Live
IMAGE OF THE DAY – Brooklyn’s Shoegazers Produced Tons Of Fuzzy Guitar Layers In Belgium
12 August 2055
Press DIIV
Band: DIIV
Who: Shoegazers from
Brooklyn, NY.
Albums
Oshin (2012)
Is The is Are (2016)
Deceiver (2016)
Frog In Boiling Water (20024)
Not really my cup of tea, but their performance
last Friday at Lokerse Feesten – Belgium was
a pretty fuzzy and buzzy affair.
PICTURE THIS
Photos by TUTV
Dive
Buzzzzy
Gazing shoes
SETLIST
1. In Amber
2. Brown Paper Bag
3. Soul-net
4. Under the Sun
5. Reflected
6. Horsehead
7. Taker
8. Take Your Time
9. Frog in Boiling Water
10. Somber the Drums
11. Between Tides
12. Blankenship
13. Doused
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IMAGE OF THE DAY – THE SMASHING PUMPKINS In BELGIUM
Last Friday, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS shot a lot of bullets with butterfly wings
at Lokerse Feesten. Their guru, Billy Corgan, was, what else, the attention grabber.
He and guitarist James Iha are the two remaining members from the original line-up.
From zero(s) to hero(s).
SETLIST
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Pentagrams
Today
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
1979
Edin
Mayonaise
Take My Breath Away
(Berlin cover)
999
Disarm
Tonight, Tonight
Cherub Rock
Jellybelly
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Ava Adore
Stand Inside Your Love
Zero
The Everlasting Gaze
IMAGE(S) OF THE DAY – Old Punk Roses THE DAMNED Did It Neat In Belgium
9 August 2025
Last Monday was retro punk day at Lokerse Feesten – Belgium with Irish heroes
The Undertones, the fantabulous and, imperishable Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistols featuring rattlesnake Frank Carter and British punk trailblazers THE DAMNED.
The latter were the first UK punk band to release a single, and album and touring the US.
Their 1977 debut LP Damned Damned Damned still is one of the best punk longplayers ever, in my book. It featured several blitzkrieg bullets such as New Rose, Neat Neat Neat, Stab Your Back and Born To Kill.
They’re still smashing things up with 3 of the 4 original members: singer Dave Vanian, guitarist Captain Sensible and drummer Rat Scabies. Although they played on automatic pilot, the hits went down a storm. Hail hail!
PICTURE THIS
The Elvis of Punk
Their indestructible golden moment
The Captain
Neat Neat Neat
Newest punk haircut?
Smashing it up, once again
Wanna sing along?
Old Dog IGGY POP Performed Like A Young Raw Power Pitbull In Belgium
8 August 2025
Last Monday, at Lokerse Feesten in Belgium, the 78-year-old IGGY POP
was sandwiched between Irish adult kicks The Undertones, old punk roses
The Damned and the legendary bollocks named Sex Pistols fronted, not by
Johnny Forgotten, as you all should know by now, but by podium animal and
rattlesnake Frank Carter.
A though just popped up: if you add up the age of all those guys
individually, what would be the outcome, one or two centuries?
Age is just a number, that’s what all those old-timers (mind you, Pop had some young(er) musicians to back him up) showed us. Over the years, age results in craftsmanship, stage presence and live experience.
Close your eyes, imagine that only 18-year-olds were there on that podium, you certainly would tell your mates, who weren’t interested in so-called has-beens, that you witnessed some of the best new sharp-cutting punk bands in ages. Yes, perception is a weird, misleading mindfucker. Of course, they would laugh their tits off. Fuck ’em.
They didn’t see Iggy Pop. I did, along with 10.000 jacked-up people (a colorful mix of
3 generations). He was just PHENOMENAL, backed by a PHENOMENAL band (that
always helps, of course) featuring two fabulous guitarists, Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Nick Zinner
and Las Nubes‘ Ale Campos, badass bassist Matt Sweeney , bulletproof drummer Urian Hackney (The Armed, Rough Francis), a trumpet and trombone player and a keyboardist.
The loudest artillery I ever saw him perform with.
The earthshaking wall-of-raw-power sound Iggy‘s troops developed for the full 65 minutes (long live short in-your-face festival sets) was no less than jaw-dropping. Of course, when
I tell you that half of the set were acid-doped Stooges classics it explains a lot about the huge amount of decibels that shook the whole site. Add blockbusters The Passenger, Lust For Life and Nightclubbing and you should know by now that we all got a mind-blowing night.
The unquestionable star was that skinny man in the middle who, despite a severely
limp left leg, moves like a hungry hyena, leaves the stage to meet and greet his adoring fans, and most of all, whose iconic spit and sneer voice still has the immense capability to dominate the whole rock jamboree.
Age is a number when you are the Godfather of Punk. He left everything, just
everything on the floor, to entertain the crazy crowd. Respect! Respect! Respect!
Below here, some fan footage of ‘I wanna Be Your Dog’
Not great quality but I guess you got the idea of the
slam-bang moment.
SETLIST
T.V. Eye
(The Stooges)
Raw Power
(The Stooges)
I Got a Right
(The Stooges)
Gimme Danger
(The Stooges)
The Passenger
Lust for Life
Death Trip
(The Stooges)
I Wanna Be Your Dog
(The Stooges)
Search and Destroy
(The Stooges)
Down on the Street
(The Stooges)
1970
(The Stooges)
Some Weird Sin
Frenzy
Nightclubbing
Modern Day Rip Off
Punkrocker
All live photos shot and edited by Turn Up The Volume.
OASIS In WEMBLEY LONDON – Massive Heart-And-Soul Celebration Of Life With Massive Love All Around
6 August 2025
If you’re an OASIS hater, you’d better run and hide now (well, you can do
what everything you want to do, of course, but just don’t start moaning
about this historic comeback).
Last Sunday I was in London (with my beloved wife), to see one of their
Wembley reunion concerts. This was my 28th Oasis gig. I guess you can
call me a fan.
The first one was in August 1994, in a small club in London. They only had
released 2 singles at that point, Shakermaker and Supersonic. Thank you
NME (legendary British music weekly, my bible for years) for introducing
me to the Manchester rock heroes.
Did I go crazy when the reunion was announced? Absolutely, but most of all
I was happy for those young(er) generation(s) who grew up with tons of rock
and pop music, the Gallagher bros included and got the chance now to see
them for the first time, well at least the ones who were lucky to get a ticket.
Anyway, when I arrived in London in the morning, it was clear that OASIS were
in town. I saw fans with Oasis T-shirts, hats, trainings, at tube stations, on the
trains, in shops, in restaurants, snack places, in toilettes, out in the streets, in
the parks, and of course hundreds and hundreds in and outside pubs.
In one of them, I experienced the loudest Oasis fans meeting ever, while
I was enjoying fish and chips with a delicious pint of Guinness (what else?)
This was my umpteenth time in London since I was 18.
A pretty unique, overwhelming, and utterly fun one.
The ‘Olympic’ road to Wembley
Fast-forward to Wembley Stadium where a remarkable force of policemen
and stewards (who were constantly asked to take photos of fans) welcomed
the masses.
On the Olympic Way, the glorious, only-pedestrians road that links Wembley Park tube station and Wembley Stadium, thousands and thousands were smiling, singing, chattering and watching the gigantic stadium at the end, on the hill, while many started buying merch at the many stands along the Olympic, and/or had their first non-alcohol drinks (yep, no alcohol outside the stadium).
Thanks to an absolutely flawless organization (unfortunately enough, a shocking
accident occurred the day before, on Saturday, when a man fell all the way from
the top upper tier, down to the ground, and died) it lasted hardly 20 minutes from
leaving the underground station to reach the grounds of the mega stadium.
Intro footage – thanks to MASA’s From The Venue
From there on, you entered Oasis world where three generations, from teenage kids with their parents to 70plus years old devotees who were around the first time, were about to be part of something truly special.
I heard people speaking Spanish, Dutch, German, French, Swedish (or was it Danish
or Norwegian?), Chinese (or was it Japanese?) and some languages I couldn’t make
sense of.
Soon, people start queuing for drinks, food, and at the toilets.
I arrived at the end of the set of first support act, Britpop oldtimers Cast.
After them, Richard Ashcroft (who casts no shadow, as we know, according to Noel) caused the first goosebumps chants of the night with pure pop gems like The Drugs Don’t Work, Lucky Man, Sonnet. And, as expected, Bittersweet Symphony went down a storm with 80,000 throats singing along, out loud. Sheer magic.
At 8.15pm the Led Zep-esque, near-instrumental siren-powered blast Fucking In The Bushes (opener from their 2000 album ‘Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants‘, used for years as intro by the band and afterward at Liam‘s solo gigs) and a tsunami of photos/news headers and other Liam/Noel related stuff from the past, on the giant screen, meant the start of IT.
Beer was flying all over the place. The avid audience
went supersonically ballistic in an eye blink. Glorious.
We got 20 songs (most of them the big ones from their first 3 albums (see setlist below),
20 bone-chilling moments, 20 timeless ‘O’ classics. I’m not going into detail, I’d rather want to share what I was already doing until now, my impressions.
For two hours every single soul was singing, screaming, yelling every
single word of every single song. Every tune was welcomed as a GOAL.
The whole concert actually felt like a once-in-a-lifetime series of hattricks.
Probably the greatest football game Wembley had ever seen. Breathtaking.
I saw a variety of surging emotions. People were smiling from left to right and
back, throwing fists in the air, waving their arms, putting their lungs into action
jumping up and down, and hugging each other, and some of them were crying,
obviously because memories linked to specific songs came up and stirred
their hearts and souls… again.
Everybody, just everybody, except for that one (honestly, I saw only one) hugely drunk
idiot who was caught quickly by security and was sent back to sender) was so down to earth, so tremendously social, helping each other out, patient for one another at queues, as all 80,000 spectators were elated to be part of this giant gathering of friends and family. No annoying egos in the house.
I don’t care if this sounds sugary, but John Lennon was right all along.
All You Need Is Love and Oasis were the catalysts (not only) last Sunday.
It was all about LIVE (AND LOVE) FOREVER!
I’m a vet when it comes to music (as a fanatic fan that is). I heard about a million songs/artists/bands (so far), I went to about a million (well, approximately, of course) concerts (so far), and this flabbergasting mass event and CELEBRATION OF LIFE atmosphere went straight to the top of my mind, and will stay their forever.
Thanks to our kids, who didn’t look back in anger for one second.
SETLIST
Hello
Acquiesce
Morning Glory
Some Might Say
Bring It On Down
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Fade Away
Supersonic
Roll With It
Talk Tonight
Half the World Away
Little by Little
D’You Know What I Mean?
Stand by Me
Cast No Shadow
Slide Away
Whatever
Live Forever
Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
Encore:
The Masterplan
Don’t Look Back in Anger
Wonderwall
Champagne Supernova
Big pyrotechnics to end a wonderwall evening
Masses
Oops
Back home
All photos by Turn Up The Volume
Designed For Life – Welsh Kingpins MANIC STREET PREACHERS Delivered Enraptured Show In Belgium
16 July 2025
Welsh rock heroes MANIC STREET PREACHERS released their 15th LP,
baptized Critical Thinking, last February. A record stuffed with sticky,
melancholic tunes and sharp daily life observations.
The Manics are still engaged, socially and politically,
and criticize and address injustice, intolerance
and other related, humankind issues.
The original fast and furious resoluteness has slowly vanished after 39 years.
Quite logical when one gets older and more settled, but their caring mindset
still is intact and in the right place and they have filled a Wurlitzer jukebox with
splendacious gems by now.
But on stage they still sparkle, enrapture and stir hearts and souls like they
did in their 20s (I know, I saw them 20-plus times). Last Saturday they landed
at Rock Zottegem Festival in Belgium. It was a blast, an absolute blast. The sound
was impeccable, the setlist was unflawed, the band was in high spirits and the
crowd’s vivid euphoria went sky-high.
I can’t get tired of hearing imperishable classics such as Motorcycle Emptiness,
You Stole the Sun From My Heart, Australia, A Design for Life, You Love Us (dedicated
to the wonderful Richey Edwards who disappeared in 1995, aged 27) and If You Tolerate
This Your Children Will Be Next, all delivered (like the whole set) with an infectious ardency and tons of vim and vigour and the new album’s poppy singles, the Nicky Wire sung
Hiding In Plain Sight and Decline & Fall fitted in seamlessly.
Frontman James Dean Bradfield voice filled the giant tent, Nicky Wire still looked and played his bass like a bona fide rock star, drummer Sean More hit his gear with the usual sinewy
panache, and their extra guitarist and keyboardist completed the line-up.
Manics are not done yet, far from it.
They’re designed for life. Never delayed.
Hail hail!
SETLIST
Motorcycle Emptiness
Enola/Alone
You Stole the Sun From My Heart
Decline & Fall
La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
Australia
International Blue
Hiding in Plain Sight
Autumnsong
A Design for Life
The Everlasting
From Despair to Where
Walk Me to the Bridge
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
You Love Us
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Live photos by Turn Up The Volume
THE KILLS Live In A Green Park In ANTWERP – Vintage Blues Rock Fireworks
10 July 2025
Last year, in October, seminal blues-rock duo THE KILLS – Alison Mosshart
and Jamie Hince – released their 6th album, the first in 7 years, titled
GOD GAMES. One of 2024’s best.
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The release was followed by a long tour that still rolls on.
Last Monday, the inseparable tandem played in a beautiful green park in Antwerp.
Instantly their olden goldie Kissy Kissy kick-off got the crowd going yeahhhhhhh and
nobody slowed down from there on.
After almost 25 years VV and Hotel (their early nicknames) know how to get everybody swaying their hips to their riff-roasting blues punk-rock fireworks. Mosshart‘s puissant voice and Hince‘s sinewy staccato guitar play still are a winning combination.
As usual Mosshart runs in circles between songs, adrenalized and pumped-up, and Hince pulls his six strings nimble-fingered creating their vintage raw ‘n’ rough boisterousness.
Oldies and newbies alternated in rapid succession (despite some technical guitar problems in between) but several of my Kills favorites (like Whirling Eye, The Last Goodbye, Wait, Fried My Little Brains, Love Is A Deserter and Nail In My Coffin) didn’t make the setlist.
To be honest, that was a bit of a downer. The first time ever, I left a Kills gig (and I have seen many) with mixed emotions. Yet, still big fun to have seen them performing once again.
SETLIST
Kissy Kissy
U.R.A. Fever
Love and Tenderness
103
Baby Says
New York
Wasterpiece
Black Balloon
DNA
Hard Habit to Break
LA Hex
My Girls My Girls
Doing It to Death
Future Starts Slow
Encores
Last Day of Magic
Sour Cherry
No Wow
NEIL YOUNG Keeps On Rockin’ In The Free World Backed By New Band THE CHROME HEARTS
5 July 2025
No retirement time whatsoever for 79-year-old rock titan NEIL YOUNG.
Only health problems would slow down his 24/7 appetite for making and
playing music.
Three weeks ago he launched his first longplayer named
Talkin To The Trees with his new band The Chrome Hearts.
TUTV said: “Talkin To The Trees brings Young‘s 1975 masterwork Tonight’s The Night
instantly to mind, sonically that is. Raw and rough, as if the LP was recorded live in one
take, in a garage with lots of echo and plenty of ramshackle guitars, buzzing electricity
and Young‘s characteristic, ardent vocals. Very familiar, very entertaining.
It’s pure Young, musically and thematically, wondering about the world’s future, warning
for environmental pollution dramas, difficult times to come for our children, and the need
of a big positive change. At 79, he’s still socially and climate concerned as he was in his
prime. At 79, he still delivers mind-and-ear pleasing records.”
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Last April, he started a new world tour which brought him and his compadres in
Brussels last Monday where they played a 2-hour set in front of our King’s Palace.
A nice, historic setting for rock ‘n’ roll.
He started just by himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica with a gripping rendition
of Sugar Mountain. Immediately after, the Chrome Hearts joined in. Amps up, all burners
on, temperature up (and we already had a heatwave night).
Now and then Young did it solo again, like with the mournful classic The Needle And
The Damage Done. But most of the time it was vintage rock ‘n’ Young roll commotion
with extensive guitar jams, loud enough to shake up the whole city.
Three generations of zealous fans came out to see/here the (old) man who still stirs, vivifies, and buoys up while going through a set of golden oldies. And that was the only low of the night. No songs from the new LP, although it features some firework rippers such as Dark Mirage, Let’s Roll Again, and Big Change, actually three ironclad crackerjacks that reflect Young‘s worries for the chaotic times we live in.
All in all, Young‘s musical joie de vivre and endless performing
hunger still inspire and entertain The magic of it stayed with me
for several days after. Hats off to an eternal legend.
SETLIST
Sugar Mountain
Be the Rain
Cinnamon Girl
Fuckin’ Up
When You Dance, I Can Really Love
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
The Needle and the Damage Done
Harvest Moon
Looking Forward
Sun Green
Love and Only Love
Like a Hurricane
Name of Love
Old Man
Rockin’ in the Free World
(Live photos by Turn Up The Volume)
Hello It’s Good To Be Back (After 16 Years)
Cardiff, Wales, last night, Friday 4 July 2025.
‘Hello’
‘Acquiesce’
‘Morning Glory’
‘Some Might Say’
‘Bring It On Down’
‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’
‘Fade Away’
‘Supersonic’
‘Roll With It’
‘Talk Tonight’
‘Half The World Away’
‘Little By Little’
‘D’You Know What I Mean?’
‘Stand By Me’
‘Cast No Shadow’
‘Slide Away’
‘Whatever’
‘Live Forever’
‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’
‘The Masterplan’
‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’
‘Wonderwall’
‘Champagne Supernova’