Iggy Pop
IGGY POP About The Early Days
4 January 2026
The moment Iggy found his lust for life.
He still wants to be your dog.
TURN UP THE VOLUME’s 10 BEST CONCERTS OF 2025
Where: Wembley Stadium, London
When: 3 August 2025
Biblical.
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Where: Lokerse Feesten, Belgium
When: 5 August 2025
Still a dog with lust for life.
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Who: Post-punk misfits
from Brighton, UK
Where: Wintercircus in Ghent, Belgium.
When: 23 November 2025
Flabbergasting.
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Who: Future guitar pop
stars from Australia.
Where: Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium
When: 12 November 2025
Pop bliss.
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Who: British shoegaze celebs.
Where: L’Aeronef, Lille, France
When: 23 April 2025
Dreams in motion.
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Who: Oklahoma‘s pyschedelic
fairytale eccentrics.
Where: Roma, Antwerp, Belgium.
When: 30 May 2025
Surreal.
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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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Band: HINDS
Who: Spanish guitar pop sheros.
Ecstatic.
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Who: Welsh noizz legends.
Where: Botanique Festival, Brussels, Belgium
When: 16 May 2025
Chop! Chop! Chop!
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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
Real Wild Children TOYAH And ROBERT FRIPP Do IGGY POP
On the seventh day – 5 years ago – TOYAH and her beloved King Crimson
husband ROBERT FRIPP started their infamous Sunday Lunch Sessions
as a fun pastime while being locked up in their kitchen due to that shit
coronavirus.
It rapidly became a success story, and the pair
hardly missed a beat on Sundays ever since.
Yesterday, they did their thing with Iggy Pop‘s 1986 track
Real Wild Child (Wild One). Check out their hilarious take.
TOYAH/ROBERT
IGGY POP
Image Of The Day – IGGY POP & JACK WHITE
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.
One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: IGGY POP’s Unsatiable Lust For Life
2 August 2025
Back in 2016 the indestructible Godfather of punk IGGY POP (now aged 78) released
his 17th album, named Post Pop Depression, produced by Queens Of The Stone Age‘s mastermind Josh Homme, who also played on some tracks, something Dean Fertita (also from QOTSA) and Arctic Monkeys‘s drummer Matt Helders did too.
With those guys Pop performed on the British Later With Jools Holland show that year to promote the album. Besides a couple of new ones they also, of course, played this classic.
See you on Monday at Lokerse Feesten Belgium,
Mister Pop with some other punk oldtimers.
INTERPOL Maestro PAUL BANKS Covers IGGY POP
13 July 2025
INTERPOL voice/face has scored the soundtrack for black comedy
movie SISTER MIDNIGHT which premiered in Cannes last year.
He included two covers of Iggy Pop songs. Sister Midnight
from his 1977 album The Idiot and The Stooges‘ Gimme Danger
from their 1973 LP Raw Power.
Banks: “‘Gimme Danger’ is one of my favorite Stooges songs, and ‘Sister Midnight’ I was less familiar with, but it is the titular track of a film that is feral with Stoogian grit and joy, so I was equally excited to immerse myself in it, and find an interpretation that felt authentic to my voice‘
PAUL BANKS
IGGY POP
IGGY AND THE STOOGES
INTERPOL Frontman PAUL BANKS Covers IGGY POP & THE STOOGES Classic ‘GIMME DANGER’
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
15 May 2025
Interpol voice/face PAUL BANKS scored the soundtrack
for Sister Midnight, a dark comedy from the British/Indian
director Karan Kandhar.
The movie takes its title from an Iggy Pop song, that opened
his 1977 solo debut longplayer. Kandhar says that Pop “was like
a breadcrumb trail I followed through the unconscious as I wrote
the film.”
Along with the instrumental compositions, Banks
also covered a couple of Pop/Stooges‘s early songs.
One of them is GIMME DANGER, a classic track
from The Stooges’ 3rd LP Raw Power (1973).
Banks: “‘Gimme Danger’ is one of my favorite Stooges songs, and ‘Sister Midnight’ I was less familiar with, but it is the titular track of a film that is feral with Stoogian grit and joy, so I was equally excited to immerse myself in it and find an interpretation that felt authentic to my voice.”
PAUL BANKS
THE STOOGES
IGGY POP Who Celebrates His 78th Birthday Todat About DAVID BOWIE
Iggy Pop was born, named James Newell Osterberg Jr. on 21 April 1947. Happy 78!
