October 4, 2005
Amsterdam's regional TV station AT5 asked FRD's Abraxas for his most memorable location in Amsterdam. He chooses to tell his story about the eviction in May 1993 of Multigroove, the infamous weekly recurring rave in Amsterdam's Westport where Fierce Ruling Diva recorded a live cd that same year.

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May 12, 2001
FRD's Jeroen Flamman flies to NYC for a joint Birthday Party with Lenny Dee at the legendary CBGB's, Lower East Side - probably the longest running hardest venue in the world...

April 1, 2000
Article from the "Nieuwsblad van het Noorden" where FRD talk about the blessing of staying alive as artists for such a long time, Fierce Ruling Diva, the I Wannna Be A Hippy remix for Technohead, the gold, silver and platinum records as Party Animals and what the future might bring.

October, 1995
Interview by Holland's dance magazine Strober with Abraxas about Fierce Ruling Diva, Flamman & Abraxas, I Wanna Be A Hippy, Party Animals, Tresor, Radio 100...

May 17, 1993
Fierce Ruling Diva did not know what happened when masked policemen with automatic rifles ended one and a half year of weekly illegal raves in the Elementenstraat "House of God" Multigroove while FRD were spinning behind the decks. After a night in jail, FRD and dozens of others were sent home without any charges, the promoters did their time, paid their fines and moved on to the next location...

August, 1992
Article from MixMag, UK

July 31, 1992
Press bio for the UK release of Fierce Ruling Diva's "You Gotta Believe", bio written by Nicky @ Phuture Traxx press promotion for React Music, Putney, London.

June 6, 1992
Dutch music industry magazine Discodance tells about Fierce Ruling Diva heading for the New Music Seminar in New York and Christopher Street Day in Berlin

March 1, 1992Matt E. Silver's Rave Report

January 3, 1992
Austrian press speak of Subtopia, Fierce Ruling Diva & Konrad Becker.

December 5, 1991
Fierce Ruling Diva is featured on the frontpage of Dance Music Report, NY's leading dance music magazine, alongside Moby, Joey Beltram and Lords of Acid.

October 19, 1991
Frontpage article of Billboard Magazine, where Fierce Ruling Diva is named amidst artists like Westbam, Quadrophonia, Moby, The Shamen and T99 as leading acts in the 1991 techno-rave movement.

July 12, 1991
Announcement from the pop-agenda of daily newspaper Volkskrant for FRD's "HouseNation" party in Tomorrowland, Rotterdam

February, 1991
Weekly quality magazine Haagse Post reviews FRD's Subtopia club and tells how Fierce Ruling Diva have introduced the "after party" to the Amsterdam clubscene. It is the truth, there was no after hour club culture before 1989 - it's Flamman & Abraxas who started it with Planet E and Subtopia! Ecstasy did the rest...

May 1, 1990
Playboy Magazine discovers Planet E and calls it "Amsterdam's best interstellar experience since the Planetarium"... "Spaced! Apart! Modern!"

March 1990
Dutch daily newspaper Volkskrant reviewed The Sound Of Planet Earth vol. 1 & vol. 2, calling "Whipped Kream" the strongest track so far released by FRD. To date, "Whipped Kream" is still part of the FRD live show!

February 10, 1990
Dutch news magazine HP (Haagse Post) reviewed the very first Fierce Ruling Diva live performance ever, February 1990 at their own Planet E club in the center of Amsterdam. This show was 100% live, not using any dat or tape - just a Roland W30 sampler/sequencer, a 303, a 909, a Yamaha DX100, and of course Abraxas on the mic...

January 1990
Dutch Progressive music magazine Oor is one of the first music press to recognize the evolving unique Dutch Housemusic sound, naming Eddy de Clercq's "Pay The Piper" as the first House-12" to come out of Amsterdam and classifying Fierce Ruling Diva's first two releases ("I Don't Wanna Be A Freak" and "Keep Moving In Time") as strong as steel...