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Petra

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About Me

:: I’m right handed and left footed.
:: I’m always interested in a party. The DJ is the crucial part of every good party. With a good groove, I'll move baby!
:: Playing my bass makes me relax and truly happy on the inside.
:: I don’t drink coffee or beer. Yucky! I’m a Lipton Ice-tea addict. And I never say no to champagne, cava or a fresh mojito.
:: I did gymnastics for 13 years in Ternat, my hometown. I spend most of my youth upside down, more then the average homo sapiens.
:: Water is my thing. You can float in it, which feels like flying (or close enough for big boned creatures like us)
:: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." (Gandalf, LOTR1)
:: There is always music playing in my head.
:: I haaate running! Need to catch a bus or being chased are the 2 only sane reasons to do it.
:: I’m almost never bored. I hope you neither :)

My Interests

:: I really like animals.
Especially my lovely cat Phoenix. She is the sweetest.

:: I ride horse at Terwilgen .
I am basicly riding dressage (or trying to) but I like some jumping too now and then.

:: I love drawing and other ways to express my creativity.

I'd like to meet:

you? I'm an Animal!

Check out our stories at our space or at AnimalWonka.be . Some of my artwork
over the last 15 years :) The truth about bass players!
Not me who said it, but Dave Grohl explains all there is to know about bassplayers ;) Me, myself & my bass Do you like my virtual Phoenix?
Almost as cute as the real one. Only plays more and sleeps less :)

Reviews
I write reviews for Cutting Edge .
You might like reading them (in Dutch)
Gigs
- Marktrock (dag 2), 110807
- Pink, Zornik, The Van Jets, Lokerse Feesten, 080807
- Tom Pintens - AB Brussel, 040407
- Zita Swoon - AB Brussel, 300307
- The Bloodhound Gang- Vooruit Gent, 190307
- NIN - AB Brussel, 180307
CD
- Calla, Strength in numbers
- Zita Swoon, Big City
- The Doors, The very best of
- Tom Pintens, Tom Pintens
- Ono, Yes, I'm a witch
- Axl Peleman, Dagget wet
- Basement Jaxx, Crazy itch radio
- The Organ, Grab that gun

Music:

:: I love to play my bass guitar.

Not because I failed playing 'normal' guitar, but because I REALLY like bass. I also enjoy some rhythm stuff now and then (percussion, drums) and I try to play the piano when I'm at my parents (that's where the big woodn thing lives).
:: Already 3 years, my teacher is Bart Van Lierde (Zita Swoon, Nona Mez, Zornik) at the Noise Gate music center.
:: My first group was the 5 chicks combo Tulia .
:: Now I play bass with Animal Wonka . We started end 2005 and are really rocking I must say. Tell us what you think about it at the Animal space. We hope to play a lot. I really like the rush of finding the ‘perfect’ bass riff and try to make a great song all together.

:: Studio Brussel (ex-promo, full time party now :)).

Movies:

:: Strange Days
:: Animation stuff

:: Aardman

Television:

:: Buiten de zone
:: Gilmore Girls
:: Lost-groupy

Books:

Humo

Heroes:

The person who invented the flushing toilet system: RESPECT!

My Blog

Jose & Duna (2008)

I went on holiday this year, back to Mallorca, back to sweet Duna & Jose, and yes! I did find them! But, unfortunately I lost my camera at the airport, while landing, so I lost all my pictures and...
Posted by Petra on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:58:00 PST

Paîko

This is Païko, Jeniffers horse and "my" horse for 2 days a week. Isn't he adorable with all his spots?! He's really sweet, but not very educated, so I try to teach him dressage so he'll move bett...
Posted by Petra on Wed, 09 May 2007 11:37:00 PST

Petra on the big stage of the AB

25 November 2006 I won a competition with my band Animal Wonka.We got to play a song on the big stage of the AB in Brussels (one of the big concert halls in Belgium).The stage was HUGE and the sound w...
Posted by Petra on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:15:00 PST

Duna Looove

Yup, I went to Mallorca for some sunny vacation and there it happend.I fell in love!Her name is Duna. She is a brown horse of 4 years old. Half Andalusier and half "Trotter". And she's like one of th...
Posted by Petra on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:16:00 PST

My rack is complete!!

Jipppiiii!!!!I finally found a second hand 15" to complete my rack!Even more, it's an Ampeg, so even better, since it matches perfectly my 2x10 cabinet. I now have a complete, female friendly (= I hav...
Posted by Petra on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:15:00 PST

That's Why!

It's a weird thing as a first post, but I feel I have no choice.I got this link from a friend. It's by far the heaviest thing I have seen (and I watched it all).It's about the skinning of animals for ...
Posted by Petra on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:51:00 PST