Schmutz

Belgian New-Wave/Synthpop band founded as The Schmutz in 1982 in Limbourg, Liège Province. After winning a local contest for young bands in 1983, producer Herwig Duchateau took them under his wing and produced multiple singles, including the hit song "Love Games" in 1984, and later the full length album "Lipservice" in 1985. The band also performed live during this era in the Benelux region and West Germany and was even considered a possible Belgian entry to the Eurovision song contest. A final single followed in 1991 before Schmutz disbanded. The band was reformed in the early 2010s and continues to tour locally and record, with "Pillow Talk" being released in 2018 as a full length album combining old works with new songs. The Belgian New Wave band Schmutz always had a great talent for writing catchy synth based songs. The band was founded in de the early 80’s and scored an international hit in ’84 with “Love Games” which became since then a true Belgian classic, featured on multiple compilations. Schmutz toured as well in Germany, France and The Netherlands. After 1 excellent album in 1985 the band ceased to exist to be resurrected from its ashes the past couple of years with some highly apprecited live shows, proving that the fans have not forgotten this great band. Now the are finally releasing new material with the album “Pillow Talk”: 8 brand new tracks, very much in line with the music from their initial heydays and supplemented with their most known songs from the past, remastered, in the original versions. Schmutz is active again in its original line up: Guy Peeters (vocals), Johan Tyskens (bass), Jo Exelmans (guitar), Jos Claessens (guitar) Marcel Vermeulen (drums) and Danny Pex on keyboards, replacing the sadly deceased Carlo Peeters. Schmutz means dirt/mud in German, however the band claimed their inspiration for choosing it as their name was just the way it sounded when hearing it as part of a tv coverage about Swiss cyclist Godi Schmutz.