NEWS, OR NOT
Wed 14 dec 2005 UPDATE
27 dec
The Crab Four will stay alive until the end of february and then we will split,
probably sideways. In the meantime, some new concerts
added... And a Dutch
review of the EKKO concert. More accurate
info on the Crab Four to be found on the Heldersite.
We're
working on the follow-up album to "You kill me", some songs are totally
recorded and done, others are doing us in. We started recording at the end of
august and these last couple of weeks we're hitting a groove (not as in 'jazzysoulygroovyman'
no worries). Seems like the working title is "=Tigerproof" (as in
"sukilove = tigerproof"). Some songtitles
: Blood and milk make holy, Moon,
Beatlesnake, Snow. Not
all will make it to the album, it's a cruel world.
Toon is vader geworden ! Bill werd op
6 dec geboren. Proficiat Toon en Claire ! Bill ook...
Er is wederom de mogelijkheid om uw liefde voor sukilove
in daden om te zetten : 'Top
100 Belgische songs' De Morgen/Radio 1. Alhoewel we gruwelijk over het hoofd
worden gezien, is het mogelijk helemaal onderaan uw favoriete song in te vullen
ter verkiezing van 'Beste Belgische Song Ooit Voor Dit Jaar'. Wijzelf geven
natuurlijk de voorkeur aan een sukilove nummer,
maar feel free om iets van Styrofoam, Nemo, Fence, Mitsoobishy Jacson, Rudy
Trouvé en aanverwanten een duw in de rug te geven.
HIER
staat een Kindamuzik
recensie van het concert dat Rudy Trouvé en Pascal gaven in de Arenberg
afgelopen week.
And yes, the Rarities album is still being worked on,
albeit extremely slowly as we concentrate mainly on recording new stuff.
Underneath there's a very nice and sad poster for a sukilove
concert that never was, made by Arabella Proffer. You can check out her website
here.
Thu
29 sep 2005
Hier een link
met info over PERRONROCK volgend weekend, 8 oktober.
Goeie line-up : Madensuyu, Waldorf en Sukilove.
Some sukilove songs have been used in a new Dutch movie called "CastingX",
première next monday in Louis Hartloopercomplex in Utrecht.
Fri 16 sep 2005
Ah, mosquitos fall to the ground as summer dies and we sukilovers are gently
burning underground in a Trix basement, quietly and not-so-quietly recording
the follow-up to "You Kill me". Basically we've demo-ed/recorded 7
new basic tracks, some of which will probably get to the finishline. Once in
a blue moon (read : once every year) you get an uncracked egg straight from
the Lord, no sweat, just right in the pocket ; this one is provisionally called
"Moon", from start to finish in about an hour. (The compilation album
is still in the pipeline.)
Mon 15 aug 2005
Gracelicious
is trying hard to beat Soundsbrown to a pulp in speed-releasing new pictures
on the internet : a couple of hours after our Teutrock show, our mugs are already
on display. There's lots more sukilove footage on Gracelicious
by the way (including yesterday's "I love Camera" show). Double-click
on the chosen pic for a larger format.
The first week rehearsing/recording new material has gone well. Some songs are
shaping up nicely & we already debuted a new one at Teutrock today, called
"Mama". Except for a total foray into 70's space rock (mainly Tim
going Moog Mental), we don't know which "musical direction" the album
will take. Roughly translated, we haven't got a clue as to what we're doing...
We tried some funk in waltz time and strangely enough, that worked. Next week
we're gonna have a castrated donkey do the lead vocals. ("As if anyone
will spot the difference" - I heard ya).
(photo "borrowed" from Gracelicious.com)
Thu 28 july 2005
Next week we'll start working on the new album. We've built our own
little studio in TRIX and we'll be writing & recording the whole year through,
probably even well into next year. Releaseperiod for the new
album : summer 2006. (The limited edition
album will come through after this summer, see 30 may
for more details).
Upcoming concerts : 14 aug Teutrock
in Zonhoven & 20 aug Maanrock
in Mechelen
Have a great summer !
Tue 20 juni 2005
Voor de mensen die een overschot aan liefde hebben en niet weten waar het kwijt
te geraken : het is blijkbaar mogelijk ons in de lijst van HUMO's
Top 20 te stemmen met "Tiresome Blues",
ziehier !
Spijtig genoeg staat de fantastische nieuwe single van Fence er nog niet in
(Ga via 'links' naar hun website voor een gratis
luisterbeurt). Of what the hell : klik hier.
U krijgt ook de mogelijkheid om de nieuwe eh...plaat van Kane in de lijst te
stemmen. Aangezien u al inspirerender klanken uit een platgereden, doofstomme
egel hebt horen ontsnappen gaat u dat natuurlijk niet doen, waarvoor dank.
Mon 30 may 2005 (updated mon
6 june)
A collaboration with Styrofoam is on-line : a
cover version of Tim Hardin's "Hang
on to a dream". Click here
to go to the Styrofoam MySpace page.
We've got a brand
new page up @ MySpace.com (thanx to Styrofoam) ! Come and
be friendly !
Later this week we'll put up the new single "Tiresome
blues" (and the Dr. Trix remix of it ) in the audiostreamer
at the bottom of this page. Oh and the cover of Lydia Lunch's "Atomic Bongos"
(taken from the StuBru radiosession 2 weeks ago) also. Lyric,
check.
This is pretty much the quickest sukilove song to escape the studio : written
three weeks ago, recorded 10 days ago, mixed this week - out there next Tuesday.
The end of the summer will see the release of a limited
edition album (the "Pink water EP" never made it)
including a lot of unreleased songs
from the past couple of years. Some very probable candidates : "You're
a stranger in my head", "Babe why ?",
"Asshole", "The
Left Side", "Taste of sin"
and some more.
Het
"De Standaard" verslag van de Trix sessie
op 11 mei blinkt hier.
New "You kill me" reviews (!?) : Music
Minded (Dutch) & Id
Dream (English).
Mon 16 may 2005 Nieuwe
single "Tiresome blues" !
Brussel Vlaams
zond gisteren een reportage uit over "sukilove in TRIX" met interviews
vd sukilovers + live fragmenten uit "You kill me", "Woe",
"Jesus Cried", "Atomic Bongos" en de gloednieuwe song aka
zomerhit "Tiresome blues".
Release richting radio : 1ste week van juni. Je kan de radiouitzending hier
herbeluisteren.
Mon 25 april 2005
We will have a "Open Studio" day, May the 11th. Visitors can come
and take a look at us recording and playing some old, new and obscure songs
@ Trix, Antwerp. People who bring their instruments can probably even sit in
on the recordings and play along ! Check the Trix
site or listen to StuBru for invitations.
Last thursday at Herman Teirlick went well. Except for the piano. Take a look
at Soundsbrown for
more photos and info.
Thu
21 april 2005
Tonight we were
normally going to appear with the Sukilove Micro Orchestra at the Herman Teirlinck
benefiet but due to a small technical problem in Stoffel's neck (probably a
"knelled zenuw") he can't play the drums. His only ability left for
the moment is looking very sad whilst playing Playstation.
So we'll do a very
new combo : Mauro, Dave and me. Guitar, drums, moog and some attitude. CU there,
starts at 19h, I think we play around 20h.
Tue 12 april 2005
We'll be supporting legendary punk-funk godfathers Gang of Four @ Hof ter Lo
this sunday. Unfortunately Tim won't be able to make the gig due to Bal des
Boiteux obligations but former sukilove-basshero Pieter van Buyten will fill
the void and the silence.
Guess
which sukilove track !
We had a particularly chaotic but enjoyable rehearsal today. We continued working
on a frenetic acoustic speeder, working title :"Blood and milk makes holy".
With less than 45 minutes to go before the end of the rehearsal, we also threw
together a new song. Still embryonic but there was some spark there, might come
together.
'The Crab Four' are alive !
Fri 1 april 2005
Taken from the Parasol
website blog, march 30, entry by Michael Roux : "Sukilove
Tour pt. 4 Whew! Yesterday I finally heard from the Department of Homeland
Security regarding my non-immigrant worker petition to get Sukilove in the country
for a tour. My response, which includes additional documentation, "must
be received in this office by June 14, 2005." I'm not going to rush it
because the tour was scheduled for March 10th-March 20th and has since been
scrapped. "
Sat 26 march 2005
Happy birthday dad !
Sun 6 march 2005 An
unfortunate series of events...(updated : 11 march)
Parasol sent us a new UK bloglink - click here
for Spoilt
Victorian Child. Apology
gladly accepted by the way...
Last couple of weeks have been unkind to Sukilove : despite having a great tour
in the US set-up for us by Parasol's headhoncho Michael Roux (12 dates in 14
days, starting the 10th of March in the Knitting Factory in NYC), the US government
decided to check-mate us by not being able to deliver the working visas on time.
Several people developed major sweat, trying to get this tour together, working
hard to fill in and deliver a truckload of documents -enough paperwork to even
have made the clerks in Brazil blush- but to no avail : the visas would not
arrive on time and the tour had to be cancelled. You can read a more detailed
account on this Parasol
blog (entries march 1 & 3).
On the better side, a good review on Mundane
Sounds.
We started work in the newly built Sukilove studio this week. Those nice folks
at TRIX (Antwerpen)
donated a cosy little room until early next year where we can bottle new suki-brews.
We've been recording a couple of new tunes, some of them called "Beatlesnake",
"Before and after a smog" and "Snow" probably to be released
on a VERY limited CD ("Pink Water EP") shortly. We'll probably only
print 20 copies of the EP -at the most- and donate them to whomever we fancy,
just because we can, us miserable bast*rds.
We also have this leftover song from the "You kill me" sessions called
"You're a stranger in my head" which just didn't fit on the album.
We could put it on the EP but maybe we should give the track to Duyster...what
to do, what to do.
To be continued...
Thu 3 feb 2005
En français, l'histoire
d'une petite visite de Sukilove dans les couloirs de PureFM...(2
fevrier)
Mon 31 jan 2005 (updated
1 feb)
We just came in from doing some plugging at Studio
Brussel & Pure FM. We friendly-kamikazed Lieve de Mayer's "Music @
Work" program and did a freshly
conceived "1234" rockabilly version. You can listen to it and watch
it all here.
Er staat ook een sfeerverslag
in van het concert in Amsterdam afgelopen zaterdag op de VPRO
3voor12 site.
The special concert with Boenox & Sukilove together @ De
Nachten is being streamed on Mine.be
: "Steal your love away" awaits yer ears.
Een schone recensie over de samenwerking tussen Boenox en Sukilove
op de nieuwe OOR.nl site &
ye ol' faithful Soundsbrown.com
heeft wederom wat foto's van beide Stoffel's op het net gegooid. Ook Kindamuzik
heeft enkele lovende woorden
veil.
Thu 13 jan 2005 "1212POP"
Op 26 januari is er een benefiet in de Vooruit/Gent om de bankrekening
te spijzen van de hulporganisaties die werkzaam zijn in de door de Tsunami getroffen
gebieden. De avond luistert naar de naam "1212POP"
terwijl u daar kan luisteren naar o.a. 2 MANY DEEJAYS, TOM BARMAN & GUY
VAN NUETEN, FLIP KOWLIER, SUKILOVE, MAURO, DAS POP, BJORN ERIKSSON (Maxon Blewitt,
Zita Swoon), AXELLE RED, TOM PINTENS (2000 Monkeys, Zita Swoon), AN PIERLE,
MINTZKOV LUNA, STEVEN DE BRUYN, SKEEMZ, BOLCHI en nog een heleboel anderen !
Alle artiesten komen geheel onbezoldigd hun schone ding doen - komt dus allen
talrijk en zuipt gij allen - want voor Azië is de opbrengst van uw gulzigheid,
amen !
Voor meer info via StuBru.be: klik hier.
Voor kaarten via de site van de Vooruit : klik hier.
Tue 4 jan 2005 "HAPPY
NEW YAER !"
There are some decent live-mp3's on-line from the Effenaar concert,
recorded by our indecent soundengineer Coeckie aka "El Biscuitos".
Click here
for a selection of 5 songs. Matching
pictures of that gig can be found on Soundsbrown.com
on this
page.
We had to re-locate the English guestbook because of technical
stuv, you can find it here
from now on.
In de OOR internetpagina's staat een fijne live recensie van het concert eergisteren
in de Effenaar : klik hier.
Voor de liefhebbers, het verslag
van een Beatles jamsessie met Stoffel en Pascal in Enschede eind december op
de VPRO 3voor12 site.
Click here
for older news.