de portables – womanize don’t terrorize
artist: de portables
song: womanize don’t terrorize
Bedroom demo version of Womanize don’t terrorize. Later version was used in the brilliant o-man versus k-man rollercoaster action movie
de portables – Diep Rivier
‘Diep Rivier’ is a poem by the South-African writer Eugene Marais. We made a song out of it for the Marais tribute festival Geen floue trek of tam, sans gene: Marais, organised in Bruges by het Venijnig Gebroed.
Our original plan was to do a playback-version of the song. But we chickened out and decided to play the song live (although we had never rehearsed it). Quite contradictionary, as most artists will be less nervous when they can fake a performance. I guess we’re not very confident fakers 
Anyway, everything turned out well. We played another classic by Marais: ‘Staan, poppie, staan’, with Wio on vocals. The crowd, which was a little more high-brow than the average rockfan, liked it. And the host of the evening, who announced every artist in ‘Afrikaans’, praised our ‘unusual interpretations’. Another job well done!
at home with de portables…
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This is part of a 4 part cheezy soap extravaganza featuring the mighty de portables.
It’s one of those typical studiomuscle things: we worked on it for days and then only showed it once during a a gig in the Ancienne Belgique.
It follow the daily routines of de 4 portables. Although the video quality is quite crappy you can still see the carrot hanging outside jurgen’s trousers 
europa – sex machine
This is recorded during the very first Studiomuscle souper in January 1999 in Bruges belgium. Europa was a short-lived collaboration between Dieter Sermeus (the go find, orange black) and aldo struyf (millionaire).
Rock Pose
Typical! You practice fifteen years on your rock poses and still look like a complete idiot on stage. While your son, who is only one month old, pulls a perfect Jim Morrison. Maybe we should have named him ‘Alain’ or ‘Hendrik’ instead of ‘Otis’.