With Test Dept:Redux headlining our first BIMFEST day (Friday, December 14th) we think the information below (taken from the official Test Dept website) might be very interesting to you!

Test Dept: Redux is conceived as a club based EBM (Electronic Body Music) intense music & visual performance experience.

Titled 'UFoF:v2' the performance is a live re-mix and re-imagining by the two founder members of Test Dept - Paul Jamrozy and Graham Cunnington – the tracks performed are taken from Test Dept's own sound and visual archive from their classic agitprop 1986 album ‘The Unacceptable Face of Freedom’* and earlier material.

Originally UFoF was an expression of the rage and frustration felt by a large section of society towards the brutal policies and consequences of the UK's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979>1990), which has now, once again, gained a powerful relevance to our current circumstances within the wider globalised economic and militaristic order in these recession hit times.

The performance reworks political themes for the new millennium and bringing up to date the methods and techniques that made Test Dept pioneers of a highly original and radical approach to music creation and found sound collage.

TD:R create a dense, powerful, vibrant soundtrack for our time, utilising sound and image samples from the extensive Test Dept back-catalogue; enhanced with new sounds, audio-visual documentation, and the duo's live vocals and percussion. Their channelling of the personal anger and frustration they still experience remains as potent and caustic as before.

Following the melt down of the West's banking infrastructure, and the revelation of the consequences of corporate greed and free-market 'shock therapy' tactics, it is an apt time to revisit the radicalism of Test Dept's dystopian vision of the future as laid out in the seminal album, The Unacceptable Face of Freedom.

* "The Unacceptable Face of Freedom", was the pejorative term used by Thatcher's Home Secretary Leon Britton during the 1984/5 miner's strike. The right of people to protect their jobs and futures was seen as a liberty too far by the right wing political establishment of the time.

Source: http://testdept.org.uk/redux/

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Adam and the Ants started as part of the burgeoning punk rock movement. His debut as a recording artist was the song "Deutscher Girls", which featured on the film's soundtrack, along with "Plastic Surgery" which was performed in the film itself, and was re-released as a single in 1982. The band toured extensively around the UK, but proved to be unpopular with much of the British music press who disliked their fetishistic lyrics and imagery. Late 1979 saw the release of their début album Dirk Wears White Sox (1979).

Adam approached Malcolm McLaren (the manager of The Sex Pistols) and asked him to manage the band. McLaren subsequently stole the rest of the Ants from under Adam's feet when he introduced the singer Annabella Lwin and began the process of honing Bow Wow Wow for chart success. A new version of Adam and the Ants was formed and the band signed a major label deal with CBS Records and recorded Kings of the Wild Frontier during the summer of 1980. That album was an enormous hit in the United Kingdom and the "Antmania" that ensued put the band at the forefront of the New Romantic movement. The single "Antmusic" went to No. 2 on the U.K. singles chart by December 1980.

In November 1981, Adam & the Ants released another highly successful album, Prince Charming. The album featured two United Kingdom No. 1 singles — "Stand and Deliver" and the title track "Prince Charming" — as well as the No. 3 UK hit "Ant Rap". This trio of singles were promoted by some of the most lavish music videos of the period, and paved the way for Adam Ant's later acting career.

Since 2010 Adam Ant is back with extensive UK & US tours and many sold out shows.

Georgie Girl and her Poussez Posse will be the supporting band!

Don't miss out on this exclusive Belgian and extravagant clubshow and order your tickets here!

Presale: 28
Doors: 35

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We are happy to finally announce you the last, but not least, names for 2012 BIMFEST!

TRUE ZEBRA: The solo project of electro wizard Kevin Strauwen!

TEST DEPT:Redux : An exclusive 2012 and world premiere comeback clubshow! Original members Paul Jamrozy and Graham Cunnington will take you on a mulimedia travel through their early Test Departments work!

PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT: Joy Division's original bass player Peter Hook and his band The Light will play the complete and legendary Joy Division album 'UNKNOWN PLEASURES' and more!

Buy your combi tickets before October 1st and save € 15! — bij http://www.bimfest.be.

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We are happy be be finally able to release the first nine band that will play our BIMFEST 2012!

METROLAND (B) - exclusive 2012 - Fist live show ever!
ULTERIOR (UK) - Exclusive Belgian show 2012
JOB KARMA (PL) - Exclusive Belgian show 2012
NOTHING BUT NOISE (B) - Front 242 side project of Daniel B. & Dirk Bergen
THE BREATH OF LIFE (B) - Presenting new album!
THE INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (D) - Exclusive Belgian show 2012
PORTION CONTROL (UK) - Exclusive Belgian show 2012
ICON OF COIL (NO) - Exclusive Belgian show 2012
BLANCMANGE (UK) - Presenting their new Best of Album!

Still six more bands to be announced in the next days, including our Friday & Saturday headliners!

Buy you tickets now on this site now and save € 15 on each Combi-ticket! (Offer ends october 1st!)

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After mind-blowing at the Sinnerday 2011 Festival (Hasselt) where they surprised friend and foe, and the remember-able highly energetic show at Trix Club (Antwerp) in 2010 it’s time again for KMFDM to conquer Antwerp .... Once again!

Supporting KMFDM on this exclusive Antwerp night will be the Digital Hardcore Riot Noise unit from Bellarus: AMBASSADOR 21!

23:30 : Free afterparty Beats with DJ BORG vs DJ SKULLSCRAPER (aka Dirk Ivens)

ATTENTION!!! FREE KMFDM CD KRIEG FOR THE FIRST 100 VISITORS
(Check the tracklist & remixers here!)

Tickets for KMFDM are STILL available on this site (blue order box), at FNAC and at the door/box-office @ Zappa on the night of the event itself.