Ravage! Ravage!, “grandson of Marc Almond and Pet Shop Boys” (according to Dutch online multi-media magazine 3voor12), is the perverted brainchild of a fairly shy Dutch boy, who eats Glass Candy, dresses in fluorescent black and transforms into Ravage! Ravage! whenever his music is played - be it in the studio or on stage.

The boy behind the dayglo eye-shadow had been living an ordinary (and more than slightly geeky) boy's life before he decided to leave his secret bedsit studio - back then located in a silent and comfortably generic Dutch Suburbia, light years away from any excitement and extravaganza whatsoever - and seek a life filled with stroboscobe lights, scantily dressed youngsters and, especially, songs with passion, urgency and grotesque überpophooks.

IInitially, he took his “stompers from a postnucleair Ibiza” (3voor12) on the road all by himself and his beloved MP3 player, with which he made his solo live debut in London (Bar Music Hall, Shoreditch) of all places - and followed it up with several performances in the Netherlands (amongst them, one for Dutch music TV channel TMF) and ended up in Berlin (White Trash, with Ladytron producer and Ed Banger Vicarious Bliss) as well.

On his journey, he found many like-minded souls, and two of them decided to jump on the bandwagon earlier this year and make Ravage! Ravage! an actual band.

Now a band, Ravage! Ravage! features De Zwart on bass and guitar and on drums and drumpads the wonderfully delicious La Blanche, plus (occasionally) VJ's providing fittingly strobing visuals. As a band, they have by now played at (for instance) the Amsterdam Fashion Week (Westergasfabriek), a MySpace Presents (Paard van Troje), with Viva la Fête at Patronaat and Effenaar, and did a Dark Underground Tour, playing dates at a.o. Tivoli, Manifesto, Metropool, Effenaar and Simplon. Last summer they made their outdoor festival debut in Milan, Italy.

They also do DJ sets - they shared turn tables with, for instance, Crookers, Joost van Bellen, MOTOR, Rogerseventytwo, Brodinski, Dada Life, Shitdisco, Kid Rêve, Blokgolf and Homework, in seedy nightclubs such as the Flexbar, OT301, Club8 and Paard van Troje.

Since Ravage! Ravage! is hard to pin down to a scene or style - too dark for new rave, too poppy for industrial, too dancey for rock, too rockey for, you guessed it, dance - they prefer to refer to their style as rave-noir.
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