Pukkelpop 2008

Pukkelpop is a great internationally recognized three-day alternative music festival in Belgium.

It's always in august, and it's always rainy ... and there're some tickets left !

this weekend, you can enjoy :

august 14:
Editors, Róisín Murphy, The Killers, Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, Joan As Police Woman, Santogold, Tricky, Hot Chip, Stereo MC's, Soulfly, Carl Craig, The Ting Tings, Iron & Wine, SoKo, The Subs, Danko Jones, Serj Tankian, Midnight Juggernauts, Uffie & Feadz, dj Mehdi, SebastiAn, ...

15th:
Metallica, Stereophonics, Cold War Kids, Das Pop, Foals, The Breeders, Boys Noize, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Blood Red Shoes, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, Michael Franti, Arsenal, Tim Vanhamel, Girls in Hawaii, Modeselektor, Robyn, Surkin, Brodinski, Diplo, Erol Alkan, the futureheads, tokyo police club, alphabeat, Tunng, The Dodos, Martina Topley-Bird, ...

16th:
Bloc Party, Sigur Rós, Soulwax, The Wombats, the Dresden Dolls, Jamie Lidell, Elbow, Stephen Marley, Dr. Lektroluv, Etienne de Crecy, Simian Mobile Disco, Hercules and Love Affair, MGMT, 2 Many dj's, We Are Scientists, Black Mountain, Manic Street Preachers, Lykke Li, Black Kids, the National, Yelle, Girl Talk, The Bloody Beetroots, The Crookers, A-Trak, Tocadisco, M83, Crystal Castles ...

Waow !

live review (in dutch)
online
myspace

gift : the killers - tranquilize (ft. lou reed)

efes pilsen ONE LOVE festival

right now, i'm in Istanbul, 

dancing to the beats of Hot Chip or Roisin Murphy, 

at the efes pilsen ONE LOVE festival

see you in a few days !

Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know
Hot Chip - boy from school
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Hot Chip - the warning

update :
some (mobile) pictures and 'ready for the floor' by Hot Chip.
great festival ! really cool, organisation was perfect, weather too (of course, it's istanbul...).
And Yelle played instead of the Long Blondes, great surprise !

Yelle :

Hot Chip :

Roisin Murphy :

Hot Chip - Live - 'ready for the floor' :

les nuits botaniques

les nuits botaniques are a special festival. Every night, between may 7 and may 18, you have a few concerts at le botanique, in Brussels. Le botanique are old greenhouses, a really special place in the city centre.

a few of the concerts :
7th : jamie lidell, tunng, ...
8th : Xiu Xiu
9th : I'm from barcelona, We are scientists, of montreal, two gallants,...
10th : Tom McRae, Balkan Beat Box, ...
11th : Explosions in the Sky, dirty projectors, ...
12th : morcheeba, an pierlé, ...
13th : Yelle, Sébastien Tellier, rogue wave, ...
14th : Yael Naim, The Do, Tim Vanhamel, Hollywood porn stars, Syd Matters
15th : CocoRosie & Orchestra, SoKo, Brisa Roché, Noah & the Whale, Girls in Hawaii, ...
16th : Audio Bullys, Camille, ...
17th : Vampire Weekend, The Teenagers, ...

Yelle - A cause des garçons

We are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt

Dirty Projectors - No More

The Do - On my shoulders

Tim Vanhamel - Until I Find You (acoustic)

Girls in Hawaii - This Farm Will End Up In Fire

The Teenagers - French Kiss

festival news

last names for rock werchter !

The Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, Panic At The Disco, My Morning Jacket, Monza, Vampire Weekend, Devotchka and Cool Kids !
www.rockwerchter.be

and first name for pukkelpop : metallica !
pukkelpop.be

Welcome Spring! Festival

Welcome Spring! festival

What? a free festival, in the middle of the city, with 3 stages (main, alternative & electro)

When? wednesday april 9th, from 2pm to 3am

Where? Louvain-la-neuve, south of brussels, belgium

Who? organized by le kot-e-rythmes, with on stage :

Vive la fête, hollywood porn stars, the vismets, the moon invaders, frank shinobi, forma.t crew (partyharders, the others, elektrash, surfing leons), ...

bonus : Vive la fête - Touche pas

get ready for your summer

Sunny day here in belgium...

so, you should think about your summer festivals !

here's belgium's top 5 :

number 1 :

Rock Werchter, on July 3 - 4 - 5 - 6, is considered as the best festival in the world (winner of the ILMC Arthur Award for the 4th time in 5 years!). 

So, no explanation needed, just look at the new temporary line-up !

number 2 :

Pukkelpop, august 14-15-16 in Hasselt.
their space

number 3 :

Dour, biggest alternative festival, with a lot of (smaller) bands. Very cool.
17>20 July

number 4 :

Les Ardentes, in Liège, on July 10th to 13th

THURSDAY 10th JULY

LAURENT GARNIER, TRENTEMOLLER (live band), SEBASTIEN TELLIER, BRISA ROCHE, AURYN, …

FRIDAY 11th JULY

DAVE CLARKE, GOOSE (live), BOOKA SHADE (live), M.A.N.D.Y., YELLE, SOLDOUT, DR. LEKTROLUV, ANDREW WEATHERALL, MATTHEW DEAR & RYAN ELLIOTT, CHLOE (live), APPARAT (live band), ARNAUD REBOTINI (live), SASCHA FUNKE, GUI BORRATO (live), RED SHAPE (live), MICHAEL MAYER, DJ PIERRE, …

SATURDAY 12th JULY

M.I.A., THE STREETS, DIZZEE RASCAL, THE KILLS, LIARS, THE BELLRAYS, SPIRITUALIZED, DAS POP, CROOKERS, BLOODY BEETROOTS, DJ FOOD vs. DK, DJ MARKY, THE QEMISTS, DILINJA & LEMON D, SAGE FRANCIS, PRINS THOMAS, JUSTUS KOHNCKE, FREAKY AGE, LEGOPARTY, …

SUNDAY 13th JULY

DIONYSOS, GIRLS IN HAWAII, ARNO, DANIEL DARC, THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS, SAINT-ANDRE, PUGGY, YOAV, …

number 5 :

Gentse Feesten, in Ghent, a ten days city festival. This is just crazy...

MIAMI VICE

Justice - Live@WMC 2008 - Annie Mac's BBC one Mash Up 

(thanks to Asian dan's blog)

(that's annie mac, between eron alkan and mark ronson)

Free Hugs for Belgium

"België knuffelt, Les belges s'embrassent"

Belgian students are going to hug for the unity of their country !
Wednesday 21th of november, at 2pm, on the Ladeuzeplein in Leuven
Be there if you can !

website of the event

Das Pop - Fool for Love (SebastiAn Remix)
Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportsware
La Brabançonne (National Anthem)

Try some pukkelpop...

we have rock werchter, the best festival in the world...
but in belgium we don't stop there, we have other great festivals !

like pukkelpop !


their myspace
and some videos on youtube

but, what was the line-up ?























some mp3's:
Iggy Pop & the stooges - I wanna be your dog
Jamie T - If You Got The Money
Just Jack - Writer's block
Kings of Leon - Fans
Buscemi - sahid balkan
Smashing Pumpkins - tarantula



(smashing pumpkins - LCD soundsystem - Kings of Leon - CocoRosie : pictures by demorgen)

So, will you come next year ?!

cactus festival '07

yesterday ended the Cactus Festival in Bruges (Flanders), after 3 very nice days. 

The weather spared the city, so the crowd could enjoy some great bands (josé gonzalez, the rakes, cake, the waterboys, mogwai, gothan project, the congos, ...)

I saw on the last day : Tom McRay, Gabriel Rios and The Flaming Lips finished the festival. and they were great !

It was an incredible show, with dancers, lasers, confetti's, balloons, etc. Really great, one big party !

gabriel rios (a puerto rican, living in Belgium, making great songs)


mp3 Gabriel Rios - Broad Daylight

the flaming lips !



mp3's :
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
The Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path (feat the flaming lips)


here are some live video's from yesterday evening (found on youtube)

June means ... Rock Werchter !

last weekend of June, there's the best music festival on earth (third time in a row winner of the Arthur Award, by the International Live Music Conference!) :

ROCK WERCHTER of course !


with this year (sit down, you may fall on the ground...)

MAIN STAGE:
!!!
Arctic Monkeys
Billy Talent
Björk
Bloc Party
The Chemical Brothers
Enter Shikari
Faithless
Peter Gabriel
Heideroosjes (B)
Incubus
Interpol
Kaiser Chiefs
Keane
The Killers
Kings of Leon
The Kooks
Marilyn Manson
Mastodon
Metallica
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Pearl Jam
Queens of the Stone Age
Razorlight
Snow Patrol
The Van Jets (B)
Amy Winehouse
Zornik (B)

PYRAMID MARQUEE:
Admiral Freebee
Air
Air Traffic
Lily Allen
Arno
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
Beastie Boys
Frank Black
Blonde Redhead
The Bravery
Cold War Kids
Damien Rice
Dr. Lektroluv
Gabriel Rios (B)
The Good The Bad And The Queen
Goose (B)
The Hold Steady
Joan as Police Woman
Klaxons
LCD Soundsystem
John Legend
Maxïmo Park
Mika
Jason Mraz
Oi Va Voi
Satellite Party
Sioen (B)
Stijn (B)
Tori Amos
Rufus Wainwright

unbelievable...

until then:

Arctic Monkeys - No Buses
QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
Interpol - The Heinrich Manoeuvre
The Good, The Bad And The Queen - Kingdom Of Doom
Bloc Party - The Prayer
The Kooks - Ooh La
Cold War Kids - Hang me up to dry

les ardentes

young festival in Liège (Belgium), second edition in July, nice line-up !

AIR • AARON • JOSHUA • CASSIUS • ELLEN ALLIEN • DJ HELL • VIVE LA FÊTE • GHINZU • MARTIN SOLVEIG • LADYTRON • INFADELS • ETIENNE DE CRECY • MR OIZO • THE DATSUNS • DJ KRUSH • JOAKIM • SCRATCH MASSIVE • ABSYNTHE MINDED • OLIVIA RUIZ • CALEXICO • HOOVERPHONIC • ARCHIVE • MUD FLOW • DAAN • CIRKUS (feat. NENEH CHERRY) • ULTRA ORANGE & EMMANUELLE • THE TELLERS

check it out : les ardentes

two nice songs, until july:
joakim - I wish you were gone
the tellers - more