Mensen Blaffen

Mensen Blaffen is new wave band from Aalst in Belgium. They where often compared in music style to the post-modernist funk of A Certain Ratio mixed with new wave, post punk, and surrealistic dutch lyrics and beautiful female vocals. They did support-acts for bands like Virgin Prunes, Lavvi Ebbel and many others.
Mensen Blaffen was original a five-piece band and later on a band with six members.
Original members (see picture from left to right): Jan Van Den Brande (Bass Guitar), Mario Segers(Synthesizer), Sylvie Honnay (Vocals), Pascal Baeyens (Electric Guitar) and Steven Lorie (Drums).
For the first record Koen Gisen played sax as a guestmusician.
After the release of the first album Pascal Baeyens left the band. Jan Van Den Brande took over the guitar. Ludo Vervliet came in to play the bass. Eddy Valk (Edward V) joined the band with his saxophone.

Manager: Dirk Volkaert