Feature of the month. April 2001: THE NEON JUDGEMENT The best Belgian band of all time is back. This month they´re coming to Sweden to perform their ´80´s set at Hi Tech Muslo, Borås on Friday the 27th of April and at Harrow Road in Örebro the 28th. Yippe-kee-ya! I discovered the duo consisting of Dirk Da Davo (vocals/electronics) and TB Frank (vocals/guitar) in 1987. They were considered being a part of the new Belgian scene together with bands such as Front 242, á;GRUMH..., A Split Second & Poesie Noire. Looking back today they were much more than that. They had southern blues, Jamaican rhythms & Morricone´s spaghetti influences too in their music -something that "groovers ";-) like Klinik & á;GRUMH can´t ever claim to have had.... It was the cool mixture of "Space Cowboy music", hard electronic beats & fantastic songs that appealed to me back then...and still do. No other band from this era is ageing better than TNJ. Even when they abandoned their ´80´s sound 1990 with "The Insult" album they were still on top. This is an album that really has inspired us in terms of programming & songwriting. In the early April Tears days I bought a Korg DDD1 drum-machine only because TNJ used it, but we never had it sounding as cool as theirs... In 1989 I saw them play at Kulturhuset in Jönköping and I still hold that show as one of the best I´ve ever seen. It may not have been on the biggest of stages or with the best of light-settings, but the presence of the two coolest Belgian Cowboys ever, a lot of smoke and of course a remarkable setlist made it very special to all of us that went there. And now I get the chance to bring some people that didn´t see it back then! I wouldn´t miss it for the world. /Andreas The best of The Neon Judgement according to me; "The Fashion Party", "TV Treated", "I must be on my own", "Tommorow in the Papers" All available on various albums but collected on the cd "The First Judgements" "Chinese Black", "Kid Shyleen", "Miss Brown", "Awful Day" 2 first from "A man ain´t no man when he ain´t got no horse man" "Miss Brown" from "Horny as Hell", "Awful Day" from "Mafu Cage" All available on the collection album "General Pain & Major Disease" "Games of Love", "Don´t Wish Me Luck" & "Le Sucide du beau Serge" all from "Blood & Thunder" "The Insult", "Alaska Highway", "Never Change" from "The Insult" "Baby´s On Fire" & "This Strange Effect" from "Are You Real" Catalogue Numbers The First Judgements (incl. MBIH! & 81-84)Bias 70 CD Mafu Cage (1985)Bias 56 CD A Man ain´t no Man...(1987) Bias 65 Horny As Hell (1987) Bias 78 Blood And Thunder (1989) SPV 84-6769 General Pain & Major Disease (1990) The Insult (1990) BIAS 175 CD Are You Real (1991) BIAS 204 CD -All the Above released by Play it Again Sam Records- At Devil´s Fork (1995) SPV 08461762 Dazsoo (1998) KK197 There is also various ep´s available. Back