why the beautiful band should win a bunch of mia’s
this week, the nominees for the mia’s, the belgian grammy’s were announced. stromae, k’s choice, flip kowlier: blah blah. you know they’ll end up winning.
however, at today’s event at the kinky star, we got to see a belgian band that should have been nominated as best group, best rock/alternative and best live act. the beautiful band.
unfortunately, they haven’t gotten a single nomination, because there was just no way that the televoters could have denied them the victory. why?
- right after they did their debut performance, they got raving reviews. even here on the morczine (remember?)
- a young band like BB could use the attention better than the triggerfingers, k’s choices and flippen kowliers of this world.
- they’re the ultimate belgian band: members speak dutch, french, or english. some of them are actually from abroad (though el-g wasent there at tonight’s show)
- beautiful band has gotten more ‘mature’ over the past year, but still have their unique sound, with plenty of references to this famous group called XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX (sorry, you should read the previous review, it would be unfair to make the velvet underground reference again!), but sound a lot sloppier, and they use heavier hooks.
- lots of people that run labels were at the show. the last time that many a&r people showed up for an unsigned belgian band, must have been deus. (who won many mia’s after that!)
- someone said he could hear post-rock influences/references. as you see, though everyone likes the beautiful band, they can cause some controversy, like any awardwinner should do.
- they don’t play encores. they’re in charge.
- did i mention they somewhat sound like a sloppy version of the velvet underground? (oops)
i plan to go and see a lot more beautiful band shows.
