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.'
Saturday 2 March in the Bota
Geppetto and the Whales
This talented young Belgian band surfaced in 2011 with ‘Oh My God’, their first single, full of country and folk rhythms. Following their tour of the festivals in 2011 and 2012, and in anticipation of their first album, the 5 guys from Geppetto and the Whales come to enchant us with their superb EP ‘People of Galicove’.
Steak Number Eight
The young Belgians from Steak Number Eight must have received recognition from the entire music world by now. They convincingly won Humo's Rock Rally in 2008 and their second album ‘All Is Chaos’ was released by British magazine Metal Hammer. They've already set the stages of Dour and Pukkelpop ablaze with their searing hard-rock.
Paon
From the moment that Ben (The Tellers) met Aurelio (Lucy Lucy!), the songs have always been established around their two voices. Lively guitars and organic keyboard sounds were then added. There are 4 of them on stage. Paon, in your face. (See: that recent support act for The Van Jets!).
Tommigun
Tommigun presents music that sometimes exhibits fragile beauty and sorrow and sometimes appears very brutal and astonishing. After touching all of Europe with their first album ‘Come Watch Me Disappear’, these Belgians now have new album out, ‘Pretenders’, produced by Koen Gisen. Emotional lyrics are paired with melancholy melodies. See: those recent Feeërieën, of course!
Coely
From Congo and immensely talented (see too: amongst others, a recent Humo or De Standaard.) Belgian hip-hop with international legitimacy! The first single by this young band from Antwerp, ‘Ain’t Chasing Pavements’, quickly conquered the Northern part of the country and, fully self-assured, they announced their first album, due to be released in early 2013.
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