No No Sheriff - Emly Starr

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nouvelle danse

A brand new blog dedicated to dance crazes music curated by legendary french vinyl records addicts: "a la piscine" and "rond carré".

http://nouvelledanse.blogspot.com



Let's begin with la yenka ... Yenka riketik






few years later ...

Manneken Pis Rock

There aren't enough songs written about famous statues that pee. I'm sure there are many more, but this song by Mad Unity is the only one I know of.

Manneken Pis Rock:

Do You Brush Your Teeth?

Belgian Marie Marie encourages proper dental hygiene in this 1980 French EP. I prefer gnawing on a Nylabone, myself.

The Cousins - the robot

Any record with a song called "robot" is worth listening! Available thanks to McLuhan's Garden

RIP Fud Leclerc

Four-time Eurovision contestant Fud Leclerc has died.

The Belgian singer's 1962 entry "Ton Nom" received zero points and he was the first Eurovision performer to receive no points.

Let Us Beat in Rio

Sometimes if you are patient, blogs that appear to be dead magically come back to life. Case in point, Twist and Frit'-- that introduced me to so many great Belgian pop tunes from the sixties-- just posted some new stuff after a year's hiatus. Quiet joy did ensue.

Cowboy Henk

The Horrors Of It All have several nice examples of this cool absurdist comic.

astronouts

Animation for Astronaut by Spinvis (Erik de Jong), from his self-titled debut album. Jules Spee made this for a school assignment (make an animation with the lyrics of a song).



Spinvis recorded another version of Astronaut with the Belgian female vocal group Laïs for "Nieuwegein aan Zee"

And Laïs made a complete rendition of their own:



Video by Spinvis himself:

In search for Maria

Here's hoping no-one has seen this 5 times allready ;-)
Just an ordinary Monday morning at Antwerp Central Station, three months ago.


stream in high quality

and I think the unedited version of one angle is even more spectacular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDSXEUFbyk

For the curious ones: the making of

GUS DERSE & THE KILI-JACKS

Picky picky bang wicky wicky wong picky picky China Bang Rock!

Is all sixties Belgian music as awesome as Gus Derse & the Kili-Jacks? If so, I'd better become a regular reader of Twist and Frit'.

Guy Peellaert (1934-2008)

R.I.P.Guy Peellaert - Belgian rock artist and cartoonist, passed away Nov. 17 at the age of 74. In addition to his regular comics work, Peellaert designed a number of record sleeves, including David Bowie's Diamond Dogs cover. And a number of photo collage-based style strips to Hara Kiri magazine.

--
comics gallery via World Of Kane / Hara Kiri gallery via PCL! / Guy Peelaert's official page

Hey I'm a Creep!

60 Belgian Belle Choir
From the Taking Tiger Mountain Archives

EVERY TIME YOU INFLATE A CHURCH, JESUS CRIES A LITTLE

Suggested wedding gifts: air mattress, penis pump, George Bush's ego, that dancing thing that Lex10 made a movie out of.

[via WFMU]

Dance Like a Belgian!

Yes! It's the Letkis!
Originally uploaded by pj_rivera

I suppose this was huge in Brugge, but it seemed to bypass the States.

Tabu Belgians

So you say you love the Belgian supergroups of the sixties? Bizarro exotica effects? TV lighting that leaves performers looking like washed out zombies? Well, don't say I never gave you anything, then.

The Cousins - Kana Kapila (1961)

Uploaded by Thundernest.(check the Spotnick's videos he uploaded).

The Cousins come from Belgium and had been very popular in the early 60's. THe song Killy Watch in 1961 starts their career, they had been touring in Africa and later Argentina and finally the band had broken up in 1967 with a last concert in Belgium.
You can download this song here from an excellent "vinyl sharity" blog i've just discovered : Flash Athletic (blog in french)
Kana Kapila by The Cousins is also featured on Jungle Exotica vol.1 a compilation released in 2000 on Crypt Records
(Trivia) ...
A rock n' roll surf band from my hometown The Orientals had made a cover of this song in 2001.

Hara'Kiri - Ignore the tits

Hey, What's up
What are you looking at
Did I do something stupid
Or is it something I said

Hara'Kiri, clitpunk band from Antwerp, Belgium

NSFW