Meet the Bruges department of The Official de portables Fanclub. These are the guys who booked us for the show with De Kreuners and friggin’ Dana Winner. Eugene, Prosper, Philemont and friends have been a die-hard fans since the zon-i-bos tape came out.
Theogene Debruyne (1st person on the left) remembers the first gig of pre-portables band Sorbitol: “I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on my 98th birthday. I didn’t even have to wear my hearing-aid, Wio was drumming so loud”.
Prosper Dacquin (1st on the right), president of Koninklijk Comité voor initiatief van Brugge (that’s how they named their fanclub) says he looks forward to the show on the 20th of July. “If only Heinrich Gimly could be there”. Alas Gimly, the short german-norwegian de portables fanatic died last week due to the injuries of a shrapnel.

Dieter Van Marcke caught the new song “Camper” on a cell phone at the Magdalenazaal in Bruges. de portables go Pink Floyd. Finally! Did we say already that the show in Bruges was really one of the best shows we’ve put on recently? It probably has to do with the scientific theory of Wio that drinking one Duvel just before a show is the perfect catalysator for a “great performance”. Further studies are being conducted in the field and recent findings at the concert in Aalst have pointed out that drinking three Duvels (along with a few glasses of red wine, some Carlsberg Ales and an Orval to sip it through) is certainly above the current “great performance” threshold. Wio plans to publish his results in the Journal for autoimmunity and alcohol next quarter.