PJ Harvey & John Parish (AB, Brussel, 14-5-2009)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

This was pretty much a perfect concert. We really love the new album PJ Harvey & John Parish have made and they performed it brilliantly. The sound in the AB is always good so nothing wrong there either.

The atmosphere was good, we had a great view of the stage and it's always great to see PJ perform. So a totally and thoroughly enjoyable evening!
What else can I say? Sorry you missed it if you would have liked to be there ;-)

You can check out the album though "A Woman a Man walked by" and the video on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWrfLhX964I

Yaki

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Restaurants
Cuisine:	Asian
Location:	Rue des Poissonniers 6b, Brussels

If you are looking for some affordable but delicious Thai / Vietnamese / Japanese specialities you should check out this small restaurant!

Some more info here

Buraka Som Sistema (Depot, Leuven, 13-5-2008)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

If you want to hear something new and different you should check out this Portuguese / Angolan band which specializes in progressive kuduro. Say what? Well check out these wikipedia pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuduro and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraka_Som_Sistema

This music is really positive, rhythmic, lively, fun and sexy so it's great to see them live. It was a bit of a pity the band started so late and we had to catch the last train but at least they will be performing at Pukkelpop too soon!

Check out the music: http://www.myspace.com/burakasomsistema

The Veils (AB, Brussel, 11-5-2009)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

After hearing their latest album (Sun Gangs) I really wanted to see them live because it's full of great songs. And luckily they were performing in Belgium soon so time to buy tickets!

The concert was in the AB Box which means the room was made smaller and cosier with sparkling lights on red velvet curtains. So the atmosphere was great already!

The singer (Finn Andrews) had some voice problems but I think that only added to the sound because their best songs also sound a bit broken and hurt.
All in all it was a great performance and they played all my favourites from the new album!

Check out the band: http://www.theveils.com/

El Metteko

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Restaurants
Cuisine:	Delicatessen
Location:	Boulevard Anspach 88, Brussels

Another brilliant restaurant which serves Brazilian dishes, Congolese dishes, pasta's and some other things as well. The atmosphere is mix between South-American and Belgian.

But lets talk food! We tried a Brazilian dish (moqueca) and a Congolese dish (moambe with chicken) and they were both extremely delicious!
I'm really looking forward to eating here again; And I'm sure it's likely to happen because it's very close to the AB ;-)

By the way "metteko" is also a local dialect word which in this case means monkey or some-one who is monkeying around.

Den Talurelekker

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Restaurants
Cuisine:	Delicatessen
Location:	Rue de l'Enseignement 25, Bruxelles

This is a brilliant restaurant where every-one should eat at least once! They serve several specialities from Belgium and Brussels which are so delicious you'll want to go back definitely ;-)

The restaurant itself looks very nice and cosy too so it's also great to just sit there and drink a beer.
If you're ever in Brussels and want to try something local this really is the place to go!

Oh by the way "talurelekker" is a Brussel-dialect word for some-one who licks their plate (presumably because it was so good).

Wovenhand (cirque royal, Brussels, 7-5-2009)

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Other

I have always wanted to see 16 Horsepower live but I never had the chance and now they don't exist anymore...
Luckily front-man David Eugène Edwards has started a new project called Wovenhand which is much alike! And I finally had the chance to see them live this may at "les nuits"!

We've never been to the Cirque Royal so we didn't know what to expect from the venue. It is a very nice cirque-like theater but (and this is a big but!) the sound wasn't very good. It was too loud for one (that got a bit better by the end) and that drowned out much of the subtleties of the music.
The concert was pretty good, some parts even brilliant but because of the sound sadly only 4 stars.
But still I'm glad I've seen and heard David Eugène Edwards perform because it's pretty special!

Check out the band: http://www.wovenhand.com/