The Van Jets! Finally on their own and in full glory in the AB! We remember with immense pleasure: their Rock Rally victory, their support acts to The Datsuns, or their mind-blowing headliner at ABBot...

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The Van Jets! Finally on their own and in full glory in the AB! We remember with immense pleasure: their Rock Rally victory, their support acts to The Datsuns, or their mind-blowing headliner at ABBota 2010. So now, following a super summer full of festivals, they're ready to round-off this guaranteed grandiose 'Saturday Night'.
The Van Jets hail from Ostend and that is clearly 'from near England' because, like no other local talent, this foursome plays strongly and successfully with all sorts of super glam- and guitar-rockers. So too on the long awaited second CD ''Cat Fit Fury' (via Pias), lets just take Charlie Poel for example, reviewing it in Humo:
'The Van Jets have namely retained the best of their garage-rock attitude – it's explosive, it's thunderous, it's dripping with drive – but, with the assistance of English producer Jon Gray, they've tarted it up with a few more finishing touches and in the process have automatically arrived at their great inspiration: David Bowie (what a voice singer/songwriter Johannes Verschaeve sometimes uses!)... and also at Marc Bolan's T-Rex, and at The Beatles in muscle-enhancing clenbuterol-mode (thus: in 'Helter Skelter'-mode). Nothing wrong with that. In other places we also hear hipper influences: the raw energy of The White Stripes linked to the misleading light-heartedness of Vampire Weekend. The result is always: unmistakably and entirely The Van Jets.'
The Van Jets? Yes, man, this is as good as it gets!

Support-act will be Holland's Go Back to The Zoo, who sold-out the Paradiso this fall, where we also read that: 'Brothers Cas and Teun always made music with Bram in Nijmegen. Once they left for Amsterdam, they pushed a bass guitar into the hands of Lars (who they'd met in the queue for a Strokes concert) and Go Back To The Zoo was born. They went to rehearse in a space where Boudewijn Buch kept his zoological collection. In 2009 they released two singles: ‘Beam Me Up’ about laziness and nothingness / ‘Electric’ about lust, love and ‘Guinevere’. The band had a 3FM mega-hit straight away with this second single and Go Back To The Zoo was the sensation of the last Noorderslag festival.' The debut album was released 13 August and is named Benny Blisto, after a friend who's the greatest cowboy in the Netherlands.