AB is one of five venues in the center of Brussels to host the Fifty Lab music festival for three days from Wednesday, November 16th to Friday, November 18th. The Fifty Lab music festival team presents a programme with exciting showcases of promising Belgian artists as well as international upcoming artists. One ticket to Fifty Lab grants you access to all concerts. Here’s what you’ll discover in the AB Club during the first night of Fifty Lab.  

Judith Kiddo

Judith Kiddo is a Belgian pop gem that has been rising furiously for two years. Her soft madness, her eclectic influences and her deeply instinctive relationship to writing feed an efficient, multi-faceted but always coherent synth pop. Based on a soulful voice, her songs leave room for guitars, retro-futuristic keyboards and beats, sometimes electronic, sometimes organic. She is in the same vibe as David Numwami or Sylvie Kreusch. 

The Clockworks

The Clockworks is an Irish band, described by NME as “sh**-hot” and praised by CLASH for their “ferocious sense of purpose, with the careering post-punk guitar lines”. The Clockworks have unfurled a string of impeccable singles; gaining ground at-pace with the likes of “Feels So Real”, “Enough Is Never Enough” and more in their growing arsenal. After touring in the USA, with impressive audiences, we are glad to announce that AB will be the only one to welcome them this year in Belgium!

Gwendoline (FR) PRESENTED BY ASTROPOLIS (FR)

Gwendoline, is a duo-antihero of the Rennes indie scene. Sensitive loosers and jaded start-up nation greats, Micka and Pierre shape their own style, a dark shlag wave in a percussive and poetic spoken-word style, with the primary source of inspiration being barroom discussions, watching those around them. Between fatalistic lyrics, self-deprecation, sarcasm and bitterness of the world's mediocrity, their sincere cold-wave is the symbol of a disenchanted youth and the perfect soundtrack to protest. At the end of 2020, Gwendoline has also seen the doors of the Trans Musicales open to them, a favourite of Jean-Louis Brossard, for a live performance at the Ubu, captured by FIP & Culturebox and accompanied by Maëlan and Romain, their stage accomplices. Written without pretension and ambition, the duo is surprised by the interest shown in the project, between their programming at the Transmusicales, and the feedback from the press including major international media (KEXP, France TV, Les Inrocks, Post Punk Magazine...). A video clip was released in February 2021 to illustrate one of the band's flagship tracks, the heady and heady "Chevalier Ricard", which was also a favourite of Franck Vergeade, music editor of Les Inrockuptibles (January 2021).