Dead Belgian are a Liverpool-based band playing the music of Jacques Brel. They began life in 2007, inspired to share Brel’s music with all who would listen. Each member brought their own influences to the band, from European folk to progressive rock, stripping the songs to their bare bones and fattening them up again using a ramshackle drum kit, ukulele, guitar, accordion, saxophone, mandolin, clarinet and flute. Dead Belgian have developed a playful and inventive sound that meshes dense melodic patterns, demonic waves of intensity and passages of sparse frailty with vocals that have drawn comparison to Edith Piaf, Anthony Hegarty and Nico.
It is a sound unique to themselves while still capturing the beauty, passion and humour of the original work, a rousing and rowdy back-porch reinvention of Jacques Brel’s honest and poetic stories.
Line-up
Andy Delamere - percussion, vocals
Fionnuala Dorrity - vocals, guitar, ukulele
Simon James - saxophone, flute, clarinet, mandolin, vocals
Matthew Wood - accordion, vocals
Live Dates
05.06.12 - The Basement - YORK
06.06.12 - Hotel Deux - NOTTINGHAM
07.06.12 - The Lantern Theatre - SHEFFIELD
08.06.12 - Spiegeltent - Bath Festival Fringe - BATH
11.06.12 - Kitchen Garden Bar and Cafe - BIRMINGHAM
24.06.12 - Ryan’s Bar - LONDON
29.06.12 - The Kazimier - LIVERPOOL (With Attila the Stockbroker and Rory Ellis)
30.06.12 - The Brindley - RUNCORN
Please visit www.deadbelgian.com for further details.
Source: Press Release
