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Unruly Music Magazine. November 2013

The Feedback Issue

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Subbacultcha! Magazine November 2013

The Feedback Issue

Amen Dunes covered his ears during his soundcheck in Madame Moustache as we ran out into the streets to avoid this month’s subject. Feedback can be pretty uncomfortable when it comes to unexpected distortion. But it’s even harder when used in its other context: evalua-tion. You’ve got to have a thick skin to handle it and remain balanced. On the other hand, it’s important to get it. So take it as a challenge next time your loved ones are reviewing your new interest as a bad choice.

Sharing is caring, maybe? We put faith in looking back and evaluating to move forward. That’s life. Oh yes!

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ColophonSubbacultcha! Belgium: Karperstraat 26, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

www.subbacultcha.be - [email protected]

Editors in chief: Herlinde Raeman and Kasper-Jan Raeman

Editor: Nina Strebelle

Copy editors: Peter Claes and Megan Roberts

Design: Marina Henao

Online editor: Anna Baqués, Nina Strebelle and Herlinde Raeman

Agenda editor: Nina Strebelle and Julien Van de Casteele

Sales: Eveliina Petäjäaho ([email protected])

Distribution: Anna Baqués ([email protected])

Intern: Louise Vervaet

Good Guys: Ewout Compernol, Emmanuel Van Damme and Arnaud Vanrafelghem

Printing: Drukkerij Gewa, Arendonk, Belgium

Contributors: Jonas Nachtergaele, Julien Van de Casteele, Nina Strebelle, Anna Baqués, Will Martin, Kasper-Jan Raeman, Louise Vervaet, Suzanna Zak, Bea Fremderman, Lehman, Marc Buchy, Marvin Lin, Ekin Sanaç, Berna Göl, Eno Swinnen, Sanae Yamada, Pieterjan Grandy, Deniz Erdem, Aylin Güngör

Distribution: Brussels: Gertjan Rasschaert, Julien Van de Casteele, Kellan Smith, Andrea Hrzic, Anouk Jurdant, Thomas Roelens Ghent: Maarten Van Nieuwenhove, Linda Baumsteiger, Anouk Dusart, Bart Bruneel, Sophie Dekens Antwerp: Antonio Marques, Thomas Konings, Anna Baqués, Karen Vantvelt Leuven: Hazal Erkol Kortrijk: Thomas Vanoosthuyse

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Cover Illustration by Eno Swinnen

Recommendations 7 We Saw You 10Wooden Shjips 12Crystal Stilts 17James Ferraro 22Scene Report: Istanbul 28

Featured Artist 36New Films 42 Subbacultcha! shows 45Agenda 54Focus 59Free Stuff 63

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Music: White Material Records

Founded in New York by White Male and DJ Richard last year, White Mate-rial is dedicated to putting out straight-up ‘no bullshit’ techno records. So far they’ve released four very solid EPs that are already out of print and changing hands for crazy prices. Watch out for fu-ture White Material releases if you’re into richly textured deep house, ’cause these guys know what they’re doing and they’re doing it well – but without a fuss.

soundcloud.com/white-material-records

Music: Mammane Sani

The goldmine of a blog-turned-record label Sahel Sounds has unearthed an-other gem: the first and only album by Nigerian avant-garde electric organist Mamanne Sani. Once a dusty cassette found on the shelves of the music ar-chive of the capital, the 1978 instrumen-tal recording La Musique Electronique du Niger is now available in all its psy-chedelic, hypnotic glory, consisting of six soothing and swaying compositions we could listen to all day.

sahelsounds.com

Each month our staff provides you with a selection of the finer things in life. Enjoy!

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Artist support: KOP

KOP stands for Kunstenaars Onder-steunend Platform. The new organisa-tion represents and supports artists from different disciplines, with special attention to those starting out. Do you have an idea but don’t know how to start or you’ve been busy already although you have a question about your artistic career? Contact KOP for help and spe-cific advice.

www.kopvzw.be www.facebook.com/KOPvzw

Exhibition: Jonas Mekas

BOZAR in Brussels focuses on the work of Lithuanian-American experimen-tal filmmaker Jonas Mekas in an exhi-bition running until 26 January. Mekas is known for his ambitious, poetic di-ary films such as Walden and Lost, Lost, Lost, which make for an unforgettable, sense-altering experience. If you missed the Cinematek retrospective in October, the exhibition Jonas Mekas / The Fluxus Wall is a great opportunity to discover the work and influence of the 90-year-old filmmaker.

www.bozar.be

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Music: D/P/IRecommended by Marvin Lin

Every month we ask someone who inspires us to share one of their favourite bands of the moment. This month Marvin Lin from music and film webzine Tiny Mixtapes rec-ommends D/P/I, alter ego of Alex Gray. You know, the ‘other’ guy from Sun Araw.

D/P/I, the latest moniker of LA-based Alex Gray, sees him taking what he’s learned from his previous solo projects – Deep Magic, DJ/Purple/Image, Heat Wave – and com-bining all that into a heretofore unheard sonic grab bag of sounds, all meticulously created and impeccably sourced. He’s released two mixtapes this year, Espresso Dig-ital and Fresh Roses, both top-notch representations of his continual interest in mi-cro-glitch experimentation and appropriation. Fresh Roses is particularly stunning, showcasing Gray’s uncanny ability to move his skittering, twitchy electronic rhythms across defamiliarised, dislocated samples (from country tunes to hyped-up motivation-al speakers), occasionally dropping down for some heavy bass thuds and driving beats on the hip hop/trap/house/footwork nexus. The effect is more fluid than disorienting, a smart, sometimes trashy methodology that evokes both terror and humour, unease and comfort – a digital lump in your throat that eventually plummets into your gut with frightening momentum. It’s an aesthetic celebration of technological failure, of communication breakdown, of the mind fuck of psychology, of the imperfection of hu-manity. But in the stylistic pivots and arm’s-length distancing tactics, D/P/I somehow becomes an impossibly faith-restoring exercise that may sound fractured and ephem-eral, but actually feels holistic and everlasting.

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What did you think of the show?I really enjoyed it. I only knew one

song but it was exactly the type of music I needed that evening.Are you an honest guy?

I like to think so, yes.What kind of music are you listening to at the moment?

Sahel sounds, folk, hip hop, Bale-aric, giallo soundtracks, psychedelic rock, French indie-pop, luk thung, left-field sounds.What’s the first record you bought?

A madonna seven-inch, Like A Prayer. I was nine.

Your first ever music-related memory?Listening to Kate Bush cassettes

in the living room with my parents while playing with Master of the Universe toys.What’s your favourite pastime?

Record digging, making mix com-pilations and podcasts, photography.What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you?

The ideal lazy Sunday would be in Lisbon, having a drink with friends at Noobai. They have a really nice terrace with a view on the Tagus River.Any guilty pleasures?

No, I don’t feel guilty at all when it concerns the cheesy things I like.Have you experienced any regrets re-cently?

Not recently.What kind of music makes you cry?

Potentially every music style.What makes you dance?

D.I.S.C.O.Texas releases (indie dance/nu disco).Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to?

Dean Blunt at AB on 21 November.

We Saw You: Spotted at Subbacultcha!Photo by Nina Strebelle

Name: Pascal VermeulenAge: 33Spotted at: Amen Dunes at Ma-dame Moustache on 05 OctoberHome: BrusselsKeywords: Rue 14 n°14, Guerrilla Stoemp, Mixcloud, record digging, DJ-ing, radio rectangle, communi-cation, photography, Sena Da Sil-va, Cartier Bresson, Willy Ronnis, Polaroids, music, concerts, Edoga-wa Rampo, Alain Pacadis...Zodiac sign: Virgo

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The Feedback Issue. Interview

San Francisco quartet Wooden Shjips creates the kind of thick, slow-building psych-rock that’ll make you want to get your blaze on. As the band is about to

release third album Back to Land, we spoke

with bearded frontman Ripley Johnson, who also plays in Moon Duo, about the recording process, the sonic poetry of

analogue delay and how to make the best of irreversible ear damage

WoodenShjipsSkype chat interview By Nina Strebelle

Photos shot by Sanae Yamada in Portland, USA

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Wooden Shjips. Continued

‘I have a constant beautiful drone. Well, that’s how I try to think about it’

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Hey Ripley, what’s with the ‘j’ ?We were trying to sound Swedish. I know: bad joke. It just kind of

stuck.Half of Wooden Shjips – including you – is now in Oregon and the other half in Cali. Has it changed the band’s dynamic?

It hasn’t really, because we never played that regularly. We usu-ally get to together to work, tour for a while, then retreat back to our other lives. It’s kind of nice that way – we don’t get sick of each other.When you do get together, does communication play a large role in the songwriting or is it more of an organic process?

I write all of the songs, then bring them to the band. I almost always record a basic demo of each song and send them to everyone. That way everyone can think about it a bit before we get together. We used to just do it cold, back when we rehearsed more regularly. Now it’s a very quick process, which I prefer. I like to get it together fast and record while it’s still fresh. It’s kind of the Neil Young and Crazy Horse approach.And when working on new Moon Duo music, do you get feedback from your Wooden Shjips bandmates, or vice versa?

Sanae gives me feedback about the Shjips stuff. She was around while we were working on the mixes of the new album and giving us feedback. It helps to have an outside ear sometimes, to get some perspective. It usually doesn’t go the other way – though Dusty did help mix one of our EPs early on.How much feedback can we expect on the new album?

I use delay feedback a lot with my guitar playing – a bit on the al-bum, but more so live. Live, I usually play with more volume, so it’s easy to get amp feedback as well. But I really like playing with tape echo or analogue delay feedback because it comes at this point of infinite looping and return that cascades into a beautiful sound of collapse.Have you managed to avoid tinnitus or is your head permanently full of lovely distorted sounds?

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Wooden Shjips. Continued

about it. I’ve been pretty reckless in the past with loud amps and feedback, with no ear protection. I take better care now. Luckily I like to have music playing all the time, so I don’t really notice it.I’m planning to achieve my dream of visiting the Pacific North-West next summer. What makes it so magical for you?

It’s the landscape, the climate, the environment, the history, the culture – all of that. And there’s something unidentifiable, old, pulsing underneath. A darkness, maybe. I often feel like I’m in a Twin Peaks or X Files episode. Then the sun comes out and everything is bright and beautiful.

Wooden Shjips play TAG, Brussels on 06 December.

‘I often feel like I’m in a Twin Peaks or X Files episode. Then the sun

comes out and everything is bright and beautiful’

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Over the past decade this retro-gazing outfit from NYC has mastered the art of stitching

together scraps of proto-punk, soul, folk, psych and country into a post-punk

patchwork quilt that at times calls to mind Joy Division and the Velvet Underground.

We talked with guitarist JB Townsend about reviews and gaining notoriety in the

underground scene

CrystalStilts

Interview by Julien Van de Casteele

Photos shot by Bea Fremderman in Chicago, USA


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JB, is feedback from your fans, listeners and live audience some-thing you pay attention to?

Yeah, I think you can’t really help it. In this day and age, you see everything – be it feedback from fans or reviews from critics. Everything is so accessible that between the five of us – and between us and the label – we pretty much hear everything. Which isn’t a bad thing because your perspective can get a bit skewed when you’re in your zone and you don’t know what’s going on around you. Getting some feedback helps to give you an idea of where you stand. But that said, we’re not relying on that: we just pay attention to it. We still make the music for ourselves based on the music that we like.Have you started paying more attention to it as you’ve grown more well-known in the US underground scene?

Yeah, I think so. It’s hard to tell because it’s probably happen-ing subconsciously. In the past year, we’ve just been writing for our new album without paying much attention to what was happening outside. Right now we can afford to do that because I feel like we’ve become a little bit of a cult band in a way. We still do pretty well at our shows and everything; I just looked at some charts and we’re do-ing okay for this album. So now it’s a cult thing.In what conditions was the new album produced? What’s the mes-sage?

We just wanted to write a lot of songs and have a good mix of songs. We wanted to record them in a more lush way, and maybe be a little less punk. We pretty much wrote everything in our rehearsal space two days a week and wrote and wrote and wrote… We prob-ably had, like, 25 to 30 songs. We then narrowed it down to 15 and went to a really nice studio in Greenpoint, next to the Mexican Summer label. We left out some songs not because they weren’t good – like, some of them are really good; they could be singles, even – but because they just didn’t fit in with the ones we kept. We just wanted to make an album of ten songs, so it’d be kind of to the point, short and sweet. Those left to the side will be on our next LP.


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‘It’s an album that you ease into, and on the third listen you get it, you can

enjoy the intricacies after a few listens.’

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The new album has been out for two weeks. Are you receiving the critical feedback you expected?

Yeah, to an extent – but like I said before, it’s really hard to tell. We got some good reviews, some mediocre reviews and sometimes I can tell the reviewer just isn’t sure if he likes it right off the bat. I think all of our records are kind of growers; this isn’t a record that you listen to once and you’re done. It’s an album that you ease into, and on the third listen you get it, you can enjoy the intricacies after a few listens. That’s how all of our albums have been, and they’ve sold steadily throughout the years.How would you respond to those reviews saying that your sound has become slicker, tighter and prettier – but to the detriment of your established sonic identity?

I think that’s true. We wanted to make it clearer. It’s funny because I thought it was going to be more clear than it is; it actually still came out sounding like us but with a little bit more clarity in the vocals. The mixing was a little bit more careful, we tried to keep it clear. So yes, it was deliberate. I think that we can go even clearer – not in a modern way like hi-fi super modern – but, like, in a Seventies, clear hi-fi way.Is that how your music is going to sound like in the future?

I would like to have some songs that are like that, but not neces-sarily all of them, because there are some songs that really weren’t that kind of song – with a more rock’n’roll or punk vibe. These other songs just called for different techniques. So I think we can be eclec-tic enough to have some hi-fi songs and then have another song on the record that’s not as clear. I’d like to think that we have a few tricks up our sleeves.

Crystal Stilts play on 22 November at De Kreun in Kortrijk. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. Other date: 29/11 - Maison De Musiques, Brussels

Crystal Stilts. Continued

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James Ferraro

Interview by Will Martin

Illustrations by Eno Swinnen

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Are you an opinionated person?Yeah, I think so – about things I find important. I’m usually not in

a rush to form opinions, I think they just sort of settle in, you know? I guess it really depends on the subject.How affected are you by other people’s opinions?

Well again, it sort of depends on what the opinion is about. In general I’d say if they’re from people I look up to or respect, of course I feel some sort of obligation to listen to what they have to say – but what I do with their opinion from that point on is another thing. In the context of my art, I enjoy feedback but I’m very focused on my ideas so I guess I’m sort of blind to a lot of opinions.Has negative feedback ever caused you to rethink something?

Opinions are subjective in nature, so it’s hard to equate every sin-gle one into what you’re doing artistically. I don’t really believe there’s such a thing as negative feedback. Feedback for me is something that is neither constructive nor destructive. The world is a web of complex

Shortly after the release of his long-awaited album NYC, Hell 3.00 AM on Hippos in

Tanks, experimental producer and sonic atmosphere specialist James Ferraro is back

in Europe. We’re thrilled because we’re setting up the Belgian show and were able to pin the man down for an interview – which is pretty unexceptionable. We got his take

on other people’s visions, positivity vs negativity and growing to another level

in your life.

perspectives: your work enters the world and extra narratives spin from it. This is something that’s really important to me as an artist: the narrative that is outside of your control. Someone brings their context along with them as they absorb your work, and whatever that brings out of them is their own experience. I never want to judge that as a negative or positive experience – even if it’s outside of what I may have originally intended.What about general negativity? Is it something that influences you?

I’ve been inspired by things that may have some negative con-notations, but not specifically the concept of negativity. With NYC, HELL 3:00 AM, parts draw from negative experiences or events, but it was just one element of a complex situation. The album explores themes like urban and digital isolation, but also a triumph of achiev-ing that sort of cathartic control. It’s very personal but there’s a deep universality in this album. I think most people have felt emotions that are exhibited on the record, even though they’re presented in a less direct way than with conventional songwriting. For me, hell is a psychological state that can manifest itself anywhere, and in any situation.Is feedback noise?

I enjoy the sound of noise: I’m really drawn to its layers and com-plexities. And it’s not so much of an intellectual thing; I just naturally enjoy it. I also like how the natural discomfort of noise kind of hints at some sort of hidden order. Dissonance has been a key element of my music for a while.Do responses to art – good or bad – validate the product?

Yes and no. I know artists who I trust to show shit too, but I don’t really take advice from people because I really believe in what I’m going for before I even start to make it. I think one of the marks of a great artist is that he’s able to speak to the world and communicate

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‘For me, hell is a psychological state that can manifest itself anywhere, and

in any situation’

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‘I personally really love criticism: I think it’s a really important cultural

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those ideas effectively. Sometimes – and this is something that has been proven throughout history – artists are working ahead of where the culture at large is at, and their product gains validity as time passes. I personally really love criticism: I think it’s a really impor-tant cultural and social agent, despite the fact that some critics are undereducated.Is anything ever finished?

The past couple years have been an insane growth period for me – on a personal and artistic level. I used to suffer from never really feeling like anything was done, partly because I would rush things out. But I’ve learned that allowing your work to grow alongside you, and having it mirror your life in a couple different phases rather than one, is so much more rewarding, because you have a sense of completion. Of course, nothing is ever really done, but I think this way of working sort of makes that dilemma less of an issue – at least, it’s been like that for me.Do you care what your parents think of you?

I care what they think to a certain extent. I’m kind of like an or-phan, though, so it’s a bit different. That’s just reality though, you know.

James Ferraro. Continued

James Ferraro will play at a secret loca-tion in Brussels on 01 November. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. Check out our website for more details!

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The Feedback Issue. Scene Report

Scene ReportIstanbul

Always been curious about the music scene in other cities outside your own little cocoon? This month’s edition of the Scene Report fills you in on the scene in Istanbul. The girls from Kim Ki O take us for a ride

through the crazy metropolis

Text by Ekin Sanaç and Berna Göl

Photos shot by Aylin Güngör in Istanbul

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One day, back in 2001 when we were both 19, we heard that Stereo-lab was coming to Istanbul to play at this venue called Babylon. We rushed out to buy tickets straight away, even though we knew that it was absolutely impossible for the concert to be sold out back then. Rushing out to buy tickets was nothing but an expression of gratitude for the karma or whatever it was that made this gig happen, mixed with uncontrollable excitement. Yet inside our proudly irrational late teenage brains, we knew something in our city was changing; from then on nothing would be the same. We were going to have other gigs than the gigantic stadium rock shows or the countless mini cover-bands in random bars.

Being isolated from a certain part of the world is no problem when you don’t know much about that part of the world. But it starts to get awkward when there is a certain flow of information that is rather limited and one-sided. You know, you hear, but you cannot reach. This was how a lot of people felt about music throughout the ‘90s and most of the 2000s. Everything about Istanbul’s music scene is in one way or another, related to this very fact, even if most people don’t seem to want to acknowledge it.

In terms of alternative music, venues, record stores and bars there are basically two hubs on each side of the city. Beyoğlu on the European side, where Berna lives, and Kadıköy on the Asian side, where Ekin lives. The two main record stores we used to visit every week were Kod Müzik, which later evolved into a record label and concert organiser in Beyoğlu and Zihni Müzik in Kadıköy. Zihni was and still is located in a passage called Akmar, where the metalheads and punks used to hang out every day. Because of all the drugs around, there were regular police interventions. It’s sad to think back to all the heroin problems and suicide incidents in Istanbul in the ‘90’s. One of them involved the drummer from our very first music project when we used to practice in an hourly rental studio. We were both 14 then, he was only 18 but he was a brilliant drummer.

The interesting thing is that both these stores were located in

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‘The current scene here is rather small and it’s the kind of scene where

everybody knows each other’

Scene Report: Istanbul. Continued

passages where many other cool stores popped up right next to them. Those were the places to start a band, to discover new music or just to simply get to know others. Same with the bars. Arkaoda bar in Kadıköy is one of the bars we have been visiting frequently since 1999 (we also DJ there from time to time). It’s not a big venue like Babylon, for instance, and there’s no stage, but it’s a cosy room with good acoustics and ever since Kim Ki O performed there back in 2007 they have been putting on shows on a regular basis.

We both had different bands before Kim Ki O. During her last years in high school, Berna started a punk(ish) band called Low-down. They played about ten shows in the rock bars around Beyoğlu, one of them being Peyote, a very notable club that still exists today, albeit at a different location. Peyote has two venues these days, one in Istanbul and one in EskiŞehir – a student city in the middle of the country – and has been the main hub for alternative music and local bands since around 2000.

The current scene here is rather small and it’s the kind of scene where everybody knows each other. It used to be even smaller, of course, and was the sort of scene that brings together all of the punk, metal and hardcore scenes. We were mostly drawn to the punk scene, secretly sneaking out to daytime punk shows and trying to survive the whole situation as underage girls. It was challenging for sure, but experiencing the scene at an early age in a city that’s sort of artistically groundless has been very inspiring for us.

There’s a really cool book our friends wrote a few years ago, An Interrupted History of Punk and Underground Resources in Turkey 1978-1999, about the local punk scene’s interrupted history, that ties the interrupted art movement here to the political situation brought on by the coup at the beginning of the ‘80s.

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quite vibrant for the last few years. The first names that come to mind are one-man band TSU! and Berk Çakmakçı, who makes music under names like Realtime Concrete and Heartsparxx. We also played with him as Soft Gates. Then there’s Anadol, a crazy solo synth project by Gözen Atila; Haossaa, the best art noise band ever; and She Past Away, a cool post-punk band from Bursa, another city in Turkey.

Together with Berk, and other friends, we have also been part of a DIY music and art collective called F91W for some years. Although most of them live here now, they started out in İzmir, a laid-back western city. Ekin has been working as the editor of the independent music, art and film magazine Bant Mag. for over nine years. Apart from shows for bands from all around, Bant has been organising the Demonation Festival for some years, which gives DIY bands without official albums a place on stage, so it’s a good event to catch up with what’s happening around the indie scene.

Of course there’s also the secret world of DJs and producers. At the moment we are working on a remix album of our latest record Grounds, with some of the local producers and DJs like Da Frogg, Ko-madub, Alphadub, 12 metreküp, Grup Ses Beats, Klaustro, Anadol... and it has been a truly inspiring process for us. We do get really inspired by working with like-minded people and artists. And that’s exactly what we did for the release show of our latest album Grounds at the Babylon.

We curated an evening with friends working in different fields, almost all of them girls! Our photographer friend (who also works at Bant Mag.), Aylin Güngör, played an all-women set with a screening of old photos she has been collecting and we screened a hilarious video our friends from the performance group Biriken had prepared for us. We have been writing music for their theatre play as well. The opening act was an all-girl dance group called dadans, who gave a


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mind-blowing dance performance to a music mix we prepared for them. Of course, we also screened the video for Insan Insan, it was directed by Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan, our favourite direc-tors who also directed our other videos. We also wrote the music for their first feature, The Blue Wave which made it to the Golden Orange film festival.

Honestly, we don’t think we would be making the same music if we lived somewhere else. In a way, Istanbul’s music scene has still not fully recovered from the acute isolation it suffered in the ‘90s. Some older people, showing dinosaur-like tendencies in musical terms, still feel guilty as hell when they miss a show. One could say it’s a matter of adapting, since these days it’s possible that on one night, there are four gigs that we want to be at.

We still feel we are in our little corner of the world, while the event lists and various hip magazines state the opposite. We don’t live the artist life here. Not at all. We are writing this article on our work breaks. We’re overworked and underpaid. We don’t make a big deal when we miss a show. We don’t go out to bars as much as we used to. Maybe we are getting old, ha-ha. Unless there’s a good show or a special occasion, we’d rather hang out with friends at home. Starting at Gezi, we spent the whole summer outside in parks; it felt rather weird to go to indoor bars and this feeling just kind of stayed.

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Essential Istanbul bands: Anadol, TSU, Realtime Concrete, Haossaa, Heartsparxx, She Past Away Essential Istanbul spots: Babylon, Deform Müzik, Zihni Müzik, Arkao-da bar, Salon İKSV, Peyote

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Pieterjan GrandryCrap = Good is an online platform for

contemporary visual culture, which has extended to a publishing imprint called

Crap is Good Press. Initiated, curated and edited by graphic designer and visual artist Pieterjan Grandry, Crap = Good

tries to develop, document and describe the contemporary movement from a

large exchange of information and shared knowledge to small-scale, more personal

businesses. It does so by covering an emerging and constantly growing niche within all fields of design: the counter-flow response to today’s over-designed

visual culture. With the title Crap is Good, Pieterjan references a common thought and

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L’Inconnu du lacAlain Guiraudie - 2013

Three years after Le Roi de l’Evasion, which was his first break-through to a wider audience, French director Alain Guiraudie comes back with his new fea-ture – Queer Palm winner in Cannes – L’Inconnu du Lac. During summertime, on the shore of a lake in a cruising spot for men, a young man falls in love with a beautiful stranger. But this fascinating man seems to have a dark side… If the story can seem simplistic, this plot is in the first place a pretext to de-fine a framework, an idyllic spot almost cut off from everyday routine, existing only on its own where souls and bodies meet. You can easily feel Guiraudie’s simple pleasure to shoot and to let live a small universe where Man is a com-plete part of nature and it’s four elements. But more than hedonistic, this film seems to be a subtle alchemy slowly disrupting itself, where a muted sorrow grows slowly… Right up until this incredible finish, its aesthetically beautiful but deeply disturbing. Release date 6 November

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Black Audio Film Collective

John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah’s multifaceted prac-tice has been directed to social ob-scurities and cultural, ethical and ethnical norms; and established a distinguished style. Must-see for all interested in documentary-mak-ing and for the politically curious, his compositions screen a critical and controversial response to a season of simulated representation and po-litical stir. The filmmaker will be in Brussels and Ghent to present his two early films dating back from the late ‘80s, made while a part of the in-fluential Black Audio Film Collective. Handsworth Songs: Cinematek, Brussels on 20 November Testament: KaskCinema, Ghent on 21 November

ElegiesAlexander Sukurov - 1990-2006

Alexander Sokurov’s exceptional filmmaking generates haunting im-ages that are simple and silent, yet subversive in their loudness. Usually in comparison with Tarkovskian spirit, he falls under the radar with his dis-tinct use of cinematic tools, mystifi-cation of form and content, and ro-mantic depiction of space. Besides his feature films, he worked on a se-ries of visual essays, under the roof title ‘Elegies’. As the extensive Brus-sels retrospective of the Russian director is coming to an end, this month hosts a full day of these por-trayals. Rare to see on a big screen, this is your chance to discover them.Elegies: Bozar, Brussels on 17 November

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New Music: Solar Year

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Solar Year (Ben Borden and David Er-tel) have become part of the epony-mously cool Montreal music family with a bunch of new-age electro-pop tracks under their belt, not to mention some guest vocals from the Grimes goddess herself. The duo have been heard to call their music ‘psalmgaze’, something probably said tongue-in-cheek but im-mediately pounced on by rabid music journalists like myself – all because of a Gregorian chant sample, ha! Check out their Brotherhood EP, available for free download on the Arbutus Records web-site and be on the lookout for their full-length, Waverly, which is due to appear at the end of June on Splendour.

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

www.lydiaainsworth.com

Brooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth is simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re read-ing this, come and have pizza with me! Come and have pizza with the world! This former student of Joan La Barba-ra has composed for filmmakers, visual artists, poets and contemporary dance groups, putting her at the epicentre of artistic expression, making her the coolest lady everrr. Lydia’s otherworld-ly vocals are accompanied by a string quartet, drummers, keyboards and this brilliant self-devouring fast-food collage animation. Listen and be happy.

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Film: Lydia Ainsworthwww.lydiaainsworth.com

Brooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth is simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re read-ing this, come and have pizza with me! Come and have pizza with the world! This former student of Joan La Barba-ra has composed for filmmakers, visual artists, poets and contemporary dance groups, putting her at the epicentre of artistic expression, making her the coolest lady everrr. Lydia’s otherworld-ly vocals are accompanied by a string quartet, drummers, keyboards and this brilliant self-devouring fast-food collage animation. Listen and be happy. self-de-vouring fast-food collage animation.


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Film: Lydia Ainsworth

www.lydiaainsworth.com

Brooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth is simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re read-ing this, come and have pizza with me! Come and have pizza with the world! This former student of Joan La Barba-ra has composed for filmmakers, visual artists, poets and contemporary dance groups, putting her at the epicentre of artistic expression, making her the coolest lady everrr. Lydia’s otherworld-ly vocals are accompanied by a string quartet, drummers, keyboards and this brilliant self-devouring fast-food collage animation. Listen and be happy.


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Pomrad + Vuurwerk31 October - VUB Kultuurkaffee,

Brussels20.00 | €10 | Free for members

Brussels-based producers and mystery crew Run Tell Secrecy, aka VUURWERK, create a dissonance between dance mu-sic and intimacy. They aim to drench the club experience in a comfortable haze. Inventive synth player Adriaan Van de Velde, aka Pomrad, released his debut EP Vlotjes on the OohWee Record label last May. He brings funky, glittery beats to complete this excellent double bill.

James Ferraro + Tav Exotic

01 November - Secret location, Brussels

20.00 | €10 | Free for membersShortly after the release of his long-awaited album NYC, Hell 3.00 AM on

Hippos in Tanks, experimental produc-er and sonic atmospherist James Fer-raro is back in Europe. The man behind Bear Bones, Lay Low and Sylvester An-fang member Ernesto González is sup-porting his friend Mike as Tav Exotic. Expect tropical electronics and eye-di-lating visuals.

Lust For Youth + Bierges ft. Kadoyi

02 November - Madame Moustache, Brussels

20.00 | €8 | Free for membersAlthough Swedish Sacred Bones duo Lust For Youth originally comes from Gothenburg, Hannes Norrvide’s con-fronting lo-fi synth-pop has become a staple of Copenhagen’s burgeoning punk scene. Expect a tormented dark-wave sound, minimal electronics and gothic beats that border on harsh noise.

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Brussels-based duo Bierges are open-ing the night.

LECTURE | Art as Generator of Change

in Society06 November - Cinema Zuid,

Antwerp20.00 | tba | Free for members

Under the title ‘Art as Generator of Change in Society’, Cinema Zuid invites artist Michelangelo Pistoletto for a lec-ture and presentation of his work at the University of Antwerp. A committed hu-manist artist, Pistoletto’s spiritual and artistic quest has led him to address so-cietal issues including politics, econo-my and environment.

FILM | The Last Waltz

06 November - KASKcinema, Ghent20.30 | €5 | Free for members

In The Last Waltz, one of the most fa-mous music documentaries, Martin Scorsese films the last performance of The Band in 1976. The legendary con-cert takes place in the presence of twelve well-known musicians, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Van Morri-son. Harmony and friendship make it a heartwarming last waltz; a must-see for music lovers.

Charanjit Singh07 November - De Centrale, Ghent

19.30 | €13 | Free for members

Indian house music pioneer Charan-jit Singh re-emerged with a bang a few years ago when his cutting-edge 1982 album 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat was re-

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issued via the Dutch label Bombay Con-nection. Luckily for us, the 73-year-old Bollywood musician still performs his idiosyncratic club music around the world’s dance floors, so if you missed him last time around, here’s your chance to party with an oldie.

Black Marble + Rape Blossoms

14 November - Trix (ISM PAPAYA), Antwerp

19.30 | €10 | Free for membersBlack Marble’s debut EP has been such a success that the Brooklyn duo became the obvious opening act for big dark-wave bands like Light Asylum, Trust and The Soft Moon. The two bedroom-producers continue their first record

A Different Arrangement with a some-what grainier path and less calculated coldwave formalism. Influences: former synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Rob-ert Rental.

Dean Blunt + John T Gast

21 November - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

20.00 | €12 | Free for membersStone Island, the newest and unexpect-edly dropped album from remarkable composer Dean Blunt, has been on re-peat in our office for the last couple of months. Same goes for predecessor The Redeemer. The man professionally split up with Inga Copeland and called it quits in Hype Williams, skipped the fuzz in the layers of his past sound and added an orchestra instead to underline the post-break-up blues in his songs.


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Blunt is heading to Europe this autumn and will be playing solo this time. Sup-port by John T Gast.

Eraas + Tempers21 November - Charlatan

(Democrazy), Ghent20.00 | €15 | Free for members

ERAAS’s 2012 debut is like a post-rock rocketship which transports listeners to a dark, lonely world nearly devoid of hu-man emotion but filled with an ominous atmosphere, propelled forward by the occasional motoric groove.

Crystal Stilts + The Holydrug Couple

22 November - De Kreun, Kortrijk20.00 | €10 | Free for members

Over the past decade this retro-gazing outfit from NYC has mastered the art of stitching together scraps of proto-punk, soul, folk, psych and country into a post-punk patchwork quilt that at times calls to mind the Clean, Joy Division and the Velvet Underground, as well as fellow revivalists like The Fresh and Onlys. On their new full-length, their usual influ-ences are sewn together with a more naked emotional thread, adding an ex-tra layer of warmth that ensures Nature

Noir is an album you’ll find comfort in late at night. Label mates The Holydrug Couple are coming along for the ride.

Molly Nilsson23 November - Art Cinema OFFoff,

Ghent20.00 | €8 | Free for members

Molly Nilsson got more exposure since her song ‘Hey Moon’ was featured on John Maus’ latest album, with the man simply singing over the original. Mol-ly Nilsson delivers simple but beautiful melancholic pop tunes, strangely affect-ing lyrics and a dreamy sound reminis-cent of the 80’s. Somewhere between Ariel Pink, John Maus and Harry Merry, but replacing the manic energy of those guys with a feminine sensibility.

The Holydrug Couple + Gonzalez

& Steenkiste23 November - JH De Bogaard, Geel

18.00 | tba | Free for members

With a sound that evokes the dream-like natural wonders of their homeland, the music of Chilean duo The Holy-drug Couple doesn’t need much expla-nation. Like their fellow countrymen of

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Follakzoïd, Ives Sepúlveda and Manu-el Parra are Sacred Bones signees and their sophomore album, Noctuary, is a gem of dreamy neo-psychedelia. Ernes-to Gonzalez (Bear Bones Lay Low) and Glen Steenkiste (Helvete, Sylvester An-fang II) will support.

Dead Gaze26 November - Madame Moustache,

Brussels20.00 | €5 | Free for members

Coming from the hills of North Missis-sippi, Cole Furlow has been releasing material under the guise of Dead Gaze since 2009, recently morphing into a five-piece live band. Combining effort-less pop songs with recordings that put an emphasis on texture, a compilation album, titled Dead Gaze and comprised of the best tracks from the extensive Dead Gaze back catalogue, was recent-ly released worldwide through Palmist Records in the UK and FatCat Records in the US.

Autre Ne Veut26 November - Botanique, Brussels


Following the release of Anxiety, Autre Ne Veut’s lauded Software debut and

more fleshed-out and bombastic arty avant-R&B follow up to 2010’s Autre Ne Veut, Arthur Ashin’s made a tremen-dous leap from sharing a home with Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin and writing commercial jingles to be-ing a full-time touring artist. He abso-lutely smashed Amsterdam’s De Nieuwe Anita with a tortured and heart-wrench-ing set back in April, stole the show at Best Kept Secret this summer and re-leased what might be his best work yet, On & On, as part of the Adult Swim Sin-gles Series. All of which is to say, Autre Ne Veut is ready to be pushed higher, baby baby.

The Pharmacy27 November - tba, Liège


Much like their namesake purvey-or of healing substances, Seattle trio The Pharmacy is where to turn when you’re in need of something to make you feel good. Not drugs, silly! I mean fuzzy psych-pop with a touch of grunge thrown in there for good measure. Also probably drugs, come to think of it. The last time these guys played with Sub-bacultcha! they walked into De Nieuwe Anita with a giant ice-cream cone stat-ue which they’d presumably stolen from

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No Joy30 November - Cactus Club, Bruges


Montreal’s No Joy follow up their soph-omore LP, Wait to Pleasure, with Pas-tel And Pass Out. The EP finds the trio shredding through a similar sound-scape, striking a balance between the

blistering walls of noise they’re re-nowned for and airy, expansive atmo-spherics that allow the songs to breathe and the melodies to seep through.

Le Mini Who?30 November - Kapitaal, Utrecht

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Just when you thought Le Guess Who? festival couldn’t get any better, Le Mini Who? comes along to prove you wrong! For its fifth edition, this mini festival boasts performances by several Dutch and international underground bands and artists in several kickass locations around the thriving Voorstraat. Fur-thermore, it’s free for all, so you’ll final-ly have a socially acceptable way of rub-bing elbows with that handsome hobo you’ve been making eyes at all weekend.

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Art: Gedi Sibony26 October-20 December - Gladstone, BrusselsNew-York born conceptual artist Gedi Sibony makes minimalistic construc-tions from impoverished material.

Music: Rechute Festival01-02 November - Greylight Projects, BrusselsThe experimentation-heavy Rechute nights in Brussels now have a festival of their own, with a worldwide line-up featuring Mark Durgan, Orphan Fai-rytale, Asuna and more.

Music: Julia Holter03 November - Botanique, BrusselsThe romantic ambient-pop of multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter is back in Belgium.

Film: Let’s Take a Ride and See What’s Mine

04 November - Cinéma Galeries, BrusselsWIELS resident Axelle Stiefel curates a night of digitalised Super 8 short films shot by Frédéric Chapon over the course of a decade.

Music: Austra06 November - Botanique, BrusselsAustra weds the theatricality of Kate

Bush with the dark atmosphere of The Knife in a way that’s operatic without being melodramatic, danceable and totally spellbinding.

Music: Lee Ranaldo + Bang On a Can All-Stars

09 November - DeSingel, AntwerpBang on a Can is a legendary NYC classical music organisation that has worked with some of the most impor-tant experimental musicians of our time. For this special performance, they’re joined by Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo.

Art: Playground Festival09-11 November - STUK & M, LeuvenPlayground Festival in Leuven bridg-es the gap between visual and per-forming arts with three days of music, dance and theatre at STUK and an ex-hibition at M Museum.

Music: Wampire10 November - Botanique, BrusselsWampire’s sound is a mix of psychede-lia, ’80s new wave and dream-pop with retro allusions.

Music: Huerco S13 November - secret location, AntwerpFor months now, we’ve been recom-

On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and

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mending this Kansas City producer’s distorted house beats and we still urge you to check them out. Seen and ap-proved at Wastelands! More info on www.iamtumult.be

Music: Mount Kimbie17 November - Botanique, BrusselsMount Kimbie make unique ambient-fuelled electronica that could be de-scribed as post-dubstep.

Music: Disappears27 November - De Kreun, Kortrijk01 December - Magasin 4, BrusselsThis Chi-town band creates a steady and unmatched synthesis of post-punk and krautrock.

Music: Crystal Stilts + The Holydrug Couple

22 November - De Kreun, Kortrijk29 November - Maison des Musiques, BrusselsRead more on page 17.

Music: The Tallest Man on Earth25 November - 013, TilburgThis Swedish folk singer has made a name for himself with his earnest, Bob Dylan-esque vocals, that harks back to the early days of American folk.

Music: Sonic City curated by BEAK>30 November-01 December - De Kreun, KortrijkThis year’s Sonic City line-up features Dirty Beaches, Savages, Black Angels, OM, Forest Swords, Pharmakon and more. We would actually mention the whole line-up here if we could…

Music: Cheap Time + JC Satàn30 November - Atelier 210, BrusselsThe retro-sounding punk band Cheap Time shares the bill with garage quin-tet JC Satàn, also dubbed the French Oh Sees.

Music: Blouse + Bosco Delrey30 November - Le Brass, BrusselsBlouse is a dream-pop trio from Port-land whose sophomore album was just released via Captured Tracks. Open-ing is experimental pop producer Bos-co Delrey.

Music: Lonnie Holley02 December - Ancienne Belgique, BrusselsThe 63-year-old acclaimed sculptor and painter Lonnie Holley has added mu-sic to his bag of tricks. The sound falls somewhere between the poetic worlds of Arthur Russell and Terry Callier…

Music: Ty Segall + White Fence + Mountain Bike

04 December - VK, BrusselsFuzz-maker Ty Segall and Tim Pres-ley’s lo-fi garage project White Fence share this pretty rad line-up. Also on the bill is Belgian garage-pop band Mountain Bike.

Music: Wooden Shjips06 December - Beursschouwburg, BrusselsLead by Moon Duo’s Ripley John-son, the San Francisco quartet Wood-en Shjips creates thick, slow-building, psychedelic rock that’ll make you want to get your blaze on.

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Swim Deep These four skater boys from Birmingham will melt any girl’s heart with their lovely dreamy tunes – while retain-ing just enough punk attitude to still be badass enough that their boyfriends won’t object. These New Puritans This London-based art-rock band may sound dissonant or confusing at first, but with repeated listen-ing it starts to magically come together. It’s unnerving, but at the same time genius.

Cate Le Bon A Welsh singer-songwrit-er who loves to sing about the ocean, love and animals. This charming farm girl has the perfect voice for her psychedel-ic folk-pop. Lucius This bunch of indie-pop Brook-lynites brings an interesting combination

of music and visuals to the table. If you’re drunk when you see them perform, you may well mistake the two charming front ladies in their identical outfits for a single out-of-focus person. Savages An all-female British quartet that shuffles punk, post-punk, krautrock and noise music into something brutal, con-frontational and completely singular. Their music is a breath of fresh air and a state-ment of power and resistance you simply can’t ignore. Jenny Hval This Norwegian artist’s con-ceptual, intelligent music moves and thrills. Her recent album, Innocent is Kinky, which contains themes including mythology, gen-der, sexuality and politics, sounds amazing. antwerpen.crossingborder.be

Crossing BorderCrossing Border is the festival where literature, music, film and visual art come together to take the centre stage. Since its inception five years ago, the organ-isers have sought to create a unique combination of spoken word, live music, film and visual arts. One of the festival’s objectives is to highlight new develop-ments in literature and music and their interconnection with other arts. Here are

our highlights for this year’s edition

17 November - Arenbergschouwburg, Antwerp

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Moonface Admittedly, being drawn to ev-ery band with the word moon in the name is a bad habit – but nonetheless, it lead to us discovering this hypnotising and en-chanting (indie) solo project of Spencer ‘Wolf Parade’ Krug.

Wooden Shjips These psychedelic magic men make rousing rhythms that convince you of their grandiosity within the first sec-onds of listening. With vast oceans of fuzz, echo and feedback it’s almost impossible not to get lost in their music.

The Holydrug Couple It’s becoming pret-ty obvious: we love this band. With a sound that evokes the dreamlike natural won-ders of their homeland, Ives and Manu are a valuable part of the rapidly growing psy-chedelic rock scene flourishing in Chile.

Al Lover Combining crunchy drums, shaky percussion, chopped samples and layers of textured effects, this San Franciscan

producer creates an unexplored path in psychedelic music.

Braids Featured in our October issue, you might already know a thing or two about this Montreal-based art-rock trio. In which case, you’ll know that their return is offi-cially A Good Thing.

Ty Segall California’s wonderkid is what they call ’im. He famously blends garage rock with psychedelica and punk, using heavy doses of fuzz and reverb to recre-ate that ’60s tone that you just can’t get enough of.

Crystal Stilts This Brooklyn post-punk band has a way of hazily taking you back in time. As you close your eyes you drift away into a moony, lo-fi blend of garage-pop, surf and psychedelica... Beware of becoming completely hypnotised.

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What else is on this month. Focus

Le Guess Who? FestivalOne of the leading Dutch festivals for independent music, Le Guess Who? is a ‘must-go’, and is marked in capitals in our agenda. The seventh edition sees a

lot of our favourite bands performing throughout the city centre of Utrecht.

28 November-01 December - Utrecht, NL

BraidsThe Holydrug Couple

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All Subbacultcha! events in NovemberSee all these shows for free. Join at subbacultcha.be

01 NovemberJames FerraroSecret location, Brussels20.00 | €10 | Free for members

02 NovemberLust For YouthMadame Moustache, Brussels20.00 | €8 | Free for members

06 NovemberArt as Generator of Change in SocietyCinema Zuid, Antwerp20.00 | tba | Free for members

06 NovemberFILM | The Last WaltzKASKcinema, Ghent20.30 | €5 | Free for members

07 NovemberCharanjit SinghDe Centrale, Ghent19.30 | €13 | Free for members

14 November Black Marble + Rape BlossomsTrix (ism PAPAYA), Antwerp19.30 | €10 | Free for members

21 NovemberDean Blunt + John T. GastAncienne Belgique, Brussels20.00 | €12 | Free for members

21 November Eraas + TempersCharlatan (Democrazy), Ghent20.00 | €15 | Free for members

22 NovemberCrystal Stilts + The Holydrug CoupleDe Kreun, Kortrijk20.00 | €10 | Free for members

23 NovemberMolly NilssonArt Cinema OFFoff, Ghent20.00 | €8 | Free for members

23 NovemberThe Holydrug Couple + Gonzalez & SteenkisteJH De Bogaard, Geel18.00 | tba | Free for members

26 NovemberDead GazeMadame Moustache, Brussels20.00 | €5 | Free for members

26 NovemberAutre Ne VeutBotanique, Brussels20.00 | €16 | Free for members

27 NovemberThe Pharmacytba, Liège20.00 | €8 | Free for members

30 NovemberNo JoyCactus Club, Bruges20.00 | €8 | Free for members

Overview

2x2 WeekeND TiCkeTSRewire Festival

08-09 NovemberThe Hague, NL

2x2 TiCkeTSTallest Man On Earth

25 November013, Tilburg, NL

2x2 TiCkeTSTheater: I Am Not Alone

21 NovemberCampo, Ghent

2x2 PASSePArTOuTSLe Guess Who?

28 November-01 DecemberUtrecht, NL

We’re also giving away tickets for Crossing Border, ZZZ’s, Terakraft, Yellowstock Winterfest and more.

Free tickets and goodiesTo win, sign up to our mailing list on www.subbacultcha.be.

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