The George Lite Zone

Thanks to all you Satan worshiping goat lovers out there who voted for the Narcotic Daffodils in the race for the palace. I'm happy to announce that after a play off today at KultuurKaffee they were chosen along with 2 other Brussels bands, Five Easy Days and OPMOC , to grace the Place des Palais near the Royal Palace on May the 7th!!! It's just as well they won mind, if they hadn't then someone would have had to deal with Nursie from Dr Poembak. The Narcotic Daffodils, space rock fit for a king.

Vote for the Daffodils or the goat gets it! The Narcotic Daffodils, cool for cats, hot as hell for goats.

Now how did those lyrics go again... oh yes I remember "Vote for the Narcotic Daffodils, a better remedy than those blue and white pills, Mr Jacky will cure your ills...". Vote Daffodils, they're just what the doctor ordered to take those winter blues away. Nice gig tonight by the way Scotty & David, the Benito band were awesome again tonight, bloody surreal, but awesome. Thanks for the CD Simon. Listening to it now as I type, cracking stuff, just the sort of songs to grace the palace. I look forward to your album when you release it. Anyone who doesn't vote for you guys should track 6 !

It looks like it could be very popular with the ladies too.

I'm sure they meant "Vote for The Narcotic Daffodils". Don't be a number, vote for the Daffodils!

Photo by Gilles Van Eylen The race to become the play at la Nuit des Lumières outside Place des Palais is heating up. Go to the Nuit Des Lumieres website and vote The Narcotic Daffodils . You know it makes sense! Let's take Mr Jacky to the palace.

Last night, not for the first time in Brussels, I was in a bit of a quandary. Did I go to Beurskafee to see two post rock bands, Belgiums own Cecilia::Eyes and Alkalys from France, or stay in Churchills to listen to the excellent Men In Blue ? On the principal that I'd probably not get the chance to see Alkalys in the foreseeable future, I opted for the former and headed down to Beurs and the Beurskafee. First off, the Beurskafee venue. I must have walked past it hundreds of times and not known it existed, delving into it's murky heart I was mightily impressed. The cavern like quality of its interior has a superb atmosphere and is ideal for gigs. Spacious, but not overly so, and oozes character from every brick. Little touches like the letters WC projected onto the wall on the steps down to the bog, that's bathroom to you Americans out there, and a ladder ascending into the ceiling behind the bar make it feel like a piece of installation art. I didn't see it, but there...

I've not forgotten this blog posting. I just want to do this great night justice.

Check out the full video to My TV Is Dead 's great track Love In Stereo. They lit up the stage at the music Brussels Opening Party and their new album, Freedomatic, is superb. Love it !!! On the subject of cool videos, here's a trailer for the new Slash album due out next month. Aided and abbetted by such rock luminaries as Dave Grohl, Ozzie Osbourne and Lemmy, it looks like it going to rock big time. I can't wait.

Last Tuesday night I was in Bonnefooi bar when I bumped into Madensuyu 's friendly neighborhood sound engineer and pole dancing panda, Tom. "Hey shouldn't you be out in South America with the band?", I asked, to which he replied with a nod in the direction of a chair in which sat the aforementioned bands lead singer and guitarist, Pieterjan Vervondel. Doh! Yet again my powers of observation, and spidey senses, had failed me. Speaking to the guitar maestro, I was told that The Brasilian tour was amazing, with the footage I'd seen of St Paulo typical of the reception they'd received. Tens of thousands of partying South Americans sambaing to the primal rythm of Ghent's greatest export. Now that's mind boggling. I then asked about the prospects for a new album after their outstanding previous release. "D is Done was a deep album, a dark album." I was told, "The next will be deeper, darker.". When will it be released? I asked to which ...

For fans of Taiwan's finest metal band, Chthonic , there's a feature on their bass player and backing vocalist, the delightful Doris Yeh, in the March edition of Neo magazine. I think I'll give it a read while firing up Pandemonium and Mirror Of Retribution on my Sonos box. Also worthy of note on the magazine front is this months edition of Classic Rock which features a CD of collaborations between various rock luminaries including Tony Iommi , Keith Richards , Billy Gibbons and rock god and Bass Assasin Number 1, Lemmy . While on the subject of Classic Rock, the magazines website is currently streaming Aussie rockers Airborne's new album, No Guts. No Glory , in its entirety. I seem to recollect a certain Mr Kiliminster featuring in the video of Running Wild from their first album, I wonder if he'll put in an appearance for their new one?