MISEENSCENE

MARCH 2012

2012-03-05T19:58:00.000+01:00

Het is al 'n paar maanden stil rond M*E*S. In november 2011 speelden we onze laatste show, en eind januari startten we met de voorbereidingen van ons nieuwe album, de opvolger van 'Wild As Angels'. We hebben dus geenszins stil gezeten, al hebben we in tussentijd nog een kleine verandering aan onze line-up doorgevoerd. Brecht, die ons een jaar lang van fijne baslijntjes voorzag, meerde af als bemanningslid van ons piratenschip. Graag willen we Brecht hierbij bedanken & veel suxxes toewensen!

Gelukkig kwamen we net in die aanmeerperiode iemand tegen die ook vorig jaar even in de running was om bassist bij ons fijn(zinnig) orkestje te worden. Helaas verhinderde tijdsgebrek dat toen, maar nu kunnen we toch met veel tromgeroffel, confetti en slingers onze nieuwste aanwinst Maarten voorstellen. Met deze gemotiveerde kickass bassplayer aan boord, zetten we de voorbereidingen voor ons derde full-album verder.
Binnenkort maken we onze eerste showtjes voor 2012 bekend, met uiteraard de eerste show waar we onze nieuwe aanwinst officieel opnemen in de M*E*S-family en -hopelijk- ook al 'n voorproefje van het nieuwe album kunnen laten horen.

Cheers,

Bjorn, Qrizz, Jonez, Brahim, Maarten aka M*E*S

Loooooong time since you heard anything about the M*E*S-punx, right?
It's been a few months since we've played our last show (November 2011). At the end of January, we started writing new stuff for our next album, the successor of 'Wild As Angels'. In the meantime, a small change in our line-up had to be realized. Brecht, who provided us with some damn fine basslines since February 2011, moored off from our 'lil pirate ship. We hereby would like to thank Brecht for everything & wish him all the best!

Lucky for us, Maarten stepped forward as our new bassplayer. We're both proud and excited to have this motivated, kickass bassplayer aboard.
Soon we'll announce our first shows of 2012, including the first show with Maarten on bass, and hopefully some new songs of the upcoming album.

Cheers,

Bjorn, Qrizz, Jonez, Brahim, Maarten aka M*E*S

* 2012 *

2012-01-19T14:33:00.000+01:00

Alright! Now Qrizz is back from his adventurous journey through Central-America, it's time to pick up where we left off!

We've been listening to the demo-session we've recorded last year.
These (nine) songs actually sound quite OK, taking in consideration that we've only spent a few hours recording this. Most of these songs were included in our setlist loooong time ago. So no 'new-new'-stuff, but with so many ideas floating around in our rehearsal room, we should have some more songs ready in a few weeks time. As soon as this stuff is molded into songs, we'll start to think of recording them for 'real', for our 3rd full album.
We strongly believe this could be the best stuff we've ever written (just a feeling though, based upon the crazy dancemoves that were expressed by certain bandmembers while listening to the first demos...). Hopefully all things will work out fine, so that we can present you this album somewhere around late-mid-2012.

2012... Besides the fact that this world is goin' to hell (if we can take the Maya's predictions for granted...), this is also a special year for M*E*S. It's been 10 years since we've resurrected this band. In May 2002, we started rehearsing again after a 2 years break, playing our first 'new' show in October 2002. And the train kept on rollin' ever since. We haven't decided yet if we're going to celebrate this, but if you know the M*E*S-keteers/partyharders a little bit, well, chances are that there might be some crazy fucked up birthday-show-party to remember this.

Let's talk shows; we had to cancel a few of our upcoming shows (sorry 'bout this, we hope we can make up for this some time later). There was also a short stint in Russia in the works, but one that fell through... for now. Hopefully we can rock Moscow some other time!!! First shows of 2012 will be announced shortly.

Have a Great & Rockin' 2012, see you around!!

Bjorn * Qrizz * Jonez * Brahim * Brecht

Last announcement for 2011

2011-11-18T10:27:00.001+01:00

We finished off with some cool shows in Waregem & Deinze... Great to end 2011 like this! Thanx to everyone who was there!!

This weekend, the pre-production for the new album has started, which means 'demos for the new album' in case you're unfamiliar with 'pre-production' :)

In other news, guitarplayer Qrizz is leaving Belgium for a while, he's gonna tour around Central-America, and will perform a few shows on his own (& with guests) around Guatemala & Mexico. Whenever he's back, M*E*S will pick up where we left off, and will start gigging again... Some cools shows will be announced after New Year, so stay tuned!

We secretly hope to record the new album during the Spring of 2012... we're really, really excited about the new songs!

Bye Bye For Now!!

Final Shows of 2011 / beginning of 2012

2011-11-08T09:57:00.000+01:00

This weekend we will be playing our last shows of 2011 & beginning of 2012. We'll play 2 shows on Nov. 12th: we'll be rocking the ROCKVLUCHT-festival in Waregem (17h30), and next up is the 'SNOW MUST GO ON'-benefit show in JC Brieljant, Deinze. Cool to have 2 shows to end with, near our hometown(s)...

After these shows, we'll start the pre-production of our next album, and head into hibernation.
Besides the recording & release of our 3rd full album, there's some interesting stuff going to happen in 2012, but more 'bout that after New Year!

Hope to see you around in Waregem/Deinze!

Halloween!

2011-10-26T14:31:00.001+02:00

Wow, now that was great! We're talking about the show in Desselgem... One of the best Belgian shows we've played in a long while... Thanx to the great crowd... cheers!A few more shows before our hibernation takes off. Starting with what is becoming an annual event for us: a Halloween-gig. October 31 @ JH Diezie in Roeselare (starts at 20h). This will be a free show, with a 'scary' afterparty afterwards.So bring your fake/real blood, scary masks, skeletons, spiders, gothic outfit etc with ya, ok? Kurt Baker (USA, you might know the dude from the Leftovers) will also perform that night. Trick or treat!!

DESSELGEM

2011-10-14T15:37:00.003+02:00

Tonight (14th of Oct) we'll play a show @JH Jakkedoe (Desselgem) together with The Softenon Babies (our bassplayer Brecht's other band - punkrock/garagerock) and Doctor Balls & the Pornomedics (the band of our drummer Brahim's brother - rockabilly/rock'n'roll). Hey guys, make some merch soon, will ya... we're anxious to buy some Doctor Balls-stuff...This show is part of a 48h-marathon, benefits will be donated to Make A Wish... Jh Jakkedoe, Nieuwstraat 6, Desselgem. Gig starts around 21h!

New Merch!

2011-10-06T12:26:00.001+02:00

We nearly forgot to mention that we've got some new merch for sale!Different sizes (S, M, L, XL, hoodies and girlies). Get one of these at our shows or contact us, and we'll make sure you have your shirt in no time!!

Doggie-style

2011-09-20T09:38:00.000+02:00

Last Saturday, Family of Dog, one of Deinze's most famous/furious hardcore punkbands reformed for this one show only. (Well,...)It was at one of their shows, back in 1996, that M*E*S played its first show. It may come as no surprise that lots of people from back in the days attended this show. Among the crowd, almost the entire M*E*S-line-up past/present: Koen (vocals), Fré (bass), Vik (bass), Jacob (bass), Jeff (drums) and Bjorn (Vocals) + Qrizz (Guitar) + Jones (Keyboard) from the current line-up. We had a good hangout and enjoyed some good tunes.

Here We Go Again...

2011-09-07T13:11:00.003+02:00

... well, at least, we've confirmed a few shows for October.Rehearsals should start in the next few weeks again. We can't remember that we ever took such a looooong holiday, but this all should result in new & fresh ideas!

Home!

2011-08-03T12:03:00.000+02:00

We just got home from one of the best tours ever. We had lots of fun (especially with our tourbuddies The Horny Horses!), played in front of great, warm and enthusiastic crowds, and despite a broken window, +7000kms on the road, had a jolly good time!
Thanx to everyone involved in this, hope to see you around sooner or later again!!!
Footage of this tour (videos/pictures/reports etc) will be released in the next following weeks. We got lots of stories to tell :)

M*E*S will take a break now... We'll fully concentrate on writing new stuff for the upcoming album. As a consequence, M*E*S will only play very few shows in the following months.

C-Ya!!!

Deinze !

2011-06-16T14:40:00.001+02:00

HEY HO,

It's been a while since we've updated this piece of WEB-Trash, but that's only because we're quite busy: writing new songs, rehearsing, and preparing our Summertour. Yeah, we'll be driving thousands of kilometers again, bringing Joy & Punkrock to whoever wants to hear some punky tunes during Summer.

As a consequence, we'll be playing only a few shows in Belgium in a long while. Tomorrow (Friday 17th of June), we will play a free show in our hometown DEINZE. ELPEE is the place to hang out. We'll include some new songs, and older songs we haven't played in a while in our setlist. See you around!

CAROLO

2011-05-16T13:53:00.000+02:00

Last weekend, we played a show in Carolo-Town (= Charleroi). It was great to meet up with some of our friends there!
We also brought a remarkable guest with us: our former drummer Jeff replaced Brecht on the bass for this show. And we think he did quite well.

In other news, we had to cancel our tour in Northern-Europe. Bummed about that one, because we were looking forward to play in Denmark & Sweden (and Germany), but we hope we only had to postpone this, and that we'll go North someday soon.

Instead of going abroad, we're gonna play two local shows (Deinze & Ghent) with DIVADROID .

MES - Wasting Away (live at Urgent)

2011-05-03T15:07:00.000+02:00

Live Session @ Urgent Radio

2011-04-21T10:57:00.000+02:00

We've recorded a live session for Urgent Radio yesterday. We focussed on new songs, which haven't been recorded so far. So here it is, the way it was recorded, late at night, straightforward, no overdubs or anything, just pure'n'raw M*E*S. Enjoy!

Mise en Scene | Live @ Rommelkot by Urgent.fm Official

Writing & Writing !

2011-04-15T13:49:00.000+02:00

As ideas and inspiration keep floating around, new songs are being written in no time it seems.
It's been a while since we wrote new tunes, but the process of songwriting is going smoothly; everybody comes up with new ideas & riffs, and this 'no boundaries'-approach makes us experiment thoroughly with all kinds of rhythms & influences. Beware, beware! :D

Furthermore, we've reworked some of the 'older' new songs, and have already written 3 new tunes so far and about 3 or 4 more songs are waiting to get finalized. We hope to get some of these songs into pre-production before Summer, and start recording late Fall... or something...

Time to Write !

2011-03-30T12:28:00.000+02:00

Alright, now that we've got things back together, we've started writing new songs.
So far, we have half a dozen of new tunes ready for the new album,
and more should be written in the next few weeks/months.

Free show @ Tielt

2011-03-25T11:04:00.001+01:00

Tomorrow, 26th of March, we'll officially introduce our new bassplayer Brecht with a show in his hometown Tielt.
Show starts at 22h, @ De Keet (Bruggestraat, Tielt). Free entrance!

Fast & Furious!

2011-03-15T13:04:00.000+01:00

Our first show with our new bassplayer Brecht went quite alright; fast & furious!
This Saturday, 19th of March, we'll be playing on a cool punkfest with bands such as Fleas & Lice, (NL) Usual Suspects & Kezus Krijst (NL), to name but a few. Should be great!

First show with new line-up!

2011-03-08T13:00:00.000+01:00

This Saturday we'll be playing our first show with the new line-up.
Place to be: Zaal Edma, Vorselaar.

Time schedule:
20u Generation zero
21u Mise*En*Scene
22.30u Black Tartan Clan
00.30u Hard Resistance

MES welcomes BRECHT...

2011-02-22T13:43:00.004+01:00

Raar hoe dingen kunnen lopen... We hadden 2 personen in gedachten om de lege bassplayer-plek in te vullen. Behalve deze twee, kregen we nog wat kandidaturen binnen, maar uiteindelijk leidde een 'Golden Tip' van 2 headhunters (ahum) tot een persoon die op 'n koude winteravond ons repetitiehok betrad. Gewapend met heel wat ervaring en enthousiasme, maar helaas zonder guitarstrap (wat 'm nog cooler maakte haha!).

En zo komt het dat we BRECHT, die je misschien kent van Nagasaki Nightmare en The Softenon Babies, begroeten als vijfde bandlid van M*E*S.

Momenteel vervult Jelle plichtsbewust nog heel eventjes de rol van bassist (thanx mate!), maar normaal gezien zullen we vanaf begin maart met onze vernieuwde line-up de binnen- en buitenlandse podia betreden.

MES 2011

2011-02-08T13:27:00.002+01:00

A New Year, a Fresh Start.

After we parted ways with our bassplayer Jacob (who we thank for over 8 years of Craziness on & off the road!!), Jelle has been doing a great job as a 'replacement' for the time being. He learned a dozen songs in just a few days, and played his first show with us only after 2 or 3 rehearsals. We owe this guy so much!

In the meantime, we've been auditioning bassplayers, and we'll present you our newest bandmember in the next few weeks.
Stay tuned !

MISE*EN*SCENE