WASTE

We recently found ourselves wondering: what’s the state of loud, lens-shattering rock ’n’ roll in this country?  After a spot check at a record shop near the Vooruit in Ghent, we’ve come to the conclusion:  it’s so good that we’ve already had to pop down to Optiek Sonck on the market square in Lokeren four times this past week to get a new pair of glasses.  Take WASTE, for instance, the latest piranha in the national rock aquarium. That band already had a few credentials in its portfolio: a single here, an EP there, and some achievements at well-known competitions too (they won Studio Brussel’s De Nieuwe Lichting this year, for example). Their first album, however, is set to cause such a stir that it’s already been banned at the Innovation in Brussels’ Nieuwstraat.  Spotify says: ten tracks, thirty-four minutes.  We at the Lokerse Feesten say: ten songs, thirty-four minutes, one hundred and thirty-two FUCK YES moments!  Waste make noise rock that would fit as the soundtrack to a massive pile-up. The musical equivalent of a killer whale headbutting a sea lion into the air. Reviews tend to throw around the names of foreign noise-rock bands rather eagerly (from The Hives to the brilliant Unsane), but do remember ‘Dog House’, ‘Discotheque’ or ‘Mom’.  Potential hits that, within a few years, will be regarded as benchmarks that will motivate fledgling guitar bands to do at least as well. Join us at the Club on Monday 3 August. Bring a reinforced concrete glasses case with you – we won’t reimburse you for your glasses.