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saturday - this is the end ... tsunami at pole pole, there should be a shuttle service connecting the two sides of the water ... trying to find the hotsy totsy (jazz-bar, now i know), karate with isomo-boxes (fish!) ... and a last tea ...

friday - a night of good agreements ... mintzkov at boomtown, see cactus review, paper cuts at both sides now (ruby red) ... duvels in the tent ... and an everlasting bus-ride to get home ...

thursday - absynthe minded at st-jacobs, good gig, a happy b-day for one of the band-members, the crowd around me knew lots of their songs, so they already have some kind of fan-base, a highly particular element were the moving light-poles, seemed to have run out of a transformer movie, and sometimes a bit too blinding ... at a certain point the drummer was surrounded by smoke, must be horrible at times, sitting there in the back with a smoke machine pointed and blowing at you ... afterwards relaxing in the baudelo park, what a difference with the huge crowd two days later ... i prefer the weekdays when it's easy to get a coffee ...

wednesday - first de keuze van vos, 10 bands playing 1 song one after the other, amusing concept, see full review here (http://www.cuttingedge.be/music/ gigs/18158-boomtown-2007-dag-5), after that gorki ... den beestenmarkt is sold out ... first older material (amongst others wie zal er voor de kinderen zorgen, ooit was ik een soldaat), later some newer (the great wees eens stil jongens), and at the end the obligatory soms vraagt, anja, piranha and mia ... in between a shower of cookies (luc didn't trust a box of chocolate cookies and threw them back in the audience) and luc playing 'do it again' on guitar ... next a bit of buscemi, and then ... i'm on fire (banquet, bloc party - great dancing tune) ... swinging into the night ...

tuesday - fixkes @ boomtown, saw them already better in action at stubru.uit in the theaterzaal (see history), which is a better place to enjoy their music ... still, the freesyle fabrik cover of vrijdagavond stays super: "mag ik eens op u lief zitten alstublief z'is echt zo schoon en ik heb goesting in iet nief, k heb heel goe gerief en k zijn nooit nie agressief, mag ik eens op u lief zitten alstublief" (this int antwaarps) ... after that, eddy, the voice of europe, "is nog altijd wreed goe bezig" (quoting t, around twelve)

monday - rain pouring down from a great height delayed my arrival at the frames gig at boomtown, the singer called us fucking brave for coping with the rain, let the umbrellas dance, and played good songs ... if you find yourself going to a frames gig, learn the line "we have all the time in the world to get it right, to get it right ... we have all the love in the world to satellite, to satellite" (from people get ready), so you're not looking like what are these people singing here ..... then daan at the big square, little to add to that, first bis was solo on guitar de lichtjes van de schelde, second housewife ... wonder how desperate one has to be to come up with such a song ... and thanks for the beers !

sunday - frank boeien at the same square, although i was waiting for paradijs (came last), i enjoyed the whole gig ... in the middle a fine base-solo ... i wanna learn to play that instrument (already at werchter when hearing paul simonon of the good bad queen playing it boiled in my mind) ... it's the base (no, kidding) of most songs and can sound so warm, dark, full, rhythmic, funky, mysterious ...

saturday - billie king at boomtown (new setting, more cosy), second time i see them in gent, first was in the handelsbeurs (if i'd live in gent, i would go there every week), from that gig i remember specially the moments they sing together ... now the songs had more power, a girl with a guitar indeed looks sexy, and they make nice music, favorites are slow down and big girls ... check out their cd ... then the scene on the stbaafs square, the lau refers to amy whinehouse at werchter, "i learned 2 tings, first she is great, and second, people should drink more on stage" ... cheerz! ... i remember drink op de liefde, a good thing to drink on ... at the end a long iedereen is van de wereld ... and there underneath the big yellow lighted cathedral (what a scene) the wereld is inderdaad van iedereen ...