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MILES KANE Celebrated His Birthday In BELGIUM With A Riff-Ripping Sing-Along Show

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20 March 2026

Britpop rocker MILES KANE released his 6th full-length Sunlight In The Shadows, 
last October. Another feel-good record jammed with a series of rapturous rippers
and a couple of romantic ballads. No-nonsense, top-quality entertainment.

Last Tuesday, he landed, as part of a UK/Europe/US tour, with his band
in Antwerp, Belgium, only 2 years after his previous passage in our country.

Kane is a riveting rocker at heart and demonstrated that once again with a non-stop
salvo of jagged jackhammers, new and old, with a slower one here and there to refill the tank. No less than 8 tracks out of the new album’s 12 were integrated into the 18-song set. And they all fitted perfectly next to the golden oldies.

The 1500-cap venue loved (me included) every single second of his whirlwind performance. Live favourites Troubled Son, One-Man Band Rearrange, Inhaler,
Coup De Grace, Don’t Forget Who You Are, and ebullient climax Come Closer
went down a storm and were the expected standouts.

The euphoric spectators were clearly longtime fans. They sang, clapped, and cheered without interruption, propelled by the man’s highly charismatic magnetism and his overwhelming guitar riffage.

No much talk in between songs, except for the moment after finishing an enwrapping rendition of power ballad My Love, when his manager came on stage with a birthday cake for Miles, who turned 40. The whole venue chanted “Happy Birthday,” of course, and he was clearly touched by the loud, clear ovation.

Only smiling faces after the show. Again, music showed its
formidable force and immense impact on people’s state of mind.

TRACKLIST

Sing a Song to Love
Electric Flower
Rearrange
Troubled Son
Cry on My Guitar
Without You
Love Is Cruel
Inhaler
Sunlight in the Shadows
Blue Skies
Colour of the Trap
My Love
Heal
Walk on the Ocean
Coup de grace
Never Taking Me Alive
Don’t Forget Who You Are
Come Closer

NEW ALBUM


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DOWN THE LEES – Passionate Powerhouse Trio Released Live Goosebumps Movie/Album ‘THIS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE’

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18 March 2026

Band: DOWN THE LEES
Who: A passionate powerhouse trio, rooted in Vancouver and Belgium, and now based
in the Okanagan Valley, by guitarist/vocalist Laura Lee Schultz, with Andy Ashley on drums
and Chris Carlson on bass.

So far, DTL have released 4 albums. 360 1/4 Degrees (2008), The Guest Room (2008),
Bury The Sun (2019), and Dirt (2024). You can and should, if you haven’t already, check them all out via Bandcamp or Spotify.

Three records that show the evolution in the trio’s towering noise-rock escapades,
marked by an inflaming emotionality, a torch-burning feverishness, and frontwoman Schultz sky-scraping vocals. Her poignant lyrics are embedded in a wall of astonishing thunderstorm-sound, creating a trance-like atmosphere that mesmerizes.

Following album No. 3 the band toured and filmed a high-concept concert at
the Mary Irwin Theatre in Kelowna, Canada. It features 5 tracks from Dirt, 3 from
Bury The Sun and the stupendous non-album track Midi-Doric.

One of the best live records I heard in a long while.

Get ready for a relentless roller coaster,
a gigantesque noiz tour de force,
a bone-chilling experience.

MOVIE

BUY/STREAM ALBUM


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Ghent, Belgium, 2019 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume

dEUS – Belgian Gods Still Alive And Kicking After 35 Years

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14 March 2026

Belgian Gods dEUS – without a shadow of a doubt the best band in Belgium‘s
rock history – palyed one of their two try-outs for their upcoming European/UK
tour last Tuesday at a small venue in Leffinge, Belgium.

The gigs sold out in no time.

On this new tour, commander-in-chief Tom Barman and his accomplices will play
their first 2 albums, Worst Case Scenario (1994) and In A Bar, Under The Sea (1996).
Not in the LPs chronological order. No, they zigzag through all of the tracks, which
leads to an unpredictable, exciting setlist.

I saw the band about 25 times, and they never disappointed. On stage, they inject their songs with jacked-up energy and inflammable intensity. This was (another) special night, as they performed several of their classic gems from those 2 full-lengths, like Via, Hotel Lounge, Morticiachair, Fell Off The Floor Man, Little Arithmetics, Roses, Serpentine, and Theme From Turnpike for the first time in a long while. Nostalgia ruled.

After 35 years, with a couple of hiatuses for solo projects, and 8 LPs, dEUS still are
a fiery force, and still the most prominent Belgian group today (to my ears), but also praised all over Europe and the UK.

Their sterling catalogue isn’t dated at all, thanks to their sonic versality, intriguing waywardness, and Barman‘s extraordinary songwriting skills from day one. I never
get bored with them. Hail hail!

WORST CASE SCENARIO

IN A BAR, UNDER THE SEA


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KULA SHAKER En-Trance With Colorful Psychedelic Spectacle In Belgium

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3 March 2026

British psych-rock vets, fronted by charismatic vocalist/songwriter Crispian Mills,
released their debut LP, titled K, back in 1996. It made them instant indie stars.

Last month they launched their 8th full-length, the magnificent WORMSLAYER.
The record, named after a 9th-century Indian poet king, is stuffed with top-flight
pop-edelia tunes, elevating it to a must-hear on repeat level. Mills lifts his troops
to ecstasizing heights of nostalgia. Retro delirium at its todays best.

New album means a new tour to promote it.

Last Friday, they landed in my hometown of Ghent, Belgium.

Oh my, oh my, KS still nails it on stage as they used to do so.
I saw them 4/5 times back then, and every gig was a smasheroo).

The band started with the LP’s key single Lucky Number. From there, with
almost the full tracklist of the new opus, the Brits stormed through a superlative
1 1/2 hour set.

Of course, Crips was the magnet in the middle. His marvelous guitar play mesmerized throughout. Backed by his spellbound assistants, the elated audience went through a trancy show. Not one dull moment.

Visually, our eyes were mostly fixated on the big screen behind the 4 humans. Non-stop full-spectrum, swirling, and high-contrast patterns of hallucinatory hues created a surreal spectacle. Phantasmagoric.

As expected, the encores featured old hits Hush (Joe Hush/Deep Purple cover),
Tattva, and Govinda, but also beatle George Harrison‘s 1970 humdinger
Isn’t It A Pity.

To be honest, I never thought I would listen to a formidable Kula Shaker again,
and I would witness a memorable live performance of them. Hail hail!.

ALBUM


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SETLIST

Lucky Number
Good Money
Charge of the Light Brigade
Broke as Folk
Natural Magick
Infinite Sun
Shower Your Love
Grateful When You’re Dead / Jerry Was There
Be Merciful
The Winged Boy
Day For Night
Wormslayer

Encores:

303
Tattva
Hush
Isn’t It a Pity
(George Harrison cover)
Govinda

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Live photos by Turn Up The Volume

THE FLAMING LIPS – Tour Dates 2026

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The eccentric fairy-tale rockers THE FLAMING LIPS, led by their psychedelic
priest Wayne Coyne are around since 1983 (oh my, I had no clue it was that long).
They have fascinated their fans with 17 albums (so far).

As a longtime fan myself, I dare to say that their concerts are even better than their records, as I experienced once more last year in Antwerp, Belgium. A visual and sonic spectacle.

They just announced new tour dates for 2026.


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Photos by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp, Belgium – June 2025

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)

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

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6 February 2026


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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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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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