song ‘Closing In’ is about an unrealistic longing and loss. It was very emotional for Martin to record these sentences shortly after Kerri’s death but he did it for us with great pleasure.He had also previously done a guest vocal for ‘The Game’on 2012’s ‘The Second Sun’.When you see that music video, filmed in Ostend, you see both Martin and Kerri. The song‘You're Looking Good InAn Elevator’has become a modest hit. It was played on Radio Willy in Flanders. In the video, we see different personalities appearing: Marcel Vanthilt, Dirk Ivens, Sam Louwyck, Nel Mertens... Howwere you able to involve those people in the clip? They’re all friends too, and that actually helps. For Dirk Ivens and Marcel Vanthilt, it was ideal to go to a performance by Arbeid Adelt in De Casino van SintNiklaas, where Dirk Ivens was the support act with Motor!k. There is an elevator there, and Nel was also present there. (laughs) The friendship with Sam Louwyck became even closer after our kiss at the end of the clip. (laughs) But he had been friends with Dominique, the wife of Marco, our guitarist, for some time. She has asked his cooperation for this video. The lyrics of ‘All The Right Wrongs’were written by Filip Heylens from Wegsfeer. It deals with a very sensitive subject: suicide. Is it about Filip’s personal experience? Was the song written with‘Facing Fate’ in mind? Once we start working on a new album, all the songs are written for it anyway.There are always many songs that do not make it onto the final album but we can then take them with us for the next album. Initially, I just asked Filip to sing the chorus. I had a different text for it at the time but Filip kept playing the instrumental demo in his car, and then came up with the idea for that completely different text and extra guitars. I would like to let Filip himself tell you about the text... - 17 - Filip Heylens : It's not literally about suicide but about choices and the confusion that those choices entail. It's about the impossibility of some decisions. About how every choice you make opens a door but also irrevocably closes a door.About how rationality sometimes takes over emotionality and vice versa... How you sometimes know that what you are going to do or decide is wrong but you do it anyway... You wrote 'Absolutely Nothing' for your mother who suffers from dementia. In 2008 you moved back in with her to care for her and she now lives in a residential care center.Does this situation weigh heavily on you? It means constant switching and having to accept each new stage of dementia. I visit her every day but it is especially those visits that weigh heavily because she no longer recognizes me and all that. The song ‘Facing Fate’, the seven-minute closing track of the record, reminds me a lot of ‘Faith’ by The Cure. Was that a deliberate reference? No, absolutely not.We already had the title of the record in 2020. The final title track was created by a jam session during a rehearsal in which Sam played that bass line and Marco found a suitable guitar line for it. That was recorded with a mobile phone and then properly recorded in our studio later.The final result is indeed the closest to The Cure we've ever done, but it just grewwithout prior intention. (Read more on wwww.peek-a-boo-magazine.be) Xavier Kruth contact34503.wixsite.com/derklinke? derklinke.bandcamp.com/music • www.facebook.com/DER.KLINKE www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be Photo © Luc Luyten / Who Cares
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