Weekender Nights at the Botanique: discoveries in all directions!
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At the beginning of November, the Brussels cultural centre makes its rooms available to around fifty groups for an autumnal musical marathon…
Echoing the traditional Nuits Botanique in spring, this brand new autumn festival intends to give pride of place to emerging artists and offer a first stage to projects that are still in their infancy. Audacity and eclecticism are definitely words that stick to the Botanique’s programming all year round. And even more so on this first weekend of November, from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd, during which the groups will be jostling each other until the early hours. With an average of 18 concerts per day, the counter should go crazy beyond 50 performances.
As for the Fifty Lab which will take place in the centre of Brussels two weeks later, two options are available to festival-goers. As the daily sesame gives access to all concerts in all venues, the laziest will let themselves be carried away by the musical effluvia and flutter around until they find what they are looking for. Nothing wrong with that of course…
Others may recognize a name they already know (because some artists have already trod the boards of Bota) and will warm up their Deezer/Spotify/AppleMusic account to clear (and decipher) the program. Some prefer to navigate by compass while others let themselves be tossed by the wind, impromptu meetings and last-minute suggestions.
For our part, we already have a crush on Fabiana Palladino (but it’s perhaps also because we know Pino, her bassist dad). For interstellar atmospheres, Belgian Niels Orens (born in 1998) is lunching, evoking Ash Ra Temple as much as Tangerine Dream. For her part, Muscovite Kate Shilonosova ( Kate NV by her stage name) takes a mischievous pleasure in peppering her naive instrumentals with conceptual references that recall the Japanese Yellow Magic Orchestra. But she also sings sometimes, as if by mistake. Halima , Charlotte Day Wilson and Girl Ultra have also, among others, caught our attention. It’s up to you to compose your own menu… Since Botanique never forgets to mix business with pleasure, they have compiled for you the links to all the artists on all the platforms imaginable. A real Benedictine work that will help you untangle the skein!
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This new festival has its own website: lesnuitsweekender.be on which day tickets (€44) and combis (€75) are available. Holders of the magical Bota Card benefit from a significant reduction.