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Good News! Yves Leterme resigns as PM. Let’s hope it is final and the King has a lucid moment and agrees with this resignation. This particular resignation once more proves the staggering genius of Yves Leterme. We remember many glorious moments: the incredible alliance with N-VA in order to get enough votes without taking in mind that he would actually have to do what Ward De Bever told him, the bending over to the Dutch when they started nagging about the ‘wegenvignet’, the blood chilling performance of the Brabançonne, the longest government formation ever; and now this, just like Justine Henin, quitting at the top of his career! This deserves a place on the Pukkelpop Stage!

Good News! Bob Mould will not come to the Pukkelpop Festival in Kiewit. He has officially announced this. Well, what a happy coincidence. This situation should offer a great opportunity to Yves Leterme to start a new career: corporate business instigated alternative rock star. Maybe he can become friends with Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield and start a Nu-Black-Metal band called “Leterminal”, bringing you a repertoire of Flemish Folk Traditionals in a style that is tough enough to scare the Walloons into a willingness to separate this country.

Allons! Enfants de la Patrille!

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

Last friday de portables played a pretty good live show for a small audience in Belgium’s finest independent club 4AD in Diksmuide. We shared the bill with ‘the dodos’, an excellent little band from San Francisco. We’re very jealous of their garbage can and we were very impressed by the guy who played that particular object.

The entire portables show can be downloaded right here, right now; especially for those of you who missed and that were quite a lot of people actually! And we could have used your support for the afterwardly World Championship of World Soccer we played against those silly birds from Frisco!

The setlist was:

1 The Never Ending Song
2 Camper
3 This Time Of Year
4 What Would Djenghis Do?
5 Poisonous Fishy
6 Aradub
7 This Is A Song
8 Vegetarian BBQ
encores:
9 Chariots Of Surf
10 A Waltz



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Enjoy and never mind the bindteksten!

Another lost portables track turned up while I was checking an unlabeled tape. What first seemed like a typical 1999 self-made post-rock and electronica compilation tape turned out to contain a disregarded portables track. Nothing happened with this track anymore, I bet not a single portable even remembers it in his ‘random recollections of glorious recording spurs memory’ (RROGRSM). In the end, isn’t that what archeology is all about: uncovering the forgotten?

The track itself was actually recorded by only Hans and Jürgen. You can clearly hear a funny evalution discussion at the very end of the track. The track itself is a 10 minute droney guitar epic that resides somewhere in between Pink Floyd’s ‘Welcome to the Machine’ and Village Of Savoonga. It features an old 78-rpm record player in the intro and was recorded @ Zon i Bos on a Digital 8-track.

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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.

Thanks to Andries Introver for making this lucrative deal happen!

Personal problems, dumped by his team, connected to a cocaine cartel… it’s not exactly fiesta time for cycler Frank Vandenbroucke. Then again, what else is new?

Long gone are the days when VDB fell in love with Sarah, was the star of the pack and shook everybody off in the Vuelta of 1999. And all that on a cool soundtrack by Hans Olo…

Since there is no money anymore in selling CD’s, de portables continuously seek out new business models to add revenue to the ever-growing de portables bank account. Selling t-shirts is one thing but selling out to Roularta Media (the Fox Media of Belgium) is another. That’s why our management didn’t hesitate to repurpose some of our tunes in their corporate Flash Games.

For every person who plays the highly addictive Rush Hour game, money flows in our direction, generating such a tremendous positive cash flow that we’ll be able to retire soon or acquire other, less talented bands like Introver or Toman!

Creating superior value for our major shareholders (yup, that’s you) that’s what de portables are all about. Now if you will excuse me, I’ll have another caipirinha.

In the contract we signed at the time with Sanoma Publishing, the company that publishes Humo, it was cleary stipulated that if the interview would not be published by April 15th, 2008, a fine of 15.000 euros would be demanded from Sanoma.

With this lawsuit, for which we have hired the best Harvard professor of Law and specialist in Lazy interview rights Ben Depoorter to support our case pro deo.

Or should we say: nazi punks fuck off

Although you can listen to our new EP our lawyers insist that you cannot review, nor share your opinion about the music with your friends, family and pet animals. Don’t even think of posting this on Napster, BBS systems or other music sharing sites!

The only thing you should do is drink a Heineken beer while adoring the sexy, eclectic, dancable and in your face  remixes of our own songs. That’s because that’s how we think you must listen to our music. Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?