Vuile Mong & Vieze Gasten was a Flemish-language cabaret group, founded in 1971, which was mainly active in the 1970s and 1980s, also in the Netherlands. The group was comically rebellious inspired by the May ‘68 student protests. Their second album Bommerskonten poked fun at the ‘Year of the Village 1978’ (Jaar van het dorp). Bommerskonten is a fictitious village in Flanders. Individuals or businesses are criticized by saying that they come from "Bommerskonten", in other words from a deprived, barely known location. On the front of the LP cover a parody of Asterix with under the magnifying glass the village of Bommerskonten, and the main characters from Belgian politics. Vuile Mong & Vieze Gasten often played at benefit concerts, demonstrations and strikes. Between 1978 and 1990 they also toured with their own circus tent in which they performed their performances. In this way they reached an audience that never went to theaters. In The Reddy Kilowatt-punk a pro-nukie sighs: make us radioactive // ​​there is no alternative // ​​people do not live on sun and wind // no one believes that. Reddy Kilowatt is a cartoon character that served as a corporate spokesman for electricity generation in the United States and other countries since the 1920s In Belgium E.B.E.S. - which merged into Electrabel in 1990 - used the cartoon character.

Production of and benefit single for C.A.N. (Collectif De Coordination Anti-Nucleaire) and Coup de Soleil. On this benefit single for two Belgian anti-nuclear organizations two songs that had already been released before. Reddy Kilowatt Punk - sometimes in Belgium also referred to as Kreezy Kilowatt, is taken from the 1978 album Bommerskonten by Vuile Mong and Vieze Gasten - were it is called De Reddy Kilowatt-Punk. The song on the B-side Tango du nucleaire by Philippe Anciaux was previously released on the benefit compilation LP Survivre de Couvin, a ‘contribution to the local fight against a dam in the Eau Noir valley on the French/Belgian border, not far from Chooz. In 1983 Anciaux released the LP Si La vie with the song Chooz, Chooz, Les Marrons Chauds about the struggle against the nuclear power station. More on the insert [French/Dutch].

The French nuclear power plant at Chooz is located very close to the Belgian border and an important focuspoint of the Walloon (French speaking part of the) Belgian anti-nuclear movement during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Friends of GAM had a second home in Chooz. One day, at the beginning of the movement against the nuclear power plant, towards the end of 1978, they spent a weekend there, met local activists, and improvised a song tour. This day is very well summarized in the song Ballade à Chooz. In 1979, this 7” single was recorded and distributed for the benefit of the Groupement calcéen contre l’implantation d’une deuxieme centrale nucleaire. Side B is dedicated to the inhabitants of Chooz: Vous Nous Avez Bernés (You fooled us) but also Défendons-nous (Let's defend ourselves) and Le nucléaire créera des emplois (Nuclear power will create jobs). Here the inside sleeve of the single.

Without GAM, the Belgian French-speaking song scene would not be quite the same. The same can be said for Belgian social history. In the 1970's, not a social struggle went on in Belgium without the GAM. To celebrate, but also to proclaim loudly that we must not let ourselves be taken advantage of, that we are all united and that it is by expressing ourselves together that we will remake the world (more -in french). This album, the second one after Chansons De Luttes En Belgique (1977), includes two songs about the struggle against the French nuclear power plant at Chooz. The previously released Ballade à Chooz and Allez les gars (‘Come on guys’). After the release of the Chooz EP in 1979, GAM came often to support the struggle: to sing at the festivals and also during the demonstrations in front of ‘the helmets’. So often that they were considered as calcéens (locals, inhabitants of Chooz).
The song Allez les gars written in 1980 by Michel Gilbert, deals with the confrontations with the French riot police. The words were ment for the police, ment to be sung in front of the CRS and gendarmes: Avoue franchement qu’c’est quand même pas / La vie qu’t’avais rêvée pour toi: / Cogner des gens pour faire tes heures. / T’aurais mieux fait d’rester chômeur (Admit that it's not the life / The life you had dreamed for yourself: / Hitting people to make your hours. / You should have stayed unemployed). It was often sung; the beginning, serenely, the end of the song, often in a cloud of tear gas… A song of struggle.

Listen to Allez les gars, by GAM

No Nuclear Energy is the b-side of Brussels, the only single of this unknown Belgium band from Eeklo, audibly inspired by new wave and The Cure. In 1983 a new nationwide campaign started in Belgium against the possible construction of more nuclear reactors, culminating in a mass demonstration on May 14, in Antwerp. This single was released in the run-up to this demonstration.

This studioband under the name Fade Out was a project of Marc Morlock (Marc Mens) who, along with a number of other very respected studio musicians and sound engineers, released three singles in the years 1986-87 under this name. This one, of course, because of "big worries" about the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. The single - which did not do anything in the Belgian charts - was the first on the Fade Out Label Morlock founded at that time, focusing on songwriting and producing when tired of 'being on the road'.

Gert has been making society-critical, Do It Yourself catchy up tempo folk-punk since 2004. This song from the CD Ongepast Vrolijk (Inappropriately Cheerful) is about the Belgian reactors Doel 3 and Tihange 2. These are the so-called "crack reactors", reactors where there are some 3,500 minute "cracks" (hydrogen flakes) in the reactorvessel. Between 2012 and 2015, both reactors were shut down for a long period of time to investigate the hydrogen flakes. The reactors were allowed to restart, under a number of conditions, in 2017. On June 25 of that year, some 50,000 people in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium demonstrated for the closure of Doel-3 and Tihange-2. Maar die kerncentrales moeten toch wel dringend sluiten / Lig toch niet wakker van zo’n nep-stroomtekort / We moeten herbruikbare energie gebruiken / het wordt hoog tijd dat België wakker wordt. (But surely those nuclear plants must close down urgently / Don't lie awake over such a fake power shortage / We must use reusable energy / It's high time Belgium wakes up.)

Also on this CD Niets meer niets minder (Nothing more nothing less), again a number of short, maximum about 2 minutes long, protest songs. Songs about poverty, refugees, prisons and closed shelters, undocumented, ecological problems and politics with its covert lies and deceit. A protest song about nuclear energy is not missing this time either. Kerngezond in een stralend België (Healthy in a radiant Belgium) is about the preventive distribution of iodine pills in the vicinity of nuclear power plants. Buurlanden protesteren, maar in België blijft het stil / en als er dan toch iets gebeuren zou, dan neem je maar een pil / die pil zal je beschermen, ja die pil is wonderbaar / dankzij die pil geen last meer van dat vervelende radioactieve gevaar. (Neighboring countries protest, but in Belgium it remains silent / and if something should happen, then you just take a pill / that pill will protect you, yes that pill is miraculous / thanks to that pill no more trouble from that nasty radioactive danger.)