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Ravage! Ravage! is a Dutch band who “eat Glass Candy and dress in fluorescent black”, according to their MySpace. 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. More: www.ravageravage.com www.myspace.com/ravageravage www.facebook.com/ravageravage The band Ravage! Ravage! is fronted by, confusingly, the singer-songwriter Ravage! Ravage! He sings about his own desire to join hip and happening rock 'n' rave bands (“Join up for the New Young Pony Club”), 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 some random examples. Since their live debut as threesome, they played numerous gigs, most with their VJ team Viaduktape, at nights such as the Amsterdam Fashion Week Afterparty (Westergasfabriek), MySpace Presents (Paard van Troje), the Arnhem Mode Biënnale (Luxor Live) and in venues such as Tivoli de Helling, Sugar Factory, Patronaat and Effenaar. Before getting a band together, Ravage! Ravage! made his solo live debut in London (Computer Blue at Bar Music Hall in Shoreditch), after which performances followed in Utrecht (Cruise Control at Acu), Amsterdam (Penis In Vagina at Club 8, RobotRock at Winston, Transmission at Studio 80, PresenTed for Dutch music channel TMF) and Berlin (Dirty Diamonds at White Trash, with Ed Banger Vicarious Bliss), appeared in publications such as TimeOut, Exberliner, de Volkskrant, Het Parool, OOR and was elected Hollandse Nieuwe by 3voor12, who claimed his songs are “stompers from a postnucleair Ibiza” and Ravage! Ravage! himself “the grandson of Marc Almond and the Pet Shop Boys”. Meanwhile, bass/guitar player De Zwart is organizing his own parties (NEONPUNX / pix), and DJ'd with Ravage! Ravage! and Le Source at parties alongside a.o. Crookers, Motor, Joost Van Bellen,Brodinski, Dada Life, Rogerseventytwo and Kid Rêve, in a.o. the Flexbar and Paard van Troje. Fashion designer Niels Brinkman supplied Ravage! Ravage! with the dark outfits they wear when they feel at their gloomiest. An installation showing pictures of Ravage! Ravage! wearing the outfits was shown in an art gallery in Rotterdam for several weeks, exposed with a soundtrack of Ravage! Ravage! music playing along. (Some of those photographs can be seen at this 3voor12 interview) In Berlin, they recorded their first music video, with cult movie director Edwin Brienen. Quotes, quotes, quotes... “Ibiza entertainment from hell” (3voor12) “A Dutch treat” (Ex Berliner mag) “Stompers from a postnucleair Ibiza” (3voor12draait) “Debauched rave-noir” (Amsterdam Weekly) “spetterend optreden” (OOR.nl) “Grandson of Marc Almond and Pet Shop Boys” (3voor12 Hollandse Nieuwe) “Musical leader of the new rave scene in Amsterdam” (Het Parool) “Great music!” (DJ Hell) “Klinkt goed!” (Joost van Bellen) “Holland's new rave reverend” (TimeOut London) “Sophisticated like Pet Shop Boys with a storm of Soft Cell's nastiness” (Noddy Riot) Musical parents: Fad Gadget, Marc Almond, Pet Shop Boys, Divine, Noddy Riot. Musical relatives: IAMX, Tiga, Frankmusik, Mount Sims, The Knife, The Teenagers, Late of the Pier, Cut Copy, Robots in Disguise, Patrick Wolf, Ladytron, To My Boy, Kavinsky, Fischerspooner, Dandi Wind, Fox n' Wolf, Vive la Fête, The Ark, Glass Candy, Crystal Castles. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.