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THE RATS – The Thunderous Belgian Punk Turbo Hit Their Hometown With Sweaty Sucker Punches

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21 July 2026

Band: THE RATS
Who: 5-piece hit team
from Ghent, Belgium.

Last March, these combative dogs released
their razorblade-sharp debut LP Boxing Days.

TUTV said: “The rat race is on. Time to get up, stand up, and fight for your right to start
a moshpit whenever and wherever you are, alone or with like-minded fanatics the moment Boxing Days torpedoes your ears.”

Then they played several blistering gigs to share their firstborn with their manic fans.

Last night as part of their hometown’s yearly massive festivities, they went back to their early days, playing in a small bar. Needless to say, the place was packed. We got trapped like sardines, but enjoyed every single whirlwind second.

The Rats‘ unbridled intensity and revved-up energy have an earsplitting impact.
As usual, furious frontman Emile is the maddening force upfront. He spits, sneers
and barks like a tireless pitbull, and he sweats like a punk pig. His shirt got soaking
wet in no time.

Off-stage he’s as sweet as Dr. Jekyll, on a podium he turns into a badass Mr. Hyde
bastard. His inexhaustible vitality combined with the bulldozing artillery behind
him went through the low roof while a sauna temperature got us all heated up.

When the thunderous turbo closed their steaming set with red-hot live favorite Old Flames everybody on and off stage was out of breath. It was a triumphant hometown blast. Hands down. Many absentees will soon claim that they were there.

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British Synth Pop Champs OMD Cause Euphoria In Belgium

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16 July 2026

British synth pop champs OMD, abbreviation for Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark,
have been entertaining people since 1978. In 2006 they took a deserved 10-year hiatus. Ten years later, in 2006, they returned and never looked back.

They recorded/released 14 LPs thus far, with
Bauhaus Staircase from 2023 as their most
recent one.

They scored big hits with great gems such as Electricity, Messages,
Souvenir, Maid Of New Orleans and their biggest one, Enola Gay.

Last Saturday they played at Rock Zottegem Festival in Belgium.
It was a non-stop, effervescent best-of set causing euphoria all around.

TUTV was there.


Live in the dark


Synth pop bliss all night long


Shine on OMD


This one is for Chrissie Hynde who hates phones at her expensive concerts

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GARBAGE Fueled ANTWERP With Genuine Love And Badass Rockers

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On stage

16 June 2026

After more than 30 years, GARBAGE still operate with their original line-up.
Vocalist/lyricist Shirley Manson, guitar/bass Duke Erikson, guitarist Steve Marker
and drummer Butch Vig. Quite rare, after such a long time.

And with the four of them, they released their 8th, widely praised album,
titled Let All That We Imagine Be The Light (stream below) last year.

Soon after, they hit the road for a long tour. At one point, Manson announced
that it would be their final one as the overall costs of playing live around the
world were getting too high.

As part of the final live chapter, Garbage landed in Antwerp, Belgium, last Saturday.

Shirley Manson was welcomed like a goddess. And it obviously touched her genuinely. Her utterly cool presence and, most of all, her phenomenal voice affected the whole crowd.

The sound was overpowering from start to finish, the band rocked badass, and as said Manson filled the special open-air setting, in a park in the middle of Antwerp, with her mesmerizing vocal exploit.

After two blazing tracks from last year’s album, three huge hits from the past Empty,
I Think I’m Paranoid and Stupid Girl kicked in and dynamized the elated audience that
sang along word-for-word.

Euphoria everywhere. Several hits would follow, and in between, top drawer tunes
taken from their 30-plus-year career kept the fire burning, while Manson tackled the orange monkey in the White House and expressed her support for the discriminated
LGBTQIA+ community between songs.

Manson felt super, performed super, and reacted totally happy to the audience’s non-stop cheers, although it didn’t rain. This was by far the best galvanic concert I witnessed this year (so far).

At the end, just before the encores, Manson did a wonderful thing. She told the band
to wait to play while she jumped off the stage and let a young fan (with whom she had interacted a few times during the set) take a selfie with her. While some stars moan
about people’s phones at concerts, Shirley did this. Class!

I’m still thriving on the amount of love and electricity
that marked this show. Don’t stop yet, guys!


In the back Nicole Fiorentino, who also played with Smashing Pumpkins
and other bands before, played bass and did some backing vocals

Setlist

1. There’s No Future in Optimism
2. Hold
3. Empty
4. I Think I’m Paranoid
5. Stupid Girl
6. Right Between the Eyes
7. Vow
8. No Horses
9. It’s All Over but the Crying
10. Have We Met (The Void)
11. Control
12. Chinese Fire Horse
 13. Boys Wanna Fight
14. Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
15. Push It
16. The Day That I Met God

Encore:

17. Lovesong
(The Cure cover)
18. Special
19. Only Happy When It Rains 


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THE LEMONHEADS Return To The UK And EUROPE This Fall

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EVAN DANDO and his band, for almost 4 decades, THE LEMONHEADS,
released their newest album, Love Chant, last year. The first one with
original, new Lemonheads music since 2006. One of his best in a long
time.

Following the release, the band went on a promo
tour to Australia, the UK/EU, and North America.

Just now, new dates for the UK and Europe in the fall were announced.

LOVE CHANT


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KIM GORDON Puzzles BRUSSELS With Her Industrial Infused Trip-Hop Buzz

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16 April 2026

Since Gordon started to record/release solo LPs (3 so far) she never
looked back to her unique career with Sonic Youth (1981-2011).

Not on record, not on stage.

Last month she launched her 3rd one, PLAY ME, to my ears her best yet.

And last night she landed in Brussels (3rd time in 4 years) to promote the new record. When she came on, before playing one note, she was welcomed with a big aplause and loud cheers, as a familiar shero.

From there on she focused (except for a thank you here and there, no in between talks, who needs them anyway?) on her intoxicating perfomance playing the new album Play Me in full followed by half of the previous one The Collective, a couple ones of her debut No Home Record and encoring with the unrecorded, but the well-known Cigarette musing.


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Gordon produces, backed by a pretty young, efficient band, an industrial-injected
trip-hop buzz that gets you slowly but surely into an amplified Massive Attack-like
trance. It all sounds raw, unpolished, but oh so fascinating.

With her expressive and articulated, partly spoken/partly sung vocality, she infiltrates
your psyche, while telling her stories, absurd ones and politically-charged reality ones
(fuck Trump, fuck Musk).

At almost 73, she still looks gorgeous, she still is a pivotal performance artist,
holding an audience’s attention with a firm sonic grip. To be honest, there were
a couple of monotone percussion moments, but that’s actually a detail that
had no impact whatsoever on the final, puzzling result. Hats off to imperishable
shero Kim Gordon.

PLAY ME


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WU-TANG Just Can’t Stop Touring… In The US

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24 March 2026

Hip-rap-hop icons WU-TANG CLAN started their badass career back in 1992.
They were not exactly a productive team with only 7 LPs in 34 years, but their
impact was huge.

As fans know, they started their last stand last June with The Final Chamber
tour, which brought them to the US, Europe, UK, Australia, and will hit Japan.
soon.

We already knew that they planned to return to the US during June/July, but
now the rap gang have added more dates, from August to October (see below)

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