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At the end of the millennium, a punkband
with the most hilarious name of all times
terrorized the Belgian punkrockscene.
The New Kids With A Cock consisted of
2 Flatcat members and some local kids
from Heist and Zeebrugge. They only played
one show and shortly afterwards the Flatcat
members decided to quit because their
band was absorbing all their spare time.
Kristof (singer/guitarplayer) and Filip
(guitarplayer), two ex-members of The
New Kids With A Cock', decided to continue
on their own. Matthias, drummer and good
pal, soon got involved in the project.
Together they decided to continue as Brave
Like A Cowboy.
Some songs were written and in early
2000 the band got the chance to present
their material on a local gig. But there
was a small problem, they had no bassplayer.
Luckily they roped Maarten for the job.
Their first gig was extremely funny. They
played their entire set twice, Kristof
accidentally bashed his head to a microphone
and was bleeding all over the place! But
the most important thing, were the good
reactions to the music. However, somewhere
in the spring of 2000, terrible events
took place. Their rehearsalroom burned
down, with all their material inside.
But he story doesn't end here
After a long summer of toiling and moiling,
they finally got to buy new stuff and
their rehearsal room got perfectly straightened
out again. The band got back to work and
a series of new songs were written. The
reactions during the gigs got better and
better and the group felt the time had
come to come up with a demo. In September
2002 the necessary recordings were done
and the following months were used for
mixing. The demo was planned to be released
somewhere around January 2003, but all
sorts of problems delayed the release.
After some time the band decided not to
release the demo and use it only as promo
stuff. But the biggest shock was about
to come
After 3 years of, Filip decided to quit.
Because of personal goals and decisions,
he couldn't be an active member of the
band anymore. But nevertheless, he remains
a close friend of the band. The search
for a new guitarplayer ended quickly.
Jasper, member of the melodic old-skool
band Disengage, gladly agreed to be a
cowboy. Recently the friendly people of
Eye Spy, invited us to join their family.
So now we're an Eye Spy band
safe.
And so ladies and gentlemen, our tale
has come to end. Keep your eyes open,
because Brave Like A Cowboy, will appear
at a show near you!
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