Sarah's time was good in Berlin. She got lots of work stuff done and also checked out many good bands each night, including several Belgian ones. For more on those events, feel free to check out Sarah's Greyn Blog : http://greynwillplayforyou.blogspot.com/Although it will take Sarah a while to get that one up to date. Give her a few days and she'll get busy with it. She also has a lot to say about her band Greyn http://www.greyn.net/. In time! She's pissed off that the other Face The Day and Greyn blogs got hacked and erased and she has to get her stamina back to start the Greyn one again. Anyway, at least there is Face The Day, right?!!!
14 September (top photo above): After Sarah sees An Pierlé, Sioen and Arsenal at Frannz Clup in Berlin for Popkomm Flemish night, she gets An Pierlé to be her special guest for Face The Day. Sarah does this not really for herself but for someone she knows at Baker Street in Kortrijk who is a big An fan. Sarah enjoys the An Pierlé gig because it's great to see Belgian bands having success! It's not excatly Sarah's type of music but it seems the audience really enjoys it, which is great for An Pierlé! Also on this night, were gigs by Sioen and Arsenal: http://www.sioen.net/ and http://www.arsenal-music.com/. Sarah was of course shocked to realize that the female singer for Arsenal was none other than one of the three gals from Zita Swoon's recent CD and gigs! She seem much better placed in Arsenal than in Zita. Who would have known that she could be so vivid on stage. She certainly deserves a frontstage position rather than in the background. Not exactly Sarah's cup of tea but a good gig to see nonetheless. The Sioen show was okay. Again not really Sarah's thing, but surely a lot of people love it. Good voice -- very Antwerpy in that it's scratchy -- that Belgian vocal thing you hear a lot with many singers here. Good song structures. I think it wasn't an easy show for Sioen to do in Berlin.
I also saw a rather relaxed and amusing guy from Canada named Neil Leyton perform an acoustic set with one of his Swedish Ghosts at NBI:http://www.neilleyton.com/neilLeyton.html. And I saw a lot of other bands in passing that I need not get into here but perhaps will talk about later on my Greyn site otherwise Heidi will kill me and chop off my head and have to pose with just my rotting body on this site each day, the poor dear.
15 September (bottom photo above): Today's special guest is Luc Weageman from the Gent record label Kinky Star: http://www.kinkystar.com/. He's got a very friendly way about him and a good welcoming smile! Check out the Kinky Star site to see which bands they work with. One band Kortrijk is very proud of is Hitch: http://www.hitch.be/. Sarah knew too many people who knew Luc so she just had to say hello to him in Berlin. He was good enough to step in for Heidi and be Sarah's Face The Day guest star! On this same day, Sarah sees other Belgian bands: Millionaire and Absynthe minded: http://www.pias.com/millionairewebsite/ and http://www.absyntheminded.be/frames.html. Millionaire's show was fantastic! What energy those guys have. Is it really all the cocaine, I wonder? Or are they just damn good! Or maybe both. Whatever the reason, what a freakin' show. Absynthe Minded are also great though this show suffered slightly by sound failures. Those guys are so very talented. I envy them all!
16 September: In Berlin, Sarah talked the ear off of today's special guest: Quinten from Flanders Music Centre: http://www.muziekcentrum.be/ and http://www.flandersmusic.be/. He let her go on and on and on about how she loves Belgian bands and how she loves Stef Kamil Carlens from Zita Swoon and how she should be hired to promote Belgian music around the world! He was kind enough to listen to her blah blah blah and to stand in Heidi's shoes and be Sarah's special Face The Day guest.
Anyway -- enough said. Berlin was fun!
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