Par : FrF.Kmeron, 24-04-2009 - 16:19
Tags : Concert - dance on the beast - Live - sharko - tour

It was going to be an average Monday you know… Barely slept to start working on the pictures of this week end while abroad, even succeeded in uploading the first ones from the cosplay before being able to say »hey.. Hiya to you too new week.. Its been a while! ». Then i had a friend who was supposed to come over from Lille bc she’s working there for the whole week. FAIL. Cancelled due to too much work (you owe me another dinner now!!). Mondays suxx, big time (nothing new in that last sentence. Fact). Then got a mail from one of the guys of DaMusic : « Anyone available for the secret concert of Sharko tonite for the release of their new album? ». In one mail (and  now that I think about it, a phone call yesterday from a country far far away) my Monday turned out just great!

The fun part is that its actually in the exact same street as my studio (yeah, « avenue « …dont be picky like that). So i’m on on my way to the Indigo Studios, which after some research is a place down town which moved to this neighborhood.
Who’s Sharko? Belgian band, never heard of them before living in the Kingdom of Belgium (as i was for Arid, Hollywood porn stars, the black box révélation and so on some might say).

But well, during a talk with a friend about how many concerts i was doing and the « quality » of my pictures (his words, not mine), we talked about the « Belgian school of Rock » (long debate about the idea of being able to call it school, trends, sound, way to do and so on…). And he happend to mention amongst others Saule that i delightly discovered live a couple of month ago, and those Sharko.

 I’d happen also to see someone wearing a sharko tee during the Brussels Summer Festival. But i didnt connect at that time… French men that I am, i thought it was something against our président Sarkozy… Little did I know..
♫ « I’m so sorry, woaw, I’m getting used to it…/I know you’ll never call me back/’Cos I don’t know how to talk to girls/I know you’ll never call me back/And I’ll be forever a lonely boy…« ♫ -Ripoff (a phone call)-

 And so here I am at the private party/concert for the official release of their new Album « Dance on the beast » (released 04/20 in Belgium, 06/01 in France). Their latest one before that « Molecule » was already really good (yeah, i tend go try to discover stuff when I’m told it’s good music!). Let’s see how they deal with live stage and new songs (tickets could be won through a contest on radio so pretty sure the 500 people gathered here are already conviced it’ll be a deadly nite).
♫ « Thank you for the sick comments/The dissidence, the fast revenge/I’ll get you on the wall /Thank you for the sick comments /The fist, the flop, the block, the fence/I’ll get you on the wall » ♫ -Mouse/Animal/Facebook/danger-

 And so they arrive on stage, on time, we can instantly recognise the blond hair of the main singer, grabbing the bass and here we go for a heavy riff…. The quality of the sound is as we could expect really average (or maybe is it just the habit of the 2 high quality standard venue i usually go to! The place is like a huge depot, with speakers that will just perfectly make the sound of the band rebound on the huge immaculate walls…
♫ « I’m special, excellent/ You’re special, excellent/ Good in bed, excellent/I’m your man, excellent » ♫ -Excellent (i’m special)-

 

 Overall its still a nice thing, the singer just thanking everybody that joined the release of their 6th disc. And the show goes on, mixing between old and new tracks. And all of a sudden, everything snapped, wasn’t aware of that but the frontman’s actually a showman!! Coming close to the crowd, shouting at us so we shout back, trying to make everyone sing on some tracks, all the crowd is not that responsive, but what would you excpect from black ties and posh people that came here bc they just were on the « vip list »…
♫ « I’ll pick the electronics/You’ll do the economic/We’ll need a larger room/For everyone to dance/I’ll pick the electronics/You’ll do the economic/We’ll need a larger room/And that’s all » ♫ -

 

But well, some songs are definitely very catchy, with a strong gimmick, his voice doing up & downs, and a drummer giving a lot of impact and energy to the 3 piece band. « Come on guys, like in huge concert!!! » and the singer to mimmick hands clapping, the audience to answer nicely and following how the set was evolving…
♫ « Takes you by the hand to get a new chance/When you are lost in the dark/It makes you big a bigger man/You try to understand /Rise up instead /Rise up instead and try me/ You will get the very chance to stay on my side » ♫ -Rise up-

 

Got to confess i just didnt get any pictures at all of the Wildest moments they had, bad lens and poor lighting.. Kinda angry at myself but well, we can’t always get what you want right?? (But if you try sometimes… You might find…).
Overall a nice evening, really amazed by the Charisma of the singer (yeah, i call that charisma, not like the semi god complex of Johnny Borell of Razorlight i saw last week…)
♫ « My mama said it’s gonna be hard many times/ But think of me and the love I meant to give/And remember how it looks super shy/ The way you grabbed molecule anyhow/ I didn’t know but our love was meant to be/ My mama said it’s gonna bleed from time to time/ My mama said it’s gonna be hard many times/ But think of me and relax there’s love ahead/ Anyhow… » ♫ -Sweet Protection-

 

For the encore « See, i even changed my shirt » will he say… Time to go home, working on the cosplay pictures of this weekend, and wanting to discover more closely the universe of this post-pop belgian band that i dearly want to see again in live (should be at Les Ardentes ‘09!). Got to check their website sharko.be, in discography part, they’re explaining stuff about each and everyone of their songs, awesome!

 As usual, all the set on Flickr!

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In my ears : Les cowboys fringants -la Catherine- ♫ »Elle n’aimait pas la routine/La margarine/ Et sa maigre poitrine/ La Catherine/Mais elle aimait sa taille fine/La poutine/Et sa vieille voisine/La Catherine« ♫

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