Pictures of 3 nice exhibits/events in Mechelen
Sunday, October 8, 2006
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Blood on the Wall (AB, Brussels, 6-10-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
But this year it happened. As I heard the album "Awesomer" of "Blood on the Wall" for the first time I loved it so much I had to hear it again. And again. And another time...
Sadly after a while the album wasn't online anymore (it was on the vpro 3voor12 site) so I was almost going into withdrawal symptoms when my love asked me if they had a site (we were wondering where they were from and I wasn't totally sure it was New York). So I found their site. And their tour agenda...
And lo and behold! They were coming to Brussels! Soon! And the tickets were cheap! And it was on a friday! In the Ancienne Belgique (which is easy to reach by train and the concerts start earlier so you can catch the last trains)!
What a happy day indeed!
So tickets were bought and yesterday we went to magical Brussels.
The concert was in the Ab-club which is a very small pub-like room up a large stair with a small podium. The support act was already playing when we got there (we were hiding from the rain in the Oreilly's Irish pub on the other site of the road which was very nice too). They were quite ok.
After a little break and a trip to the loo for me "Blood on the Wall" started their gig. And it was perfect!
This band sounds exactly like I want it to sound. Noise, melody, husky female voice, screaming guy, throbbing beat, Rock&Roll!!!
All sounds and melodies and noise are perfectly placed. They are the best of Sonic Youth, Pixies and many others like those. And they sound great live! And they are clearly having fun as well.
Not many people have seen this performance but I'm sure they were all very impressed by it.
And afterwards the singer/guitar-player jumped of the stage all sweaty and excited to sell us their record. Don't you just love that? And to make sure I won't get withdrawal symptoms ever again I bought one ;-)
Masters of pre-Columbian art (Brussels, 6-10-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
Main exhibit:
pre-Columbian art collection of Dora and Paul Janssen
They managed to collect many many extremely fine pieces of meso-American and also South-American (mostly Colombian gold) art. Almost every piece is worth a close and long look! So many exciting objects! So much detail!
And there's some more happy news! There was a chance the collection would move to another country because of legal/money problems but this has been solved. The 350 objects can stay in the museum! Yippee! -makes little dance-
Smaller exhibits:
- Indians in Brussels, world exhibition of 1935
Funny exhibit of a visuals from 1935, clothes worn by the Indians who where at the exhibit and more recent European Indian kitsch
- Traditional clothes from Mexico
Colourful and beautiful accompanied by Mariachi tunes
- Wickerwork from the new world
Very pretty and interesting things and it smells great too ;-)
These four exhibits are still running until the 29th of march next year so every-one has time enough to visit them. And as an extra you can always visit the permanent collection too ;-)
Another tip: the museum has a restaurant which is quite expensive but the chocolate cake (6 euro's!) is brilliant so if you have some money to spare you should try it (at least once in your life).
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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