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Tom Barman will play a solo-gig at a memorial event for World War I in Zonnebeke (Ieper), Belgium on saturday october 14th.  This is what the event-website says:

‘The charismatic front man of dEUS, the ever-inventive brain behind the jazz band Taxi Wars or the merciless tormentor of your limbs with his dance act Magnus: Tom Barman is a true creative genius whose talent knows no bounds. For GoneWest, Barman has found new inspiration in the pointless violence of the Battle of Passendale. In his own unique Barmanesque way, he provides us with an evening full of experimentation, with unexpected guests of international standing. ‘

Tickets are available here.

1. Slow
2. Via
3. The Architect
4. Constant Now
5. Instant Street
6. Fell Off the Floor, Man
7. Girls Keep Drinking
8. Pocket Revolution
9. Sirens
10. Little Arithmetics
11. If You Don’t Get What You Want
12. Quatre Mains
13. Smokers Reflect
14. Serpentine
15. Sun Ra
16. Theme From Turnpike
17. Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)
18. Roses
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19. Bad Timing
20. Suds & Soda
21. Nothing Really Ends

For those of you who couldn’t attend the last gig with Mauro friday in Antwerp: this hidden cam video with Mauro was shown during the concert.

In a small interview with Gazet Van Antwerpen Tom has revealed the working title for his second movie. The Hab will tell the story of a Miami nightclub janitor turned drug smuggler who ends up in somebody else’s place in ‘The Hab’, a retro-futuristic re-hab center for alcoholics on the Basque coast. At the moment, Tom is still working on the scripts. Production should start somewhere in 2018.

Last year, Tom talked about his movieplans with Screendaily. Read the article here.

In an interview with Focus Knack Mauro Pawlowski announces he has decided to quit dEUS. According to Mauro that decision was not made at once. ‘The guys had to convince me to stay on board a couple of times in the past. But the last couple of your years i was wondering more and more if dEUS was still something for me.’ Mauro says he doesn’t want to focus only on the popcircuit in the future.

Tom also reacts in Focus Knack and says the departure of Mauro is probably a good opportunity to do something unexpected. Auditions for a new guitar player will not be held until the beginning of 2017 and it might be possible they don’t replace Mauro at all. Meanwhile Tom, Klaas, Alan and Stephane are working on new material. Tom would like to have some dEUS-stuff on the soundtrack of his second movie too.

dEUS will play at least one goodbye-gig with Mauro, on February 10th in the Lotto Arena, Antwerp.

Mauro joined dEUS 12 ago in 2004, a couple of weeks after the departure of Craig Ward. He played more than 400 gigs with the band and worked on 4 albums: Pocket Revolution (2005), Vantage Point (2008), Keep You Close (2011) and Following Sea (2012).

Read the complete interview in Dutch here and Tom’s reaction here.

An overview of the upcoming summergigs of dEUS, Magnus and Taxiwars.

dEUS

Magnus

TaxiWars

What It Is is the new single of Magnus. It will feature on an EP that will be released later this year.

Magnus will also play a couple of show in Belgium this summer. Click here for the dates.

Next saturday digital tv-station Acht is broadcasting a concertfilm that was recorded during the Soft Electric Tour. It contains footage from the gigs in Paris, Maastricht, Antwerp and Braga and additional artwork by Italian graphic novelist Antonio Fuso.

Fuso posted some illustrations on his Instagram-account recently. I’ve collected them here.

More info here.

The Soft Electric-gig at Aula Magna, Lisboa is now available on Dimeadozen. Download it here.