7:00: Screening of Dirty Projectors – Hi Custodian (2012 – dir: Dave Longstreth – 20 min.)
Belgian première of the short film ‘Hi Custodian’ by Dirty Projectors founder Dave Longstreth (that went into première in New York earlier this year). Hi Custodian’ is partly a music video, partly an absurd road movie and is a co-production by Pitchfork.tv and YouTube. The soundtrack is fully devoted to the latest Dirty Projectors gem ‘Swing Lo Magellan’. According to them, this short is enormously influenced by Kanye West’s epic music video/film ‘Runaway’. Dave Longstreth: “I love how bombastic, colourful and ridiculous it is."

9:00: These Dirty Projectors are a positively unique band. Darlings of Pitchfork, but also of those who like their portion of music to be excitingly reserved. This New York collective already had a handful of albums out before they really came to the surface in ’07 with ‘Rise Above’, a tribute to the influential hardcore band Black Flag. Right after that they found lodgings with Domino Records and, in ‘09, they released their much appreciated classic ‘Bitte Orca’ , which was crowned by Pitchfork with a huge 9.2 score.

The voice of frontman Dave Longstreth as truly unique too. Just like his guitar playing, which hovers between that of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Africa's King Sunny Adé. That has earned him respect from David Byrne as well as Björk, with whom Dirty Projectors joined musical forces. That last collaboration resulted in the epic ‘Mount Wittenberg Orca’. Their latest album ‘Swing Lo Magellan’, is soon to be released but you can already listen to the track ‘Gun Has No Trigger’ on the worldwide web. After the visit by Dirty Projectors bassist Nat Baldwin in AB earlier this year, we now bring this exciting New York art pop collective to you for the first time.

8:00: Opener will be the band Callers, who also hail from Brooklyn. Their musical mix was described by Pitchfork as “a sort of jazzy folk with snatches of prog and slowcore, Eastern-flecked drone, gauzy 50s pop, turn-on-a-dime post-punk”. We can certainly hear echoes of Patti Smith and Sandy Denny resound in the voice of singer Sara Lucas.