Posts Tagged Jasper Erkens
Rock Werchter 2009, a BiB overview
Posted by JayAre in Big in Belgium, Music News, Music Video on July 8th, 2009
The first weekend of summer vacation in Belgium is traditionally the Rock Werchter weekend. Rock Werchter is the biggest and best known summer festival we have in Belgium and it was voted Best Music Festival in the World four times over the last five years.
And it was a hot edition this year. While temperatures reached tropical hights, one great band after the other performed on the famous Werchter stages. Of course there was also room for some of Belgium’s best bands: Arsenal, Triggerfinger, Jasper Erkens, 2ManyDJs, The Hickey Underworld, Lady Linn & Her Magnificent Seven, Ghinzu and (really? no really?) Milk Inc.
If you missed it, don’t panic, there’s always YouTube. Below a short overview of the best Belgian band movies we could find so far.
Arsenal (Lotuk):
Triggerfinger (performing live on guitar and bike!):
Jasper Erkens (Everybody Is The Same):
2ManyDJs:
The Hickey Underworld:
Lady Linn & Her Magnificent Seven (I Don’t Wanna Dance):
Ghinzu (Kill The Surfers):
Milk Inc. (a non-conventional choice, a big gamble, but apparently also a big success):
The big Werchter Whirlwind (strange image, a whirlwind over the festival terrain. A few people were wounded):
Coverville goes Belgian: Covers from Belgium podcast
Posted by JayAre in Big in Belgium, Music News on May 2nd, 2009
On April 7th, Coverville, a podcast that focuses on cover songs, had an entire episode with Belgian covers. International songs covered by Belgian artists or groups that is.
Brian Ibbot, host of Coverville, put these songs on the playlist:
- Insensitive by Jasper Steverlinck (Orig.by Jann Arden)
- I Don’t Wanna Dance by Lady Linn and Her Magnificent Seven (Orig. by Eddy Grant)
- Crazy by Jasper Erkens (Orig. by Gnarls Barkley)
- All the Young Dudes by Arno (Orig. by Mott The Hoople)
- Ayo Technology by Milow (Orig. by 50 Cent/Justin Timberlake)
- I Alone (Acoustic) by Anouk & Sarah Bettens (Orig. by Live)
- Take On Me by Janez Detd. (Orig. by a-ha)
- Je Suis Venue Te Dire Que Je M’En Vais by Jo Lemaire & Flouze (Orig. by Serge Gainsbourg)
Really worth the download. Check here and here (direct link to podcast).
Some suggestions for episode II of the Coverville Covers from Belgium podcast: Rocking in the free World by The Scabs, Are Friends Electric by An Pierlé, Starfish & Coffee by Soulwax, …
More ideas? Feel free to post them in the comments section.
Jasper Erkens’ debut album: The Brightest Story
Posted by JayAre in Albums, Big in Belgium on March 30th, 2009
Only 15 years old, Jasper Erkens became second in Humo’s Rock Rally 2008 (the biggest rock concours in Belgium). The singer-songwriter ‘with a bunch of hair‘ impressed the jury with an acoustic cover of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy.
A little more than one year later, Jasper has released his debut album The Brightest Story. The Gnarls Barkley cover that got him so far got so much airplay in Belgium that most people started to think Jasper wouldn’t be able to live up to the expectations. But they were wrong, so wrong. The sky is the limit if you can come up with such a great album at age 16. Just imagine what this little guy from Diest with a guitar will be able to do in a few years…
Tracklisting:
- Everybody is the same
- Waiting like a dog
- Crazy
- The brighter story
- Dear diary
- Elliot
- How could I know
- Pageturner
- Stay alive
- When would you tell
- Needed
The first single is Waiting Like A Dog and after a couple of weeks, Jasper already managed to take first place in Belgium’s popcharts:
Listen to Jasper Erkens on last.fm
And because we still like his Crazy-cover, here it is once again:
Waiting Like A Dog lyrics:
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
and i’ve been waiting to get back on my feet
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
waiting on the ground to get a treei’ve been wainting for hours
thinking back to times that call my name
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
despizing the one that i becameI’ve been waiting like a dog now
weeks will turn into months and months turn into years
every colour is the same now
there’s no black no white there’s only greyi’ve been waiting for hours
still there’s nothing changed
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
gazing at the backdoor once againand i don’t want to wait untill i die
and i know i know i know i know
i know i know i know i know
it takes time
don’t leave me behind
and i’ve been to places and seen many faces
but nothing that could ease my mind
don’t leave me behindI’ve been waiting like a dog now
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
I’ve been waiting like a dog nowand i know i know i know i know
i know i know i know i know
it takes time
don’t leave me behind
and i’ve been to places and seen many faces
but nothing that could ease my mind
don’t leave me behinddon’t leave me behind
but ease my mind
don’t leave me behind
but ease my mind
don’t leave me behind
but ease my mindI’ve been waiting like a dog now