MUSIC - Bos&Lanting

Bos, Lanting, Douche & Khani might present itself as an irrelevant arty pop-band, but it is so much more! It’s a togetherness of friends that click together, showcasing a seductive sensibility with amazing lyrical content and an incredible catchiness.

In the video for Football Is Life, we are visually accosted by a gang of malcontent artists in typical street gang attire. They seem to be enticing us with sexual gestures to a bouncy electronic soundtrack. The whole thing is a symbolic allegory for game obsession and mortality.

Even though the song itself seems to be clear from Christmas references, the video for the instant new classic named MOON ON FIRE does feature romantic snowflakes and a smoking hot Maria-like figure.

It even features a groundbreaking lyrical section in the German language with the important words of ‘terror hakken’ being the keywords that seemingly brings peace among the listening inhabitants of the normally divided countries of Deutschland, Les pays Bas and the general English speaking communities.

In this episode Bos, Lanting, Douche & Khani are hanging out in the trees, breaking the branches, stepping on micro insects and sand, falling over moss and grass… They are having a good time.

Traces of excessive makeup, a trail of good time sweat and smelly smoke. They disturb the natural habitat of the forest fishes, keeps the birds and land creatures at bay by torturing the air by filling it up by uninvited guitar strokes. Scared frogs are jumping for safety while the bunch hunt them to exchange their saliva on their backs by indecent tongue behavior. Is it art? Is it the spirit of Lars von Trier’s The Idiots at work, or perhaps actual idiots?

Ulla Eriksen, Susan Lanting, and Frédérique Olthuis started the Heroines in Amsterdam in 2006 and were active through 2011.

According to Lanting, the band “did everything a band does except making music.” Throughout their career they made appearances on talk shows and in advertisements and numerous promotional photo shoots, all the while staying committed to their goal of not playing or recording music. As such, there exists no musical output for us to preserve or disseminate.