FuC Topper: Dine on Ashes - On Being Sane In Insane Places

When Wim Dielen and Katharine De Groote met in 2006, they combined their mutual interests to eventually give birth to a new project in 2009 named Dine on Ashes. This refers to an English idiom meaning "to excessively focus attention on failures or regrets for past actions". However, dark as this may seem, Wim and Katharine merely wish to focus attention on what makes us human.

Wim Dielen already had a vast amount of experience due to his previous life as co-founder of the 90's band Transparent Curse, a life that was also shared with Dominique Audenaert and Tom Buytaert. Katharine De Groote was still a teenager and had no professional experience upon being chosen to be singer of the previous project. She combines her Scandinavian roots with her career path to become a psychologist to influence her lyrics. A long struggle and five years later, Dine on Ashes released their debut album "On Being Sane in Insane Places" in 2011.

Dominique and Tom rejoined Wim in that same year to help partake in live shows and became permanent members of the band. In search of a drummer, Frank Vandenberghe popped out in both performance and personality and gained his place in the Dine on Ashes concept as well.

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