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AB and Club Circuit: pointing the way to new music
Under the title “Pointing the way to new music” AB and the eleven music clubs of the Club Circuit get together in the coming concert season for an exciting series. Together they’ve selected 10 weekends when on each occasion another club will occupy the AB, while at the very same time the AB goes on location to that visiting club. With this project AB and the Club circuit want to place some extra emphasis on their good relations.
“Following our successful collaboration with Bozar (Iceland Airwaves, It’s Not Only Rock & Roll Baby) and analogous the AB/Bota project, we thought it would be a good idea to reach out to our national peers”, is how it sounded coming from AB programmer Herman Hulsens. “After all the clubs in the Club Circuit are the (work)places where local musical talent sets its first steps on a professional stage with professional accompaniment as far as programming, promotion and technical infrastructure. Often international performers experience their first shows on Belgian soil there. That makes the music clubs, each with their own unique profile, an important presentation place for (inter)national talent.”
“With this project, we want to strengthen the relations between AB and the Club Circuit”, adds Marc Steens, coordinator of the Club Circuit. “It should be an exchange of artistic visions, whereby we want to respect the identity of the clubs and AB on location. The programmers of the AB and the clubs also work together in close consultation on a strong and varied programme.”
The clubs each make their programme according to their own artistic focus, in the AB, and want to focus upon performers who are less likely to be seen in the usual AB programme. Vice versa, the AB wants to bring the international bands, that always want to play in Brussels, to the clubs. AB and Club Circuit want to show both audience and performers that exciting things also happen outside Brussels.
Spread over the concert season 2008-2009, all 11 clubs each take care of 1 weekend. The three clubs in Brussels will be bundled in two consecutive weekends in December.
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