stuff where should I put all this ?
1. deus and celebrities
2. results of your votes
3. nokia ring tones
4. official message to dEUS fans

 

what the famous people have to say about dEUS

Suske

Suske (Belgian comics hero)

Suske (from Willy Vandersteen's never-ending Suske & Wiske comics series, a monument in contemporary surrealism) doesn't say anything about dEUS, but in the latest instalment of his adventures, he makes a strong statement by displaying a TIC poster in his bedroom. The poster says "The Ideal Clash" and is animated box after box. The falling lady has a green dress and blonde hair, she falls, shakes herself, stands up again, falls again. And Suske's computer is a Pear Macintosh.

>> Two TIC-heavy pages from the latest episode

 

Stephen Malkmus

Stephen Malkmus, Pavement

In an interview in RifRaf's Feb 97 issue, Stephen Malkmus is asked about Belgium : "Beer, fries, mussels from Brussels, dEUS. Good band, very original sound, lots of different influences, I like that. You can't trace where they get their stuff from. I bought their album today" [thx to quinten]

>> Pavement, The Rock Band

 

Shirley Manson

 

Shirley Manson, Garbage

In late 1999 or early 2000, Garbage hosted the Australian night video show RAGE, and they played the Instant Street video. Shirley said The Ideal Crash was her favorite 1999 album. This was a few months after she headlined the Beach festival in Belgium with dEUS. And in the January 2000 issue of US music mag Rolling Stone, when asked about her favourite album from 1999, she advertised TIC again.

>> Garbage Online Version 2.0

 

Phil Selway

 

Phil Selway, Radiohead

In 1997, Radiohead played a few hours before dEUS at the Belgian T/W festival. Phil came to see the band backstage after their performance, and told Julle that he was very impressed.

>> Follow Me Around

Michael Stipe

 

Michael Stipe, R.E.M.

He's a dEUS fan.
And Tom is a R.E.M. fan.
A happy coincidence :)

>> Murmurs Dot Com
Chris Eckman

The Walkabouts, USA

They covered Wake Me Up Before I Sleep on their latest album called Train Leaves At Eight. Leader Chris Eckman explains this choice :

The final track on the Belgian band Deus' second album, this is one of my all time favorite three in the morning songs. We met Deus in 1993 when they opened for us in their native Antwerp. It was one of those opening sets that you felt lucky to have witnessed. A year later, at the same club, Tom Barman brought us a tape of their just completed debut. All the promise of that earlier set had been captured. We have remained fans ever since.

>> thewalkabouts.com

 
  And Reef, Idlewild and Muse each requested dEUS videos when they were invited by M2 Europe (the dark side of MTV, an amazing digital channel) to choose their own music hour. Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy said he would like to write a song with dEUS.

 

WIRELESS : even mobile phones love dEUS

For those of you with a Nokia mobile and free time ahead, here's leisure time provided by Menno Echnie ! If the following makes sense to you, then your phone will ring with Instant Street next time someone calls you :)

INSTANT STREET NOKIA RING TONE BY MENNO

I've made 2 instant street rings
here's the first, it's the beginning of the song :

get this to appear on your screen :
2c.3 2b2 4g2 4d3
4g2 4c3 4b2 4g2
4c1 4c1 4g2 4b2
4g2
2c.3 2b2 4g2 4d3
4g2 4c3 4b2 4g2
4c1 4c1 4g2 4b2
4g2
2c.3 2b2 4g2 4d3
4g2 4c3 4b2 4g2
4c1 4c1 4g2 4b2
4g2
2.c3 2b2 4g2 4d3
4g2 1d3

then set tempo to 225 bpm

the second is the solo :

4b2 4c3 4b2 4g3
4g3 4#f3 4c3 4-
4b2 4c3 4b2 4g3
4g3 4#f3 4#d3
4- 4b2 4#d3 4b2
4#d3 4#d3 4d3
2#c3 4b2 4#c3
4b2 4#c3 4#c3
4c3 2- 4#d2
4#f2 2d3 4#f2 4-
4#d2 4#f2 2d3
2#d2 4d3 4#d2 4d3

for this one set the tempo to 225 bpm as well

if you have a nokia 3210 model phone you can use this
combination of numbers :
(1):
1(hold)9**7**582*5**1*7**51**15*75

type this sequence 3 times but leave out one of the (*)
behind the 9 the 2nd and 3rd time, when you've typed it 3 times, type:

1(hold)9*7**582*5**2*99


(2 the solo) :

7*1*7**5*54#107**1*7**5*54#2#
07**2*#7**2*#2#21#97**81*#7**1*#
1#1092**#4#2*94**#802#4#2*92**#
2*82**#2*

it's quite easy once you get the hang of it

 

POLL : 01OCT - best dEUS video

A hands-down victory for Hotellounge and Roses, which surprised me. I voted for Roses, thinking I'd be one of the very few to do so : it's a dark video, somehow insane. I especially love the Chinese characters. As for the Hotellounge video, well, I'm glad that many of you are "old-school" dEUS fans - after all, this is hotellounge.com :)
I also like to see that almost nobody voted for Sister Dew : that one's so dull ... As for the FOTFM video, has anyone ever seen it on TV ?

 

25AUG - there is beauty here / he's so cute
Uh, should I really comment on this ? Obviously you got the message : this poll was for fun and has no serious meaning at all. How else could anyone have voted for Rudy and Julle ;)
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when dEUS officially address their fans

When the official dEUS site (www.deus.be or www.theidealcrash.com) opened in March 1999, it really was a time for excitement. On March 15, Craig sent a message to those dEUS fans who had subscribed to the dEUS announcement mailing list - the first time ever in dEUS history that they officially took care of their fans ;-) A very funny message, and part of hISTORY now.

Young ladies and gentlemen of Europe and the world,

It is with no little pleasure that I welcome you all to this new and endlessly exciting dEUS / Ideal Crash website. At least I hope it will be endlessly exciting, but that`s pretty much out of my control. As is loads of other stuff. Like the weather. And South American politics. Talking of which, all of your learned opinions on the General Pinochet affair are most welcome. We will be checking the Net on a daily basis to grade your debating skills. Hey, I`m sorry to get all schoolteacherish on your asses but we have to establish some kind of working relationship here, and we have to get some idea of what`s going on in the heads of those people who choose to spend their time and money consuming our music. Why do you do it? Could we be doing it better? Are we on the cusp of total world domination? Is it possible to use the word "cusp" unselfconsciously? These and other unimportant questions will almost certainly not be answered herein. So there. And don`t go complaining to us when the DJ talks all over the intro and outro of your favourite dEUS song. Because we won`t be listening. Hey, if the DJs aren`t listening to the records they`re playing why should we? I mean, we know these records inside-out by now, and personally I`ve got better things to be doing with my time than listening to the radio. Like gardening, for example. Now there`s a worthy pastime. And cooking. Anyone got any killer recipes? Feel free to share them with us. Get creative, for Christ`s sake. It worked for Skunk Anansie, and believe me, if it can work for them, it could work for you. Although I strongly advise you against using that as a license to start writing third rate Meatloafesque soft metal ballads and passing them off as radicalism. And you can all just leave Bryan Adams and Sporty Spice out of this. I mean it, some of you people should learn a little respect. They work hard y`know, these pop star types. And they don`t make much money either.
Yeah, right.
Don`t let anyone fool you with any of that "pop stars don`t make much money" bullshit. Oh yes they do. I`ve seen these people, vulgarly throwing their cash around like there`s no tomorrow. My God it`s ugly. Girl Power indeed. Cash Power would be more like it. Are we talking about money now? Sorry, I promised myself I wouldn`t.
On a lighter note, those of you with a sense of humor (American spelling), might like to take a moment to laugh at Shawn Mullins. Ha. Ha.
And once again, Ha. Feels good, doesn`t it?
Thank You for your time. Enjoy,

Craig Ward

P.S. I`m serious about the General Pinochet stuff

 

 

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