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Captain Compost
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It all started at the end of the year 2000, when three high school friends (Meerse, Piere & Fré)engaged in a rather disastrous first gig at a school free stage. Not much later, Pype and Brecht teamed up. Finally, we found a long-searched for bass player in Koene. The first two demos were recorded in the following two years, and a whole series of small shows were played, some of them more successful than others. After a while, a few bigger shows followed. In 2003 for example , we played Boscorock in Kortrijk and Novarock in Heule, thus sharing the bill with bands like The Heideroosjes, Camden, De Mens, Five Days Off, ... 2004 was a rather turbulent year in wich we made our first full length "Those were the days". Times were certainly changing for us, we got that right... Due to certain differences, Piere was asked to leave the band. Giving up, however, has never been in our dictionary. We found a new band member in Lexe, who blended in just perfectly. We kept on playing shows and writing songs. Not much later, singer Fré left the band.From then on, Koene has taken up the lead vocals. 2005, besides a new start , meant a bunch of bigger shows throughout the land. We played with bands such as Janez Detd at The Kreun , made it to the semi-finals of West-talent (a well-know talent competition), and played some big festivals like Novarock 2006. In the meantime, due to lack of time, trumpet player Brecht quit. But we added three (!) extra people to the band's roster: Bjitte (t
