Par : FrF.Kmeron, 01-08-2008 - 11:48
Tags : Bruksel live - compuphonic - Concert - daan - Live - Red Bull - Stage - The black box revelation - Wolf

So  here he the 2nd part of the Bruksel Live ‘08 edition. As a reminder, the first one had Puggy and The Tellers in it. What’s up with this 2nd one? Long story short, a SD card will die, The Black Box Revelation will make our heads explode eventhough they are only 2 on stage, and Daan will not make any effect at all on me.
So, everyone who ever was close to me in a photo shoot knows that I’m taking A LOT of pictures.. But like A LOT. Used to have 4,5gigas available. That is usally enough for a nite, and to avoid failure of cards, got those giags on 5 cards (2-1-1-0,5). Except, today, of course. Forgot half of it. 1,5Gig is already full by the previous set. So here I am, confident, with 2 gigs left in one card. Except that, when I put my SD card in my camera. Just won’t take pictures. taking it out. Putting it back in. Nope. Don’t want to. I mean… Errrr.. W…. T….?Ok.. Time to be pragmatic here. What did I miss? looking at it. I’m realising the little “lock/unlock slider” is not here anymore.. O….M….G…ok. How the heck should I deal with that? So. I basically took the slider from the 1gig card I had, and put it in the 2gig, that, in the meantime I had like “sliced in two” in order to put the slider of the other card. Trying to make everything go back to the camera. Seems to work. Up to today, the “sliced” card is still in. dunno if it’s a good idea though. But strange to see that, actually, the “lock” slider is only hardware. just a slider, on the side, and it’s the item it’s in (here a camera that should, physically, look of the slider is here.. strange). Anyway, here I was, 2 SD cards fuc*** up, but able to take some pictures of what was coming

Then was coming on stage “The Black Box Revolution”, another Belgium Rock band you might say. Yeah.. well.. maybe. But a damn good one. It is “just” a singer (Jan Paternoster) and a drummer (Dries Van Dijck) but feels like we were hit by half a dozen damn good musicians… Powerful, the pit knowing the songs, and loving ‘hem.. really… wow…. One true good discovery!!!

I’m honestly impressed by what we could call the “Belgian School of Rock”, except it’s way more than that. There’s a spirit, a mood, a tendancy that is common to those Belgian groups. But not, I reapeat NOT, at all the same sounds. Between Ghinzu, Deus, Hollywood Porn Stars, Girls in Hawaii or here the black box revelation, the good thing is that they all have their own sound/way to create music. And that’s something priceless. It’s not formatted or a copy of a copy, it’s just really talented people who say “what if we can play rock 60’s like, with just a guitar and a drum set? but a little more powerful and entertaining?”  Just love that spirit. Once again, The Belgium is really becoming a more and more pleasant place.

I’ll definitely keep an eye on them. Trying to see if they are having a gig somewhere close, and get their album, in order to really know why I just loved that gig so much And in the meantime, the Atomium was putting on his night dress

Then going back to the Red Bull Area.. Where Compuphonic is playing, while going to grab a Coke This is a really nice event. Duty Noted for next year. Depending on who’s coming, but I’ll probably be here that’s for sure

Once again a true real Electro set. And that felt just goo. Really. I’m not jumping around like I used to when I was able to, but nonetheless, it’s just a lot of fun. Hearing the tracks, mixing one to each other, making everyone dancing, having fun, without violence or hate.. Just for the love of good music.

Going back to the main stage. We can easily go from one to an other. Really a good suprise and a nice thing. Fed up with the places that are just no designed to have crowd like that. Here, it’s really not a problem, stoping by just to show the nice Asian “food on the go” I went to

 

And that’s where I am the most happy. Making candids, no posing, no other light. Everything “as is”. It’s even more nice in here, cause there are some spots that are here to enlighten the pits, makes nice shadows, nice portraits, nice pictures. In the end, in photography, everything comes back to lighting, to how the light is present, how we will make it react to our camera, how we will play with it. Everyone knows I’m not at all pretending to be a photographer, It’s just a passion… And no, I’m not good at it, no matter what every one will say. It’s just I’m having a lot of fun, and that is probably the most important thing when ur having a hobbie

Just the time to make a quick self portrait… those spots are really powerful wow… ^^ (I’m 45meters away from it). It’s just a gimmick now. Trying to get a reflect or a shadow of me… who knows why

The comes on stage “Daan”, probably Flamish I’d say. And he seemed well known.. except… Long story short. Just didn’t dive into his concert. Maybe the sound, maybe the lyrics I could bearly hear. Maybe the “I’m a blue cowboy” trip is not for me. Though I heard some good songs.. But I don’t know… Exhausted? maybe, but I’ve been exhausted to concert, and that didn’t prevent me to love it. Strange. For once, not hot or cold about that, just… don’t care. Strange. Some day I might see him again and appreciate. Nothing personnal. Just not what I wanted to hear at that precise moment I think

So i’m preparing to going back Home… Meaning I would miss a colleague who is supposed to play “between midnite and 2am”… yay… but no.. Daan just fuck** up the end of the nite, not in the proper mood let’s say. The one who were supposed to play were the one who created thie event “Belgikolor” that I missed some month ago. darn it. Second time I then learned that there was actually a power black out for almost 20 to 30 minutes depending on the stage.. hehe… was a lucky guess to leave this early… :)  And in the meantime, a small snapshot with the Wolf, who still doesn’t have a name…

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