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https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Buffoon/170125016361784 https://itunes.apple.com/be/album/chromoscope-single/id602603682?l=nl http://soundcloud.com/buffoon-1 http://www.myspace.com/buffoontherockband Buffoon is the band, and Peter Vleugels is the man. Friends call him Pi. At the age of 12, in the year 1988, Pi started writing his own songs, inspired by his father’s record collection. Using daddy’s cassette tape deck and an old worn microphone, the first songs were recorded in an extremely lo-fi manner, long before Guided By Voices came to the scene. After a few years, Pi had a collection of some twenty tapes loaded with songs and ideas, yearning to be performed by a live band! Late 90’s Pi was putting on a pavement tune at a party in Hasselt, catching the attention of two young musicians, Niels Hendrix and Lieven Verdin; local heroes who just formed the indie-rock band Fence. In 1999 the trio became a band, called Buffoon. After some home-recording (now using 2 microphones and a 4-track), the first copies of their ‘Sweet Sheets’ demo started to circulate amongst the early fans. One of these early fans and good friend of the band was Evil Superstars and Millionaire drummer Dave Schroyen, who decided to join Buffoon. After a series of successful concerts, the band got into the finals of Debuutrock in 2001, and started working on new songs. In 2002 the bad released their second demo entitled ‘Moonrain’ aka ‘Hand-made Legg’, as wel as a split-single 7” with long time friends and Holland’s best rock band ever, Voicst. In 2004 Buffoon made it to the semi-finals of HUMO’s Rock Rally, after which a small but very rocking tour was organized in Belgium and The Netherlands. After a break in 2005, Mimi Van De Put (now also playing in Barbie Bangkok) took over the bass guitar, and quickly learned to play it. After a year of work, the band had written and rehearsed a new set of songs, and they recorded the EP ‘Baloney’. In 2007 the band plays clubs and festivals in Belgium to support the release of the EP. 2008 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Pi as a songwriter, and the idea to make a first full CD is put into action. In their home studio at the Gelatines in Hasselt, 15 songs were recorded for the debut CD. The songs were mixed in spring of 2009 at Temple Studios in Malta, by Belgium’s hottest producer today, Luuk Cox (the man behind Shameboy, and producer of successful Belgian artists and bands such as Tim Vanhamel, Arsenal and Krakow) and mastered by Frank Arkwright (a man with 20 years of mastering experience for artists such as Belle And Sebastian, Squarepusher, The Smiths, Travis, The Coral, Jimi Tenor and countless others) at Metropolis in London. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Buffoon/170125016361784 Read more on Last.fm.

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