2012-02-18 Robert Henke aka Monolake will play live in Brussels - not at the Atomium but at the Recyclart via das Goethe Institut. New album "Ghosts" coming up! Hey and do check our 2001-02-20 interview in [uzine 01.04]!
http://www.monolake.de/
http://recyclart.info/nl/agenda/nl/1802
http://www.goethe.de/ins/be/bru/ver/nl8450686v.htm
http://www.goethe.de/ins/be/bru/kul/dub/rmx/de8773213.htm
http://www.factmag.com/2011/09/21/monolake-stirs-up-ghosts/
http://www.factmag.com/2012/01/23/monolake-summons-ghosts-in-surround-with-shackleton-and-peverelist/
http://www.factmag.com/2012/02/17/monolake-on-how-we-cope-with-death-mythologies-rituals-drugs-and-ghosts/

Alan Vega rules, Martin Rev rules. Today everyone acknowledges how unique and important the Suicide duo were. But here's Suicide beeing boo'd off stage at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels (Belgium) on 1978-06-16, opening for a hostile crowd that had come to see Elvis Costello and clearly wasn't ready to take in Rev & Vega's pioneering sound …
http://www.blastfirstpetite.com/suicide.html
http://www.discogs.com/Suicide-Suicide/release/627068
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Minutes_Over_Brussels
http://www.fromthearchives.com/av_mr/chronology.html
http://fillip.ca/content/riot-show-some-notes-on-the-archive
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=6508
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/suicide/1978/ancienne-belgique-brussels-belgium-73d1d2f1.html
http://altmusic.about.com/od/historyofaltindiemusic/a/Suicides-23-Minutes-Over-Brussels.htm
http://markusvanniemendael.skynetblogs.be/archive/2005/09/15/klassieker-suicide-23-minutes-over-brussels-suicide-1977.html

2012-01-28, 22 o'clox: Charles Hayward @ les Ateliers Claus! The two tracks below are off Hayward's second solo album "A Tribute To Mark Rothko" (recorded 1989, released 1990 on Sub Rosa, SUB CD010-33). The first image above was found here, the second is Hayward playing at Sónar in 2007.
http://www.charleshayward.org/
http://www.furious.com/perfect/charleshayward.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hayward_(musician)
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2010/07/charles-hayward-recorded/
http://subrosa.itcmedia.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/charles-hayward_01.html%3Bjsessionid=A60AB750F13E67B4D5B678C0237F236F
http://www.freq.org.uk/interviews/an-interview-with-charles-hayward/
http://www.lesateliersclaus.com/events/tag/charles-hayward
http://www.eineweltaushack.com/roster/charles-hayward/
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34185

O oh it's that dishy Tomoko Sauvage … 2012-01-16 > 2012-02-03, depending on which part of the planet you call home, it's la Semaine du Son / the Sound(s) Week. In France on January 22-29 (except Paris which debuts January 16-21), they're organising the 9th edition. In Brussels (January 23-29) and Geneva (Genève, February 1-3) it will be the second edition, while Montréal + Québec seem to have dropped out after their second edition last year? In any case, the 'mother' site http://www.lasemaineduson.org/ isn't practical at all, and the Belgian site could be a tad more handy too. Hey and there'll be something called "Aimez-vous Tati?", while Triple Deck - see my Kapotski post earlier on - will perform in Brussels too: http://lasemaineduson.be/nl/triple-deck/

Mark Landsman's 83' "Thunder Soul" documentary on Houston's Kashmere Stage Band (as produced by Jamie Foxx, 2010) isn't featured on Now-Again's 2cd + 1dvd package (NA-5085, 2011). But it does feature there's a 12' making of, footage of a 3' live version of "Makin' whoopee" (1972) and a 27' documentary by Charles Porter (1973 - check the KSB on holiday in Paris, Brussels, Louvain, Waterloo, Breda and Bonn). It's a mighty package with a 40 page booklet to boot … but it has only one flaw: there's no song author credits, making it difficult to find out which tracks are KSB originals and which are cover versions. Speaking of which: expect more "Shaft" covers in a future post + find a free download of Egon's extended edit of James Brown's "Super bad" (as featured on the 2005 US - but not Jazzman's 2002 UK - edition of "Texas Funk: Black Gold From The Lone Star State 1968-1975" v/a cd) via the Now-Again site:
http://www.nowagainrecords.com/tag/kashmere-stage-band/  [5 pages!]
http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2010-03-12/977581/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5599377
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140539483/thunder-soul-70s-sensation-dusts-off-its-groove
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140891879/summer-school-funk-five-tracks-out-of-1970s-houston
http://www.filmindependent.org/news-and-blog/mark-landsman-on-his-influences-and-thunder-soul/
http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2010/03/sxsw-2010-mark-landsmans-thunder-soul.html
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2011/06/kashmere-stage-band-thunder-soul-official-movie-trailer
http://www.indiewire.com/article/toolkit-case-study-the-long-road-of-thunder-soul
http://www.indiewire.com/article/interview_thunder_soul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmere_Stage_Band
http://funky16corners.lunarpages.net/?p=2009
http://stonesthrow.com/funky16/kash.html
http://thundersoulmovie.com/
http://kashmere.org/

2011-11-24, 21 o'locco: Pablo Moses, Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) & Dennis (Blackbeard) Bovell will play live at the Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg (KVS) in Brussels as part of the Festival des Libertés 2011 … Do check last Summer's interview with Mr. LKJ by Karel Michiels:
http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=Q23DIRI0
http://www.reggae.be/magazine/interviews/column/795
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/linton-kwesi-johnson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton_Kwesi_Johnson
http://www.spikemagazine.com/1298kwes.php
http://nottsdub.co.uk/books/linton/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Bovell
http://www.roots-archives.com/artist/20
http://www.reggae-wise.eu/LKJ.htm
http://www.lintonkwesijohnson.com/

Tonight 2011-10-14 au B&B in Brussels (Belgium), tomorrow 2011-10-15 in Kaffee 't Hof, Middelburg (Zeeland, the Netherlands) and on 2011-10-26 in Bern: What's Wrong With Us? a sensational pre Sonic Youth no wave meets Soft Machine over at Lotte Lenya's foursome from Switzerland who've just recorded a new album ("Not Enough", tbr on Urgence Disk via Irascible) … Do check, they're intense! Great musicianship too.
http://www.whatswrongwithus.ch/
http://soundcloud.com/whats-wrong-with-us
http://myspace.com/whatswrongwithusmusic
http://www.whatswrongwithus.ch/demowwwus2011
http://www.whatswrongwithus.ch/menu300dpiphotos.html
http://lebedandbreakfast.over-blog.org/article-livingroom-concert-3-82959216.html
http://www.bee-flat.ch/programm/657/
http://www.matamore.net/agenda/

After "Here Comes The Crazy Man!" (Vogue 1974), Koen De Bruyne (RIP 1977), Patricia Maesen (RIP 1996) and Jean-Pierre Onraedt also played / sang on "Funky Tramway" (Vogue 1975) by Mad Unity, aka legendary library man Janco Nilovic's Brussels project. As reissued by Vadim (cd ànd lp) this Summer (2011) …

The opening track of "Stop, Look, Listen". By Phil Raphäel with Paul Dubois, Robert Pernet, Johnny Perret and opera singer Rose Thompson, as recorded in Brussels by Pierre Pletinckx on 1972-06-03. As reissued on Heavenly Sweetness (HS043, 2011-02) …
http://www.muziekarchief.be/albumdetails.php?ID=83576
http://www.psychemusic.org/spiritualjazz.html#anchor_281
http://soundcloud.com/heavenlysweetness/raphael-stop-look-listen
http://heavenlysweetnessblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/les-discophiles-acharnes-qui-ecument.html

Uriah Heep's bassist Trevor Bolder and his family, as photographed by Hannes Schmid in 1980. Featured in his book "Rockstars"  (ed. Patrick Frey 2009-08, ISBN 9783905509847) ànd part of the expo "Family life" in Brussels. And a few other rockstars … Switzerland's Schmid, however, is most famous as the official photographer for Marlboro cigarettes.
http://www.hannesschmid.ch/
http://www.elainelevyproject.com/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Schmid
http://www.editionpatrickfrey.com/en/book/2345
http://www.nicolavonsenger.com/e_portal_schmid.htm
http://www.hannesschmid.ch/Rockstars/ROCKSTARS_text.html
http://www.persoenlich.com/news/show_news.cfm?newsid=79019
http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/kulturzeit/lesezeit/138838/index.html
http://www.lodownmagazine.com/index.php?page=23&modaction=showItem&id=865
http://www.swr.de/swr1/bw/programm/leute/-/id=1895042/nid=1895042/did=5790338/16qpqmb/