Music Brussels Opening Party - Band #2 Garner
I first encountered Garner's Niko Rambaud and Laurent Stelleman playing in a band with no name, in a bar with no name just off Brussels' Grand Place. Asked by MB's own Suki Jenkins to take some pictures of the gig and forgoing the night's Champions League football, I sat enthralled by an amazing voice chased down by a couple of Barbars. The Band With No Name rattled through a set of bar room standards that night and whetted my apetite for their other band, the illustrious Garner. The third member of the band is the renowned rock drummer Didier Fontaine who includes on his impressive CV the likes of David Byrne and Deus . Saturday's MB party sees the launch of the bands first album, and I've been giving a preview copy a spin for the last week. The overriding impression I've got is that Niko has a fantastic voice, he started voice training from the age of four, and it shows check, out this video of This Is How I Used To Live to get a taste of it. Garner a...