Thank you to everyone that helped, showed up, worked, and played at last Saturday's celebration for 22 Year Ultra Eczema at Het Bos! And another big thank you to lots of folks that help out all the other times in the past 22 years: My folks for lots of things, Kris Delacourt for all the mastering, playing and working the sound at De Nor and being there since UE issue 1, Jive Cuypers for non stop graphic design and Kevin Van Gaver for doing that in the past, David Edren for running the website, webshop and anything on the utterly confusing world wide web, Gerard Herman, Jan Matthé, Lander Keteleer and Bart Mols for printing in various ways, Christophe Albertijn for some more mastering, Mark Rietveld for tons of photo's, Vincent Stroep for driving and general entertainment, Allon K and Sis Matthé for proof reading, Vaast Colson and Peter Fengler for running spaces together, Helena Kritis for driving, proof reading and writing letters to Pim, Scheldapen, Het Bos, Les Ateliers Claus, De Player, Café Oto, Monty and De Studio for hosting gigs, Marcel De Cleer, Wanda Detemmerman, Pippe Steenhout, Katrijn Sermeus, Luther Vanhoof, Stijn Wybouw, and many others who worked the door or the bar at various different locations, all distributors and stores that have been selling UE releases and all venues that have hosted UE nights.

Tonight a great LP by Jon One Doe is being presented at De Studio in Antwerp. They will perform live, and so will Yves De Mey. Jan Patthé and All On Special K will dj in between and after.

On Sunday i will be doing No Choice Tattoos at Ghent Zine Happening. You can make an appointment by contacting me.

I have recently enjoyed:

Floris Vanhoof : The Fluid Computer, LP (Kraak)
(A beautifully packed work of hyperneurotic love, this lp + book kicks off with some giggling i could recognise from miles away. All the audio is based on Floris' key 35 mm layered films, made in the past 10 or so years. Floris has developed some sort of visual and auditive language that swims in between the quite colourful work of Charlemagne Palestine, a garden of rocks and a plastic verion of the Smurfs! Throw all of those things in a blender and give a half serious half insnae lecture about it, and you got Floris Vanhoof!)

Wojciech Rusin : The Funnel, LP (Akashic Records)
(Fantastic blend of "hyper" classical, modern nose singing, electronic tweeking, field recordings and odd "folk"! This was originally commisioned for one of Vernon and Burns' radioplays.)

Various Artists : N.E.E.T. (Not in Education, Employment or Training), Cassette (Akashic Records)
(Another great weird release on this label from Glasgow! All earworms, played in strange ways, this should be on wax too!)