Studiomuscle is a belgian platform (how about that huh!) for music, movies, gigs and general sillyness. Since 1992 its motto has been Don’t take anything too seriously, thus connecting with the ninities generation for which irony is the prime form of communication. Studiomuscle has never really departed from that credo, the only thing we take serious is death and chocolates with funny form factors. Studiomuscle is a collaboration between Wio D’hespeel, Hans Gruyaert, Jürgen Deblonde, Bert Lafontaine and Hendrik Dacquin. The first four gents make splendid pop cluster bombs with de portables, the latter shoots and mixes videos that go well with de portables dreaded stage performances. Occasionally studiomuscle organizes some very entertaining gigs in Belgium and come together to make movies about death, chocolates and star wars. We are all very good friends looking for a reason to have fun together.
On the 2003 edition of the (K-RAA-K)³ festival, a band dressed as clowns stole the show with a 15 minute playback performance backed up with artsy psychedelic visuals. Joe Cocksucker was their name and they were said to origin from Liechtenstein. Behind the masks were none other than your beloved portables . Each song was constructed out of samples of Joe Cocker songs mixed with portables songs. The visuals were built around images and videofragments of Joe Cocker. Each song’s title was an ana...
When we prepared "10 years de portables" we thought it would be cool to do a tragicomic mocumentary about de portables. "Now here we stand"? is a 20 minute film documenting the rise and the fall of de portables. Enjoy