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Over the past few weeks one constant name catching them specials was Marvin Kreisel (Insta @marvin_kreisel). He sent us a few pics to share with you all on our blog here. Enjoy!

We probably posted this before but when we saw this early Rage Against The Machine photo, their guitarist Tom Morello made us think of Hutchy. Check their selfmade shirts: Nobody x Noddy. Even the handwriting is very similar. Of course, all of this is sheer coincidence, but a good fun fact nonetheless. When we interviewed Rod, a guitar hero himself, we asked him about his musical taste and the man who couldn't smile forever answered us he was a rock 'n roll man, but didn't like anything after Elvis. Fair enough! In our latest issue we also coined a new...

We just came across this lush 80s pick of our friend Phil Dupont on a notorious Belgian circuit water. Phil wrote two books last year, Chasing Rainbows 1 and 2, which are available from this Facebook group. PS Different times, so please don't go mad on the no mat, they just weren't around back then.    

Our brothers in VBK vzw just announced the line up for their annual meeting, and we'll be there as per usual. We'll be bringing a selected range of mags and merch, if you need anything in particular just contact us info@monkeyclimber.be 

Nemo, the 25 kilo plus koi from a notoriously hard Belgian lake, is no more. We got the sad news in yesterday that the fish was found dead. Nemo gained international fame when Darrell Peck caught her a couple of years ago and is probably the most known orange carp in the world of carp angling. It's last appearance to the bank - a good while ago, as Nemo wasn't the easiest to catch - was published in our latest magazine MC#20 in Johnny Haars' feature. The fish was stocked in 1988. Piece of Belgian carp history gone but never...