1976 Inspired bij the upcoming punkwave Ludo Mariman and Danny De Haes and Eddy De Haes formed THE KIDS. 1977 THE KIDS signed their first recordcontract with Phonogram. They played support acts for Iggy Pop and Patti Smith and The Runaways. 1978 Their first album "THE KIDS" was recorded and guitarist Luk Van De Poel reinforced the band. The same year they played in the famous JAZZ BILZEN festival. Eight months later the second album "NAUGHTY KIDS" was released 1979 Eddy De Haes was replaced on drums by Cesar Janssens, The Kids played in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and France. 1980 Release of the third album "LIVING IN THE 20TH CENTURY". They toured in Belgium with Jo Lemaire & Flouze. They performed for the second time on the Jazz Bilzen Festival 1981 The album "BLACK-OUT" was recorded with on it their best known song "THERE WILL BE NO NEXT TIME" 1982 Liverecordings with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio in Antwerp and Mechelen resulted in the live album "LIVE" 1983 The single "Mercy Mercy" is the last record released by Phonogram. After the 1983-clubtour , The KIDS stopped playing for almost two years 1985 The album "GOTCHA!" was released by Konexion and THE KIDS toured for the last time in Flanders. 1986 After 10 years THE KIDS decided to stop playing and LUDO MARIMAN started his solocareer. 1991 Release of the Best of CD of THE KIDS: the compilation "1976 - 1986" 1996 20 years after the first gig THE KIDS held a reunion-tour. The first two albums were reproduced on one CD and a double album 1998 "Fascist Cops" and "We Are The Prisoners" are recorded for the soundtrack of "DIEF" After a live performance on TV the received enormous reactions. The Kids played again in the original line-up on the summerfestivals in Belgium, a small club-tour in Germany and a automn tour in clubs in Belgium. 1999 and further on The DE HAES brothers were replaced by ex-THE SCABS-drummer Franky SAENEN and twenty-year-old-bassplayer Pieter VAN BUYTEN. They played on a lot of Belgian festivals and in clubs in Belgium and abroad. THE KIDS will continue playing as long as ....... THE KIDS ARE UNITED. 2001 THE KIDS are 25 YEARS young and in december of that same year the Live CD FLABBERGASTED! was released 2004 recordings of the live DVD in New York, at southpaw club in June and released later that year The kids played in Germany,France,Spain,Italy,USA 2005 New CD SINGLE "Freedom, Liberty, Democracy" 2006 The Kids are 30! Pieter was replaced by Danny De Haes! 2007 The Kids played at Emo's and Beerland in Austin Texas. 2008 The kids played at The Shelter in Japan. Oktober 2008 The Kids played at Foufounes electric and Catacombes in Montreal Canada and at The New Bayou in Ottawa Canada. .

Riffs cinglants, textes récits sociaux en français, morceaux courts et ultra-rapides, Contingent a écumé la scène Punk-Rock belge depuis sa formation en mars 1979 par le guitariste Éric Lemaître et Bob "Killer" Seytor au chant, avec Jo "Le Rat" Fonthainas à la batterie et John "Opposition" Baine à la basse. En août, John retourne en Angleterre entamer sa carrière de poête activiste en tant que "Attila The Stockbroker", Guy "Molotoff" Delcroix le remplace, cette formation enregistre le EP "Police Control" en février 1980. En septembre, Daniel "Le Chinois" Wang remplace Jo à la batterie. Juillet 1981, le groupe enregistre 15 titres en un week-end pour un album. Le groupe se sépare un mois plus tard. En 2007, reformé à l'initiative de John "Attila", le groupe se remet à tourner et Éric enregistre tout le répertoire actualisé. En 2011, les graphistes Patrice Poch et Elzo Durt organisent l'expo-concert "Bloody Belgium", ils font part au groupe de l'intérêt qui existe pour les enregistrements de 1981. Le décès d'Éric Lemaître en 2012 semble mettre un point final à Contingent. En janvier 2013, à l'initiative du Magasin 4, une grande commémoration à sa mémoire décide le groupe à publier le CD "Destinée Fragile", avec les enregistrements de 2007. Puis James Neligan les rejoint, c'est le guitariste idéal pour une reformation qui rendra hommage à un grand bonhomme!   En 2014, le 45t "Homme Sauvage" - "Vivons Très Vite", deux titres mixés de la session de 1981, est publié sur le label Poch Records, en collaboration avec Danger Records.   2015: L'album "CONTINGENT" de1981, est publié par POCH RECORDS et DANGER RECORDS. Un LP vinyl 14 titres, avec insert 4 pages contenant les paroles en français et en anglais, des photos d'époques ainsi que l'historique du groupe.

After a relative rest for the two Liège heads, it is time to get back to business. And this business requires four hands to play, very rapidly, and two ears, to be listened to very loudly. Trapped in a frantic chase on a Belgian highway, finally on a slope, this time, we are missing the brakes… and avoiding the famous ruts is imperative for survival.
So here we are, grazing the slide in a shower of magnificent sparks, while being hit by these ten punchy pieces releasing a crazy energy. Even if the forays towards EBM become more and more pop (if we can use that word here), Punk becomes always more synthetic, Kraut is percussive and martial, but with PRINCE HARRY, it's a long time that the Indus has been moving very fast: at 140bpm on the emergency lane.
"A Long Way Down" is the fourth LP from the Belgian duo to find asylum on the Parisian label. After 5 years of discretion - almost absence - this curious pink album propels us to the unthinkable frontiers of electronic punk, lo-fi EBM and garage new-beat.