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PETER DOHERTY & BAND Delight Belgian Crowd In Kortrijk For 95 Minutes

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12 February 2026

Since Doherty got clean (2019) and lives in France with his family (wife and two children) and his big dog, far away from the temptations of parties and drugs, he has become very busy.

He released albums with one-time outfit Puta Madres (2019), with French musician Frédéric Lo (2022),  with his first-and-forever band The Libertines (2024), and a solo
one (2025).

And when he wasn’t in the studio, he went on tour with all
the above bands, that other group, Babyshambles, too, and
solo.


Who wants a fanzine?

Last Sunday, he was in Belgium again after two appearances last year (with The Libertines and solo), assisted by a full band including The Smiths‘ drummer Mike Joyce (now aged 62).

And like I witnessed last year, solo in Bruges, he was in an extremely happy mood, selling old Libertines fanzines (no joke) between the two support acts and playing a formidable show.

He was strolling around the stage, fooling around with band members and interacting with the audience in between songs. Talking about the songs. It was a sort of best of set, with songs from all his projects and, yes, two The Smiths covers (There Is A Light That Never Goes Out / How Soon Is Now?), and a Velvet Underground one, all delivered with a joyous flair and an effervescent spirit.

At the end of the night, three thoughts crossed my mind. He’s (as we know for a long time) a exquiste singer/songwriter who has musical components in his DNA. Secondly, he’s a most entertaining live perfomer and thirdly, he obviously embraces life again after too many turbulent years. Way to go.

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Some of my favorites he played.

THE LIBERTINES

SOLO

BABYSHAMBLES

With Frédéric Lo

THE PUTA MADRES

SETLIST

Last Of The English Roses
Fantasy Live Of Poetry And Crime
I Don’t Love Anyone
Felt Better Alive
Ed Belly
Epidemiology
I Am The Rain
Pot Of Gold
The Day The Baron Died
Salome
Uncle Brian’s Abattoir (Trampoline)
Calvados
Kolly Kibber
Ride Into The Sun (The Velvet Underground)
Stade Océan
How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths)/ Albion
Who’s Been Having You Over?
Time For Heroes (The Libertines)
Fuck Forever (Babyshambles)

Encore
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths)

Instagram – Short Bio

Live photos by Turn Up The Volume

WASTE – Belgian Fast Up And Coming Motherrockers Nail It On Stage

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6 February 2026


© C. Glenn Verberck

Band: WASTE
Who: Rowdy Belgian indies
who find beauty in chaos.

With a hat-trick of 3 steaming singles: Dog House, Get Up and Discotheque,
these fast-up-and-coming Belgian turbo got my ears’ full attention.

Beware, these punked-up bloodhounds bite. They chase you with ruthless racket.
They bark like werewolves. They produce rabid stuff. They bloody rock! They’re no
waste of your time whatsoever.

Hells Bells!

Last Wednesday, they hit my hometown of Ghent (Belgium) for a blistering salvo of jagged juggernauts. Think Deftones‘ nu-metal gusto, Rage Against the Machine‘s fiery forcefulness, and the Stooges’ kickass attitude, all rolled into one. Fucktastic, right? You betcha.


Calm before the storm

Vocalist Jef Jenaer is the excorcistic vox in the middle, screaming his 4 lungs out, between balloons. He’s backed by a mean rock machine steamrollin’ like a hotrod speeding out of control. Together, they produce an amount of illegal decibels that made the audience go nuts. The small club turned into a sauna.


Charged electricity

Waste nailed it, there and then. A small club try-out for
bigger things to come. Their future has no limits. Don’t
miss them.

DOG HOUSE

GET UP

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Live photos by Turn Up The Volume

HEAD ON STONE Live – The Sound Of Sincere Silence

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31 January 2026


Photo by Turn Up The Volume.

Affectionate Belgian singer-songwriter Nele Janssen was, so far, known by
her loyal fans as the excorsistic frontwoman of post-punk grunge turbo Peuk
who have released 2 longplayers to this day.

That all changes now with her impressive solo debut album, baptized
STONY BEDS, released under the moniker of HEAD ON STONE last
November.

Only Nele Janssen and her piano. Intimate, passional and heartfelt. From
Peuk screams to solo whispers. A stirring record that enthralls from start
to finish. Eleven bittersweet songs for the midnight hours.

Last Wednesday her album-promo tour brought her to my hometown
of Ghent (Belgium), for a spellbinding 50-minute set. You could hear a needle
fall to the ground. I can’t remember how long ago I experienced such an
attentive audience.

Some more TUTV impressions.

Janssen mesmerized us all
with a sound of sincere silence,
with heart & soul stirring musings.

Reflective and cathartic.
Stripped to the bone.

Classical pop piano play.
Dreamy and starry-eyed.

Magnetizing vocals, mixed
emotions reflections, personal
reveries and an overall
gripping performance.

Beautiful.

Stream/Buy
‘STONE BEDS’


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HARRY STYLES Will Play No Less Than 30 Concerts In Madison Square Garden In New York

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23 January 2026

British mega star HARRY STYLES has announced 30 concerts in
Madison Square Garden in New York as part of a seven-city,
three-continent tour.

His brand new single ‘Aperture’.

30 shows in the same venue, from August until
October. Really? Most likely an absolute record.

That’s 30 x 22,000 = 660,000 people.

Wait, Michael Jackson could have had the record.
From 2009 to March 2010, 50 (!!) concerts in
London‘s O2 Arena were planned.

That’s 50 X 20,000 = 1 million people.

Unfortunately the shows had to be cancelled
as Jackson passed away in June 2009.

TURN UP THE VOLUME’s 10 BEST CONCERTS OF 2025

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– OASIS –

Where: Wembley Stadium, London
When: 3 August 2025

Biblical.

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– IGGY POP –

Where: Lokerse Feesten, Belgium
When: 5 August 2025

Still a dog with lust for life.

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– DITZ –

Who: Post-punk misfits
from Brighton, UK

Where: Wintercircus in Ghent, Belgium.
When: 23 November 2025

Flabbergasting.

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– BELAIR LIP BOMBS –

Who: Future guitar pop
stars from Australia.

Where: Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium
When: 12 November 2025

Pop bliss.

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– RIDE –

Who: British shoegaze celebs.

Where: L’Aeronef, Lille, France
When: 23 April 2025

Dreams in motion.

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– THE FLAMING LIPS –

Who: Oklahoma‘s pyschedelic
fairytale eccentrics.

Where: Roma, Antwerp, Belgium.
When: 30 May 2025

Surreal.

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– MANIC STREET PREACHERS –

Band: MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Who: Welsh rock and pop heroes.

Where: Rock Zottegem Festival, Belgium
When: 12 July 2025

Melancholic pop manics.

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– HINDS –

Band: HINDS
Who: Spanish guitar pop sheros.

Ecstatic.

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– MCLUSKY –

Who: Welsh noizz legends.

Where: Botanique Festival, Brussels, Belgium
When: 16 May 2025

Chop! Chop! Chop!

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– PANIC SHACK –

Band: PANIC SHACK
Who: Welsh indie pop punk Amazons.

Where: Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
When: 19 November 2025

Party! Party! Party!

All photos by Turn Up The Volume

DAVID BYRNE Plays Fabulous Tiny Desk Concert With A Big Funky Band

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2 December 2025

The by now legendary Tiny Desk Concerts are organized by NPR Music,
the project of National Public Radio, an American privately and publicly funded
non-profit membership media organization, that launched in November 2007
to present public radio music programming and original editorial content for
music discovery, since 2008.

Small and big musical artists/bands have performed in the
room filled with books and a tiny little desk, ever since.

Last night, DAVID BYRNE was the (famous) guest. He brought a whole group of musicians, with a diverse set of instruments, backing vocalists, and dancers along for the occasion.

4 songs were played. Two tracks (Everybody’s Laughs / Don’t Be Like That) from Byrne’s new album Who Is The Sky? and 2 Talking Heads crackers, (Nothing) But Flowers from 1998 and Life During Wartime from 1979.

It’s mega-enjoyable to watch the fabulous 20-minute gig.
It feels and resonates like an early Xmas holidays party.
Everybody’s dancing, singing, laughing. Pretty contagious
and no psycho killers in sight.

NPR Website

DITZ – 5 Reasons Why Brighton’s Armageddon Misfits Are One Of The Best Live Bands Of The Past Decade

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25 November 2025

Last Sunday Brighton‘s noizz sensation DITZ landed in my hometown of
Ghent, Belgium. The tenth time I witnessed their Dante Inferno exploits.

I’ll give you 5 reasons why DITZ are one of
the best live bands of the past decade.

1. Their live wall-of-trash-and-crash sound breaks every decibels-level law.
It’s beyond aural belief, but also scary, earth-shattering, and balls-and-brain
breaking. Don’t you love it when you can feel music really physically as if your
body gets electrocuted? I do. It makes me feel much livelier than just being
alive.

2. The demonic guitar duo of Anton Mocock and Jack Looker produce
an amount of kick-ass electricity that make roofs/walls of venues tremble.
Their non-stop chainsaw riff are fucking ace.

3. The rhythm section of Sam Evans and Caleb Remnant batters with
a Herculean vehemence. Ideal for an Armageddon battle of bands.
Hallelujah.

4. They’re big fans of Fugazi, At The Drive-In, Metz, Flipper, Black Flag
and other mean noise motherfuckers. All bands I dig too.

5. Last but not least there’s the psychotic vox and venue-filling presence of
Cal Francis (they/them). They rant, they stare, they’re charismatic off and on
stage, they are a bugaboo in Kate Moss disguise; and they are the perfect
she-devil to front this devilish band of maniacal misfits.

Mind you, without their mindfucking hullabaloo
it would be probably a whole different story.

At the start of this year they launched their 2nd LP,
titled Never Exhale one of the most baffling records I heard in a long time.


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And their newest single is a nightmarish anti-AI jam.

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