7:00 pm - SOUNDTRACK BY … DJ Stonewood
8:30 pm - Love Like Birds (b)
Love Like Birds is the brainchild of Elke De Mey from Ghent. We're in love too. With that fragile and dreamy voice. With the spare instrumentation. We want to shout Karen Dalton, Emiliana Torrini and CocoRosie. Or Mariee Sioux. Not as the perfect comparison but rather because we think that Love Like Birds has something just as unique. Last year there was an untitled, self-released EP in a hand-numbered issue of only 500 copies. “For blooming, breaking, broken and mended hearts” was what accurately appeared in the liner notes. Radio 1 and StuBru followed suit with airplay. There was also a show in the UK as support to Dark Dark Dark. Balthazar and The Bony King Of Nowhere are fans. We're in love too. Or did we mention that already?
9:30 pm - Tommigun (b)
Avant première of the new album by this band from Brussels. Tommigun will be releasing their long awaited second issue after the summer (via Excelsior) and that could well be the moment of truth. Production-wise, their new album was in the hands of Koen Gisen. He's been consistently making the difference lately, with work by the likes of The Bony King Of Nowhere, Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat and Flying Horseman. We've already been able to enjoy a foretaste of the album and heard charmingly pure songs in which the voices of Thomas Devos and Kaat Arnaert blend more beautifully than ever before. Earlier this year they toured Europe as the backing band of lo-fi king Daniel Johnston, now entirely in their own rite and, especially for the Feeërieën, complemented by strings.