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Happy shitty 2015

Ho Ho Ho, happy 2015! Welcome in this beautiful year of happiness! Or not? Because why the fuck are we celebrating a new year actually? Why is everybody happy because he’s getting older? And why want everybody quit smoking or drink less alcohol. I had it with these people who say they want to change when the new year starts. These people are all hypocrites to me. If you really want to change your life you can do it whenever you want and you don’t have to wait until the first of January. And why having a party on the last day of the year? Why can’t we have parties like these everyday? Okay I admit, everybody would have an alcohol problem en would be obese, but that would be great! In my opinion you shouldn’t wait until the next year to party and show your friends and family that you love them. Because that’s what happens now. You will be required to say to your family ‘Happy new year, bla bla bla’, and that’s a pitty. Just show your love to the family and friends you really like throughout the year and not on one silly day in January. Over and out!

Hi, today I’ll write my blog about something I heard from Nikimo in class. He did his Friday Drivel about his album top 10 of 2014. So I wanted to do the same, but I’ll also give my concert-top 10 of 2014. On number 10 I put ‘De Kus In Ruil Voor Een koninkrijk’ from the Belgian band Buurman. It’s their 3th full album and they never disappoint me. I’m a big fan of the genre singer-songwriter in dutch. That’s why my number 9 is also a dutch-singing band: Het Zesde Metaal with their 3th studio album ‘Nie Voe Kinders’. I’m a big fan of the band because singer-songwriter Wannes Capelle writes very well and he sings in West-Flemish. My number 8 is the second album of Cloud Nothings named ‘Here And Nowhere Else’. The American band makes no-nonsense garage rock and I like them very much. On number 7 I put ‘EP2’ from FKA Twigs. I first saw them on Pukkelpop and I was blown away by the performance, really good! Afterwards I started listening to the EP and I liked it very much. On number 6 I put ‘It’s Album Time’ from Todd Terje, his electronical music makes me dance very hard everytime I listen to the album. Number 5 is reserved for a band I know since this year: Caribou. Their album ‘Our Love’ makes me feel that I’m in love with the world, really really good album. You have to know that I normally always listen to alternative garagerock and indie rock so I don’t know that much about electronic music but this one is really good. Another good ‘electronic’ album is the album I’ve waited on for 10 years : ‘Where Neon Goes To Die’ from Magnus. After their first album in 2003 ‘The Body Gave You Everything’ I became a big fan! I was already a dEUS fan but I didn’t know Tom Barman could make this kind of music too. You can hate or love that guy, but one thing you can’t say is that he can’t make good music. So my number four is a little bit typical: ‘Entity’ from Oscar & The Wolf. The band played at the Dioniss festival in 2011 and since that moment I’m a big fan of their music but I have to say I was a bigger fan of their former music. And now, we go to my top 3, drumroll… On number 3 I have ‘Falling Man’ from the Belgian band Falling Man. The band around actor Sam Loewyck gave me goose bumps when I saw them at Café Café in Hasselt. A really good performance and a really good album! My number 2 is… ‘El Pintor’ from Interpol. I have to admit that I started listening to the band just two weeks ago and I don’t know why I never started listening earlier. The album ‘El Pintor’ is a masterpiece! So here’s my absolut number one : ‘The Best Day’ from Thurston Moore. What a guy, what a hero and what an album! I’m a big fan of Sonic Youth but I had never listened to his solo albums before. So when the man had to play together with my favorite band Madensuyu at Arenberg in Antwerp I saw my chance to go. The concert was… not normal. It was absolutely amazing! So afterwards I bought the album and it didn’t disappoint me as you can see. So this was my album-top 10 and here’s my concert-top 10 :

10. Eefje De Visser, Dioniss Festival, Ghent

9. The Rolling Stones – Werchter Classic, Werchter

8. Jon Hopkins – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

7. Thurston Moore – Arenberg, Antwerp

6. Raketkanon – Handelsbeurs (Boomtown), Ghent

5. Editors – Pukkelpop, Kiewit

4. Balthazar – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

3. Queens Of The Stone Age – Pukkelpop,

2. Arcade Fire - Sportpaleis, Antwerp

1. Madensuyu – Handelsbeurs (Boomtown), Ghent

#music #madensuyu albumtop concerts

FRIS Parties at The Netherlands

Hi, This week I read an article about something special that is going on in The Netherlands. They have parties for children and it’s called ‘FRIS’. The concept is simple : everyone who is between 12 and 15 years old can enter the party. So you always have to show your ID. When you’re older than 15 you can’t join the party. Which is a bit strange, normally people can’t come in to party when they’re not 16 years old. The main rules are no alcoholic drinks, no cigarettes and no drugs. To me it sounds very boring actually but I do understand that it’s a really nice first touch with partying. Nevertheless it gives the kids a wrong idea of parties I think. Parties without alcohol, cigarettes and drugs are not realistic. So when they become 16 they go to the real parties and suddenly everything that was forbidden on their FRIS parties is on the real parties. So they might drink too much alcohol, start smoking or do drugs. No problem for me, everybody has to test these things. I think they should organize these parties also in Belgium and I’m a fan of this concept. Because the stupidest when you’re at the age of 14 or 15 is that you can’t go out because you’re not old enough, so this is a perfect alternative.

Central Brabant?

Hi, Today I’ll write my blog about something extremely stupid I heard in the news. The government wanted to change the name of the province of Antwerp into ‘Central Brabant’ or ‘Midden Brabant’. Well, I thought I’d heard a lot of stupid things already but this one is above all. The idea comes from the mayor of Mechelen Bart Somers. He thinks when people say the word ‘Antwerp’ everybody thinks about the city Antwerp and they don’t think about other cities like Mechelen who are also in the Province of Antwerp. Okay, maybe he has a point. But why for God’s sake now? We have a government who has to save millions and everybody is striking. I really think we have much bigger problems now than the f*cking name change of the province of Antwerp. Who cares about he lives in Midden Brabant or Antwerp? I mean…what’s the function of a province anyway? So I don’t really get it why Bart Somers and the other parties want to change the name.

Remember, Remember, The 8th of November // I LOVE TECHNO

Hey, last Saturday I went to I Love Techno in Gent. It was my 5th time in a row I went to the festival. The first time I was only 16 years old and I felt way too young for the festival because ILT isn’t a party like the other parties. NO I Love Techno has become one of the biggest indoor parties in Europe. The festival was always sold out and with a capacity of 36000 people it is huge. But I Love Techno has a problem… a BIG problem. Since 2010 they started with other genres than Techno. The line-up was still a techno line-up but there were also dubstep & drum & bass acts because those days techno wasn’t that popular anymore and genres like dubstep & drum n bass were the shit. I really believe that I Love Techno died that year. A lot of the diehard Techno fans didn’t show up that year and they also didn’t come to the next editions. So in 2012 I Love Techno wasn’t sold out for the first time since 2000. In 2013 ILT sold 28000 tickets instead of the 36000 tickets the past years. This was the result of the mismanagement. But this year I Love Techno went back to the roots with a line-up with only Techno. The big acts like Paul Kalkbrenner, Jeff Mils, Dave Clarke and Len Faki but also the new techno acts like Happa & Ten Walls were on the line-up. So everybody thought this year would be a sold-out edition again. Nothing was less true because they only sold 25000 tickets. But I have always loved the festival because I grew up with it. My dad organized the festival with Peter De Cuypere from 1995 till 2002 so every year I heard the big stories about I Love Techno. Moreover I live in Sint-Denijs Westrem and Flanders Expo is located in Sint-Denijs Westrem. So I can go to the festival on foot. Normally Techno isn’t my favorite genre of music but every year on a Saturday night in November I’m a big techno fan and I go absolutely mental that night. Partying from 8PM till 6AM. Remember Remember, the 8th of November…

#i love techno #ILT14

The Big Army

Hi, as you all know I joined the theatre in Sint-Denijs Westrem. This Saturday was our last showing of the piece and I want to tell you something more about how it was. It all started the first of September with the first repetition in Ghent. We started learning our texts and so it began. The first weeks the repetitions were a bit awkward because we had repetitions with our texts in our hands and nobody knew his/her text. But after a while it started to become a really good theatre. Not only with text as usual but also with songs and a choir. In total there were 20 participants in theatre, so it was huge. After all the repetitions it was time to play the theatre in a hall with many visitors. We played 7 shows and in total there were over 800 visitors. So it was a huge success. I had fun all the time and I really hope to do this over and over again. There were producers who said they wanted to have our theatre in their hall. The play is about Napoleon and in 2015 it will be 200 years from now that he has died. So maybe we can do the play in Waterloo, that would be very great.

WOMEN VS MEN

Hi, I want to comment on the article of ‘Addicted to misogyny’. This article is about the sexism in music video’s. They say it’s not a new thing in the business. Even in the eighties Robert Palmer had a video where women were projected as the lower race. I get the point of the angry women but why all this commotion? If rappers like 50 cent make videos with naked women every feminist complains. But if artist like Lily Allen, Britney Spears or Miley Cyrus make explicit videos where they sell their body in, no one may complain. In the music video of Lily Allen she pays people to let her ex-boyfriend get punched in the face. And no one reacts on this one? I think woman should be equal, and they are equal, but just don’t push it too far ladies!

The Millennials // NEW GENERATION

Hi, last week I read an article about the ‘Millennials’ from Rebekka De Wit in The Morgen. The article goes about the generation who was born in the late 80’s en early 90’s. So I’m a Millennial too and I wanted to know what she thinks about our generation. In generally she says our generation is a very obediently generation. I don’t know if this is a good or a bad thing. We grew up and heard stories of the wild decades of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and even the 90’s. All these decades were full of drugs, awesome music and political problems. Nowadays we don’t have these typical things. Even we don’t have these things anymore there’s another reason why we are too brave: it’s all about the huge amount of rules. You can’t fart on the street or the police’ll fine you. You can’t light a cigarette wherever you want, you can’t organize parties without all the rules imposed by the government. So YES we are a brave generation, but do we have another choice? In my opinion no! I would like nothing better than protesting in the streets against the government while using a lot of drugs and after that going to a big rave party with no rules. Unfortunately we just can’t do this anymore. The question is: Will our generation have typical properties? Will people talk about ‘The Millennials’? I guess not. Moral of the story: F**K ALL THESE RULES!

Dioniss Festival

Hi, today I’ll write about the festival I organize and how difficult it is to be lucrative nowadays. The name of the festival is Dioniss. The name comes from the holy Saint-Dionysos, who was the Greek god of parties and wine. The idea of the festival started in 2007 when a couple of young guys from Ghent were drinking beers in a pub. It took one year to complete all the documents who were needed to start organizing the festival, but after that, we started organizing our own festival in our own little Sint-Denijs Westrem. So on the 2nd of August 2008 we had our first edition of Dioniss, with bands like Madensuyu, Wallace Vanborn and Lady Linn (who weren’t famous in that year yet) and more than 2000 visitors we had a perfect first edition. After a couple of good editions we had to grow as festival so we decided to invest a lot of money in infrastructure, new bars, marketing, etc. In 2011 the weather was pretty bad and it rained the entire day. That was the first year we had a big loss. We are a free festival so we depend on the weather every year. If we have a sunny edition, we can easily reach 3000 people, when we have rainy editions we have less than 1000 visitors. A big risk every year. When we lost a big part of our money of the government in 2012 (They said it was because of the financial crisis) it was so damn hard to organize our festival again in 2013. We had less money for bands and marketing so it was a risky year. But 2013 was a sunny edition with a new festival day on Friday and we had our best edition since the start of the festival. What I want to tell with this blog is that if you organize an event outdoors, you have to keep some risks in mind. Every decision you make, every euro you spent, think about it carefully! Because every edition can be your last.

Popular Songs

Hi Folks, here’s my new blog! My blog is a summary of a video I saw last week about popular songs. Why does everybody always love these typical pop songs? And why are they always ‘EVERYWHERE’? The guy in the video says that the big labels use victrola, which means big labels pay radio stations money for playing the songs of their artists. You might think ‘hey, it doesn’t matter, nobody listens to the radio anymore’. But actually 92% of the people in America often listen to the radio. So it makes sense the big labels pay a lot of money for these artists. This is a complete illegal thing but that’s how it works. Labels make deals with big trade marks so the products of these companies are used in the music video’s of the artists. When you hear a song for it’s first time you’ll think ‘hey another new song’, but after a while you hear the song everywhere. And if you like it or not, you’ll start to begin to like the songs you hear on the radio. This isn’t fair because most of the time these typical songs really suck and real good music doesn’t get the attention it deserves, which is a bad thing. You can think ‘I’m not a person like all these stupid person’, but we are all part of these stupid people who hear these songs everyday and everywhere.

The Amen Beat // What about music rights?

Hi, for my first new blog I’d like to write a comment on the transcript ‘Can I Get an Amen’ from Nate Harrison. In this transcript he says that artists are too much limited in what they’re doing because of the copyright laws. Actually he has a point when he says something like that, but it’s dangerous too. It’s a fact that artists used more samples from other artist in the eighties to make their music more ‘complete’. Like the Amen beat is used in millions of songs nowadays. And to that he says nowadays it’s stupid musicians can’t use the samples for free, unless they have good lawyers or pay a lot for the use of it. In my opinion copyrights are something good, but only for some things. Using a sample, for me, is not the same as using a complete song from an artist. Artists who borrow a sample from another artist just use the sample to create a new direction for the sample by using it in their songs. It’s not like a complete copy to me. Moreover, if an artist uses a sample from an artist and after the track is completed, they spread the music they made which means the sample gets extra attention. For example : The Belgian DJ Netsky uses a sample from a young Belgian rockband and afterwards he gets a lot of success with the song. If he mentioned the bands enough in his interviews and shows I don’t see the problem why he should have paid for it. Th

Noxx Bankrupt

Hi everyone, today a blog about some new I heard today. The dancing ‘Noxx’ got bankrupt. Noxx opened their doors in the year 2007 and said to everyone they would be the most exclusive and biggest club in Belgium. Every weekend they organised rich ass parties for rich ass people. Poppin’ bottles like Grey Goose and exclusive champagne happend every night in the Noxx. The people who went to Noxx felt exclusive and better than other people. If you went to the Noxx you had to be in the VIP area to be the most exclusive person in the club. So… If I heard the news I couldn’t stop laughing. A sincere FUCK YOU to you Noxx. Normally when something has to do with music goes bankrupt I feel really sorry for them but now… This fucking stupid club for ‘exclusive people’ can lick my hairy balls! I’m a happy man today because the more clubs like these go bankrupt, the better! Noxx was also known for their big amount of drug dealers and drugs users. I do not hate people who experiment with drugs but all these rich ass motherfuckers who sell drugs with the money from their parents should have an overdose. Okay, maybe that’s too rude. You know I just want you to know I really hated the club. Not just Noxx but all these rich clubs. For example : If someone would drop a bomb into an area in Belgium it may be Knokke. ;)

Evolution of electronic Festivals in Belgium

Hi everyone, today i’ll write about another electronic festival in Belgium : HOME Festival. HOME festival is a new electronic festival in Belgium. It’s a cooperation between SuperSonic (Heuzden- Zolder) and Houzapalooza (Bree). Because of the higher production costs and less visitors they had to make this decision. It’s something good new festivals rise up in Belgium but on the other hand… Again a new festival? All the smaller festivals have already financial problems to survive so I don’t think this is a good evolution. Another thing that bothers me is that all these new dance festivals want to be like Tomorrowland. They all think that they can earn easy money by organising a similar festival to Tomorrowland. Even though you don’t like Tomorrowland, you can’t say it isn’t a big and well organised festival where we should be proud of. It seems like festival promotors nowadays think like ‘oh let’s make easy money, let’s organise a smaller festical that is similar to tomorrowland’. I also think these elctronic festivals are a hype and will disappear.

Elections // May 25th

On may 25th it’s time again for the big elections. Everybody in Belgium has to go voting for the party they ‘love’. Aheum love, Yeah right. Belgium is one the countries where everyobody must go voting so you don’t have a choice like in The Netherlands. I think it’s a bad thing you must go voting because a lot of people don’t know nothing about politics or they aren’t intrested in politics so they just give their vote to a random party they don’t even know. The fact a lot of people don’t know a lot of politics is a bad fact because parties like Flemish Belang who are known for their radical point of view against immigrants have a lot of votes from people who think that Vlaams Belang only wants to decrease the import of immigrants. But what they don’t know is that Vlaams Belang also wants a zero tollerantion on drugs and they want a evening clock. They also support the housewoman who doesn’t work and takes care of her family as a full time job. The same can be said about N-VA who have a clear view about the separation of Belgium. I hate that idea about them but actually they have a good point of view about economics. So what I want to say is that Belgium should better cancel the voting duty and give people the chance to go voting or not. But there’s one thing I want to say about that : If you let people choose if they go voting or not, you can make extreme parties bigger and bigger because their ‘fans’ absolutely want to achieve something.

Geert Wilders : Son of the famous German dictator?

Hi everyone,

This time no music news but a really serious thing. Last week our friends from The Netherlands had their elections. Not a serious thing you’d think but when I saw the reports about the elections on tv I was absolutely shocked. Geert Wilders and his party PVV (Party of Freedom) were 2nd in the results in the cities Den Haag and another city. Geert Wilders is well known for his racist statements but now he exagerrated too much. After his ‘victory’ he gave a speech in Den Haag and asked the people if they wanted more or less moroccans. The people answered ‘Less Less Less Less’. Everybody in The Netherlands was shocked and ashamed. But what I don’t understand is the fact that a lot of people voted for Geert Wilders so they had to agree with his statement. Okay, what Wilders said was over the top and can not be tolerated but I’m sure some people who said he exagerrated actually do think he’s right, but they don’t have the balls to say it in public. Maybe it is true that some moroccans are bad and don’t deserve to live in The Netherlands because of their behaviour. But you can’t say they’re all bad and you can definitely not say it like he did. For a moment I thought Hitler was still alive…

Belgium's finest : Balthazar

Hi everyone,

This week i’ll write about the hottest band of our country Belgium. The band started in 2004 but it all started for them in 2006, when they won the public price of Humo’s Rock Rally. After a lot of concerts in Belgium and other European countries they released their first album called Applause. From that moment they became bigger and bigger. Their single ‘Fifteen Floors’ was a hotshot in Belgium and The Netherlands. With this album they played at Rock Werchter and Pukkelpop. But the big breakthroug was in 2012. They released their second album Rats and played again at Rock Werchter. This album included much singles like ‘Do not claim this anymore’ and ‘Sinking Ship‘. In 2013 they toured with Editors in Europe and played at the Sportpaleis as support for the band. In fabruari 2014 they had their first big European Tour. Playing gigs in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Poland. The venues they played where places with a capacity of 1000 to 2000 people, wich is amazing for a Belgian band. I really think this band is going to be the biggest band of our country because every year it goes better and better for them and they just released two albums. Also on stage they look very professional wich is a good thing for a band to get international successes.

Major VS. Small Festivals

Hey everyone, it’s time for the first blog of 2014! Let’s talk about a serious problem in the music business : The major festivals who are soldout year after year without any problem and earn each year a lot of money and the small festivals who go bankrupt. It’s a problem which started a couple of years ago. Every country, and specific Belgium has a lot of festivals, maybe too much. Every city you’ll visit in Belgium has its own festival. Actually it’s a nice thing that more and more festivals are coming up and give people the chance to see acts in their own village. But financially it’s a hard business. Competing against the big festivals is the hardest thing to do. The oversupply of festivals isn’t always a good thing. The big festivals have a lot of money so they can pay the big acts wich makes them more intresting to visit than smaller festivals who have unknown artists. Festivals like Rock Werchter, Tomorrowland and Pukkelpop are always sold out without any problem. The small festivals have to put a big effort in it to promote their festivals. Sometimes it depends on the gouvernment if a festival is succesful or not because they can hand out grants. Speaking for myself it is a true fact that you have to get grants to survive in this hard business. Because the fees from bands are getting higher and higher and the production cost raises every year. That’s a logic grow because the artists have less income from their album sales so they have to earn more money with live concerts. It’s sad to see that festivals like Once Upon a festival and Casablanca have to quit the festival because of financial problems. But it’s not always because of the big festivals. The wheater is a very important thing for the festival to be successful or not. The summer of 2011 and 2012 was a crazy rainy summer which causes that a lot of festival had less visitors. Looking at the Rock Herk festival. They had to reduce the festival to survive. And this year they had to sell their festival. Luckily they have found a solution for their problem so they can have a new edition in 2014. The point I want to make is that it’s much more difficult for smaller festivals to survive than for the major festivals. Not just because the major festivals have bigger acts, also because gouvernments aren’t giving grants anymore and last but not least the wheater is a big problem for festivals.

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