The first weekend of July is a tradition for de portables. Every year we played at Farmfest in the metropolis of Aalbeke. Not this year. Although we offered them to play for free beer, the organization thought that the cost (3405 jupilers, 377 orvals and 399 westvleterens) couldn’t be justified. Nevertheless we will be prezent.  We will have a BLAST at what it without a doubt the best music festival ever. We kid you not. Farmfest feels like you come at home. Everyone is friendly, there’ve got record stalls, there’s homemade ricard and ice-creams and of course there’s plenty of good bands playing.It breaths coziness and in this age of instant gratification and commercial overload it reminds us why we became a punk in the first place: to get drunk on the cheap. So see you today and tomorrow in Aalbeke and we buy you a beer (we do expect a beer in return, we’re not Poverello)

It’s been all quiet on the portables front. We’ve been fully occupied with the following things (in no particular order):

1. Packing in stuff and moving to a new home. We found a great new rehearsal space that will enable us to record our heavy psych dub jams and release them the day after on the net. *Cheer*
2. We’ve been at an oxygen training week in the Swiss alps to prepare  ourselves for some heavy beer lifting weekends. There’s farmfest, My Bloody Valentine and the infamous Gents Feesten all coming up.  *Cheer*x2
3. We’ve recorded a fresh sounding EP,  called Vegetarian BBQ. It features 8 songs, covers and remixes and funny stuff. 5 Euro’s for 45 minutes of portables goodness. The EP wasn’t a heavy bevalling. The making of he cover however was, hence the set of alt cover art on flickr *Cheers*x3
   
4. We’ve been finetuning our soccer skills because we think that even de portables can beat the dutch soccer team at the world championship in 2010! *Cheers*x3400002xPi