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93-05-16 Decadence Within – Shutdown – Active Minds – Jughead’s Revenge –...
Marc Nierhaus, a correspondent from Germany set up this tour for ‘Decadence Within’ & ‘Shutdown’ but he couldn’t travel with them. I couldn’t help ‘D.W.’ out this time because I was already too...
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95-07-14 Manfat – [Kito] – [Baby Harp Seal]
Anthony Palmer (editor of zines like ‘Dingo Baby’, ‘Duhhh’,…) wrote me in June ’95: “The ‘Manfat’ Euro tour fell through. ‘Kito’ wanna tour with ‘Baby Harp Seal’ instead.” But they played at the V.V....
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93-10-03 Four Walls Falling – Dawson – Blindfold – Shortsight – [Concrete Sox]
‘Four Walls Falling’ was a political (SxE) HC band from Richmond, Virginia. The day of this concert Françoise ‘Hazel’ Lepers (together with Kurt & David, her fellow band-members in ‘Shortsight’ at...
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Blindfold & Shortsight summer-tour 1993
tour-pass (kindly donated by Chat’n) tour-schedule; from Superfluous #1 drawing; from Superfluous #1 (zine done by Françoise ‘Hazel’ Lepers, ‘Shortsight’ guitarist): Wim Vandekerckhove – David ‘Mong’...
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93-05-01 Spitboy – Dirt (photos)
All about this concert: 93-05-01 Spitboy – Ivich – One By One – Bugeyed – Dirt – Sedition ‘Spitboy’ (photos [1-2-3] by Martin Vantomme, [4] by Karl Penando); below ‘Hazel’ Lepers in the background...
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93-05-01 Spitboy – Ivich – One By One – Bugeyed – Dirt – Sedition
Extra photos of ‘Spitboy’ & ‘Dirt’ ‘Spitboy’ was an all-female political HC band from the San Francisco Bay Area. The band consisted of Adrienne Droogas (vocals; she also did a zine called Too Far...
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96-07-07 Anomie – Substandard – Marker – [Grover] – Tuomiopäivan Lapset –...
‘Bakunin’s Children’ were Steve Differding (guitar; also in various other bands from Luxemburg), Thierry Thill (drums; ex ‘Because’ & ‘D’Rotzbouwen’), Frank Villanueva (bass; later ‘Petrograd’),...
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92-09-05 Ironside – Strong Event – Blindfold – Shortsight – No More – Feeding...
1st day of the 1st Ieperfest ‘Ironside’ were a vegan sXe metalcore outfit from Bradford. Nick Royles (drums; ex ‘Sore Throat’ & ‘No Way Out’ 90-08-25) was in the band; along with Andrew Wright...
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92-09-06 Abolition – Nations On Fire – Strength Of The Will – Inner Circle –...
2nd day of the 1st Ieperfest (1st day: 92-09-05 Ironside – Strong Event – Blindfold – Shortsight – No More – Feeding The Fire – Spirit Of Youth) The best ‘N.O.F.’ line-up here: Jaak De Cock (drums; ex...
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92-06-27 Rorschach – Blurred Vision – Shortsight – Planet Coldox
Charles Maggio, ‘Rorschach’s vocalist and owner of Gern Blandsten, at one point wrote: “Brob, I’ld like you to be my exclusive distributor for my label in Belgium.”. That was probably after the Fuse...
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92-05-24 M.D.C. – Tribe 8 – That’s It – No More – Positive Youth
Dieter R. (who did the poster) didn’t listen very carefully when he heard the name ‘Tribe 8 ‘… ;-) Quite a while after their 1st appearance in Belgium (1982, supporting the ‘Dead Kennedys’ in Mechelen)...
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92-08-29 Sedition – One By One – Dreft
The first gig of ‘Sedition’ (from Glasgow) here. On their 1st tour with ‘One By One… I’d probably already heard them on tape. Later I helped distribute the LP over here. I’d exchanged some notes...
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92-10-04 Downcast – Disaffect – [Farside] – Faroutski – Agent 86
Besides the bands that actually played (can’t remember if ‘Punishment Park’ were there aswell; I think they abondoned touring with ‘Agent 86’ by then) also ‘Jawbreaker’ was announced (see poster). Can...
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Incident @ 5th Leed-festival (Sep. ’93)
This is a precursory page to the posts on the 5th Leed-festival. There was quite some commotion and it led to a substantial evaluation of the Vort’n Vis’ policies… Accounts of the actual festival will...
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92-12-31 Infezione
New year’s eve in the Vort’n Vis? Of course! When there’s a band of intelligent people playing great music. ‘Infezione’ were a great HC/punk band with an anarchist message from Modena (Italy): Enrico...
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91-07-21 Systemphobia – Acoustic Grinder
cover of the split-tape ‘Systemphobia’ were from Riemst (Limburg): Mario Liesens (vocals), Kristof Moors (guitar), Erik (bass), Stefan Claesen (drums) and Geert (guitar; later replaced Sam Liesens)....
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95-04-28 Seein’Red – Stack – Gluebag
First evening of the ‘Ceaseless Suffocation’ festival – no idea why Bruno made up this name – which was first intended as a one-day-er… This Friday evening in the pub was kind of a ‘preparation’ for...
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The Pit’s aficionados performing @ Vort’n Vis
Around the same time of the conception of the Vort’n Vis, an ‘indie’ pub was set up in Kortrijk: The Pits (Actually it’s The Pit’s). People that frequented it and the bands that they invited were not...
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Vort’n Vis; haven for travellers
Some people might not realize that besides the regular hardcore/punk shows there was a hell of a lot more going on at the Vort’n Vis. When there were no gigs, the bar was also open for the local...
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93-02-06 Subway Arts – Fleas & Lice – Xinix – 4 Minute Warning
This was a benefit for ‘Het Krakend Gewricht’ (‘the squeaky joint’; ‘kraken’ is also Dutch for squatting), a squatted housing-complex & anarchist infoshop in Gent (Slinkemolenstraat). There were...
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