BEAUTIFUL & RUTHLESS | Herman Brusselmans, Elvis Peeters, Rudolf Hecke & God=doG

"The sharp and hilarious edge of daily divinity by word of Herman Brusselmans, hilariously ruthless poems about love and sex, tender, poetic tales, and ironic prose about the daily life of Elvis Peeters. The surreal music-noire. Grief and ecstasy hit each other below the belt. Beautiful and ruthless." Mooi & meedogenloos is a literary, musical, and visual masterpiece thanks to the special chemistry between Herman Brusselmans, Elvis Peeters, the band God=doG (with singer Nikkie Van Lierop & guitarist/singer Yassin Joris), and liquid light creations on golden canvas. A framed journey along the oblique, sharp, comic, and melancholic edges of every day. Herman Brusselmans, media hero, phenomenon, young supreme god of Flemish literature: "A writer who reads aloud on stage is like an electrician installing a toilet bowl. But you just have electricians who can install toilet bowls better than plumbers." Elvis Peeters operates in the border area between music, theater, and literature. In the eighties, he gained fame with his Dutch-language rock group Aroma di Amore, which reached the final of Humo's Rock Rally and grew into one of the better groups in the country. From the nineties, he focused on writing plays, radio plays, stories, and novels. The novels De ontelbaren and Dinsdag reached the shortlist of the Libris Literatuurprijs. Last year he received the Ultima for Literature. Rudolf Hecke is a biographer of Serge Gainsbourg. He also wrote the only Dutch-language biography of Roy Orbison, De sixties, a novel Wondenland together with Dirk De Wachter, and two investigative journalistic works Passie and Hoe ruw is de steen? In addition to being an author, Rudolf is also a very gifted speaker, performer. His storytelling style is captivating and evokes recognition. He completes his artistic split as a songwriter/musician with his acclaimed Belpop band God=doG, of which a new album was released in October 2025 for the first time in 35 years after their "Belgian album of the year 1989" (De Morgen). Optredens van God=doG are not rock concerts, but rituals.