray’s album 'Berchem'. She also did the photography for the first Dead Man Ray album. |
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www.tanja_vrancken |
| WARD, CRAIG |
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Ward, Craig (dEUS, KISS MY JAZZ, CYNTHIA APPLEBY) He replaced Rudy after he left dEUS in 1995. They still appear together on some dEUS tracks though. Craig and Rudy both form 'Cynthia Appleby and friends', another obscure project, of which only some demo tracks and a rare promo were ever released. Craig was in the earlier days also a member of Kiss My Jazz, and in the very earliest days, also occasionally of Gore Slut. Craig Ward starred as well in Rudy’s 1996 film, Dave’s great idea, of which a sample is used on the Lionell Horrowitz album. |
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www.craig_ward |
| ZITA SWOON |
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Zita Swoon Rudy worked together with them on several occasions. Click for more details. |