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Posted in News on July 25th, 2008 by hendrik

 croxhapox.jpgIf you think De Gentse Feesten is all about getting drunk and spoiling irish coffees on your shirt, think again. It’s about great shows and experiences. Tonight, le lapin de Knesselare makes his comeback. Jurgen’s electronic alter ego Kohn will perform tonight at croxhapox (location) at 20u30 sharp. Perfect start before some binch drinking at the flash market. 

Posted in News on July 25th, 2008 by bert

As it is also cucumber time in portablesland, we might as well make some publicity for friends who are not getting drunk around the clock at the Gentse Fieste or enjoying the odor of baby droppings in the middle of the night.

Tom is one of them. His “London 1948″-project attempts to (re)construct the biographies of every single athlete who participated at the Olympic Games sixty years ago. So if your wrestling grandma won bronze in the Greco-Roman heavyweight class, join him at www.London1948.org.

Being de portables and thus having the worst sportgenes imaginable, we won’t be able to help him. True, we were masters at ‘Caveman Ugh-lympics’ back in 1988. But the only non-virtual sport in which we all excelled was ‘beer tray frisbee’. Unfortunately, after one game we had to reconstruct one of the windows of our legendary Zon i Bos-studio.

Posted in News on July 25th, 2008 by bert

Vegetarian Barbecue

If our friends at Stilll hadn’t objected against the original sleeve of our latest ep, we ‘d surely have obtained that fourth star! ;-)

“‘Moeilijk’ is een etiket dat de portables geregeld opgeplakt krijgen. Onzin: dit Gentse antwoord op Sonic Youth heeft gewoon een zwak voor ongein - getuige titels als ‘Vegekoestisch’, ‘Op Safari met Jean-Michel Jarre’ (gelukkig meer Mogwai dan Jarre) en de extended knolselderdedubber version van ‘Vegetarian Barbecue’. Of neem ‘This Is a Samba’: geen samba maar bossanova. ‘Vegetarian Barbecue’ *** is een uit de hand gelopen ep die pas na drie kwartier afklokt, met als piece de résistance de zeventien minuten durende titeltrack, tegelijk compacte popsong en staalkaart van hun kunnen: een mix van ontsporende elektronica, dwaze en toch ontroerende teksten, grillige gitaren en geluiden allerhande. In de tweede helft verliest dit plaatje een beetje focus, maar de denderende electro van afsluiter ‘Vegetarian Trancenicue’ had best wat langer mogen duren.” (cv)

Posted in News on July 17th, 2008 by hendrik

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Posted in News, babies on July 15th, 2008 by wio

Bert and Elliot

Congratulations Bert and Willeke!

Pita
Oda, Otis
Ramona
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Elliot
Sterre

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