De Kleine Kunst – Ghent, Belgium – 8 September 2018
SONIC YOUTH is dead! Long live PEUK! This Belgian trio is fronted by the young, highly appealing Nele Janssen who’s cracking guitar electricity reminded me instantly of Thurston Moore turbulent play. Startling, intoxicating and at times totally mind-blowing. On top of
it comes her striking vox, developing a primal scream intensity that makes the hair in your neck stand up. Robustly pushed by a tremendously pounding bass/drums force this three-motor engine made a truly tumultuous and vivacious impact on our hungry ears and our curious senses. Their strapping building up and breaking down energy is quite stunning. Hell yeah! PEUK is a must-follow band on its storming way to something really special
and after last night’s rip-roaring powerhouse set Turn Up The Volume! can’t wait to hear their soon coming debut LP. Here’s an idea of their magnetic power, ladies and gents…
Sonic havoc that thrills us in a way we want to scream out loud…
11 February 2018
The alternative music scene in my hometown Ghent, Belgium is just exploding the last few years. It feels like thousands among us are in a band. Not only to get free drinks, not only to seduce adoring company and not only to scream their heart out without being arrested. No, I’m talking about some really quality gangs that will mess up your head, your brain and the rest of your hungry body the way you like it 24/7. Like this loud 3-piece named SKISKA SKOOPER. I never heard of this high-voltage noiseniks until yesterday when they played one of Ghent‘s cool bars, called De Kleine Kunst (‘The Small Art‘ in English). These havoc junks delivered a smashing set that almost blew the roof of the place and with new single ‘PINK HARLOT’ they prove that their sonic ambition is to break the sound barrier on their upcoming debut album. Discover here why my head is still buzzing…
TRAMPOLENE – De Kleine Kunst, Ghent, Belgium – Friday, 9 February 218
Ladies en gents, all the way from Wales please welcome TRAMPOLENE…
A flamboyant bolide sounding like a new romantic Libertines generation, like a hungry
wolf with an unstoppable appetite for ROCK AND ROLL. A 3-headed turbo with a big human heart and an honest soul. A bang-up band with dreams so rich, producing
glowing crackers like this red-hot injection…
Frontman Jack Jones is the eye-catching dynamo who knows all the thrilling tricks to get the spectators involved, who visits almost every corner of the place, who constantly interacts with the euphoric crowd (singing along, word by word, from start to finish) while raising the excitement to a steamy hot sauna level. This is what party music, made by people for the people, is all about. A turbulent melting pot of rockin’ ecstasy with a high dose of all
for one atmosphere and many alcohol kisses. This is raw power, this is poetry in motion, this is it! And when Jack ask if today is Friday everybody knows that their firework punk version of that massive The Cure hit will follow. Talking about a smashing, sweaty night
out! In return I will finally forgive the Welsh football team for beating us, Belgians, back
in 2016 in the quarter-final of Euro 2016.
Picture this…
Catch if you can…
Bass love from Wales…
… and in the corner, the drummer…
A threesome…
A room with a view…
The light shone on Jack all night long…
One more very important thing. Last October the band released their debut album SWANSEA TO HORNSEY with a front cover photo of the band’s leader Jack Jones and
his sister as little kids having a laugh while Jack‘s already posing as a rock and roll star. Many record stores refused to sell the album because of the so-called ‘offensive‘ picture. The almighty Facebook imposed the band to delete the LP’s cover picture on their FB-account and even threatened to shut down the account completely. Here is what Turn Up The Volume’s thinks on the subject. One: if you find this totally innocent and
funny image offensive than you, yourself is the problem, not the image itself. Two: the photo is part of a musical project about youth, about life, about being human and all related emotions, not about what the offended people think it is. Three: why is it that soldiers of terroristic killers army IS are still chatting with each other via Facebook, why
is it that the porn industry still uses Facebook (and actually the whole of the internet) to
sell their highly degrading ‘gear’. Four: why is it that fascist orientated politicians may offend the people, every single day… etc. Conclusion: it’s a sad case of hypocrite perception and a violation of the right of freedom of speech…
