Biography
Formed in Belgium, Evil Superstars brought together Mauro Pawlowski on vocals and guitar, Dave Schroyen on drums, Marc Requile on keyboards, Bert Vandebroek on bass, and Tim Vanhamel on guitar. In the mid-90s the band stood among a wave of mainland European acts—Whale, Bettie Serveert, and the Cardigans among them—that secured listeners in both the UK and the US. Their debut EP, Hairfacts, appeared in 1995; soon afterward they toured with Placebo and drew notice through the single ‘Satan Is In My Ass’. Drawing on jazz, reggae, and hard rock, the group’s wide-ranging tastes found coherent shape on the 1996 album Love Is Okay, whose songs fused those strands into genuinely strong and approachable pop. Boogie-Children-R-Us followed the same pattern yet registered a weaker impression.