Live 2025

TURN UP THE VOLUME’s 10 BEST CONCERTS OF 2025

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– OASIS –

Where: Wembley Stadium, London
When: 3 August 2025

Biblical.

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– IGGY POP –

Where: Lokerse Feesten, Belgium
When: 5 August 2025

Still a dog with lust for life.

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– DITZ –

Who: Post-punk misfits
from Brighton, UK

Where: Wintercircus in Ghent, Belgium.
When: 23 November 2025

Flabbergasting.

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– BELAIR LIP BOMBS –

Who: Future guitar pop
stars from Australia.

Where: Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium
When: 12 November 2025

Pop bliss.

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– RIDE –

Who: British shoegaze celebs.

Where: L’Aeronef, Lille, France
When: 23 April 2025

Dreams in motion.

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– THE FLAMING LIPS –

Who: Oklahoma‘s pyschedelic
fairytale eccentrics.

Where: Roma, Antwerp, Belgium.
When: 30 May 2025

Surreal.

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– MANIC STREET PREACHERS –

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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– HINDS –

Band: HINDS
Who: Spanish guitar pop sheros.

Ecstatic.

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– MCLUSKY –

Who: Welsh noizz legends.

Where: Botanique Festival, Brussels, Belgium
When: 16 May 2025

Chop! Chop! Chop!

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– PANIC SHACK –

Band: PANIC SHACK
Who: Welsh indie pop punk Amazons.

Where: Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
When: 19 November 2025

Party! Party! Party!

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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.

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Welsh Swirling Punkettes PANIC SHACK Shook ANTWERP, BELGIUM

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23 November 2025

Band: PANIC SHACK
Who: 4 pop punkettes from Wales. In 2022 they released their 6-track
debut EP Baby Shack, and last July they launched their self-titled debut LP

An irresistible album because of its fitting simplicity and charming because
of its fervent familiarity. Swerving the expected topics of sex and romance,
the entire album revolves around the ionic bond between the four girls.

New record, new tour.

Last Wednesday, they stopped in Antwerp, Belgium for a blistering punk party.
These Welsh punkettes entertained the mad for it crowd with an hour of robust razzmatazz. And it’s clear that the four Amazons on stage had as much fun as
we did.

Full steam ahead. No brakes, no breaks. Uppercut after uppercut. And with their
comic moves, now and then, they put a big smile on our faces. They came to shake
‘n’ roll. They succeeded with perky panache and explosive dash.

Single ‘Girl Band Started Pack’.
One of the best tracks of 2025,
according to our aching ears.

ALBUM


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PICTURE THIS


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SETLIST

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Scottish Synth-Punk Tornado VLURE Hit BRUSSELS With Big Booming Bangs

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7 November 2025


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VLURE are an electro-rock hit team from Scotland who
released their smashing debut LP Escalate last
September.

Imagine this. The techno punk pyrotechnics of The Prodigy and the bombastic disco sledgehammers of woofers Fat Dog. Sounds like an Apocalypse Now rave, right? You
bloody betcha. It earned them a blitzkrieg reputation in their home country of
Scotland and by extension the UK.

NME said about their firstborn in a 5-star review : “Because VLURE have spent years honing their sound, the sonic underbelly of ‘Escalate’ feels effortless – and almost subconscious. The togetherness with which dense guitars, electronic mayhem and shifts in pace intertwine enables the messages of ‘Escalate’ to take centre stage. The result is an inspiring, brutally honest album that matches the lofty standards to which VLURE hold themselves. They want it euphoric, and nothing can stand in their way.”

Last night, the mad for it 5-piece landed in Brussels as part of a
short Euro tour playing clubs to introduce that staggering album.

They played in front of about 50/60 curious music junkies (like me) whose appetite
for new exciting stuff is insatiable. I’m quite sure that every one of them (like me)
checked the album beforehand and then decided to go nuts to it in that small historic basement of Le Botanique building in Belgium‘s capital.

Vlure put us all in an ecstatic trance. They didn’t mind how many people were present. They left all they got (a lot!!) on the floor while turning the night into a sauna-like rave explosion of big booming electro bangs, extra fuelled with fierce drumming and fat
bass lines.

In the middle, front-giant-man Hamish Hutcheson rapped his butt off non-stop, vocally
assisted in the end by one of his bandmates, until the last Faithless beat, thanking us
all with a thunderous encore. Ace!!

By the end of the year, approximately 500 Belgians will claim to have been there.

Here’s an idea of their titanic live sound.

Their most recent singles and that boiling debut full-length below.

SINGLES

ALBUM


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Live photos by Turn Up The Volume