ABBOTA 2013 =another 10 contemporary Belgian acts = 1 affordable combi-ticket for Montevideo, The Peas Project, Roscoe, Joy Wellboy, Leaf House, Geppetto and the Whales, Steak Number Eight, Paon, Tommigun, Coely!

ABBota is the annual collaboration between the AB and the Botanique. In central Brussels. Downtown & haute ville over the language border. Spread over two days: Friday 1 March in the AB and Saturday 2 March in the Bota.

Tickets for 1 day cost €10 in presale and €13 at the door. Combi-tickets for the two-dayer are only €15 in presale and €18 at the door!

Friday 1 March in the AB

7:00 pm Club: Joy Wellboy

Fresh and intense duo: Joy Aldegoke and Wim Janssen have themselves accompanied when necessary. See: recent visits to Deep In The Woods or as support to Angus Stone and Kimbra in the Botanique!? Homebase is Brussels, but apparently also very welcome in California.

7:40 pm Box: The Peas Project

Super funky collective. Already in the Wanted! Section at Couleur Café in 2006, Summer 2012 they were back in full glory on a much bigger stage. On the road again now with a second CD: 'Power & Romance'. By the time it's ABBota there should be a fresh EP too!? (Nu)Funk, (Afro)Beat, (Pop)Rock & (Electro) Hip Hop cocktail!

8:30 pm Club: Leaf House

From Luik and the highly praiseworthy Jaune Orange stables there. Subtle DIY and an apparently effervescently undulating sound live, one that leans toward Caribou, Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear... For those who also love 'pastel tints and intimate ambiance.' On the crossroad between freak-folk and electronic rhythms.

9:20 pm Box: Montevideo

It's 'welcome back' (as they were already at ABBota 2007!) The cheerful, eclectic four from Montevideo have finally finished 'Personal Space', their official debut on EMI. Their fresh pop-constructions have certainly also charmed the national press, up to and including, e.g. 4 pages of praise in KnackFocus for their 'danceable Anglophile sound.'

10:30 pm Club: Roscoe

Like their site indicates: Roscoe, the band (not the cowshed in the USA.) But the band's name does echo the rural grandeur that's deeply embedded here. See: CD 'Cracks' (out on Pias): for those who also get a kick out of broadly arranged scraps of Elbow or The National, in between the 'pictorial & transcendental.'