Noahm

I Ain't Just Another Photograph

4pm.
I circle around looking for parking C while the 5 stages of Dour Festival are already filled with music lovers from all over the world.
First steps in what they call “La Plaine” (The Field) and two things directly come up to my mind: “it’s hot!” and “cute girls everywhere”!
I run and try to catch the [...]

New York, 3rd of April.
I’m not gonna lie: I was excited to see Cold War Kids for the first time live. I got to the venue at around 9pm, waited a couple minutes for my +1 and got inside.
For some reason Cold War Kids decided to play a really early show. They showed up on [...]

New York, April 5th.
About 5 months after their show at Music Hall of Williamsburg/Bowery Ballroom, Ra Ra Riot took it to another level and played the prestigious Webster Hall. Nothing in the world would have made me miss that show!
I got to Webster Hall at around 8pm and the venue was PACKED. I’ve seen Webster [...]

Monday, 16th of March. It was 5pm and I was still at the International Center of Photography, on 43rd and 6th avenue, trying to send the last Ukulele Session I had done over the weekend with the impressive band Harlem Shakes at the Highline Ballroom (opening band for Bell X1).
It was around 5:25pm when I [...]

It was a regular thursday evening at Penn Station, I jumped in the Long Island Railroad heading to Hempsted. I sat down, exhausted from my rush through Manhattan to catch the train on time. I looked around, curious, as it was my first time heading to Long Island for something that didn’t involve white sand [...]

9.30pm, Union Square, January 22: it was my birthday, and it was freezing. I tried to warm my hands up: I tangled them up with my scarf, but it didn’t really work out. Two blocks, two blocks and I was there, but those two blocks just felt like 10 avenues.
I got there 10 minutes later [...]

What is the first thing that comes up to your mind if I say “Belgium“?
Yes that’s right: the beer the chocolate and the fries! But there’s another wonderful thing from the “Flat Country”, and it’s named “Sharko”. 
Sharko’s first record, “Feuded”, came out about 10 years ago on the well known Belgian indie label “BANG!”, and [...]

December 21st 
Town Hall? What’s that, some kind of administrative building or Bloomberg’s office or something? I got there knowing nothing about that venue and I quickly felt ashamed about it. The venue was built by the League for Political Education and opened its doors to the public in 1921. Since then, Town Hall has hosted [...]

With a lineup consisting of Confide, The Ghost Inside, and of course, Bring Me The Horizon, one could only expect the craziest of shows. And crazy it was. 
From the moment you stepped into the venue, the Blender Theater at Gramercy, you could feel the energy buzzing in the air as fans packed in close and [...]

New York, November 1 - It’s certainly not coincidence if the following summary of my CMJ Festival happens to be posted the very same day that New York’s Marathon was ran. It’s been one week now that the madness is over. 1 Week is precisely the time you need to recover from one of the most [...]