Thomas Andrew Barman (born 1 January 1972), is a Belgian musician and film director. Barman studied at the film school of St.-Lucas in

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, but did not finish his studies because he wished to pursue a career in music. In 1989, he began by forming the rock band,

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, in

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. Although he had chosen music over his interest in film, his experience aided him in directing his own music videos for dEUS, and he made a short film in 1996 titled ''Turnpike''. He also directed videos for other Belgian musicians including Axelle Red and

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among others. He is of Norwegian descent from his father's side. In the summer of 2002 shooting started in

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for his first feature film '' Any Way the Wind Blows'' which was released in Belgian cinemas in the summer of 2003. ''Live'', an album in collaboration with pianist Guy Van Nueten, was released in November 2003. In February 2004, Barman released ''The Body Gave You Everything'', the debut album by

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, his dance-oriented project with techno producer

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. Barman has explored the other side of the camera as well. He agreed to a "leading role" allowing directors, Manu Riche and Renaat Lambeet to film a documentary derived by Barman's everyday life, entitled ''Tempo of a Restless Soul''. After showing at the Ghent Film Festival one reviewer from ''

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'' ranked the film with a split score. He feels the film should receive three of five stars for fans only, and two stars for others. dEUS fans already familiar with Barman, he pointed out, may be interested in the backstage, personal nature of the man due to the everyday "fly on the wall" view of the film. However, he cautioned, it might be confusing to find the semi-retiring rock

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behind scenes. Barman is again playing with dEUS. In 2006, Barman was one of the driving forces behind the

0110 concerts The 0110 concerts, held on October 1, 2006 in Antwerp, Brussels, Charleroi and Ghent, were organised by dEUS frontman Tom Barman, Arno Hintjens and Frederik Sioen to promote tolerance in Belgian society, and "against Vlaams Belang, extremis ...

. Barman was involved in polemics in Belgium, when after expressing strong opposition towards male sexual harassment on Belgian national TV, a Dutch woman referred to meeting him some 15 years ago, where Barman insisted her to give him a blowjob in order to have access to a toilet. Barman excused himself for this.

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1972 births Living people Belgian film directors Belgian rock singers Belgian male guitarists English-language singers from Belgium Belgian activists Columbia Records artists Belgian people of Norwegian descent 21st-century Belgian male singers 21st-century guitarists Deus (band) members {{Belgium-musician-stub