Last Saturday, I went to Play festival. Play festival is an indoor club festival in the Muziekodroom. The festival has five stages, some with quite funny names like “Fuzz” and “Bleep”. The line up mostly consisted of Belgian acts.

The bands I saw were:

-Quarterback: Unfortunately, I only saw them perform their last song. I was very pleasantly surprised and I am dying to see more of them in the future.

-Rape Blossoms: Noise bands are not really my area of expertise, but as far as I could tell they did a good job.

-The Allophons: Without a doubt the most interesting band of the evening. This DJ-duo did a cut- and paste set. It was clear that they enjoyed themselves on stage, which is always a fun sight to see.

-Intergalactic Lovers: I already saw them a few times and they did not really bring something new, so this set could not hold my attention for very long.

-Benny Zen: The worst band in the world.

-Psycho 44: This band was one of my personal favourites that evening. Instrumentally very good and an absolutely amazing singer with a flawless voice: their sound was so astonishing that it completely blew me away.

-Balthazar: Like Intergalactic Lovers, I already saw them a few times. However, I enjoyed Balthazar a lot more this evening. As always they were very good.

-Steak Number Eight: The best band of the evening. I had never seen them before and I’m normally not into metal, but they were fantastic. A great sound, great front man, great light show and a great performance all in all.

-Hickey Underworld: Also a really good show. Free beer, plectrums and sweat of the bass player soaring through the air gave a nice touch to it.