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PONYCLUB TARTIFLETTE – Manicial DIY Punk Duo Offer Free Primal Scream Therapy

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Up and coming bands

8 April 2026

Recently I got blown away, at a gig by a charming Dutch/French duo who make music
under the bizzare name of PONYCLUB TARTIFLETTE featuring Annelies & Anatole.

The electric-chair experience actually started the moment they took the stage. Suddenly they turned into a hellish punk tornado, screaming and shouting like maddened maniacs.

Annelies‘ vocal cords are twice as long and strong as those of any average human being. Her clamorous eruptions broke the Richter scale into a thousand pieces, and when Anatole joined in bashing his poor drums in with muscular force and producing scary Slipknot growls, I got worried that the anti-decibel police would be alerted.

In between pyrotechnics, Annelies took time for a primal
scream therapy treatment for a perplexed volunteer.


Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh

Their deafening burts are shorter, nastier, and more blitzkrieg-bop-like than the 1-2-3 rippers by those Ramones dropouts of yesteryear. Sounds pretty deranged, right? You betcha.

Btw, my eardrums needed two days to recover
but they told me it was worth the damage.

Once Annelies turned off her turbo, we had a short chat.


Beware, Annelies only looks nice

How, when, and where did Ponyclub Tartiflette get started?

“We met in a Flemish (Belgium) pony play cult where our masters forced us to eat
fries all day, although we prefer tartiflette. We both complained about the food and
got thrown out of the cult. We ended up on the streets, and started a band to make
money.”

Crazy band name. What is the story behind it?

“We love eating tartiflette. We are ponies. We’ve always wanted to start a club.”

Where do you get the power to scream your lungs out for an entire gig?
“Drugs”


Man in red

Do you wanna a primal scream therapy treatment too?
Play PT’s self-titled debut LP, right here. But don’t forget
to alert your neighbours first.

FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS


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HEISA – Three Belgian Noiz Musketeers Pierce Your Ears On Record And On Stage

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Band: HEISA
Who: Three Belgian
post-punk crusaders.

Last March, this 3-motor noiz engine dropped their 3rd LP, named TROIS (THREE).
Without a shadow of a doubt, the most balanced, the most arousing, and the most
vitalizing noise rock record I heard this past bloody year.

Never a dull moment. Heisa grab you by the throat for 40 wicked minutes,
and you won’t protest for one second. The cliché all killers, no fillers is so
accurate here.

Single ‘The Harmonist’

Every sonic juggernaut stands as tall and proud as the Eiffel Tower. There’s always
an enigmatic anxiousness in the air that tests your nerves and boggles your mind.
Heisa tease you with voltaic foreplay riffs before diving, head first in an orgastic burst
of demonic hullabaloo.

Primal screams out of the darkness, schizophrenic guitars and raw and rough post-punk dynamics work together to create a hell-raising turbulence. Think Fugazi and The Jesus Lizard having a LOUD sonic fight.

Single ‘Flowers’

Last Thursday, the three punk musketeers came, saw, and conquered my hometown of Ghent (Belgium). On stage, the amps, the decibels, and the volume go up, even way more than on record. Hallelujah. Run to the hills.

Screamo bassist/keyboardist Jacques Nomdefamille leads the troops vocally with
his vociferous cry-outs. He’s backed by a two-man artillery of blistering guitarist Koen Castermans and muscular drummer Jonathan Frederix. From the first chord on, all hell breaks loose, and the turmoil continues until the last rowdy riffs hit your baffled ears.

Now and then, the band needed a breather themselves to reload the batteries, as it was a very busy year, with gigs in several European countries, promoting that stupefying album. But it didn’t stop them from playing one of the best shows I’ve seen all year. Fact!

With this masterstroke of an album under their belt and with their fireworks on stage,
I’m quite sure that 2026 will take Heisa to an even higher level.

STREAM/BUY ALBUM


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Live photos by Turn Up The Volume

GREAT HARE – Spotlight On Swedisch Guitar Rock Indies Who Dropped 3 Stimulating Singles This Year

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3 November 2025

Band: GREAT HARE
Who: Seasoned DIY guitar rockers from Sweden, putting as much time as possible
in their music. TUTV featured them frequently in the past. With their characteristic
riff-rich electricity, they turn catchy pop melodies into contagious rock nuggets.
Think Guided By Voices, Kurt Vile, early R.E.M. and The Chills.

This year the Gothenburg 4-piece have released 3 stimulating singles.

Kalle Mogren (vocalist/guitarist): The last 15 years we’ve recorded a lot of music in our studio, but we’ve only been able to finish and release 1-2 tracks a year due to all other obligations in life.

As we do everything ourselves in the spare time, the pile of work in progress have been growing bigger and bigger so this year we decided to stop recording new music and instead try to finish and release more songs and also rehearse for playing live again. So therefore, we’ve been able to drop more tunes this year and we also have an EP coming up soon.”

– LOVE & SOLITUDE –

“It’s was recorded during the pandemic and in my ears have a new wavish vibe with the two interplaying guitars and a bass line inspired by The Knack”s superhit My Sharona. The lyrics
are some kind of reflective celebration of long time relationships and its positive side effects.”


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– HOLE DIGGERS –

“This one reminded us a bit of Glasvegas (note TUTV: Scottish guitar pop indies) biggest hit Geraldine when we recorded it 2022 and the lyrics reflects on the fact that we humans are experts on both getting into troubles and feeling pity for ourselves when we have to deal with it.”


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– PLACES & TRACES –

“It was recorded back in 2019, and it’s a straight forward indie pop
song about discomfort with modern, hectic city life.”


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HOT GARBAGE – Canadian Authors Of One Of The Best Albums Of 2024 Built A Wall-Of-Psych Sound In Brussels

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Spotlight on must hear-and-see bands

15 May 2024

Band: HOT GARBAGE
Who: A turbulent noise unit from Canada formed in 2015.
They melt heavily volatile yet undeniably palatable amalgamation
of sonic elements. Calling on the driving rhythms of dark post-punk
and motorik krautrock.

New album: PRECIOUS DREAM
Their second longplayer

One of the best albums of the year to TUTV’s ears. A torrid trash,
slash and crash experience, a demonic mindfucker for demonic
minds.

PRECIOUS TIME


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LIVE at BOTANIQUE in BRUSSELS – 14 May 2024

Le Botanique is an eye-catching historic building in Brussels with different music venues, including one in the basement where Hot Garbage played on a small podium that was recently transferred from the (usual) front to the middle of the place.

It fitted the band perfectly, who played under small hyperkinetically flashing spots,
which created a tenebrous effect (obviously not dark enough for the keyboardist and the guitarist who wore black shades) that matched their wall-of-dark-psychedelia sound that went on without breaks nor brakes.

Yes, live they embedded their songs in a cacophonous, deafening pool
of raucous frenzy, sonically even more spellbinding than on record.

Imagine: Black Sabbath on acid producing a distorted chaos à la The Jesus And Mary Chain
in their early manic days and diving, at times, into a kind of prog-punk-rock turbo with the drummer as the loudest force on the podium. Pretty cool, right? You betcha. Catch them if they play in a basement near you and don’t forget to put on your dark sunglasses.

Let’s go out with masterstroke
single Snooze You Lose.

HG: Linktree

Photos by Turn Up The Volume

SPOTLIGHT on TEMPLES

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Great bands in Turn Up The Volume’s rock and pop book

12 April 2022

Band: TEMPLES
Who: Glam and glitter popsmiths
from Kettering, England formed in 2012 by
charismatic frontman James Bagshaw and
bassist Tom Walmsle.

Albums (so far)

Sun Structures (2014)
Volcano (2017)
Hot Motion (2019)

TUTV‘s favorite cracker from each Temples LP.

– KEEP IN THE DARK –
(Sun Structures)

– ROMAN GOD-LIKE MAN –
(Volcano)

– THE HOWL –
(Hot Motion)

If I was asked to compile a Greatest Temples Hits album these tracks would be on it…

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Where/when Turn Up Volume watched Temples on stage.

Brussels 2015

Brussels 2016

Dour Festival 2017

Brussels 2019

(All live photos by Turn Up The Volume)


“Any new music in the pipeline, James?”

SPOTLIGHT On… Natural Born Helter-Skelter Misfits FAT WHITE FAMILY

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Favorite Turn Up The Volume bands

12 February 2022

Band: FAT WHITE FAMILY
Who: Natural born misfits with key members Lias Kaci Saoudi (manic frontman)
and Saul Adamczewski (musical director). They crawled out of their squats in
Peckham, London in 2011.

It’s really a miracle that the Family is still around as their first years were filled with too many drugs and booze, chaotic gigs (I know, I saw them several times. They even left the stage – nobody sober – after 20 disorderly minutes in France a couple of years ago) and different line-ups.

Despite all that make-or-break shit, the hit team survived with smiling faces and their concerts became tempestuous helter-kelter events, making them one of the best live
acts of the past 10 years I’ve ever witnessed and their records got better and better.

Manc rock legend Liam Gallagher is a big fan too. He invited the natural-born
misfits them to play at his upcoming massive outdoor shows in Knebworth (UK)

Albums

Champagne Holocaust (2014)
Songs For Our Mothers (2016)
Serfs Up! (2019)

Three TUTV favorites…

– I AM MARK E SMITH –
(Flabbergasting)

– WHITEST BOY ON THE BEACH –
(Modern disco)

– IS IT RAINING IN YOUR MOUTH –
(Absolutely sick performance)

FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook

(Photos by Turn Up The Volume)

SPOTLIGHT On… Tornado Punks From South-London ‘SHAME’

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Three favorite tracks from favorite Turn Up The Volume bands

11 February 2022


(photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Band: SHAME

Who: Razor-sharp-verbal punks from South London, led
by blasting blusterer Charlie Steen, from South-London.

Charlie Steen (frontman) about Boris Johnson & Co: “The government
is fucking useless, disgusting. But the people and so many communities have
really come out to help and support each other. Where there’s a crack, there’s
always light, I guess.”

Albums (so far): Songs Of Praise (2018) and Drunk Tank Pink (2021).

Three TUTV favorites: Dust Of Trail / Alphabet / Concrete

– DUST OF TRIAL –
(From ‘Songs Of Praise’)

– ALPHABET –
(From ‘Drunk Tank Pink’)

– CONCRETE –
(From Songs Of Praise,
boiling live performance)

Europe Tour 2022

US Tour 2022

SHAME: Facebook – Instagram