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Yes, I know I have been a bad blogger lately but so many shows and so little time.

BotaRock, Botanique 17/02/05
malibu stacey
Well BotaRock is an event to promote bands from the other side of Belgium. Yes the french speaking part of Belgium. Thanks to bands like Girls in Hawaii, Ghinzu and Sharko (and maybe a bit Hollywood Pornstars but that is mostly thanks to Niek from das pop) there is a whole bunch of bands, who talk FrEnglish, waiting to come out.

First up was Malibu Stacey. And I'm not talking Malibu Stacey the Malibu Stacey I am talking about only thing they've got in comment that they will not be my favorite new band. No I'm talking Malibu "we'll be as annoying as a weezer-like band can be" Stacey. Sorry, but the band is weezer. Happy 90s pop-rock music, happy singer, happy everybody except good old cynical me. Their 3 minute routine popsong couldn't get even with their clown like smile.

two star Hotel
GOGLES!LEATHER PANTS! TINY DRUMKIT! They are visual love child of Electric Six and Placebo. Their bizzar energy and their 70's funk rock music. They kick off Plug It In, it is got bits of Buzzcocks in it aswell as some Slits. Which make them a wee bit cooler than you're average band. And it are one of those band who have the though luck of being Belgain. If they were English/Swedish/German/American they would have found their way to the masses easilier. But still this Liege band will come there in some way. Their energy got my booty shaking with their songs balancing between punkrock and electro.
The Setlist ran
Plug It In
Lighting Pleasure
Birds With Arms
Swing Bridge
Succes
No Light
Sunday Morning (no not the Velvet Underground one)
Knife Edge
Check them out 2 Star Hotel

Piano Club
And Piano Club. Nice people. Nice boys. Nice music. Ow isn't it all so nice. They already established a steady fanbase. And teenage girls, drop immedatly for his bambi like eyes. But hey I didn't cry when they shot bambi's mom (I called PETA) and this stuff wasn't sensitive, it was pathetic. It was worse than Keane. No Stereophonic like looks can brings down the fact that their music sentimental and ready to sell commercial trash we've been drowned in for the last years.

Art Toi Koerke 18/02/05
Art Toi, it seems like yesterday when Thijs gave me his demo. And in a few months they will be playing with SATELLITE CITY in the AB. Their songs are the perfect music for when you're driving around in your car. But I still prefer the demo tape. Maybe because it was one of my first demo's I ever got from a band that sounded cool.
Anyway they introduced something new the rockscene: a drunken person who stands on stage and does complety nothing execpt holding his beer and look at the crowd as if you would look to monkeys in the zoo.
Art Toi has slowly built a good live reputation and confirmed that hardworking Flemish bands are equal to their English ones. Art Toi gives a mix between Modern Lovers and the Cardigans. So lo fi pop music it is. Songs like Minute Made and Madison Fox are switched with something more ballad wise. And they finished things with "Day Tripper". And that is art toi in a nutshell, maybe not very original, but good music for good times.

Their Official WEBSITE

MC5/DKT AB 24/02/2005
Hulk
French rockers, in genre of Triggerfinger. Not really that impressing especially whe you have to pee.

DKT/MC5
MC5 is the band that is bigger than the Clash, but didn't sell as well as their English grandchildren.
Way back in the sixties they stood next to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges. They made a proto punk rock which stood as a base for bands like the Ramones. MC5 never knew commercial succes as they do know it now. It is impossible to say your not to say that you aren't influenced by them if you play rock music.
mc5/DKT did the white stripes sound boring as hell at the pukkelpopfestival.
They already toured around the world twice this year, stopping every where they could. But Ramblin Rose still has a fresh vibe to it as if you were in the White Panters movement. But then Handsome arrived and he personal wrecked American Russe. It was a horrible site. He bragged with his "bling bling", and ruined it for a bit. But things got better when Lisa from the Bellrays got her hands Looking at You.
Considering the average age of the average people, you just could feel the pure viagra effect she had on everybody. And the soloing Kramer and Gilby (from Guns'n'Roses) was extrodinary. But what did you expect? Giving critism on their guitar solo's would be like saying that Mozart wrote to many notes in his great pieces.
And then something I still don't know wether I should like it or not. The did the same soulsession through rocket reducer n°62. And I just don't like clichés. But at least DKT made a very spacy version of Spaceship.
I stepped out of the room still not know what to think of it. Confusal and a setlist. Walked up to them and said:"I am really sorry, but the pukkelpopshow was better." I never imagined ever to say that.

I AM KLOOT O'Reilly
Acoustic session. Don't really remember much of it. It was owk and it was fine it was easily listing but MC5 still had me in their power. Nevertheless was it charming

Stoneknights and Eosine

Matti's band: Stoneknights. So if you're friend of the band, can you be honest yes. Like all good bands this year (remember the kills) PA difficulties are inevitable. You couldn't hear the mouth organ or you couldn't hear Stijn guitarsolo's. After a few Kings of Leon songs and some garage rock'n'roll adventures you could hardly hear. They made a song dedicated to all the sluts in the world. Which sounded very blues-rocky. But then they played that one hit from that one band that Ozzy Osbourne used to be in and you know that band wasn't really it. Which was a pitty because I mean for all the other songs everything was in the house but the sound wasn't done like it should be.

Eosine

Boring. No furhter comment.

The rest of night was spent on LCD soundsystem and cool mashups where people faked they were pregnant and stole cigarets. Where other people got drunk of Vodka and some other folks got their groove on numbers.

This was all for now. Arevedici