The title track from EP available on the Limefield label.

Buy it via http://deadbelgian1.bandcamp.com/

Grand Jacques (C'est Trop Facile)

Second song fro the 'Grand Jacques' EP released in 2014

Written by Jacques Brel
English lyric by Matthew Wood

Arranged by Dead Belgian

Jojo

Track 3 from the 'Grand Jacques' EP 

Trad. arr Dead Belgian

Mazurka Limouson

Track 4 from the 'Grand Jacques' EP

Music by Jacques Brel
English lyric by Matthew Wood

Les Bourgeois (English Version)

The final track from the 'Grand Jacques' EP 2014

a solo, one take performance by Brooke Sharkey

words and music by Jacques Brel

Demain L'on Se Marie

Recorded live at Cecil Sharp House, London November 2014

Ne Me Quitte Pas (Live at Cecil Sharp House)

Amsterdam (Live at Cecil Sharp House)

Song from album 'Love and Death: The Songs of Jacques Brel' by Dead Belgian. Released on the Limefield Label 2012

Les Bourgeois (from 'Love and Death')

Jacky (from 'Love and Death')

'Live at Cecil Sharp House' available NOW. deadbelgian1.bandcamp.com

'Grand Jacques'available now on the Limefield label. Order CD or download from http://deadbelgian1.bandcamp.com/

Dead Belgian are a Liverpool-based band playing the music of Jacques Brel. They began life in 2007, inspired to share Brel’s music with all who would listen. Each member brought their own influences to the band, from European folk to progressive rock, stripping the songs to their bare bones and fattening them up again using a ramshackle drum kit, ukulele, guitar, accordion, saxophone, mandolin, clarinet and flute. Dead Belgian have developed a playful and inventive sound that meshes dense melodic patterns, demonic waves of intensity and passages of sparse frailty with vocals that have drawn comparison to Edith Piaf, Anthony Hegarty and Nico. 

It is a sound unique to themselves while still capturing the beauty, passion and humour of the original work, a rousing and rowdy back-porch reinvention of Jacques Brel’s honest and poetic stories



“'Bringing the songs of Jacques Brel to an English speaking audience with near missionary zeal' ”
— Liverpool Daily Post April 2010

Initial Reactions to 'Love & Death'

"Dead Belgian's deliciously ramshackle approach deconstructs Brel the myth and icon to reclaim him as a street musician, chanson maestro and people's champion. The Band have their very own Piaf in Fionnuala Dorrity, delivering passion and intensity in bundles over arrangements that hit exactly the right levels of throwaway charm, joy, sorrow, frenzy and fraught desperation " 
- Colin Irwin, MOJO 

''Love and Death is rowdy, engaging and passionate. Despite the inevitable comparisons to the vocals of Edith Piaf and Nico, Dead Belgian have created a sound that is all their own, while remaining true to the spirit of Brel’s music and poetry.

Neil McFadyen, Folk Radio UK

''This is an impressive and welcome debut...... If you don’t know Brel, start here then get a compilation of his. If you do know him, buy this anyway and reward a spunky new band as well as your ears.''

Ross McGibbon, Vanguard Online

''Kudos to Dead Belgian for breathing oxygen into Brel’s poignant, dark poetry. Whatever project strikes their fancy next, I’m all ears'

Lisa Torem, Penny Black Music

''Simply superb album. Immaculate production that catches all the excitement of the lives shows and Fionnuala Dorrity turns in one of the best recorded vocal performances I've ever heard.''

Russ Chandler, Walthamstow Folk Club

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