Janez Detd

Janez Detd. (short for Janez Determined) is a Belgian pop punk band that formed in 1995. The group saw the light of day in and about 1994, and was first baptized as "Jane's Detd." (a name they found in a short film from the GDR about a girl that gets an overdose), with from the start Nikolas "Bones" Vanderveken & Bob as the most founding members. After some fooling around in the garage (with music of the same genre), they chose one day to devote their band to playing punk rock, entitling their very first demo clearly "Punkin' Shit Snobs". This demo gave them an entry ticket to a recording for Green Leaf Records, a maxi-CD in 1996 called "Dignity & Teeth". After a noteworthy performance on the skate stage at the Pukkelpop festival (later on the day Dog Eat Dog would devote their "No Fronts" to the band because they "were impressed by so much positive energy so early in the morning"). All in all, "Dignity and Teeth" became a small-scale success (2,500 copies sold, of which 1,000 in the first month preceded by the reputation the band already had built themselves in the underground circuit).

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