ulrike’s dream

History Start Somewhere in 1997/1998 Anton and Hans were looking for a new bass-player. They asked Erik to join "Ulrikes Dream". Later Johan sung for a while. After three times or so, Sapé and Jeroen came on vox. Daan joined the guitar-squad. We played a couple of gigs: some were brilliant, some were awefull. Every band has these kinds of moments. We recorded our first demo-tape in 1998. It was called 'Burn, Burn, Burn the European Swastika!'. The sound-quality wasn't perfect, but it had a cool booklet an it sounded 'grind'. It *had* to sound grind: it was recorded in a sixteenth century basement under a grotty punkhole full of drunks and drop-outs. It was great. We went on a mini-tour to Holland for a week that year as well. We played loud and brutal. Sometimes good and fast, somtimes ... well...crappy. It's good thing nobody saw us at 'De Zonnebloem' in Breda.2000 or so After a while Jeroen left the band and Magali came to replace him. She made a lot of noise. After we recorded our 7'' Sapé left the band as well and Saar came to replace him. She also sang in a band called 'Detritus'.2002 In 2002 Wannes joined the band as an extra vocalist. So we were: Wannes and Saar on vocals, Hans and Daan on guitar, Erik on bass,Anton on drums. We recorded some tracks for the "Hitters and Runners"-benefit-lp/cd that year (for the Geert Waegemans benefit project). We went on a mini-tour to Holland and played gigs in Amsterdam (Vrankrijk) and Nijmegen (Onderbroek) with Intestinal Disease and The Usual Suspects. The gigs were benefit-gigs (for the Geert Waegemans-benefit-project as well). With this line-up we played some very ocol gigs and recorded a track for the Villa Squattus Dei-compilation "Squattus Ex Machina". On october 7th 2005 we played our "last gig with current line-up" in Villa Squattus Dei, together with Detritus, Intestinal Disease and La Gioia Armata. After that gig our friends Anton, Daan, Saar and Wannes left the band for other projects. Hans and Erik looked for kindred spirits and started writing a complete new set with Selle (drums) and Kim (vox). In march 2006 Saar past away. We'll never forget her. She was buried in Ghent, next to the squat she lived in.2006 We played our first gig with the new line-up in Rockcafé in Leuven, with The League of Mental Men (Daan's new band).Gigs since 2006 02-04-2006, Rockcafé, Oude Markt Leuven, with: The League of Mental Men 19-06-2006, jh Den Boogaard, Geel, with: a.o. Asfixia, Sun Power, Nature's Failure 14-08-2006, Villa Squattus Dei,"Boycot Marktrock" with Intestinal Disease, The Usual Suspects and many, many others. 28-10-2006, Nancy (FR), with: a.o. The Usual Suspects, Richard Durn... 10-11-2006, "Strike Back Fest" @ The Steeple, Waregem, with: The Usual Suspects, Stage Bottles (DE), Brigada Flores Magon (FR), Punishable Act(DE), Billie Bolley and the Degenerates and Unarmed Riot 16-09-2007, "Herrie in de container" @ jh De Container, Peer, with: Oedeem, Silence Means Death, Prumyslova Smrt (Cz) and Human Steak (Cz)... 28-09-2007, ABC-benefit @ AC De noodzaak, Ghent, with: Oedeem, Grzzz!, Montgomery Burns, Esclave Salaries (Can)... 14-10-2007, Vaartkomsquat, Leuven, with: League of Mental Men, Furious, Jesus Cröst (NL), Putrescence (CAN)... 20-10-2007, jh Ternat, Ternat, with: Silence Means Death, The Usual Suspects, Aguirre (FR)