<pfseg id="0">Jelle Denturck iku frontman saka band indie Belgia DIRK., nindakake dhuwit dhuwit saka kebisingan lan nindakake akeh hits alternatif ing negara asal lan Belanda. Dressed Like Boys iku proyek solo pisanan, lan hasil saka wektu nalika Denturck ndadekake sedikit ing urip.

Denturck, mantan mahasiswa filsafat, ngandika: "Dadi ngandika aku apa-apa, aku ngabaikake fakta sing gampang kang aku wujud. Kewujudan iku kewujudan lan sadurunge yen tiap-tiap dinten iku sihir."Pada wektu iki, akeh musik anyar bubble lan Denturck ngetokake palet musik anyar kang. "Ironically, most people will associate me with DIRK., but that is in fact the exception, the spin-off. In the democracy of the band, I refrain myself from writing lyrics that are too personal. Dressed Like Boys is the music that is closest to me, and it liberated me as a songwriter. I had all the time in the world to find the perfect melody. Only when everything sounds right in my head, I will turn to an instrument and ever has a demo.

Drawing ing refleksi dhewe, Denturck nggawe lagu pribadi kayata Healing, Pinnacles lan Gregor Samsa<pfseg id="0">: saka kenangan saka kutha asli sing hangat lan aman (“tapi uga kandhuk emas”) kanggo depresi sawise kematian ibunya 7 taun sadurunge. “Aku salah siji saka wong-wong sing mung ngetokake akeh sawetara. Aku mung ngetokake 2 taun sadurunge, nalika matahari mulai bersinar ing uripku.” tema utamané album iku homoseksual, lan Denturck ngetokake karo gay. “Itu salah siji kanggo njaluk diri, iku liyane kanggo ngetokake yen sampeyan ora perlu penerimaan dunia.” Pride, babagan Denturck lan pacarnya ngreaksi beda kanggo diserang fisik. lagu liyane babagan sejarah queer ing umum, kayata Stonewall Riots Forever (kang ana uga jeneng ‘Dressed Like Boys’ saka) lan Agony Street<pfseg id="0">, babagan hubungan badai saka penulis Perancis Rimbaud lan Verlaine. "Aku ora nglakoni dhewe minangka aktivis, nanging yen aku bisa ndadekake bit kanggo perjuangan queer liwat musikku, banjur kanthi kabeh cara.

When recording demos, Denturck always feels that he is just messing about. Ironically, this time the record label thought they sounded better than the recordings in ‘an expensive studio with extremely talented musicians’. Looking for what it was that made the demos so special, Denturck established it was the quirkiness and the special character of the recordings and songs. They decided to record the whole album again, based on the demos and with the intention of giving each song its specific character in the recording. Denturck searched the whole of Belgium for the right buffet piano, sang the lyrics of Our Part of Town on his iPhone while walking in his hometown, birds in the background, and a snare drum was recorded using headphones instead of a microphone. “The more we worked like that, the more fun it became. And I am incredibly happy with the result, especially because I feel this is a sound I haven’t heard in Belgium yet. Now everyone can tell me: dude, this is the shittiest record I’ve ever heard – I am happy, I am content.”

DRESSED LIKE BOYS LIVE

16 Aug 2025 | Pukkelpop, Kiewit (BE)
30 Aug 2025 | OLT Rivierenhof, Antwerp (BE)
05 Sep 2025 | Live at Heart, Örebro (SE)
06 Sep 2025 Live at Heart, Örebro (SE)
19 Sep 2025 Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg (DE)
02 Oct 2025 Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
10 Oct 2025 Nürnberg Pop Festival, Nürnberg (DE)
17 Oct 2025 MaMA Festival, Paris (FR)
29 Oct 2025 Ekko, Utrecht (NL)
30 Oct 2025 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels (BE)
31 Oct 2025 Les Primeurs de Massy, Massy (FR)
13 Nov 2025 Wohngemeinschaft, Cologne (DE)
17 Nov 2025 Häkken, Hamburg (DE)
18 Nov 2025 Kulturhaus Insel, Berlin (DE)
19 Nov 2025 Chapeau Rouge, Prague (CZ)
20 November 2025 IPB Blue Bird, Vienna (AT)
21 November 2025 IPB Autumn Leaves, Graz (AT)
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