News / Biography / Lyrics / Photography / Connections / Contact PIXIES   Pictures of the Ravage! Ravage! performances at Circolo Magnolia in Milan (Italy) and at Luxor in Arnhem will be posted here soon. Meanwhile, don't forget about the Wired Festival in The Hague, July 4, with a special DJ set of Ravage! Ravage! (De Zwart and La Blanche) plus gigs by Aux Raus, The Routines and The Moi Non Plus. SHAPE FEEST   Last Friday, Ravage! Ravage! performed at a Circolo Magnolia festival in Milan (IT), this Friday a special live appearance during the Arnhem Mode Biënnale is on the menu. Around midnight, Ravage! Ravage! will appear, with the Million Dollar Kids, as styled by Robbie Baauw. DJs will be Yuki, Delfos and Cleo (Multisexi/Undercover) and the JBAG duo (Jerry Bouthier & Andrea Gorgerino) known from their residencies at Kitsuné parties in Paris and London, and the infamous Boombox, plus fashion appearances by fashion designers JimmyPaul & MaryMe and performance stylist Robbie Baauw. Handy info: "ER ZULLEN 2 NACHTBUSSEN RIJDEN VAN ARNHEM NAAR AMSTERDAM EEN OM 02.00 uur EN EEN OM 04.15 uur RESERVEREN VIA f.vollaard@arnhemmodebiennale.nl" www.arnhemmodebiennale2009.com www.luxorlive.nl JBAG MaryMe & JimmyPaul Robbie Baauw TIRAGE #13   Read the new Tirage to see the first Ravage! Ravage! music video as directed by movie director Edwin Brienen, find out about new live dates (in Italy and elsewhere), see pics of recent live gigs (with Vive la Fête amongst others) and fetch yourself some free downloads. NEW SITE   As you can see, the Ravage! Ravage! site is born again. It's still learning to walk, but rapidly, it will turn into a monster. Go and find yourself a place on the hill already. NEW DATES   We'll keep it short but sweet and just sum up where we want you the coming weeks: 02/28 - Leeuwarden (058) 03/06 - The Hague (Paard van Troje - DJ set by De Zwart and Le Source AKA Neon Punx, with The Chicken Lips and The Glimmers) 03/13 - Eindhoven (Effenaar - Dark Underground Tour) 03/14 - Haarlem (Patronaat - supporting Vive La Fête) 03/20 - Hengelo (Metropool - Dark Underground Tour) 03/28 - Delft (Kornbeurs - Dark Underground Tour) 04/03 - Utrecht (Tivoli de Helling - Dark Underground Tour) 04/04 - Hoorn (Manifesto - Dark Underground Tour) 04/11 - Groningen (Simplon - Dark Underground Tour) 04/17 - The Hague (Paard van Troje - DJ set at Poptrash by De Zwart and Le Source AKA Neon Punx, with Shitdisco, Sickboy, Homework and Jaques de la Disque 04/18 - Leiden (Club Hifi, Leiden - DJ set De Zwart at Bloghouse.nl, with Maison Dul, Guerilla Speakers and Rubix) 04/25 - Scheveningen (Piratenbar - DJ set at Neon Punx by De Zwart and Le Source AKA Neon Punx, with Maison Dul) 05/09 - Eindhoven (Effenaar - supporting Vive La Fête) 05/22 - Rotterdam (Worm - This Is An Outrage! with AC Berkheimer, more TBA) In other words: hope to see you somewhere soon! xxx UPDATE FROM THE REGAL ZONE   It's been a busy few weeks for Ravage! Ravage! and as a consequence a quiet couple of weeks for ravageravage.com. But there'll be lots of major updates soon - as advance some small snippets: * Upcoming confirmed live dates: 12/28 Numoonfest at Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam, and 4/11 Northern Dark Underground at Simplon, Groningen. There's a handful of other gigs that'll be announced early January - beware, we'll be ravaging all over the lowlands in March and April. Foreign dates are in the air, as well. * New songs are currently added to the live setlist: hopefully they'll be recorded and released in spring. * And lastly, new photography (ànd video material) is about to surface, you can preview images from our Circque du RiTS at Tivoli de Helling gig here. And to wrap it up, we wish you an xciting xmas and a musical and merry 2009, xxx Ravage! Ravage! News / Biography / Lyrics / Photography / Connections / Contact Ravage! Ravage!, “grandson of Marc Almond and Pet Shop Boys” (according to Dutch online multi-media magazine 3voor12), is the perverted brainchild of a fairly shy Dutch boy, who eats Glass Candy, dresses in fluorescent black and transforms into Ravage! Ravage! whenever his music is played - be it in the studio or on stage. The boy behind the dayglo eye-shadow had been living an ordinary (and overly geeky and, sad but oh so true, rather lonely) boy's life before he decided to leave his secret bedsit studio - back then located in a silent and comfortably generic Dutch Suburbia, light years away from any excitement and extravaganza whatsoever - and seek a life filled with stroboscobe lights, scantily dressed youngsters and, especially, songs with passion, urgency and grotesque überpophooks. He decided he should ditch his glasses in Clark Kent-fashion, and start a new life, as Ravage! Ravage!, singing about his own desire to join hip and happening rock 'n' rave bands (“Join up for the New Young Pony Club” - OK, they were hip 'n' happening, like, two years ago, but that's not the point), about boys losing their girlfriends to other girls (“Velvet grrl”), about dubious men lusting for under age rent boys (“Oh my beau gigolo”), about his own faltering groupie fantasies (“Missin Miss Kittin”) and about creepy macho drug dealers (“BMBRJXXX”), just to give you some random examples. Initially, he took his “stompers from a postnucleair Ibiza” (3voor12) on the road all by himself and his beloved MP3 player, with which he made his solo live debut in London (Computer Blue at Bar Music Hall, Shoreditch) of all places - and followed it up with several performances in the Netherlands (amongst them, one for Dutch music TV channel TMF) and ended up in Berlin (White Trash, with Ed Banger Vicarious Bliss) as well. On his journey, he found many like-minded souls, and two of them decided to jump on the bandwagon earlier this year and make Ravage! Ravage! an actual band. Now a band, Ravage! Ravage! features De Zwart on bass and guitar and on drums and drumpads the wonderfully delicious Léonie La Blanche, plus VJ's Viaduktape providing fittingly strobing and sometimes slightly-oh-only-slightly seedy visuals, with whom they have by now played at (for instance) the Amsterdam Fashion Week (Westergasfabriek), a MySpace Presents (Paard van Troje), with Viva la Fête at Patronaat and Effenaar, and did a Dark Underground Tour, playing dates at a.o. Tivoli, Manifesto, Metropool, Effenaar and Simplon. Meanwhile, they also organize their own (so far always sold out) Neon Punx nights, and do DJ sets (often with partner in fashion crime Le Source) - this year they shared turn tables with, for instance, Crookers, Joost van Bellen, MOTOR, Rogerseventytwo, Brodinski, Dada Life, Shitdisco, Kid Rêve, Blokgolf and Homework, in seedy nightclubs such as the Flexbar and Paard van Troje. Since Ravage! Ravage! is hard to pin down to a scene or style - too dark for new rave, too poppy for industrial, too dancey for rock, too rockey for, you guessed it, dance - they prefer to refer to their style as rave-noir. Keep an eager eye on (t)his site and on www.myspace.com/ravageravage for new music, new news and to find out where to get yr Ravage! Ravage! live show fix. Now, let's draw this already slightly overlong bio to a fitting conclusion by citing a few lines from an as of yet unreleased Ravage! Ravage! potential-classic: “Let's see a band and rock & roll/Then dance to Jus†ice and “She's lost control”/To Patrick Wolf and to The Knife/And all the songs that continue to save our lives/Night after night after night We have no notion of what's hip or fit/Well, perhaps we do but we care shit/Call it postmodern - we prefer to call it fun/Let's just be pretentious and prepare to stun” - amen to that. - The biographer of Ravage! Ravage! QUOTES, QUOTES, QUOTES “Holland's new rave reverend” - TimeOut London “Debauched rave-noir” - Amsterdam Weekly “Super-electro Dutch ravers” - Trash Menagerie “spetterend optreden” - OOR.nl “Muzikale leider van de new rave scene in Amsterdam” - Het Parool “Great music!” - DJ Hell “Klinkt goed!” - Joost van Bellen “You ROCK!” - Vive la Fête's Danny after a performance “Ook over de Britse landsgrenzen slaat New Rave aan (...) zo heeft Nederland Aux Raus en Ravage! Ravage! (...)” - OOR mag “A Dutch treat” - Ex Berliner mag “Soms kom je een band tegen waarvan je niet gelooft dat het uit Nederland komt” - TMF “Sophisticated like Pet Shop Boys with a storm of Soft Cell's nastiness” - NoddY RioT News / Biography / Lyrics / Photography / Connections / Contact Words to Ravage! Ravage! songs will be posted over here soon... News / Biography / Lyrics / Photography / Connections / Contact A selection of Ravage! Ravage! photography will be posted over here soon... meanwhile, head over to the picture gallaries on www.myspace.com/ravageravage: News / Biography / Lyrics / Photography / Connections / Contact Ravage! Ravage! works and/or hangs out with... Neon Punx www.myspace.com/neonpunx Neon Punx are DJ's Maarten de Zwart aka Monsieur Noir with Le Source (musiquemagnifique) Neon Punx is also a party held once in a while, somewhere nice. Viaduktape www.myspace.com/viaduktape Viaduktape are Mariska and Minke, who provide live visuals for Ravage! Ravage!, and do pretty things for others as well. Niels Brinkman www.myspace.com/nielsbrinkman Niels Brinkman dressed Ravage! Ravage! for the first year of performances, and for the first Ravage! Ravage! music video (by Edwin Brienen). Edwin Brienen www.myspace.com/edwinbrienen Edwin Brienen is a movie director, who directed the first Ravage! Ravage! music video, for the song “Last night's party”. (More to come...) News / Biography / Lyrics / Photography / Connections / Contact To book Ravage! Ravage!, or for any other questions or remarks, send a MySpace message or mail to inquiries[at]ravageravage.com Plus...   Sign up for the mailinglist by sending an e-mail to mailing[at]ravageravage.com   Leave a comment at the Ravage! Ravage! last.fm page   Join Ravage! Ravage! on Facebook   Do something with the Ravage! Ravage! accounts on iLike and imeem (although we're not sure what to do with them ourselves either)   Get in contact with De Zwart at ravageravage.hyves.nl   Ravage! Ravage! RMXD = myspace.com/rvgrvgrmxd

Ravage! Ravage! on MySpace Ravage! Ravage! on Facebook Ravage! Ravage! on Hyves Ravage! Ravage! on YouTube Sign up for the irregular but ultra exclusive mailinglist:       Upcoming performances   2009-11-07 / Amsterdam   Sugar Factory   Discocult   2009-10-31 / Deventer   TBA   details TBA   2009-09-05 / Utrecht   Tivoli de Helling   PDE: Pop. Dance. Electro.   2009-07-04 / Den Haag   De Besturing   DJ set as Neon Punx at Wired Festival, with Aux Raus, The Routines, The Moi Non Plus and others   2009-06-27 / Den Haag   Paard van Troje   DJ set at Poptrash, with Guns 'N Bombs, Sickboy, Homework and others   2009-06-26 / Arnhem   Luxor Live   featuring Million Dollar Kids at Shape Feest for Arnhem Mode Biënnale, with DJ sets by Cleo, Delfos, Yuki, JBAG plus special fashion appearances  last.fm / facebook 2009-06-19 / Milan (Italy)   Circolo Magnolia   Festival with Pilooski, Joakim, Birdy Nam Nam and others   last.fm / facebook 2009-05-30 / Delft   Ciccionina   DJ set De Zwart and La Blanche at Cameltoe with Le Source, Error and Megatronick   2009-05-22 / Rotterdam   WORM   plus DJ set at This Is An OUTRAGE!, with AC Berkheimer, ClublePOP and Cklatho   last.fm Past performances   2009-05-09 / Eindhoven   Effenaar   with Vive la Fête and DJ set by The Longmen plus guests Ravage! Ravage!   last.fm 2009-04-25 / Scheveningen   De Vloek   DJ set at NEON PUNX, with Le Source and Maison Dul   2009-04-18 / Leiden   Club Hifi   DJ set at Bloghouse.nl, with Maison Dul, Guerilla Speakers and Rubix   2009-04-17 / Den Haag   Paard van Troje   DJ set at Poptrash, with Shitdisco, Sickboy, Homework and Jaques de la Disque   2009-04-11 / Groningen   Simplon   Dark Underground Tour   last.fm 2009-04-04 / Hoorn   Manifesto   Dark Underground Tour   last.fm 2009-04-03 / Utrecht   Tivoli de Helling   Dark Underground Tour   last.fm 2009-03-28 / Delft   Koornbeurs   Dark Underground Tour   last.fm 2009-03-20 / Hengelo   Metropool   Dark Underground Tour   last.fm 2009-03-14 / Haarlem   Patronaat   with Vive la Fête   last.fm 2009-03-13 / Eindhoven   Effenaar   Dark Underground Tour   last.fm 2009-03-06 / Den Haag   Paard van Troje   DJ set at Streamers, with The Chicken Lips and The Glimmers   2009-02-28 / Leeuwarden   058   Pink Xplosion   2009-01-30 / Den Haag   Paard van Troje   DJ set at Streamers, with Brodinski, Dada Life and Shameboy