Live is Live completes the bill: Tom Barman resuscitates Magnus and Absynthe Minded also plays on Linkeroever (Antwerp)

With ten new acts, mainly on the Dageraad stage, the Live is Live bill is complete. Thanks to Magnus, Tom Barman will be present at the festival for the third time.

Editors, The National or The Smashing Pumpkins: the headliners of the third edition of Live is Live, from 28 to 30 June at the Middenvijver on the Linkeroever, are no less. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Absynthe Minded were added to the program on the main stage on Saturday.

Between the sets on the main stage, artists will now also play on the more intimate Dageraad stage. Ruti Olajugbagbe the one in 2018 The voice UK won will be joined by the Scottish singer-songwriter on Friday Jacon Alon. On Saturday Tom Barman can be found there with the dance project Magnus. The dEUS frontman is present at Live is Live for the third time: after a visit to the first edition of the festival in Zeebrugge in 2022, he was also present with dEUS on Linkeroever last year. The band even curated a festival day.

Comeback

Barman’s dance project with DJ, producer and friend CJ Bolland ended in 2017, but recently announced a comeback for the twentieth anniversary of their debut record The body gave you everything. “We are re-releasing the album, supplemented with live recordings and remixes, and will also play DJ sets at festivals,” Barman said at the time.

“You don’t have to choose between the concerts on the two stages. The sets will never overlap. Now that the timing is right, the planning can begin”

Ine De Jonge

Live is Live

Also new promise Iskander Moon finds its way to the Dageraad stage on Saturday, just like Charlotte & Reinhard. Young talents blossom on Sundays Gavin James, Emmy d’Arc and Frankie Frame open there. “You don’t have to choose between the concerts on the two stages,” says Ine De Jonge of Live is Live. “The sets will never overlap. Now that the timing is right, the planning can begin.”

Live is Live, from 28 to 30 June, Middenvijver, Antwerp, www.liveislive.be

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