Why? I dunno. It's catchy, and we and most of our audiences are lager louts really.

Yeah we do. So far we played all over our home country, but also various shows in Belgium and Germany. When a show goes well, it's special, when it goes bad, I try to drink it away as soon as possible.

It's especially changing for younger bands, through the internet and mp3's a lot of people get to know your band, instead of a demo cassette that's only being sold at the local record store.

In our 'scene' labels like Epitaph, Hellcat Records, Victory Records etc... are pretty much 'major' labels. If I'd sign a record deal with them? Hell yeah.

2002 - The Lager Louts were born in May of this year. Jelle, Sjoerd & Mano had the idea to reform their old band The Goo. After recruiting Richard on drums they decided to go on a different name, after some rambling the name The Lager Louts was born. Instead of playing songs from their previous bands, they decided to create whole new songs, and change the style a bit as well. Another Dutch streetpunk band and songs like Line 'Em Up, Veteran and When We Were Young were born! No gigs were played in this year, also due the fact that we already broke up in late 2002!

2003 - So we broke up, but as you can guess, a few months later we got back together again. This was in the beginning of 2003. Now we got a little bit more serious, and really wanted to make something out of the band. We recorded a demo in March 2003, and it instantly got picked up by Maurice (also known as the guitarist of the Dutch Oi!-Core band Hardsell) who just founded a new label called Bouncing Sole Records and had one release under it's belt so far. Of course we didnt let this chance pass us by, and an agreement with Maurice was made. Later on in June we went back into the studio to record more songs for the album, tracks like; Maybe Tomorrow, Too Fast To Live... and Rest In Peace were written, rehearsed and recorded in a 2/3 month period. In the meantime we also played with many national and international bands such as Deadline (our first gig), The Briefs, Unite Against Society, Poison Idea, Disturbance, The Shaggable Sluts, Menace, The Boys, Blood Or Whiskey and The RawBerries. Later on around September/October Sjoerd decides to quit the band, the idea was to let him play his last show in December at a gig in Delft, but we cancelled the show, and he eventuelly plays his last gig on the 24th of October again with Deadline in the Belgian city of Temse. In November we found a new bass player, Gerrit, as well as a 2nd guitarist HJ.

2004 - In January this year we played our first show with the new line up, everything went pretty good actually, a week later we played in Belgium again at JC Fluks in Baasrode, where we probably played our best show ever and gave away some advance promo cd-r's from the album that was about to released, which it finally did in March of 2004. Positive reactions from the people and big zines such as Aardschok and Up Magazine were given! Early June Richard decides to quit the band. The 'relationship' with Richard faded over the years, and there was no motivation anymore from his side. Finding a new drummer wasnt hard, HJ took over the drums (he drummed in another band for several years), and we recruited yet again a new 2nd guitarist, Rien from another Dutch punk band called KHHK.

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