24/09/08 *recording gentle songs* after playing a few gigs, you' ll find us in our very own little upperste . 01/03/08 *ssass the brass* yes! ssssassss has joined toman! you can call him rispel raspel saspel, sjaslick or simply alexander. he truly is a fast finger guitar player. we are five now! he looks even better in real life! come and see him perform at the minesta festival, veurne (19th of april) or at STUK, leuven (20th of may) (the only two shows we play this year!) 10/09/07 *pukkelpup* yes! lovely festivals it were... the mighty horn players had strong lips! and jelle had eagle eyes as usual! 28/05/07 *while* working on new material for a new record we keep rather quiet for a wile, doing only a few (but lovely) summerfestivals. recording should start somewhere at the beginning of 2008.....yippeeyayee... 11/03/07 *back home alabama* home safely though feeling a little thirsty after a 16 day tour in crazy europe. many thanks to following people! you can read our tour diary here and follow the road-tracking here (magnalox or google earth) due to the absence of master photographer jelle most pictures were a little blurry but here's a short video: 02/02/07 *senne joins tomn* we are happy to announce that curly magic fingers senne guns has joined the band. he'll make his first appearance with us on stage this saturday at the terminus. despite his youthfulness of twenty springs, senne has already gone a long way in the scene. beginning keyboard studies at the age of two, his earliest influences were the jig and ragtime pianists and later the texas two step, boogie woogie and some good old eastcoast swing. it was the great fats domino who accidentally discovered the boy in the pianobar 'de wijze eik' in mariakerke, during a bycicle-trip in het meetjesland. after singing a legendary duet with tina turner, he was asked frequently as a stand in for brian may (queen), and some years later for guns 'n roses guitarist slash. nevertheless senne suffered from a constant unanswered animal connection, a shortcoming easily solved by tomn, where salmons and grizzlys eat along at the kitchen table... welcome aboard! 23/12/06 *clause harmony on mtv* tomn sings gloria in excelcis deo (of kspuitn ik met mien deo) live on mtv!!! click on the link below to hear their amazing singing skills... 12/12/06 *lego* duurzaam bouwen met avanti en tomn in boodschap van algemeen nut... 26/11/06 *bolognese* italy was exhausting but wonderful. we almost missed our plane, since two of us slept through their alarm, luckily wouter managed to wake us up only a half an hour late. the train in brussels decided to be late another fifteen minutes leaving us ample time at the airport. the crescent on the plane enlighted our hearts and minds. the mei festival fair was one hectic lot as envisaged. the show itself was really fun. thanks to asimov for their much appreciated help! much to our surprise, mario salssichia, the famous karaoke singer was still performing when we returned rather wasted to the hotel. salute! 25/11/06 *it's a sad sad planet* unfortunately we decided to part ways with our bass player jens. he will be missed as a magnificent friend. 26/10/06 *usa/can pre-orders* as from now, our american and canadian friends can pre-order our multiple platinum selling record perhaps we should have smoked the salmon first via the graveface website. Jiha! Release is 31st of october. 10/10/06 *kip aan 't spit* that one song of raymond van het groenewoud does not leave our mental radio.... 30/09/06 *tour* the european tour with madensuyu is progressing. we're hitting the road on 24/02/07 and should be back around the 10th of march..., hooray! (more info soon) 23/09/06 *press* jodeley! ; you can read the first reviews of our new album here: focus knack rifraf belpop goddeau pinkushion nameless of herbeluister cucamonga van 18 sept 07/09/06 hello you all, this is the first news entry of our new website. a new album 'perhaps we should have smoked the salmon first' will be released by zealrecords on september 18th. shortly after, the record will also be released by graveface records in the US. we are currently working on new merchandise and rehearsing like hell, obeying in a very humble way to our room sharing grand masters de portables, whose new rule list will cost us tons of beer we will be very willing to share with the cherise fresh father jurgen whose very first daughter is called oda and already looks pretty much like ET on internet pictures, just like her father...