The Bellrays | support act: Eddie Spaghetti - Trix, Antwerp - Indiestyle

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The holidays are gone and concert season has started, finally! The opening concert at Trix was a bullseye and the promise of a great season. Stay tuned for lots of concert pictures and high frequency Rock And Roll! Coming up next: The Rapture - Believo!

The Bellrays

The Bellrays are a us garage rockband combined with the soul voice of Lisa Kekaula. Yesterday they played their set the way rock 'n roll was meant to be. Pure straightforward energy that made me forgive Lisa's Basement Jaxx adventure... Blast of a concert and ready for some more!



















Eddie Spaghetti

Eddie Spaghetti, bass and leadsinger from The Supersuckers opened the Bellrays concert with an accoustic solo-set. The guy is an entertainer and knows how to play with the crowd and his lyrics by times are hilarious but honestly... his country - folkish music doesn't work for me, got bored pretty soon.

OMD - Roger Daltrey - Daan - Lokerse Feesten - Indiestyle

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Lokerse Feesten
Lokerse Feesten is a 10-day festival at Lokeren, Belgium. A yearly tradition for me, i guess it must have been my 20th time or somewhat i got there. My next stop: Tuesday with the great stoners: Kyuss Lives!!

OMD

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are a synthpop group from England. I have to admit at the age of 16 i was completely into the new wave culture and freaked out more than once on their songs like Enola gay and electricity but that's already a while ago. Can't say it was a great set neither that it s*cked. To much flatlined and to much efforts from Andy McCluskey trying to encourage the crowd. It was more than obvious the crowd came to see Roger Daltrey since half of them left before OMD... The 80's were good but they're gone.












Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey is an English singer, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. Tonight they were supposed to play the rock opera Tommy but due to time shedule they mixed it up with a best of... i did not complain. It started slow but went on in a set i was happy to be there. I guess Roger must have some voice problems because at times he really slipped over it but i forgive easely. I'm sure die-hard fans were satisfied but i missed a bit of punch, maybe i watched to much guitar smashing vids of the band...


Roger Daltrey performs Tommy at Lokerse Feesten










Daan

Daan is a Belgian artist from Antwerp, Belgium. Yesterday he played the simple tour, a remake of his most famous songs in a more softly version. I find it always a pleasure to see the lovely Isolde Lasoen on stage and i'm sure most of the male present do too. But to be hounest, in general the simple tour is not really a festival thing. The audience got a bit bored halfway the set and lost their focus on the band. Pitty because i experienced the simple tour in a place with a perfect ambient and got shivered all over...


Daan live at Lokerse Feesten

Mono | support act: Flying Horseman - Low Vertical - Trix, Antwerp - Indiestyle

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Mono

Mono is a post-rock band from Japan. 3rd time tonight i've got the shivers, as a post-rock fan i only could enjoy the dreamy guitars that drove mono to stereo in the typical Mono wall of noise sound. With Steve Albini as producer they create a majestic musical universe in another dimension. The intensity of their play was touchable for every second. The album Hymn to the Immortal Wind keeps spinning on the turntable this very moment. Period.















Flying Horseman

Flying Horseman is an experimental/post folk/blues band from Antwerp, Belgium. Belgium got musical talent, lots of musical talent. One of those is the flying horseman, the dark hypnotic voice of singer Bert Dockx lifts the music to the higher level and by times reminded me of 16 horsepower. But that was a personal feel. I really enjoyed the perfect mixture of music and voices (Loesje and Martha Maieu from Blackie & Oohoos as background singers.). By times very chaotic but with a purpose, the purpose that there is nothing wrong with going deep.







Low Vertical

Low Vertical is an electronic / indie rockband from Bruges, Belgium. Often compared with Radiohead in times of OK Computer but the band goes way beyond that. More experimental, sometimes chaotic, at moments very fragile. A bit of shame of the annoying electrical/mechanical distortions at the end of the concert but a great experience to hear/feel/see.