IDLES – 2 November 2018 – De Zverver, Leffinge, Belgium
The man in the middle…
Communicating via a shoe?!…
“Gotta get out of here“…
Hello? Hello?…
Meet & greet & merch…
Thirsty gig…
Setlist…
Newest album…
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IDLES: Facebook
(all pics by Turn Up The Volume!)
Pixies are coming…
(pic by Turn Up The Volume at Lokerse Feesten Festival in Belgium last week)
“FUCK TRUMP! FUCK BORIS JOHNSON! FUCK BREXIT! LET’S ROCK MOTHERFUCKERS”.
That was the way ANDY CAIRNS, flamboyant frontman of Irish veteran rockers THERAPY? opened their smashing set at Lokerse Feesten Festival in Belgium last Saturday. What
a red-hot-blooded concert it was! Here are some pics…
Going… nowhere
Success is survival…
Teethgrinder…
Dianne…
Screamager…
Isolation…
(Photos by Turn Up The Volume!)
Wonderful legend PATTI SMITH rocked Lokerse Feesten Festival in Belgium last Monday. At 72 she still performs with an incredibly energy and devoted passion, with her son Jackson on guitar beside her who celebrated his birthday…
(Photos by Turn Up The Volume!)
Last Sunday Swedish mighty post-punk groove machine VIAGRA BOYS played a
blistering set at Dour Festival in Belgium. Here are some visual impressions…
‘Viagra tattoos’…
Best dog in show…
One Viagra Boy down…
Still down…
Getting up, doing ‘Sports’…
Team-work…
Stream their rad STREET WORMS
album right here…
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VIAGRA BOYS: Facebook
All pics by Turn Up The Volume!
IT IT ANITA – DOUR Festival Belgium – 14 July 2019
Belgium’s premier noiseniks IT IT ANITA did what they do best again yesterday at Dour Festival in Belgium: causing a deafening whirlwind of mindboggling noise on repeat, firing up the whole crowd with their immensely passionate electricity while messing up
the euphoric spectators’ minds the way they like it, breaking down the drums and building it up somewhere in the middle of the marquee for an astonishing intermezzo, leaving tons of sweat on the floor and remembering us all that they made one of last year’s albums with their ace LAURENT LP. Hail hail IIAA!
Every picture tells a story…
Psychedelic turmoil…
Earsplitting passion…
Explosive electricity…
Sweaty thunder…
Primal screams…
Hail hail…
Stream/purchase LAURENT album here…
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IT IT ANITA: Facebook
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(concert pics by Turn Up The Volume!)
FAT WHITE FAMILY – Dour festival Belgium – Sunday 14 July 2019
Dedicated followers know that Turn Up The Volume has his eye and ears on wayward motherrockers FAT WHITE FAMILY from their early days on. So far this gang made 3 albums, 2 half great ones and one near-brilliant (their newest: Serfs Up!) and blew my hungry mind every time I saw them take a stage. Yesterday night at Dour festival in Belgium it happened once more again despite the fact that Saul Adamczewski and his astonishing live guitar psych play was nowhere to be seen or heard. He was replaced (partially) by a sultry saxophone player. Guess what? It worked damn well. Hell yeah!
Needless to say that hyperkinetic frontman Lias Saudi led the trippy troops again with a red-hot-blooded intensity and a raging persuasiveness. One day his head will explode on the podium. He’s the madman in the middle every single second. Yes, Lias, we know you wanna be the best. You know, you’re actually the best fucking ringleader on the planet right now of the only band that matters right now and that ended a steamy performance with the terrifically frenetic closer ‘Bomb Disneyland‘ leaving an ecstatic crowd behind begging for more. I’m still bloody tired after a long day/night writing this stuff this very moment so I’ll leave you with some visual impressions of the Fat Whites Bombing Dour…
Madman in the middle…
The Fat White Family Orchestra
“I’m Mark E. Smith”
Best ringleader on this troubled planet
Believing in something better
Stream new album SERFS UP! here…
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Singles/clips from the LP.
– FEET –
– TASTES GOOD WITH THE MONEY –
– WHEN I LEAVE –
FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook
(All concert pics by Turn Up The Volume!)
This past month’s best…
Eleven Knockout Tracks on repeat this past month!
A mesmerizing mix of crushing corkers and cool cuts.
Here’s Turn Up The Volume‘s Knockout June Team!
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1. ‘Made With Hate’ by PROPHETS OF RAGE (US)
Super group, super blow-up, super rap chant, super score…
2. ‘Shoulderblades’ by GIRL BAND (Ireland)
The Irish noise engine is back with ear-splitting, bass booming pounding. Shocking stuff…
3. ‘Hollow Thing’ by LIFE (Hull, UK)
Lifelike energy and indefatigable self-belief turned into adrenalized electricity. Top smack!
4. ‘Shifting Shape’ by HAVVK (London/Berlin)
Fierce eruption tackling the inhuman pressure to look how society expects you to look like
5. ‘The Desert’ by WHERE WE SLEEP (London, UK)
Intoxicating swagger, sensuous vocals, cutting atmosphere, sticky chorus. Boss stroke!
6. ‘IIII’ by FÖLLAKZOID (Chile)
Darkwave psych force returns with an enigmatic and mind-boggling electro marathon…
7. ‘Red Mirror’ by MECHANIMAL (Athens, Greece)
Droning synths beats that will make your body move in mysterious ways. Magnetic trip…
8. ‘Orange County’ by WILD MERCURY (Montreal, Canada)
Boosting banger bouncing up & down, going slow & fast, hopping from left to right & back
9. ‘On Graveyard Hill’ by PIXIES (Boston, US)
Catchy cemetery noise rock. Yep, Pixies are back kicking ass…
10. ‘Colours’ by SHYBITS (Berlin)
A 21st century shoegazing Beach Boys And One Girl trio causing swirling waves…
11. ‘Letters’ by THE LVE (Belgium)
Delightful guitar pop humdinger about being yourself and staying that way…
FAT WHITE FAMILY – Botanique, Brussels – 12 June 2019
Turn Up The Volume! followed British desperadoes FAT WHITE FAMILY since the day his ears got perplexed by their 2014 debut LP Champagne Holocaust, a controversial piece of drug-fueled mental disorder. Since then I saw these anarchistic misfits going entirely bonkers on stage 3 times. Three unforgettable gigs. Chaotic, insane and baffling. Best fucking live band in the world I wrote back in 2016 (review here). Then key members
Lias Saoudi and Saul Adamczewski took some time off to get clean(er) and making great stuff with other projects (The Moonlandingz and Insecure Men). Now three years and two FWF full lengths (the second was Songs For Our Mothers) later the Family is back. New album SERFS UP is as their two other LP’s half brilliant/half mediocre (meaning they made so far, a one and a 1/2 masterpiece). Yesterday they landed in Brussels to entertain
a sold out hungry club.
HIGHS
* Saul Adamczewski‘s mind-blowing psychedelic guitar play
was off the charts and dominated pretty much the whole concert
* The old jackhammers (like ‘I Am Mark E Smith’, ‘Tinfoil Deathstar’ and
‘Whitest Boy On The Beach‘) still carried the show and were the ones who
made the crowd go sickly bananas
* The set’s closer ‘Is It Raining In Your Mouth?‘ (from the debut LP) was (again)
the indisputable FUCKING INSANE KNOCKOUT HAMMER with frontman Lias
Saoudi‘s vox going totally apeshit beyond normality. One day his head will
explode while screaming his brains out…
LOWS
* Most of the time Saoudi‘s vocals got lost in the guitar-oriented mix.
A damn bloody sin as his voice is ESSENTIAL!
* Most of the new songs are sensuous and smooth and undermine
the feverish flow when played live. Pump them, up, cowboys!
* The new LP’s groovy killer cut ‘Feet‘ got lost in a cacophonic
mess-mix, so its hypnotic swagger got slaughtered. SHAME!
CONCLUSION: Maybe my expectations were too high but this show was half brilliant/half mediocre, half speed/half valium like their albums, but still way much better than many of the current competition. Fix the mix, drop the slow ones or pump them up and become the most challenging and dangerous band in the world again, you motherrockers!
PICS
A wall-of-Saul-psych-guitar-sound…
One Fat White Family member down…
Meet and greet with the stunned fans…
Rest of the gang…
Head of the family…
Stream new album
SERFS UP! here…
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FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook
(All concert pics by Turn Up The Volume!)