K-RAA-K Festival 2008 in Brussels: Silver Apples, Psychedelic Horseshit, Clockcleaner...

Thinking about it. Cherry Blossoms, Pink Reason and Marshal Allen too. Dragons of Zynth looks interesting...

God, that looks brilliant. Sadly, it is completely impossible for me to go.

5 mins away from my house so this sounds tempting. What is this festival anyway?

Not really sure, someone forwarded this to me and it looked awesome. Would this be close to the Brussels Central Station, thus I should find a place somewhere near there?

Yes - it's pretty close by. 15min walk I reckon.

info about who/what/why: http://www.kraak.net/en/about.php

10 hours of experimental music sounds pretty daunting.

It won't be all unlistenable screeching, they do innocent laptop noodling too

Nah, they seem to have quite a wide range. More so than most 'experimental' festivals, which seem to have conflated the ideas of experimental and BORING DRONE NONSENSE. I'm sorry, since when has a man sitting around with a guitar and some pedals looping a single note been experimental?

(Note: I do actually like a lot of drone nonsense. Just not the boring sort.)

Alrighty - might be the opportunity for the 1st ever BXL FAP?

damn - I'm at the Digitalism show in the Ancienne Belgique that day :-/

BXL FAP seems like a good idea... will keep y'all posted.

yeah this looks really good, not boring at all. i mean psychedelic horseshit, clockcleaner, cherry blossoms - these aren't really 'experimental' music

They've done this festival for a few years now. Consistently varied line-ups. Last few years was also Pengo, Idea Fire Company, LAFMS dudes, Little Howlin Wolf, Major Stars, Richard Bishop, Patty Waters...

They've done a few freebie comps for the Wire.

Los Llamarada just played some Kraak event too. Gutted they're not hanging around for the main festival!

worst edition in a loooong time. and in Bruxelles pfff...i'm boycotting

Can't really call that a bad line-up. Seems pretty much within the bounds of previous years, if you ask me...

Where does it usually take place?

Hasselt, I think...

yeah, Hasselt.

largely subjective but this one is way more folksy than previous editions. lot of siltbreeze stuff i dont really dig as well

only bardo pond make me wanna go..

Folksy? I ain't familiar with that that Hellvete guy who's described as 'funeral folk' - whatever that means. That like Smolken? Current 93? - but the rest of it ain't what I'd call folksy at all! Maybe Cherry Blossoms, but they've got a twist of something looser in 'em. And they're pretty great anyway.

The Siltbreeze bands are my main draw here! I just wanna see them here so I don't have to go see them at Barden's Boudouir in London. Hate that venue.

i love pink reason's album on siltbreeze, but i think live... ugh

baaderonixx, are there lots of hostels in the area? been trying to google for some walking distance ones.

I emailed for tickets, but got no response. Did you just Paypal the cash without pre-booking?

There's a youth hostel very close to there. I think it's the official one, so you should be able to easily find it on the web

i paypalled the one marked as 23 EUR on Saturday and got a email response today.

Highlights were Psychedelic Horseshit and Clockcleaner... really dug Up-Tight and Silver Apples put a smile on my face... Cherry Blossoms and Pink Reason were my biggest disappointments... gotta say, i really loved the set-up of this festival, very nice

Been there, but prefer the line up of last year's ZXZW in Holland. +200 artists all over the town.
The first names of this years line up (including Z'ev) have been announced. I think this year it's gonna be even better.
http://www.last.fm/event/361621

Did anyone go to the Museum Night Fever thing in the evening? DJ Spinna was good fun...