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This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks carry history in broad daylight. 5 May. 8 May. Liberation. Memory. Resistance.
Music played in public spaces, for people standing together.
1999–2005 Gent. Brussels. Deurne. Ath. Sint-Gillis. Small stages, city squares, cultural centres. Brass, accordions, movement.
2002 Foire! Halles de Schaerbeek. Waiting on stage before the noise begins.
2007–2015 Liberation festivals in the Netherlands. The road north. Songs crossing borders easily.
2012 Afrobelbeat. Gangbé Brass Band from Benin. Brussels rhythms meeting West African brass. Another language added to the conversation.
2017 Steenrock. Music against detention centres. Crowds listening under open skies.
2020 Lockdown Cheer Up Sessions. Playing outside elderly homes. Distance measured in meters, connection measured differently.
2022–2023 Labadoux. Dworp. Festivals, clubs, village rooms. Still gathering people into one moving body.
2024 Breendonk. 8 May movement. Playing music on ground marked by history. And back in Laken: Vertigo taking shape in the studio, with family, friends, cats, dictionaries and backing vocals all drifting into the songs.
And today, another kind of celebration. Union wins the cup. The supporters sing along to the Jaune Toujours anthem again. Brussels echoing in full voice. Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.
3'Ain performed new material from their upcoming album "Unland" last sunday at Living Room Music Festival organised by Muziekpublique
Hey, DJ, leave the kids alone!
(afterparty @ikendentheo Jelle-cup Sint-Pieters-Leeuw)
In (the outskirts of) Bruges…
End of April we played the first of 2 concerts for the very cosy festival Uitwijken at Kruisabele, Brugge, with some nice spring days peeping around the corner…
Good times!
Photos 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6 by Beer Vanhoutte
This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks are made of many small stages. End of April. Beginning of May. Labour Day. Rooms, streets, festivals, gatherings.
2000 Meerbeke. Hometown air. First circles.
2001–2003 Waregem. Lochristi. Brussels. Leuven. Vught. Public squares. Cultural centres. Songs moving through people.
2002 Foire! Heusden-Zolder. Light, objects, sound. The stage stretches.
2004–2011 Liège. Kassel. Delft. München. Brussels. From festivals to street corners. Same energy, different walls.
2014–2019 Antwerp. Grimbergen. Brussels. Sit-Nick. I Love May. Music where people meet.
2020 Everything shifts. Balconies in Laken. Hospital courtyards in Ukkel. Sidewalk sessions. A father and son sharing a song. Distance, but still connection. Some shows cancelled. Others appear on the spot.
2023–2024 Back in Laken. Writing. Recording. Vertigo taking shape.
Many places. Same impulse. To play. To gather. To keep the line open.
Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.
This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks are roads. Backstage corridors. Italian sunlight. Van seats that remember everything.
1998 Brussels. Irisfeesten. The city already listening.
2001–2004 Belgium, Netherlands. Clubs, cultural centres. Songs learning how to travel.
2006 Bonn. Harmonie. Guestbooks signed, sweat still drying.
2007 Italy. Varese. Milano. Vercelli. Trumpets in parks. Chess on terraces. Fruit pie backstage. A speeding ticket as souvenir.
2009 Köln. Another room, same pulse.
2016 Brussels. Music on the streets. Sound as statement.
2019 Albertina. Afterwork, but never after energy.
2020 Balconies. The world paused. Music leaned out the window.
2024 Choux Box Studio. A new voice enters. Next generation on the mic. Vertigo takes another breath.
2025 Belsele. Encore in the crowd. No distance left.
From sidewalks to stages. From radio silence to shared air.
Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.
Unland.
Album out in June.
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10 May
Muziekpublique Living Room Music Festival, Laeken.
First glimpse.
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Artwork by Maëlle Pouppez.
Black felt on white.
Three birds, mid-air.
Title embroidered in red.
A continuation of her work for the single Oufti.
Same hands, different altitude.
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Air.
Motion.
Thoughts circling until they become sound.
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Jazz fusion with influences from the Arab world
What. A. Weekend!
Imagine belgium was Amazing. Späti got to meet great people and they won not 1 but 2 prizes!
One of them means they'll be performing in Maastricht at the Dutch brand of @imagine.experience
Big Thanks for the opportunity: @imaginemusicbelgium @jeugdenmuziekbrussel @jmwalloniebruxelles
This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks drift. Between highways, radios, balconies. Between naps and noise. Like a roadmovie paused mid frame.
2000 Brussels. La Tentation. BRUSK. Release night. Postcards sent into the city.
2002 Roeselare. Another room joins the map.
2004 Lille. Brussels. Radio waves. Ancienne Belgique. Closer to Manu Chao, they wrote. Closer to the street, we played.
2007 Italy. Milano. Trieste. Stages and backstages. Windows. Sun on staircases. Miles folding into songs.
2009 Germany. Karlsruhe. Gas station goofy. Sunglasses, laughter. Hotel TVs welcoming us by name. Van rides. Same road, different sky.
2020 Brussels balconies. Menthalité à la Menthe. End of Season. Distance held together by rhythm.
2022–2024 Union Saint-Gilloise. Anthem carried forward. From studio to street parade. Voices multiplied.
From postcards to van windows. From radio rooms to football crowds.
Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.