In this seventh issue of Tirage - Yr irregular source of Ravage! Ravage! information: # Foresight: Live at Club 8, Amsterdam, during Penis In Vagina # Hollandse Nieuwe at 3voor12 # Hindsight: Live at Acu, Utrecht, during Cruise Control

After having made his live debut in London and Utrecht the past weeks, Ravage! Ravage! will make his live debut in Amsterdam this month. Penis In Vagina is a new monthly night at Club 8, jumping the very attractive British new rave bandwagon. Attractive as in, great music! great fashion! yeah yeah yeahs! If the artistas they mention on their MySpace - Shampoo! Babylon Zoo! New Young Pony Club! Klaxons! - do not convince you, nothing will. OK, they forgot about Scooter and The Ark but do remember it's the very first edition! (*whispering* - The grapevine is leaking and if you listen carefully you can decipher the words "Klaxons... DJ set... at the second edition...") “Ravage! Ravage! is dit jaar uit zijn Suburbia ontsnapt, gewapend met zijn "stampers uit een postnucleair Ibiza" (3voor12). Met die radioaktieve hits maakte hij vorige maand zijn live debuut in London, tijdens Penis In Vagina speelt hij zijn rock 'n' rave hits voor het eerst voor A'dams publiek. Music is net als voor CSS his hot, hot sex. And he offers you a satisfaction guarantee. ...what do you want morrre?” Ravage! Ravage! live at Penis In Vagina October 27 - Club 8 - Admiraal de Ruijterweg 56B - Amsterdam Plus performance by Nieuw Jurk DJ sets by Kill All Hipsters, Snob! DJ Team, DJ Trauma Visuals by VJ Daddy Sharp Entrance 5 euro - free before 22:30

With something verging on pride, Ravage! Ravage! wants to let thee know he has become 3voor12's Hollandse Nieuwe. For those of you whose nationality is not Dutch: 3voor12 is a multi-media magazine, unique in its kind. It's like Pitchforkmedia with a whole bunch of both online as actual radio- and TV shows. Blablabla. Boring! for those who are not Dutch. If you are not Dutch, click here and read the English translation of the interview. And if you're lucky (and talented and gifted? hmmm) they elect you as Hollandse Nieuwe; New Dutch Artist of the Moment, or something. Last week Ravage! Ravage! was interviewed during a live radio broadcast, which you can hear here - fast forward to the last 15 minutes of the second hour: Dubbel Check September 27th This week the interview turned into an article, which introduces yours sincerely as "the grandson of Marc Almond, Pet Shop Boys and Divine" - go see for yourself: 3voor12's Hollandse Nieuwe: Ravage! Ravage! As a result, Ravage! Ravage! even has his own 3voor12 profile page: Ravage! Ravage! at 3voor12 Ravage! Ravage! has to shamefully admit he messed up whilst answering the first question "Who or what is Ravage! Ravage!" (as it was his first ever live interview, nerves got involved) - but he's by now come up with a more coherent and truthful answer. Which is included in the red-shaded liner notes, and in the regular English translation. The grandson of Marc Almond, Pet Shop Boys and Divine is named Ravage! Ravage! (Or, the 3voor12 interview translated to English) The grandson of Marc Almond, Pet Shop Boys and Divine is named Ravage! Ravage! Now, all that remains to be done is finding a good producer and the hit machine can start running at full steam. “I am shameless”, according to the youthful twentysomething himself. With suggestive titles such as Oh my beau gigolo and Just like Justin, there is a new icon for those who wear leather underwear. WHO OR WHAT IS RAVAGE! RAVAGE!? “Your ravaging reverend of new rave, your lord of indielectro... well, self-proclaimed at least. I am shameless. Unfortunately, it's still not bon-ton to present yourself in a different way than in wide, blue jeans and an XXL H&M Ramones T-shirt. But there's more to good pop than just the music. Presentation is a part of it. The best pop artists understand that. There is nothing wrong with pretentiousness. That is, the meaning that's attached to the word 'pretence' these days. The rèal meaning - to pretend something you cannot deliver - well, yes, I'm against that. But if something, or someone, is even a bìt different than the average, the common denominator, it is pushed aside as weird, or indeed 'pretentious', which equals bad. Peer pressure, yuck. Let's just be pretentious!” HOW OLD ARE YOU? “I'm a twentysomething, but I feel Forever Seventeen. Yes, I'm suffering from the pathetic Peter Pan syndrome.” HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU DEDICATE TO MUSIC? “I spend less time on making music than I would like to. I am, however, busy with music full time. I work in an indie record store. I live for music. Music is my hot hot sex, to cite CSS.” WHY THAT NAME, RAVAGE! RAVAGE!? “Unfortunately, there's already a band named Ravage, but I am at least twice as Ravage. Do not forget the two exclamation marks. But I am not as tedious as ¡Forward, Russia!; I've seen their name spelled wrong an awful lot of times. I've only got normal exclamation marks.    Plus, I wanted to avoid an English name coûte que qoûte. I am from the Netherlands after all. Ravage is a Dutch word, but international at the same time. I prefer the French pronounciation. Additionally, my music is a ravage of styles.” THE 3VOOR12 VERDICT: IBIZA ENTERTAINMENT FROM HELL “Sounds fabulous. But I do think I make pop music, and I hope that I will, one dear day, even if just for fifteen minutes, be granted experiencing the sheer pleasure of those goose bumps caused by the chill one feels when standing in the shadows of singer-songwriters such as Noël Coward, Neil Tennant, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, Kate and Dorian from The Long Blondes... I may not sound like them, but lyrically, I am definitely inspired by them, and melody-wise as well, probably. It's just that I use electronics, that's my sound. I also have a more guitar-orientated sound, but I still have to mix those songs. I recorded the electro songs on MySpace in my bedsit.” IF YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE: JOOST VAN BELLEN or DE NIEUWE VROLIJKHEID? “Damn, you checked my MySpace. Whom did I place higher? Well, that's no fair competition for DNV, when you've got an authentic disko-moustache like Van Bellen.” ELECTRO or POP? “Pop. My music will probably not be labelled as electro by purists. I wouldn't mind the label that was recently mentioned in (Dutch daily newspaper) De Volkskrant, rock 'n' rave.” MAKE-UP or NOT? “During my night shifts, definitely. Not that I work in the red light district. I often use different narrators in my songs, not all my songs are autobiographical. But on stage, make-up. Definitely.    Now, Make-up or make-out? would have been a more difficult question to answer.” WHY DO YOU MAKE MUSIC? “I have to, darling. Others go funshopping, to McDonalds, or to a garden centre.” WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE “If you were the NME, I'd say: world domination. But honestly, I would love to release my songs on legendary labels such as Clone, Mute, Modular etc. but I'm not good at promoting. I don't want to force myself on people; I don't send around promos unless someone asks for them. If my music is good enough, labels will find me one dear day.    First, I think, I have to find someone who can produce my songs, and who can add that little bit of extra pazzaz the songs, I feel, still lack. I need to find my Chris Lowe. Or someone who's as good as Erol Alkan, Justice, Paul Epworth, Alden Tyrell, Rex The Dog, Black Strobe, but not as well-known and beyond reach.    Additionally, it's tragic that my ultimate wet dream, finding myself on the cover of Smash Hits after a legendary performance at the British Top Of The Pops, will never come true.    But I would be content being the opening act for a band like Ladytron, Dead Disco or the Pet Shop Boys, with an enthusiastic journalist and photographer of Dazed & Confused or Super Super Magazine in the audience.    Oh, and finding a seven inch of mine in the 'Shoreditch'-labelled racks of the Video & Music Exchange in Soho, that would give me a rather pleasant feeling as well.” WHY SHOULD EVERYONE COME TO THE ACU IN UTRECHT OCTOBER 7? “So you can see my make-up fade, and if I decide to play Like an abstract painting I will recite a poem of Philip Larkin. And, if I manage to finish it in time, I will honour the Acu the premiere of my Paula Abdul-cover. And I will bring along my toy keyboard. Plus, if you whisper some sweet words in my ears, I will give you some exclusive Ravage! Ravage! badges. Now, if you don't call that a recommendation...”

Yes, the Cruise Control night was a truly memorable night. Thanks to the audience (a big turn-up, some singing-along going on) and the organizers. And, lest not forget, the absolutely fabulous Cruise Kittens, glamming up the backstage. (Soon, more pictures will appear on the Cruise Control website.) (Meanwhile backstage, Cruise Controller DJ Partizan had made sure he'd get his picture taken with Ravage! Ravage!)

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