On Wednesday, December 19th, the “Gudde Wëllen” convened a blues evening with Pugsley Buzzard. The year of blues concerts has been closing with a good-humoured concert at the “Gudde Wëllen”, featuring several leading lights of the Luxembourgish blues scene: Australian singer and pianist Pugsley Buzzard, the star of the evening, was surrounded...
Am Dienstag, 13. November in der Philharmonie beglückten „Einstürzende Neubauten“ ihr Publikum im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Das Bühnenbild ist einfach gehalten. Hinter den Instrumenten eine riesige weiße Leinwand, auf die im Moment noch grelles Scheinwerferlicht fällt. Fast sieht die Szene nach Generalprobe aus, als die Musiker die Bühne...
On Saturday, October 20th, Ólafur Arnalds lured the audience of the Luxembourg Philharmony into a world of meditative sounds. His music is as special as he is: appearing on stage dressed in a white T-shirt and jeans, the Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds exuded the charm of Nordic understatement. Although only in his early thirties, he is...
Avec Tito Paris et Sara Tavares, deux stars de la musique luso-créole ont enthousiasmé l’audience de la Philharmonie. Le samedi 13 octobre, la grande salle de la Philharmonie était pleine à craquer : parmi la foule venue pour assister au concert du chanteur et musicien capverdien Tito Paris, les abonné-e-s bon BCBG se mélangeaient avec les...
On Saturday, September 1st, "Los dueños" cast a spell over the audience of the "Last Summer Dance" Festival. Those of you who could'nt make it to Erpeldange last weekend really missed something. I don't mean the nice food, the relaxed atmosphere or the introduced projects and initiatives, all of them interesting if somewhat unpolitical on the...
It had been years since I last visited the location of the Atelier. Strange enough, last Tuesday, the interior seemed smaller to me than I recalled. Other details had not changed at all: the Spartan interior or the shabby toilets. Right now, the guys and gal from the Luxembourgish indie band The Tame and the Wild were doing their opening act,...
It was a beautiful summer Friday evening. I had dined nearby sitting under a large, protecting tree and headed now for the “Gudde Wëllen”. A small grape of people formed on the ancient pavement of the narrow alley outside the location, taking the last drags on their cigarettes before the gig. At the first floor, the gallery filled up quite...
At the last minute, my buddy had let me down - but I still decided to take that trip northwards. So I took out the vehicle and went up the country, to that small spot called Ernzen. It was peeing down with rain, and even the hard boiled smokers were missing at the entrance of the “Little Woodstock” when I arrived. Inside too, in that small,...