This DVD contains five "Topless Movies" by AMVK. They are visuals used at Bum Collar live performances for the first time ever made available for private viewing.

• 01 - Topless / Mambo Mash (3:22)
  
• 02 - Plateau / Battle for the Booty (6:37)
  
• 03 - Stripper / I Feel Bad (8:41)
  
• 04 - DarkLady / The Bum Genie (6:51)
  
• 05 - Boek / James Bum Theme ( 6:52)
  

All visuals by AMVK - Music by AMVK / DDV / Mauro Pawlowski & Paul Mennes.

Track 1 remixed by Mauro Pawlowski, track 2 remixed by Paul Mennes, track 4 & 5 remixed by Carl Cryplant.


Available from Club Moral's Webshop

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Preview:

PillerThriller is a pharmaceutical com-pill-ation produced by Alfarmania from Sweden. It is the first compilation that features a Bum Collar track, "I Feel Bad".

PillerThriller

featuring:
Alfarmania [Sweden]
Altar of Flies [Sweden]
Blod [Sweden]
Blood Ov Thee Christ [Sweden]
Bum Collar [Belgium]
Fass [Sweden]
Gilles De Rais Order [USA]
Karmanjakan Intonarumori [Sweden]
Maniac Cop [Sweden]
Odal [Netherlands]
Ochu [Sweden]
Slow Obesity [Sweden]
The 120 Days [Germany]
The Nevari Butchers [USA]
Treriksröset [Sweden]
Vårtgård [Sweden]
Wall Wintheer [Sweden]

Catalogue number: Styggelse 006
Format: C58
Released: December 2006
Edition: 250 numbered copies
Special: 40 copies come with a glass syringe attached to the cover

All cassettes come with inserts + individual prescription blisterpacks (unfortunately empty...) attached to the tape.

You won't even be able to vomit after you swallowed all of this!
A heavy post-mortem overdose + solid walls of noise.
All killer - no filler! Piller fuckin' thriller!

On 27 dec 2006 Bum Collar performed live in Bavo & Sofie's livingroom in Antwerpen.



Some 30 people witnessed the event.
More pictures were taken by Kevin, who made them available on his Flickr photo website.

12 december 2006

Antwerps noisekwartet geeft 'kerstconcert' in Zwitserland

..In onze groep staat de schrijver achter de mengtafel..

BRUSSEL - Noise van een nachtmerrieverwekkende soort. Dat is wat de kunstenaars Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven en Danny Devos samen met dEUS-gitarist Mauro Pawlowski en schrijver Paul Mennes maken. Het opmerkelijke kwartet speelt samen onder de groepsnaam Bum Collar, dat onlangs in Porto debuteerde en volgende week optreedt in het Zwitserse Bern.

Door Ward Daenen

De Zwitsers die een vredevol kerstconcert verwachten zullen van een kale reis terugkeren. ..Vooraleer lage frequenties op je darmen inwerken, heb je een zeker volume nodig.., zegt Devos.
..Bum Collar start waar Club Moral stopt... Uit de assen van hun noiseband hebben Van Kerckhoven en Devos, samen met Pawlowski en Mennes Bum Collar opgericht. Versatile Styles is hun eerste cd. ..Alleen op live concerten verkrijgbaar.., staat op www.myspace.com/bumcollarsound te lezen. Op 23 december treedt het kwartet op in de Dampfzentrale in Bern. Het geluid van Bum Collar wordt gewonnen uit electronica, effecten en gitaar. Het is afwisselend dreigend, duister, intens, snoeihard. En onvoorspelbaar.
Want zegt Devos: ..Vroeger, bij Club Moral, was er nog enigszins sprake van nummers. Nu vertrekken we louter van een idee, waar ik de koers bepaal en de andere groepsleden vervolgens op improviseren...

Van welk idee vertrekt u?
Danny Devos: ..We willen muziek brengen die gaat over een verwrongen, ja pervers gevoel dat komt opzetten bij een optreden. Je voelt je eigenaardig en weet niet waarom. Op die staat spelen we in. We proberen ook rekening te houden met wetenschappelijke aspecten van geluid. Politiediensten experimenteren met geluid om een massa onder controle te krijgen. Geluid kan mensen kalm maken of net ziek maken. Denk aan A Clockwork Orange, of Guantanamo Bay, waarbij men een gevangene dwingt te luisteren naar heavy metal. Ik zou zeggen: wij zijn eventueel niet vies van heavy metal...

De massa mag geterroriseerd worden.
Het moet vooral intens zijn. Vooraleer lage frequenties op je darmen inwerken, heb je een zeker volume nodig. Als je broekspijpen wil doen flapperen, moet je power brengen. Het zou ideaal zijn als toeschouwers de controle over hun sluitspier verliezen. Dat ze hun oriëntatievermogen verliezen. We zijn niet luid om luid te zijn, maar om fysiek impact te hebben.
..We werken ook met visuals waarbij de sleazy beeldenrevue van amvk's blote dames de dans bepaalt. En ik brouw de teksten, die gaan over het fenomeen van de ..bum.., de landloper, de bedelaar die in een kartonnen doos woont en toch een bijzonder standpunt inneemt. Wij geven de ..bum.. macht...

Paul Mennes is toch de schrijver.
..Bij ons staat de schrijver achter de mengtafel. Van daaruit bepaalt hij hoe het geluid in de zaal klinkt. Hij is dus essentieel voor de groep...

En Mauro...
..is vanwege zijn muzikale genialiteit een sterke pilaar waar we op kunnen terugvallen. Wij leren van hem, maar hij ook van onze onconventionele manier van muziek maken. In België hebben we voorlopig geen optredens. We wachten op een bericht...

Bum Collar
is a new experimental music band with former Club Moral industrial noise pioneers AMVK & DDV with Mauro Pawlowski and Paul Mennes.

Bum Collar
are:
.. AMVK: Visuals & electronics.
.. DDV: Voice & effects
.. Mauro Pawlowski: Guitar
.. Paul Mennes: Browntones & engineering

Bum Collar
will perform at the Dampfzentrale in Bern, Switzerland on 23 december 2006 in Philippe Pirotte's "Plan PP". (Marzilistrasse 47 - doors 22.00hrs)
They will be supported by Everest (CH).

Bum Collar
performed their World Premiere at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal on the occasion of the exhibition "O Corpo Como Utensilo. O Corpo Como Matéria", curated by Guy Schraenen.
An 8-minute video excerpt is now available on the Bum Collar MySpace website.

Bum Collar - Versatile Styles
is the first cd by Bum Collar. It includes a selection of remixes by various artists and rarities. Available at live concerts only. Some tracks are sometimes available for download on the Bum Collar MySpace website.


Bum Collar
starts where Club Moral ends.

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This calendar contains the 12 images that I made in 2005. In the end they all became lightboxes, each of them 75 cm wide, with varying heigth. They are the continuation of the series "19 philosophical rooms". The cover image called Zerzan, shows musician Mauro Pawlowski in an interior inspired by the philosophical theories of American anarcho-primitivist Zerzan. I made the Zerzan lightbox for my show AMVK-EZFK in the Kunsthalle of Bern, Switzerland.

The images of 2005 are the continuation of the first 19. They are the hardcopy of one year in my life that began with my show in Bern. I finished the 10-year cycle of works concerning my Sex & Technology project and presented the HeadNurse-files, an extended round-up of my activities as the HeadNurse. From may till august I worked in Bruges, Belgium, on a new project: Masters of the Horizon. I invented a dialogue between Marguerite Porete, the 13th century mystic, Giordano Bruno, the 15th century hermetic and Marcuse, the 20th century philosopher. Titles of related works so far are "I'll rob you" and "Metabolism First".


2005 included also my first climb to the top of a mountain in the snow and a midsummertrip to Rome. With 9 young artists I was invited for a project in Shanghai and Xia-Men in China. In december, when I was in New York, I had the chance to speak for 30 minutes with Arthur Danto, who proclaimed in the sixties "Art is dead!"


In june DDV (Danny Devos) and I announced the end of Club Moral, our infamous independant art organisation for the extreme in Borgerhout, Belgium. The tombstone we erected contains the names of all 300 people that contributed to Club Moral projects for the 25 years that it existed. The music band Club Moral, consisting of DDV, Mauro Pawlowski and me, came to an end as well. A new band arose from its ashes: Bum Collar, same setting with writer Pol Mennes as new member.

This calendar is the first edition of The AntiSade Press. AntiSade plays an essential role in the reenlightment of each new beauty theory/strategy/therapy. AntiSade is the mirror picture of everyday progressive art. It doesn't occur in the art world as such, but under extreme circumstances it can be created.


AMVK, september 2006

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Buy from Club Moral's Webshop Tal Para Qual.
Overseas customers please check with us about postage rates!

Bum Collar released their first CD: "Versatile Styles"
The CD has 7 remixes from the "Sweatshop Session", recorded on 31 may 2006.

Tracks include: 01 Rumppappa Bum (8:14) from the Sweatshop Session 02 James Bum Theme (6:52) Carl Cryplant MakeOver 03 Battle for the Booty (6:37) Versatile Style Remix by Paul Mennes 04 I Feel Bad (8:41) from the Sweatshop Session 05 Mambo Mash (3:22) Mauro Pawlowski's Voodoo Drum Mix 06 That Girl Ain't Nuthing (3:45) Versatile Style Remix by Paul Mennes 07 The Bum Genie (6:51) Carl Cryplant MakeOver

The CD is available at Bum Collar concerts for only 10 .. or at Club Moral's webshop Tal Para Qual.

Bum Collar
is a new experimental music band with former Club Moral industrial noise pioneers AMVK & DDV and Mauro Pawlowski. Recently Paul Mennes has joined forces.

Bum Collar
are:
.. AMVK: Visuals & electronics.
.. DDV: Voice & effects
.. Mauro Pawlowski: Guitar
.. Paul Mennes: Browntones & engineering

Bum Collar
has recorded 3 studio sessions at the Sweatshop. Some outtakes and/or remixes are available at their MySpace page.

Bum Collar
World Premiere will be at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal on the occasion of the exhibition "O Corpo Como Utensilo. O Corpo Como Matéria", curated by Guy Schraenen.

Saturday 28 october 2006 - 22.00hrs.

"O Club Moral era um grupo belga fundado em 1981, conhecido pelo imaginário e performances controversas, e simultaneamente um espaço em Antuérpia onde, até 1993, se organizavam as apresentações de exposições, performances, concertos, palestras e filmes. Extinto em 2006 e feito o "memorial de guerra" para todos os que com ele colaboraram, o Club Moral dá lugar a um novo projecto: Bum Collar."

Bum Collar Remixed
is the first cd by Bum Collar. It includes a selection of remixes by various artists and rarities. Available at live concerts only.

Bum Collar
starts where Club Moral ends.