PUNKS AGAINST FLOWER CORSOS

These are not actually the Scoundrels this post is about, but it's the closest thing I found on Google (be glad I didn't use the picture I got when searching for "Labie"!)

I first heard and saw the Scoundrels around 1982, although I didn't know who they were at the time. I was watching some TV program about all kinds of stuff going on in the countryside, and there was this item about the big flower corso in Zundert, a village in the south of the Netherlands famous for being Vincent van Gogh's birthplace and... well, holding big flower corsos. Somehow they found out there were a couple of punks living in Zundert, and somehow someone must have gotten the brilliant idea that, hey, punks hate flowers, so there's our item!
Unfortunately, the Zundert punk contingent weren't as much "against" flower corsos as indifferent about it, so the item didn't get anywhere except for a snippet of a song the local (unnamed) punk band were practicing. I got to know these flower punks a year or two later, when putting together a compilation tape. I asked every band to submit a one/ one-and-a-half minute song (well, these were the hardcore days) and the Scoundrels gave me the great "No Farewell To Falwell", clocking in at 4 minutes! Although they were active in the hardcore scene, the Scoundrels played melodic mid-tempo punk; Patrick, Frank and Guus were a little older than the regular punks and also a little remote. After receiving and loving their 1985 Ufreettoemoef debut tape, singer/guitarist Patrick de Labie started giving me a "punk education", totally turning me around from HC to punk rock by sending me tapes of the Saints, NY Dolls, Dead Boys, Dickies, more than I can mention. On one of these tapes he put the Scoundrels' first demo tape, and to my surprise they were once a hardcore band too! And a pretty fast and furious one to boot; Patrick dated this tape 1981, which should make it one of the very first Dutch hardcore recordings. They had a great, aggressive singer who was more into rock 'n roll (his habit of ending phrases with "chacha" came from Dutch rocker Herman Brood); somewhere in the late 80's Patrick told me he'd passed away. Some of these songs, like "Public Places", later showed up slowed-down on Ufreettoemoef. I'd love to post something from that tape as well, but I don't have it anymore!The 2 mid-80's LP's the Scoundrels put out (Don't Cry For The Moon and Join Hands) are not too hard to find second-hand; they don't sound anything like these mp3s though! (Although on Join Hands they'd toughened up their sound by adding Luc ex-Wulpse Varkens on guitar).
Patrick is still going strong, he's running Studio 195 in the former customs office that has been his home for about 20 years now (where we'd regularly crash back in the day, after some gig in Belgium). In fact, I owe him a letter, I'd better go about writing it...

No Soul Show
Monarchy
Public Places
Geld Is Hun God