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

Tonight de portables will bring it down at Iron Muide, which is conveniently located at 400 meters from our doorstep! Beer! Rock and roll and lots of hot, sexy women (who hopefully are as enthusiastic about Jquery and scalable websites like we are). YES! Last year was brilliant: beer, rock and roll and Brahim, who was truly interested in our drunk explanations on recommendation engine algorithms. Tomorrow Tonight (friday thus ) probably around 22h but come early because it is very plezant.UPDATE : the schedule is very loose. It is probable we’ll play before 22h. Arrive at 20h30 and you’ll be safe

postrock is dead.There we said it! The last ten years we survived on white bread and choco and this has to change. We’ve been ripped by our record labels, betrayed by our postrock peers of toman and transit (who called us “vetzakken”) and we are left desillusionated by the current affairs in alt.post.rock. This has to stop! Therefore de portables reach out to new musical partners in crime. Goodbye Sylvester Anfang, hello Christoff, Dana Winner and de kreuners. The climax of our transformation will be on the 20th of July where we will share the stage with our new friends in Bruges. Virtue our religion and enlightment will be yours; believe us, topless is more.

The series of corporate sell-out continue as de portables signed a contract with VTM to deliver sexy loops and tunes for their newest online flash game! While we are counting our cash and enjoy the material luxury you cannot afford, you can go and play the game, inspired by the mighty subservient chicken and the musical genius from Knesselare Kohn.

Thanks to Andries Introver for making this lucrative deal happen!