For those interested, you can find my review of yesterday’s ZPZ in Brussels right over here. Apart from the music, a couple of notes:
- For anyone outside of Brussels, Vorst Nationaal is insanely hard to find. I mean, we’d gone to mappy.com, printed out the itinerary, followed all the directions, and still managed to get lost somewhere between Etterbeek and the Montgomery Tunnel. In the center of Brussels: not a single sign saying “this way to Vorst”. Argh.
- Getting out of Vorst at 1:30am: ditto. Times two.
- It was cool to meet a couple of KUR-readers. Hi Vrnzr, hi Bert, hi Matias!
- You there who made me drop my freshly purchased beer on the floor during intermission: you owe me 3 euro.
- Dr Sharl is convinced that Napoleon M Brock blew her a kiss at the end of the concert. If anyone present at the show can corroborate this, I would like to hear from you!
Here’s a couple of pictures we took (click to enlarge). Pardon The Crappinessâ„¢ but our camera was running out of gasoline.
Been there, seen and heard it.
– Vorst Nat. is very easy to find. It is located ( simple) in Vorst. You just take the avenue ( Van Volxem) beside the Brussels Midi Railway Station. The ” Concert Hall” an awful concrete bunker VN ( “ugly fucking building”, said FZ when he played there way back in the old days)is just two kilometers furtherin the same street.
– Who did I meet over there?
Mostly males ( 85 – 90% , my guess). FZ was rather macho, indeed. Relatively old males, from FZ times.
Who else? Comedians ( Kleymans) , musicians ( J. Bleaute), Writers ( M. De Bel , youth litterature). People from contemporary “classical ” music : no, what a shame for them.
And I met old friends, an awful lot. They’ve gone really fat, drive Mercedesses, BMW’s. I told myself : OK, you’re not at all fat and you drive a Saab.
Do I grow old notwithstanding my constantly innovative mind? I guess so. Let’s pretend that ” others ” were to blame, always easy an easy ” excuse”. Others : quite a lot of musical sophistication got lost as a result of (1) the building, (2) the ways too high volume of the music ( I still experience noise in my ears). This concert was about Music ( not that much about Humour). The musical conditions could have been much better in Brussels, we badly need a huge new concert hall with good acoustics ( It’s in the making, by the way).
NMB was blowing kisses at the end of the Zurich show…
Those weren’t for me, only the ones from Brussels!
Who never got lost using mappy.com ? We always do over there in Paris suburbs :) Will not be late for the show here next week though!
I was checking youtube to see whether someone post a video of the concert, but maybe its too soon or maybe no one did, but I couldn’t find anything.
Good idea taking pictures of the show!!