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93-09-19 Eversor – Hiatus – Nations On Fire – Strength Of The Will
See: 93-09-17&18&19 5th Leed-festival (Intro & Incident) After the rave the night before the day started with a breakfast… Liège crusties (including Willy ‘Hiatus’) & Italian HC/punks...
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97-08-15&16&17 HardCore – The Next Generation festival
‘Blindfold’ was supposed to play their “last show ever” but they still did shows, even toured during the summer, in ’98, their drummer Chatn informs. According to Hans their last gig was at ‘t...
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95-06-18 Avail – Four Walls Falling – Sensefield – Faroutski
‘Four Walls Falling’ (also from Richmond) were here for the 2nd time (see 93-10-03): Taylor Steele (vocals) left his brother (Robert ‘Bo’) at home this time. He was replaced by Cam DiNunzio (guitar)....
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90-02-24 Scraps – Ear Damage – Toespieze – Just Us
Joost Dierick (The Pits / Bang Zoom Noise productions) wrote me ‘Toespieze’ played at the Vort’n Vis on 90-03-10 but the gig-review in Pyrobolum #3 tells another story… ‘Scraps’ had cancelled for...
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Goodbye to Kiekenmarkt 7
Since the early days the activities of the Autonoom Jongeren Centrum (AJC; autonomous youth-centre) were taking place in the pub (and the ‘barn’) located at Kiekenmarkt 7 (Ieper/Ypres). The name would...
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2000-07-16 Abstain – Lifecycle – Firestone
‘Abstain’ was a grindcore band from Cerritos, California. They had toured Europe already in 1997… Bryan MacNamara (guitar) & (Guy) Jay Farihi (drums & vocals). Rob M played bass on the...
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2000-08-18&19&20 Ieperfest
From the www… >>The Vort’n Vis Festival is one of the biggest underground fests in Europe and can be found in Ieper. It exists a long time already, I think from the eighties. It used to be in the...
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96-11-02 Chamberlain – Blindfold
‘Chamberlain’ was an American emo/ post-HC/ alternative/ indie rock band, hailing from Indianapolis & Bloomington, Indiana. Previously they were known as ‘Split Lip’; changed the name after opting...
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94-08-19 Spawn – Congress – Kosjer D
Intro: 94-08-19&20&21 Hardcore Festival ‘Spawn’ was a sXe HC band from the Ruhrpott area (Germany) that arose from ‘Inner Circle’ in ’92 (see: 92-10-10). They recorded (Jan. ’94) for a...
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93-02-21 Citizen Fish – Hiatus – Blindfold – Shortsight – Behind The Smile
Benefit for an education-project in Indonesia (Kakak Asuh)… Sacha ‘Chatn’ Baelen (‘Blindfold’s drummer) (helped) organise(d) a couple of benefits for that organisation (also 94-04-23 & 95-03-25)....
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93-06-13 Bloodline – Transcend – Schizma – Spirit Of Youth – Wheel Of Progress
‘Wheel Of Progress’ consisted of Rob Franssen (also ‘Feeding The Fire’), Hans Verbeke (drums), Joost ‘Josh Fury’ Noyelle (guitar) & ‘Uniform’ Jan (U.J.) Vandekerckhove (who was, together with...
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98-09-18&19 10th Leed festival
(full posts with photos of some bands playing are planned…) 18 sep ’98: Money Drug (Pol), Hellfiller (Bel), Charlie Don’t Surf (Bel), King Creole (Bel), Lieselotte (Swi) 19 sep ’98: Doom (UK), Oi...
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2000-05-27 Impiety – Pentacle – Celestia
According to the Vort’n Vis notes Frederic Driessens (local grind/death/noise fanatic; did a series of compilation-tapes under the name Possessed By Death) arranged for these bands to come to the...
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96-03-17 Kort Prosess – Kurort – Seein’Red
Disaster… [The ‘Kort Prosess’ tour or this gig…?] Ilja S., Profane Existence Berlin; personal communication ‘96 ‘Kort Prosess’, a band from Horten (south of Oslo), consisted of Alf Almén (vocals),...
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94-04-09 Acme – Scraps – State Of Grace
from Marco Walzel’s zine (Speak So That I May See You #3); 94-05-14 Zwijnzicht Ultimate Punk Festival (NL) This was a benefit for the Anne Frank Foundation. I believe it was organised by Saskia...
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94-05-22 Sleeper – Disaffect – Rectify – Kosjer D
Bruno arranged the bands for this one; shitworkers were David ‘Mong’ Dumont & Kurt Deprez (‘Shortsight’) and yours truely. This was the last time ‘Disaffect’ (from Glasgow) played here. The 3rd...
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97-06-27 Spineless – Spirit Of Youth – Lifecycle – Firestone – Sorehead –...
The poster indicates this was the release-party of the ‘Spineless’ CD. ‘Fifi’ had a hand in setting this up. There’s no mentioning of ‘Voices At The Front’ in the V.V. notes, but ‘Instinct’ is...
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99-11-27 Congress – Solid – Lifecycle – Striker – Kalashnikov – New Innocence...
2 more “brand-new” bands were announced. On the poster there were 3 extra. The person who organised this was ‘xSchmitterSx’ (Stijn Desmyter from Oostnieuwkerke). H8000 metalcore band ‘Striker’...
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97-10-25 D.S.A. – Sorehead – Eclipse
The V.V. newsletter from August ’97 announced a Halloween party (to be organised by Peter V.). This here is a gig from around the same time. Shitworkers that night were Steph Quintens & Inge...
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96-02-24 Intestinal Disease – Cornucopia – Carcer Molochi – Les Schtroumpfs...
Another gig organised by Frederic Driessens (with practical help Christophe Delplace & Koen Vanthournout); presenting 5 Belgian bands… ‘Intestinal Disease’ had played at the V.V. before (94-01-30)....
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