ABBOTA 2013 =another 10 contemporary Belgian acts = 1 affordable combi-ticket for Montevideo, The Peas Project, Roscoe, Joy Wellboy, Leaf House, Geppetto and the Whales, Steak Number Eight, Paon, Tommigun, Coely!

ABBota is the annual collaboration between the AB and the Botanique. In central Brussels. Downtown & haute ville over the language border. Spread over two days: Friday 1 March in the AB and Saturday 2 March in the Bota.

Tickets for 1 day cost €10 in presale and €13 at the door. Combi-tickets for the two-dayer are only €15 in presale and €18 at the door!

Saturday 2 March in the Bota

Geppetto and the Whales
This talented young Belgian band surfaced in 2011 with ‘Oh My God’, their first single, full of country and folk rhythms. Following their tour of the festivals in 2011 and 2012, and in anticipation of their first album, the 5 guys from Geppetto and the Whales come to enchant us with their superb EP ‘People of Galicove’.

Tommigun
Tommigun presents music that sometimes exhibits fragile beauty and sorrow and sometimes appears very brutal and astonishing. After touching all of Europe with their first album ‘Come Watch Me Disappear’, these Belgians now have new album out, ‘Pretenders’, produced by Koen Gisen. Emotional lyrics are paired with melancholy melodies. See: those recent Feeërieën, of course!

Paon
From the moment that Ben (The Tellers) met Aurelio (Lucy Lucy!), the songs have always been established around their two voices. Lively guitars and organic keyboard sounds were then added. There are 4 of them on stage. Paon, in your face. (See: that recent support act for The Van Jets!).

Steak Number Eight
The young Belgians from Steak Number Eight must have received recognition from the entire music world by now. They convincingly won Humo's Rock Rally in 2008 and their second album ‘All Is Chaos’ was released by British magazine Metal Hammer. They've already set the stages of Dour and Pukkelpop ablaze with their searing hard-rock.

Coely
From Congo and immensely talented (see too: amongst others, a recent Humo or De Standaard.) Belgian hip-hop with international legitimacy! The first single by this young band from Antwerp, ‘Ain’t Chasing Pavements’, quickly conquered the Northern part of the country and, fully self-assured, they announced their first ep, due to be released in early 2013.