de portables at pukkelpop
Image: de portables Bert and Wio très flickr
Pukkelpop show was great: beers, rock and roll, delicious mussels and too many backstage ego’s 
You can view this and many other flickr photos in our photo section . As promised we’ll be putting the "encore that wasn’t played" soon online.
Thanks to all who came and those who couldn’t come. We love you all.
UPDATE: some reviews:
- nice review on goformusic by travelling reporter cdmunter (dutch only)
- review in de morgen friday 19th of august (dutch only)
brugge 2002: a space oddysee
This is the very first movie studiomuscle ever made (christmas 1999). It’s a very lo-fi version of the star wars between the cultural establishment in Bruges (represented by the malicious Art Vader) and the heros of studiomuscle (C3Wio, Hans Olo, Luc Moonwalker and Princess Wia) who, enforced by a mysterious strength called "De Mussel", try to break down the rigid cultural horsefuckers. It features flying belfries, cow spaceships and very very silly dialogues. It’s advised you do not watch this film if
- you don’t speak flemish
- better still, you don’t really understand west-flemish
- your first name begins with George or John
Like said, this material is crude, lo-fi and silly but definitely carries the seeds that are truely studiomuscle: the obsession with belfries and carillions, flenglish dialogues, Hans Olo, extravagant mussel 3D renders courtesy of Wio, our love for star wars, blackadder, 2001, monty python… and a general tendency to disregard any logic in how a movie should end.
The movie contains an epilogue with the highlights of the studiomuscle soupers of that year with a very touching, sentimental mussel soundtrack
It’s made in 1999 with a crappy camcorder a 300 Mhz PC with 128 MB RAM, a DC30+ video card and a 4 GB SCSI harddisk, those were the days!
The History of Studio Muscle
This is a very old movie we made back in the days (I think 1999). It depicts the historically correct rendition of the evolution of studiomuscle. Starting out in prehistoric times where the first lo-fi singers songwriters held little get-togethers in caves and swamps on to the Roman Empire where one Johannes De Kraker reigned suppreme. It was in 1867 when studiomuscle’s computer animated presentator Frankie got shot by an evil villain called Etienne Schouppen. It lasted two centuries before studiomuscle recuperated from this brutal attack only to make the biggest rip-off movie ever made. Let’s call it a remix or a mash-up video but ithe truth is we were a little short on ideas and very short on self-made footage and time. It’s still very enjoyable by moments though 
de portables on tv
A very small clip ripped from WTV: west-flemish regional TV, starring de portables rehearsing the BimBam tune in "zon i bos" rehearsal studios. With a flemish voice-over saying all kinds of very interesting things.
de portables sounds to enjoy
- Here I stand [Rosegarden - 4.6MB]
- How It Feels [Girls Beware - 4.6MB]
- Happy with the Way Things Are [Girls Beware - 4.3MB]
- Rédaction [Tour cd - 3.8 MB]
- Johnny Bos [Rosegarden - 4.3MB]
- Köhnfrituurpje [Op visite bij tante klara - 8MB]
