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INDIAI – Urban Paranoia Leads To Mechanical Love While Hitting A Chair…

Posted on January 19, 2018 by JL

INDIAI – Nest, Ghent, Belgium – 19 January 2018

Two days ago, on 17 January 1977, I was in the legendary CBGB club in New York. To be honest, I was actually in a cozy venue, called NEST, in my hometown Ghent (Belgium), the day before yesterday, not 41 years ago. But the band on stage gave me an idea of what happened those days in The Big Apple when unknown, eccentric bands such as Talking Heads, Television and Pere Ubu were busy writing new wave history without realizing it. INDIAI are a 4-headed Belgian back-to-the-future band who looks, sounds and acts like the aforementioned legends. Weird, nerdy, basic, primitive, unworldly, curious and bloody THRILLING. Fronted by a Woody Allen look-a-like (before he started chasing young girls), who moved strangely, as if he just jumped out of a straitjacket and hit a chair, now and then, with a drumstick (and also threatened to strike the crowd with that very same stick) while shouting urban paranoia stuff and making mechanical love on stage with mystery guest singer Eva sounding like this…

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I guess you get my drift by now. Oh yes, I love this ‘who cares what others think as long as
we can do our own crazy thing’ attitude. And thank you, guys, it was great to be in New York again, for about 35 minutes. You should definitely try their 7-track debut record SEMINAL HEIST and get yourself a glorious back-in-time experience. Get the beat here…

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Get the pictures here…

Woody…

This is what making mechanical love looks like…

First the chair…

Then the crowd…

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(all concert pics by JL/Turn Up The Volume!)

Thrill Addicts PETER KERNEL Hit Ghent With Lots Of Brand New Mind-Boggling Jams…

Posted on January 18, 2018 by JL

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PETER KERNEL – Nest, Ghent, Belgium – 17 January 2018

PETER KERNEL is Swiss/Canadian psych-rock duo formed by musical/private partners Aris Bassetti (guitar) and Barbara Lehnhoff (bass) backed by an Italian big bang drummer. Lazy critics claim the pair sounds like that former sonic unit featuring Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. Actually I don’t give a flying fuck about those critics. They’re too busy thinking about what they want to write instead of enjoying what they hear. I guess any artist is influenced by somebody or something. Whatever, when a musician moves me, excites me and makes my hair stand up in the back of my neck I don’t wonder one bit who he/she is inspired by.
I just want my troubled mind, soul and ears to be satisfied. And PETER KERNEL did that over and over again, last night, in about 80 remarkable minutes. An ace set of, mostly, new mind-boggling trips. Like this one. Fresh single THERE’S NOTHING LIKE YOU (thank you)…

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No fooling/talking around between songs like they did two years ago in Brussels (due
to the venue’s curfew and/or their focus on playing several new escapades). So what the enthusiastic fan-crowd got was one long stupendous mind-gratifying phantasy caused by amazeballs jams. Dizziness high fever from the very start to finish fueled by glimmering guitar waves, sensual bass lines and powerful drum punches, still pounding in all corners of my head while writing this. I join the many spectators who begged after the gig ‘we want the new album’. To ease the wait I’m gonna spin 2015 longplayer ‘Thrill Addict‘ once again…

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PETER KERNEL links: Facebook – Twitter – Tumblr

Some images from the trance session yesterday>…

Ecstasy…