Facing l’Ancienne Belgique nowadays on the opposite footpath on Boulevard Anspach, which has become a pedestrian zone in the middle of 2015, the Caroline Music store in Brussels has now a larger storefront and an enlarged retail area (on two floors), the result of its logical merger in January of 2013 with the Goupil-O-Phone (ex […]
What remains of his flamboyant presence at Théâtre 140 can be expressed in one word: audacity! A kind of imaginative nerve, unified in focus, which Piero Kenrolls openly acknowledges in the second chapter of his book Gravé dans le Rock: “The dullness of its name, due to the fact that it was located at 140 Avenue Plasky in Schaerbeek, sheds no light on its often bold program. Aside from the avant-garde plays, the stand-up comedian acts, and the various cultural events that were as gratifying as they were unexpected, Dekmine was the first to have the nerve to book pop music at his venue.”
At first it was a timely but unpredictable destination. You would go there on Friday or Saturday nights, or sometimes both, without any real plan, any fixed trajectory. It allowed us to temporarily escape from the quiet suburbs where we lived. A week of dull drudgery was followed by a lively weekend, in the enchantment of a club. And a real one at that. Not a ballroom or a dance hall. Not some suburban cabaret. But a club—both literally and figuratively—where you could wander about or settle into a spot and stay for hours under the magic of artificial lights, like on some soft drug for the senses.
As an introduction to the exhibition in Louvain-la-neuve, here is the history of the Ferme du Biéreau, and the association “Corps et logis” in a video-montage by Laurence Demaret, accompanied by the music of Philaretordre.
I imagined a ball. A ball from the 1930s. Couples lost in the carelessness of their embrace. Pas de deux. Long dresses, gentlemen in their Sunday best.
Casablanca Moon was more than just a record shop. Founded in 1979 by Michel Lambot, Raf Bauwens, Dominique Cornet, and Brigitte Brouillard, the store went on to become a meeting place for a great deal of Brussels-based musicians.
There are places that simply by invoking their name call to mind the representation of what they stand for. As if we had always been accustomed to their existence. As if they had always embodied what we believed them to be. As if they were destined to perpetually populate the landscape with their silhouette. The […]
No one knows exactly when the building that housed what was to become the Canotier was first constructed. In all likelihood it was at the beginning of last century if we can judge by the style of the façade. Obviously, the name refers to the oarsmen who worked the rowboats during that period, rowing in […]