Effective period / Period of releases: 1995 - 1997

Members: Peter Koelewijn, Onno Pelser, Rob Peters (4)

Gompie is a Dutch band in Nijmegen, which in 1995 edited the Smokie hit “Living Next Door to Alice”, adding the words “Alice, Who the fuck is Alice!?”. The song reached number 17 in the UK and number 1 in the Netherlands. Who the X Is Gompie! is the name of the album they released in 1995.

The song “Living Next Door to Alice” was listened to on a regular basis in café Gompie in Nijmegen. When the name “Alice” had passed, it was common for the disk jockey Onno Pelser to turn the volume down and the entire café would scream “Alice, who the fuck is Alice?”. Rob Peters, director of a record company, happened to visit café Gompie one evening and witnessed this show. He approached his friend, the singer Peter Koelewijn, and one day later the song was recorded. Gompie was chosen for the artist name.
The single became a hit in the Benelux and 80 other countries. In the United Kingdom and the United States, a censored version was released with the name “Alice, who the bleep is Alice?”. This charted in Britain (though was less popular than Smokies own re-recording of the track with Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown).