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The Recyclart is a non-profit urban pilot project with the vocation of turning the old abandoned train station of Chapelle-Kapellekerk and its abandoned neighborhoods into a vibrant multi-purpose cultural center proposing everything from concerts to exhibitions. The bands featured in the pictures were Comets of fire and Creature With The Atom Brain. The agenda of upcoming events can be found here.

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Photos of le Recyclart:

From the outside

View as you enter

Opposite corner

Bar where old ticketing counter was

Sound technicians

Crowd

The back

Graffiti ridden toilets

Comets of Fire concert

Ethan Miller

Ben Chasny

Ben Flashman

Ethan Miller

Noel Harmonson

Opening act featuring Creature With The Atom Brain

The Brussels Jazz Marathon 2008 just ended this week-end for its 13th consecutive edition. 125 concerts were spread out from Friday to Sunday through outdoor stages for the biggest venues and the remaining larger portion indoors of around 50 bars, pubs and cafés of Brussels. And best of All it’s once again 100% FREE… Here are some pictures of Saturday’s evening.

Horse pulled buggy behind the Bourse

Place Sainte-Catherine

Marc Lelangue Trio

Rene Stock

The crowd gathered Place Sainte-Catherine

Soulstorm

Some of the many joyful Jazz festival goers

At the Grand Place the Laurent Doumont Soul Band

View of the Grand Place and its Brussels Jazz Marathon stage

Here come the horns

Pleased public

Place du Sablon with The Night Crowd Blues Band

The crowd at Place du Sablon

Tropa bar with Leo and the lunar tiki

Arriving at the Live Music Cafe

Featuring Kalema and K-Tribe

Pure Bar with K-Bonus

More of Léo and the Lunar Tiki’s at The Tropa Disco Bar

Another Cool event nearby the main concert stage was the Piknik Elektronik at Place Du Musée (just next to the Mont des Arts) which featured from noon until 22:00 a set of DJ’s playing electronic music. All this was setup around 800 square meters of green grass lawn recreating a park/festival rave atmosphere.

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Photos Piknik Elektronik Mai 11

The main concert of the 11th of Mai at the Fête de l’Iris featured at 20:00 ABBA Mania. This band created in 1999 has been one of the most successful ABBA cover band to date playing 18 consecutive weeks at London ’s West End Theatre. Famous around the globe they have to date traveled as far as Tahiti, Mexico, Venezuela, North America, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, France & many others.

ABBA Mania live in concert

The first of the two main acts on the free concerts of the Fête de l’Iris started at 18:00 on the 11th of Mai with the Belgian Beatles tribute band Abbey Road setup again right next to the Royal Palace of Brussels. Formed in 1987 the band made of Yves Laloux, Alain Pire, Dimitri Deboutte and Christian Willems has been a growing success. They have played more than four hundred concerts to date with crowds up to 60 000 people strong like when they opened for Jacques Dutronc.

Abbey Road in concert