pas vraiment clair s'ils parlent en français ou néerlandais, puisqu'ils chantent en anglais
et qui plus est on s'en f**t car leur hard rock dépote, de quoi à unifier le royaume autour d'une valeur universelle, le rock'n roll, pour preuve leur nouvelle video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilMcOYQfnOwet les titres de leur nouvel album :
http://www.myspace.com/thecultofsouthernvoodoo
et un special SEB, l'historique du groupe :
* Belgium, Ghent. Do made a demo on a 4-track recorder early 2001 containing 5 tracks. One of those was named "Go Go Racing". A revamped version of that song was later recorded for "Devil's Drive". There were two guestmusians one them being Ivan Van Herreweghe, at that time guitarplayer for Native Instinct. He later played the guitarsolo for "Kerosene Mand" on "The Love Militia". The other one was guitarplayer Berre Van Hoeylandt, currently playing with Guy Swinnen and Beverly Jo Scott. A couple of years later he did some live gigs with Voodoo.
* The bandname on that demo was Motor City Angels. Do came up later that year with the name Southern Voodoo. Why? 'Cause he's a seventies freak and loves bandnames like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, ... It seemed like a cool choice at the time. It actually still is, fuck off!!
* This demo was used to find musicians and the very first one aboard was bassplayer Geert Boeije. He was with the band untill 2004. At this moment Geert is guitarplayer/singer in the band The Hellvetics which also has some ex-members of Cowboys & Aliens in it. One of them being drummer Peter Gaelens who filled in with Voodoo when they had the chance to play with Alabama Thunderpussy and Stef was in jail or something.
* There were two drummers that year: Jan Moerman (Crusader at that time), who only stayed for a couple of rehearsals and Paul Brusseel who was a member of the legendary garagerockband The Mudgang. Paul was not only a great drummer, he also had a fantastic voice. The band did two covers at that time: "20th Century Boy" and "You Keep me Hanging On".
* The very first Voodoo gig was at the end of 2001 in Ghent (B) as openingsact for Masters Of Reality (at that time also with Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri. As Do recalls it: "We pretty much sucked but it was a cool experience". The band didn't rehearse for some weeks since Paul was on tour with MOR as a roadie. Some more gigs followed throughout 2002 untill Paul suddenly disappeared after a short phone call. The band never saw him since.
* Southern Voodoo was always intented to be a two guitars band. Peter D'hondt (now Paranoiacs) came in pretty early but was allready gone by the time the first gig came up. Funny thing: Peter later reappeared some three years later after "The Love Militia" was released (he is mentioned in the sleeve notes) and he did some gigs with Voodoo but again there were some frictions wich led to his departure. In between Peter's presence in the band, Voodoo remained a three piece allthough the band tried out a zillion guitarplayers without any result. So actually he was his own successor in Voodoo. He's a great guitarplayer though, check 'm out.
* Geert was always the "contact man". He came up pretty soon with Curtis D Whale (Avenue) with whom the band recorded their first band demo. "Next In Line" was recorded early 2003 by Peter Debosschere who is drummer with An Pierlé and Needle & The Pain reaction and who is a longtime friend of Do.
* At that point Southern Voodoo had musically evolved into somewhere between garagerock, powerpop and glamrock but Geert and Do wanted to go back to the initial plan, a bit heaviër. Result: drummer gone. 2003 was even more chaotic then the previous two years. No second guitar player, no drummer and noone in sight... Some time went by and they even thought about calling it a day when -again- Geert came up with some names, one them being Paranoiacs drummer Stef De Rijck. Stef came over, jammed with them but wasn't very impressed. And this is stuff for legends: only after rehearsal, having some beers and discussing musical influences they discovered that they had the same roots and heroes. A massive discussion about classic rock and punk later Stef decided that he would join Voodoo.
* As we talk biographies, the band always likes to say that 2004 is the actual starting year of Southern Voodoo. The trio De Vos, Boeije and De Rijck lay down the foundations of what became the real Southern Voodoo.A setlist of new, rawer songs was written and a new demo was recorded (titled "Southern Voodoo" with a first version of "Kerosene Man on it) they started gigging more frequently, they got a finalist spot in the Graspop concours of that year, landed a spot on a compilation album etc., they were played on national radio for the first time, ... Things finally started to work out.
*And that same year the ego-thing got in the way again. Southern Voodoo has always been an ego band, strong individuals with their own views with lots of discussions and quarrels. And sometimes a line was drawn and noone wanted to turn back. Compromising has never been a strong Voodoo asset. A macho thing probably... Summer 2004 Geert Boeije leaves the band and he is replaced by Cowboys & Aliens bass player Kris Vandekerckhove. Afterwards Kris states that he was tricked into the band: "They just asked me to do some shows without any further ambitons. Fuck man, they had me there...".
* Things speed up. More gigs and they get the chance to record some songs at the home studio of Lipstick Traces chief Dirk Coussement who remains a big support to this day. This demo gets on the desk of then new labelboss Mario Mortier (Apache Productions) who decides to offer the band a deal if they succeed in recording some more songs of the same quality. Dirk welcomes them back with the same generosity and at the same time Do starts to expand his home studio. So what eventually became "The Love Militia" is the compilation of two demo's partially recorded by Dirk Coussement and partially recorded at Do's home studio. Apache is thrilled and early 2005 Southern Voodoo is a band with a record deal. They mix the album themselves but Jean Marie Jacobs who does the mastering helps them out on several occasions. So fuck, coïncidence is everything.
* One week before the release of "The Love Militia" there's a crisis bandmeeting where they wonder if the album is good enough to release. Mario tells them to fuck off and he releases the album.
* Kris has to make a choice since Cowboys & Aliens just released a very well received new album and things tend to get too busy. Kris leaves Voodoo.
* "The Love Militia" get's rave reviews. The single "Honey Smile" becomes a staple on classic rock radio's in Belgium and the clip makes it to a top five spot on the Belgian video charts..
* From the release party on Southern Voodoo (october 2005) is now a four piece live band with Peter DHondt on guitars and longtime Voodoo roadie File Beyens as a temporarily replacement for Kris.
* Berre Van Hoeylandt replaces Peter and File hands over the bass duties to JeeM Talloen (ex a bunch of bands, list available on request) by the end of 2005. Do, Berre & Jeem had played togehter in a band called Supergizmo some years earlier.
* Berre quits january 2006 and is replaced by young rock'n'roll god Pieter Minne. Cool detail: Pieter walks up to band at a gig, totally drunk, stating that he is the only possible replacement for Berre. Two days later he's in the band. It could have been one day but he lost the bands contact number.
* 2006: Southern Voodoo becomes one of the most playing Belgian rock acts and gathers an impressive live reputation with their sometimes revue-esque rock'n'roll show including pyro, fire spitting and go go dancer.
That's the story of the early Voodoo days. From there one there's a million stories but it's too early to tell them. Law suits etc... For info on "Devil's Drive" and producer Chips Kiesby check the official biography higher up.
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